NEVER DELETE THE APP!! For years it was 5 stars but…
Fri Feb 23 2024 MattylobesI want to give it 5 stars my wife and me over being boyfriend and girlfriend into fiancés into marriage for our entire relationship this game was our nightly routine and we LOVED it even all the additions of the animals etc became inside jokes and fun for us…. But thanks to apple out dating my phone I couldn’t take pictures on our honeymoon not enough space so I erased all my apps thinking I’ll just re download them after our trip… after doing so everything is gone… we lost all of our coins gems portraits animals hints rockets bullseyes bees EVERYTHING back to level one. There is no way to link and access everything again I’ve tried. Messaged support multiple times and had one response that said they might be able to help us yet days later I haven’t gotten a response again… from being our favorite app as it became a core memory for us to now not even wanting to open it again I think I need to just accept and delete it cause now it’s just sad and disappointing since we were easily past 1k in levels etc.. if you never delete it this app was 5 stars enjoy it. But if you lose it all it’s not worth going back after playing for years.
Great game, but…
Thu Feb 15 2024 aeraduxI have been playing Wordscapes for 5+ years now and it’s been my favorite go-to game to pass time while still using my brain. It’s been great watching this game grow into what it have become, from the pet system, to earning pfps, the mount rush, all of it, I really like it. However, there are certain things that really take away from the motivation to play and enjoyability. One being the incessant number of ads in the game. I purchased the no-ads feature, but the sheer number of ads you get for completing a level or tapping out of the game for a quick second are ridiculous. I get that everyone has their money to make but come on you guys. My other issue with this game is that it seems like it is intentionally keeping you from earning top grade rewards. I do the Wednesday-Thursday challenge of earning profile pictures and the drop rates for certain pictures are way too low. There are two sections I’ve been grinding for over a year now because I am only missing one part for the picture and it won’t drop. I just went through 35 boxes, and it would not drop that one missing picture and that is frustrating. I have the same issue with mount rush, but I won’t get into that. Other than that, the game is fantastic. As a long time player, I hope you guys see this review and really take it into consideration. Thank you!
Old Version Better/Coin Issue
Thu Oct 22 2020 Unsafe Means of TransferI’ve played this game for a few years now and noticed a disappointing new feature with the coins. In order to use them now you must purchase them. This was not a requirement with the old version and makes me consider deleting the game daily as the use of the coins used to provide you with helpful features like; revealing one letter of your choice for a difficult word, etc. It’s a bit illogical to continue to show us coins that we’ve earned through finding additional letters or for reaching a certain level, yet we have no access to them unless we purchase them??? It feels like a design flaw as you play and really makes me wish I hadn’t updated to this newest version. Other than that I would have given 5 stars but it’s such a nuisance I have to grade much lower despite truly enjoying playing the game. Suggestion: Get rid of the option to pay for coins per player's choice if you decide to keep the paid “earned coins” version of this game as most people are never going to bother purchasing anyway it’s like having a commercial running in the upper right corner of your television screen while you’re watching your favorite TV show. It cheapens the look and feel of the game. It feels like the game creators are begging for money as opposed to a real game which would never have a running advert in the corner.
Otherwise the game is perfect.
Ads are out of control
Thu Feb 23 2023 QuadplyrI play this game all the time. Or I should say I used to. I understand ads help pay the bills. Programmers need to eat, too. However, ads have gotten more and more instrusive as time goes on. They are now on a timer. Regardless of whether you’re in the middle of a puzzle or not. Forming your last word to complete the level? Ad. Trying to get that extra couple of stars by beating the timer? Ad. Close and reset the game? 10 second in….ad. Finish a puzzle? Ad. Start a puzzle? Ad. They were tolerable being before or after a puzzle. I could at least close and restart the game getting me back to the puzzles quicker. But during a puzzle with no warning? No hint at all that it’s coming? Intrusive and frustrating. Making ads not last so long (5 seconds at MOST) and NOT HAVING TO SIT/TAP-CLOSE THROUGH 3 LAYERS OF THEM would have been better. Some ads even force open the App store or Safari (regardless of if you close them or not) opening up all kinds of channels for viruses, spam hacks, or accidental purchases. How am I supposed to know this “advertiser’s” website is trustworthy? I’ve played this game for a couole years now as a form of relaxing and zoning out but not anymore. I can’t even do THAT without getting begged and hounded for money at every single turn. I’m not giving my money to a company who resorts to these kinds of measures, even if that means paying removes the ads. Ridiculous. I can’t recommend this game to anyone. Deleted.
What happened
Thu Dec 22 2022 Twitch The MouseThis game is great to relax to and play because of so few adds. The game play is mainly smooth some slowness here and there. I love how you also don’t get 100 and per minute! The add time I think is great and their not after every level too. My BIGGEST problem is that randomly out of no where my screen will freeze and I can’t do anything! I can turn it off, get calls or texts, or go to the home page! My phone won’t even turn off! The screen just gets dim. You will still hear that someone is calling texting but it won’t show up. I’ve tried all the tips and tricks to when your phone screen freezes, but they won’t help. It’s best to not do anything and wait patently for your phone to die. It’s happens out of no where usually when you are going to a next level or you’ve been in one for a while. This has happened twice and you can’t do anything until your phone dies. This has only happened within this app and no where else on my phone! This should really be checked out. Like I said, there’s nothing you can really do when this happens. It’s supper annoying and frustrating. Other than that this game is great! Hopefully this hasn’t happened to anyone else while playing! I was really getting into the game when this started to happen and I had to delete the game. Someone fix this please!
Good game - needs improvement
Fri Oct 27 2023 wowthisnicknamestuffisbsI've had this game for over a year & have become a little invested. I have family/friends that like to do the tournaments; they find them fun. It's creative, has good graphics, cool animals and interesting puzzle combinations. It's a great time filler when you just want to play a quick game to relieve stress or change the pace. However, there is some room for improvement. Many of the puzzles have too many repetitive words; for me that gets annoying. Secondly, you can tell that these are young developers who came up with the words for the puzzles, because they allow many new words and omit some of the other common/old words from the dictionary. It almost seems random how they decide on the words in/out of a puzzle. Thirdly, there are too many ads even without paying for them to be removed. If you pay, that will get rid of most of them but you still have to deal with them somewhat. There are also a lot of glitches. You may enter a word into a puzzle and it will appear not to be there, but then try to enter the word later into the same puzzle and it will populate. It's weird! Or like bonus gifts where you watch a video, it may glitch or doesn't play, or reward you properly at the end. There's definitely room for some improvements but overall, the game is entertaining.
Like the game, but annoying bugs persist
Sun Apr 28 2024 Praying MonkI really enjoy this word game. It is fast paced, challenging, and fun diversion when you have a few extra minutes available. But, although been through numerous updates, a persistent bug that is very annoying continues to latch itself onto the application. Bug is this. You input a word spelled correctly once, assume that the word has posted, and move on. Later, even though you might’ve input that same word combination numerous times, say, for example, the word DEAR, the application leaves you with four spaces. After you have exhausted all other work possibilities you can put in the word DEAR again only to find that this time it posts. Even though you had input that same word before in the rush to speed through all possible letter combinations, it simply does not recognize the input on your first and sometimes second or third attempts. When you are blazing through this, you are not really checking to make sure every single input word is posted. You simply assume it has posted because frankly, you do not want to take time away from the input to verify. This is pretty annoying, especially when you’re trying to beat the clock and improve your ranking. Otherwise really fun game.
“Support” is laughable and infuriating!
Sun Mar 03 2024 AmySueGamesI have played Wordscapes for years and am a team leader of a successful, always full team. In recent weeks the game glitches have been out of control. This week, the tournament was completely unavailable to me. Just never appeared on my phone. I first sent a support request here through the App Store and was told I had to do that through the game settings. I then did so. After about 12 hours I received a response saying they had been noticing some issues with the tournament but it was all fixed now. It was not. The tournament was as absent from my game as it had been all weekend. I sent a new request explaining this, and after another 12 hours received a different response asking if I had tried restarting my phone. I replied that of course I had tried that, and restarting the app, everything I could think of. All of the ridiculously obvious potential fixes I could apply from my end, I tried. I sent a third request and just received a response from a third person who clearly had never bothered to read the first two requests I sent and he insultingly told me I couldn’t enter the tournament under 9 hours before it ended and that I should have played a round so it would count and enter me in the tournament. As if I didn’t know this as a years long player and team leader. How was I supposed to do that, however, with no tournament to enter. It’s just laughable and insulting.
Long time player disappointed
Sun Nov 14 2021 Winddreamer22Been playing casually for years. Only recently begun to take an interest in the tourney feature. The team feature is fun playing with other players. And hearing their gripes about the game. About how some players seem to be under testing with new game features. The latest was Star Rush. Which I don’t really see the point of with getting bonus points if you complete a level within 3 mins. I think most players can complete a level within that period. So no real change from the regular play. Unless you take your time and those players are at a disadvantage. Or something comes up and you forget to close out of your screen. So lose bonus points accrued unless you pay coins to not lose them. Days when there is not a tourney you have theme feature to collect portraits. For instance was the ‘Trick or Treat’ theme. Where you collect portraits with a Halloween theme. And what I heard from other players, it’s nearly impossible to obtain all the portrait from the set. The only feature I’m able to complete a collection are the butterflies but most regular players can complete collections. And really the only I was able to complete. I’ve yet to complete any portrait sets. I know players with millions in brilliance and they haven’t competed a set. So they doesn’t bode well for players like me. I still play but mostly for the tourneys and the team I joined.
Great way to chill if you can handle it’s foibles
Mon Nov 08 2021 DGBAuthorI find this an almost addicting daily indulgence. I’ve been playing this for well over a year and when dealing with their standard puzzles, the game can be quite entertaining. Where it falls down is with its vocabulary and it’s other options, like tournaments and daily puzzles. By far the most frustrating is the Daily Puzzle, in which earn points for guessing the correct word, guess them correctly and you’ll earn up to 3 points for one of the four challenges which in turn rewards you with stars for your account. However, there is neither rhyme nor reason to their method. Say you need a 3-letter word with “O” in the middle. With your letter selections it could be NOT, TON, LOT, HOT or TOY. Guess them in the wrong order and your chance of earning all 3 stars that round may be lost. I don’t know why they don’t put the words in alphabetical order.
Next is vocabulary. I can’t say how many times I’ve tried a word and it’s not accepted (example: EWER or TOM.) Then there are the words like AAH and AHA or non-words like LITE.
Finally there’s the tournaments (where one minute you’re rated #5, you’ll finish a game and drop to 20. Oh, and you better have a cell or network connection, otherwise you’ll play through a round of 16 games and get credit for none of them.
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