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Hole Stars: Puzzle Game
Moon Active · 45,044 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 36 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"game"
14 negative reviews mention this · 39% of all complaints
★★★★★ "fun game for a day, now every time I try to say it says check your internet. I can touch anything on the home page and it all loads fine, there are no issues eith my internet. when I hit play it just freezes up" - Elizabeth Horton
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"level"
11 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "after purchasing the app so I don't see all the ads after completing the level, now I don't get the option to view ads to continue the level after eating a bomb. this should not have been taken away! very disappointed in this" - Anthony Pearson
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"every"
9 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "fun game for a day, now every time I try to say it says check your internet. I can touch anything on the home page and it all loads fine, there are no issues eith my internet. when I hit play it just freezes up" - Elizabeth Horton
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"forced"
8 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "let's you play until level 12 before forced ads after every level even if you choose to not watch ad to multiply gold. tutorial acts as if you are stupid and every unlocked booster forces you to use the one free booster even though it is no…" - Trisha Weaver
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"play"
6 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "fun game for a day, now every time I try to say it says check your internet. I can touch anything on the home page and it all loads fine, there are no issues eith my internet. when I hit play it just freezes up" - Elizabeth Horton
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"watch"
6 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "let's you play until level 12 before forced ads after every level even if you choose to not watch ad to multiply gold. tutorial acts as if you are stupid and every unlocked booster forces you to use the one free booster even though it is no…" - Trisha Weaver
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"hole"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the new update is gross, awful, overreaching, intrusive junk. this WAS one of the best hole games, now its trash. uninstall." - Camron Austin
8
"until"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "let's you play until level 12 before forced ads after every level even if you choose to not watch ad to multiply gold. tutorial acts as if you are stupid and every unlocked booster forces you to use the one free booster even though it is no…" - Trisha Weaver
9
"uninstalled"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I uninstalled this game because of the sound and music and no way to stop it!" - Kelly Richards
10
"nothing"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "nothing like the add not chasing down pigs with the hole normal boaring fruit" - Jeff D
11
"games"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "the new update is gross, awful, overreaching, intrusive junk. this WAS one of the best hole games, now its trash. uninstall." - Camron Austin
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"every level"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "let's you play until level 12 before forced ads after every level even if you choose to not watch ad to multiply gold. tutorial acts as if you are stupid and every unlocked booster forces you to use the one free booster even though it is no…" - Trisha Weaver
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after purchasing the app so I don't see all the ads after completing the level, now I don't get the option to view ads to continue the level after eating a bomb. this should not have been taken away! very disappointed in this
fun game for a day, now every time I try to say it says check your internet. I can touch anything on the home page and it all loads fine, there are no issues eith my internet. when I hit play it just freezes up
Wenn ihr die Menschen, welche sich die Werbung für euer Spiel ansehen müssen, verärgern wollt dann ist euch das zu 100% gelungen, ich werde euer Spiel jedenfalls nicht spielen, dann so eine aufdringliche Werbung ist eine Katastrophe!!!!
the new update is gross, awful, overreaching, intrusive junk. this WAS one of the best hole games, now its trash. uninstall.
let's you play until level 12 before forced ads after every level even if you choose to not watch ad to multiply gold. tutorial acts as if you are stupid and every unlocked booster forces you to use the one free booster even though it is not needed for the level
Forced ads 🤮
Advertising the game is not true
I uninstalled this game because of the sound and music and no way to stop it!
because I'm an idi.t, i paid to get coins, my reward? increased coin cost to force me to buy more. keep attacking paying players, it will serve you well
Intentional Scamming! The game was fun until around lv60, when they stop offering commercials to revive yourself. I'm not paying to progress in this game. It's developers like this that are giving a bad name to mobile gaming.
fun
ads after every level are a joke - i dont care about updates, updates after every 5 levels would be fine.
ads. ads. ads. uninstalled.
Ads after every or every other level makes the game frustrating to play
was fun until level 10. then forced ads take over so sick of forced ads in games. stop forcing people to watch ads, and give them a reason to watch them with rewards. i don't want to watch an ad every 30 seconds. how have devs not figured this out by now? In my favorite game that i play, i probably watch 25 ads a day, and not 1 single ad is forced on me. do better devs...
nothing like the add not chasing down pigs with the hole normal boaring fruit
You get an ad after every level. Very annoying.
Stolen graphics from other mobile games like Travel Town
Cant be played offline. Forced ads. False advertising. Excessive data collection. Stay away at all costs!
So many ads! It must be a new client because there's an ad after EVERY level. Didn't finish a level? Want to watch an ad or lose your power upset? Naw, I don't care. Too bad, you're going to watch an ad AND lose your stuff, anyway. Hard pass. This, by level 34.
False advertisement and once you get past a certain level, you basically have no time to get the items so you are forced to watch ads, etc. Literally so stupid.
Beware! Besides being absolutely nothing like the ads, if you read the privacy policy there is a terrifying amount of information collected on you. Not worth it to play a game, especially produced by liars.
Hit level 10 at the same time as forced ads. Not fun enough for that. Uninstalled.
it says that my internet connection is bad. won't load the game. I've Uninstalled the game. installed the game. nothing works. I'm up in the upper 250 or higher in this game and can't go any further. because of the "internet issue" there is NO INTERNET ISSUE. ITS GAME BUG. FIX IT.
the ad I saw lied, in this ad I saw it was kinda like this but it had a hole where you gather things like wood then go in the circle as a person to build up this is exactly why I have TRUST ISSUES because of all of these fake ads other then that the game is ok
Forced ads are stupid. If there was an option I'd give it zero out of five stars.
Far too many ads, shame as it spoils a good game. Uninstalled.
Ad overkill very quickly
is nothing like advertised not worth installing
Ads after every single level
the pigs are a lie
great game but wayyyyy to many ads
the game itself is great but it constantly crashes, even after installing the latest update, doesn't allow you to watch an ad to get extra lives, but it will go into ads constantly then crashes, I spend more time waiting for the game to load and reload then I do playing the actual game, if this issue was fixed then it would more enjoyable.
Fun until you're forced to pay. There are a decent amount of levels where play is fair. but then they board becomes truly impossible without power ups. At first, you can watch ads to mitigate the gap, and then they limit ads, so your only choice is to pay. Such a number. I really enjoyed it until that point.
First off, the game is nothing like what is advertised. There are no spooky forests of pixelated spiders to navigate, no little towns of pig-critters. Just an endless supply of tables full of inanimate objects to devour. Literally the only thing from the game's ad that appears in the game is the hole. But what you CAN expect in the game is ads. Lots of them. At the end of every single level and frequently offered elsewhere. Oh, and the "ad-free" version costs over $12, which is HILARIOUS. 😂
the games was good until they started lining the bombs across where you have to go and there is absolutely noway to go without eating a bomb,ridiculous! Another scam woth this game is the item you have to get wont go inthe hole even when its the right size and timer runs out that not right, and you no it, horrible game you won't make it far
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