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PlaySimple Cryptogram
PlaySimple Games · 23,968 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 38 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"
20 negative reviews mention this · 53% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The 3 ad combos between games killed it for me." - Joe Kennedy
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"long"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "WAY too many LONG LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD ads." - Brooks
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"start"
5 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Great game but awfully long ads! I understand creators need to make money but 30-40 sec ads just to start playing? not worth it! will reluctantly uninstall it if this continues! 60 sec ads? developers cannot believe they will retain users f…" - Teddy Ignat
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"games"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The 3 ad combos between games killed it for me." - Joe Kennedy
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"played"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not to gameplay that is advertised. The game played was advertised with clues.There aren't no clues. So tired of misleading advertisements for games" - jeannie hare
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Is not as I expected the ads are different
The 3 ad combos between games killed it for me.
WAY too many LONG LOUD LOUD LOUD LOUD ads.
I paid $9.99 for ad free version. They took my money but I still have ads.
forced ads
Stupid pithy sayings too easy to solve
Great game but awfully long ads! I understand creators need to make money but 30-40 sec ads just to start playing? not worth it! will reluctantly uninstall it if this continues! 60 sec ads? developers cannot believe they will retain users for a long time no matter how good the game is.
Beware of this app, I did not authorize but it charged my PayPal account $4.32. Beware of Google period. Blocked all charges by them!
Asked to accept Privacy Policy and ToS as soon as I started the app. Data collection and tracking for a simple cryptogram puzzle game? Processed and handled by another country? Seriously...
Not to gameplay that is advertised. The game played was advertised with clues.There aren't no clues. So tired of misleading advertisements for games
I can not rate this game because it keeps crashing then close. will be deleting it
it was great doesn't load after the last update
Excellent game to play. Fun!! It was fun until the update happened! Game has crashed for two days now. Had to uninstall and then reinstall the game to get it to work. I LOST EVERYTHING that I had played!!! Now I have to start all over again!!
I didn't like the last crypto game I played. To many problems. No clues, the front is to small, and the ad's are always not available. Even with an update 5 days ago. Sorry
They draw you in with an interesting idea and you start to enjoy yourself and then they hit you with so many ads. They only start with the ads after lvl 10 and the game goes from a 5star to a 1star for me. Developers are pathetic for how they introduce the ads and greedy for hitting you with ads after you finish a level AND before you start with the next level. DON'T WAST YOUR TIME if you don't like excessive ads like me
Ad Generator, don't use. Click x to close and it started another countdown. did this 2 to 4 times an ad. played for a day, did this multiple times.
The app itself is fine, could definitely be more challenging but is ultimately fun to do. However, $9.99 for "ad-free" only to have to watch them to keep your streak if you miss a letter is, honestly? Big Bologna. For ten bucks, the only add I should have to watch are the ones I opt to for extra coins or whatever. Would be a 5 star app if this one change was made. Also sucks that for 10 bucks doesn't let you get the 3x bonus for the coins.
the over abundance of ads ruins thw puzzle solving. you open the app, 5 minutes of ads, you start a puzzle, ad, complete a puzzle, ad. f this bs
timed? no thanks..ugh!
Constant ads.
ads ads and more ads. ads when you open it, ads when you close it, ads when you start a level and ads when you complete a level. and if you don't watch their ads. it will reset an entire level on you. totally a trash game.
basic... does NOT match promotion. Another game that advertises something special and is the same boring game as always.
The game is very good for a good mentality but this game is very annoying because there are too many ads, very very very annoying, I don't know what is in the brain of the designer of this game, just open the game there are ads to continue playing ads again and so on ads ads ads do not stop, therefore this game deserves only 2 stars.
The game does not auto fill in the letter when you guess it right on an earlier word onto other words in puzzles, nor does it give you even a vague 1 word hint or picture as to what category or topic the phrase belongs to, so it is total guessing on your part.
Would be great if not for the fact that it keeps randomly opening Shein and there are ads in the middle of games and between each of the games. Also made my phone overheat.
The game itself is very enjoyable, but it's full of long ads
It has misspelled words. "EMPTAHY". You can't solve puzzles that have things that aren't words.
is has been become an addiction but unfortunately it has so many annoying ads, especially when I ask to revive a very long time is wasted while watching the ad as if I am getting punished for asking a revive.
This game used to be my go to time killer game. I absolutely loved it. now, there are 30 second unskipable ads literally after every action.
frustrating with the ads that you cannot escape.
Too many ads!! one before the level one after the level and they are 90 seconds long. no option to bypass or purchase no ads!! takes the fun out of the game. deleting because of that
app has a lot of ads. plays ad after a game, then ads before a game starts.
This game has the potential to be great, but they don't seem to care about that. I could deal with the fact that the game has 2x to 3x the ads of any other games I play. I could even handle the fact that some of the ads force you to open 3rd party apps to proceed beyond some ads. What bothers me most is that the list of daily tasks to complete in order to receive bonuses contains the task of completing "today's daily challenge" but frequently refuses to identify the fact that you have, in fact.
Well, I d/l'd this game due to what I saw in the ad & so far after 20 Levels I still haven't seen what the ad showed. I thought this game was different due to the fact of having to solve simple questions first, then use those answers to plug in, but so far NO different then any other so-called crypto/anagram game out there!!
I enjoyed this initially, but the quotes became predictable. Too much duplication, no challenge after a while.
They just expect you to put the answers in there.You don't have the questions in order to get the answers for them.I'm just uninstalling this game
great game till you get a new phone. I had even paid to clear adds, logged in with Facebook on the old phone. My progress did not come over but neither did the add free and restore purchases is only available on iOS.
way too many ads. game shuts down causing me to lose any answers I had. special boards are messed up. when you pick a letter all of the same numbers disappear and you can't fill spaces.
Sentiment summary
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