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Brain Puzzle: Tricky Quest
SmallStep Dev Team · 28,237 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 29 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.
1
"game"
17 negative reviews mention this · 59% of all complaints
★★★★★ "😔. I like this game but I don’t like how it portrays bigger people as ugly and skinner people as pretty. I feel like that is stupid" - Lovemusicss
2
"level"
8 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Racial Outdated Stereotypes. The game is fun I like the mechanics. I do not like how it tries to frame Afros as messy/bad or something that needs to be fixed by straightening in the game. Part 22 in “Happy Shopping” I was taken back. the girl bought everything off the …" - TheXEffectX
3
"levels"
7 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "The shower. One of the levels have a very inappropriate scene where a man saw someone showering and wanted to look behind the curtains" - Tung tung tung sahur god
4
"doesn"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Racial Outdated Stereotypes. The game is fun I like the mechanics. I do not like how it tries to frame Afros as messy/bad or something that needs to be fixed by straightening in the game. Part 22 in “Happy Shopping” I was taken back. the girl bought everything off the …" - TheXEffectX
5
"hint"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrid on one level. On the level online dating hint four is NOT helpful at all… it said “drag the boxing glove to the man” WHICH MAN- I dragged it to both… it doesn’t work but on all the other levels… it’s good! Please, fix this bug" - Anchan356
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"work"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrid on one level. On the level online dating hint four is NOT helpful at all… it said “drag the boxing glove to the man” WHICH MAN- I dragged it to both… it doesn’t work but on all the other levels… it’s good! Please, fix this bug" - Anchan356
7
"didn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Racial Outdated Stereotypes. The game is fun I like the mechanics. I do not like how it tries to frame Afros as messy/bad or something that needs to be fixed by straightening in the game. Part 22 in “Happy Shopping” I was taken back. the girl bought everything off the …" - TheXEffectX
8
"drag"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrid on one level. On the level online dating hint four is NOT helpful at all… it said “drag the boxing glove to the man” WHICH MAN- I dragged it to both… it doesn’t work but on all the other levels… it’s good! Please, fix this bug" - Anchan356
9
"doesn work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
10
"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I like this game but it’s soooo mad too. So one of the levels is a poor woman and I gave her the broom the gloves AND the helmet and when I try to make the women’s side nice with the money THE RICH GUY TAKES MY MONEY AND THE NICE FERNCHER I HATE THIS GAME and also I am deleting th…" - Ghfifhfjufshjcxtuf
11
"watch"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst ad experience. They literally gave 3min app must watch to continue 10-30 sec is okay but 3 min? Worst experience" - i am Max 19
12
"hate"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Remove. It won’t let me remove the game and I hate the game" - CookieDuck0566
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Remove
It won’t let me remove the game and I hate the game
Racial Outdated Stereotypes
The game is fun I like the mechanics. I do not like how it tries to frame Afros as messy/bad or something that needs to be fixed by straightening in the game. Part 22 in “Happy Shopping” I was taken back. the girl bought everything off the shelf but didn’t want an Afro that was also on the shelf and was super angry about it when you add it to the cart. When you add it to her head she says she doesn’t like the hairstyle so you have to straighten it and it’s her “dream hairstyle”. Why? What was the reason for this? Did we have to tear Afro natural hair down to uplift straight hair? That was weird and I recommend an update to that level. It may not have been intentional but it’s reinforcing negative stereotypes on black natural hair. You wouldn’t want negative stereotypes of your culture reinforced in a game so why do that to others?
Ads
This game has so many ads playing it is exhausting
The game itself was a good idea but the app is acting stupid and it’s not my device
It’s not my device because all the other apps are not acting the same
So I turn off the Wi-Fi because this game likes to give me ads so I turn it off, when I have trouble with the level i turn back on the Wi-Fi and refresh, but I kid you not that only does it say Wi-Fi not stable please check connection it also gives you a ad after the level you couldn’t get help on idk if it’s just my device but it’s been acting like that even when I have Wi-Fi
So I turn off the Wi-Fi because this game likes to give me ads so I turn it off, when I have trouble with the level i turn back on the Wi-Fi and refresh, but I kid you not that only does it say Wi-Fi not stable please check connection it also gives you a ad after the level you couldn’t get help on idk if it’s just my device but it’s been acting like that even when I have Wi-Fi
The shower
One of the levels have a very inappropriate scene where a man saw someone showering and wanted to look behind the curtains
I like this game but it’s soooo mad too
So one of the levels is a poor woman and I gave her the broom the gloves AND the helmet and when I try to make the women’s side nice with the money THE RICH GUY TAKES MY MONEY AND THE NICE FERNCHER I HATE THIS GAME and also I am deleting this game!
Yikes
Promotes fat shaming and no one gonna talking about the “Bath Belle” level with the blackface? Huge yikes
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RIGGED.
So id play levels right, for example i had ti hide money, i would hide everything there was no money, nothing to hide, ill open the door she says “hand it over! The moneys mine!” Then i fail..
Mad
I’m sorry but why can’t I do a hint it says my network is not working but it is I would like to know why
Don’t waste your time
This is not a brainstorming game not even a puzzle game.
Sound of this game is Chinese
There’s no English sound.
Worst ad experience
They literally gave 3min app must watch to continue 10-30 sec is okay but 3 min? Worst experience
AI and Ad Farming
It sucks because games like these can produce faster than actual good games because of AI. You’re not a good game, don’t pretend to be. I have a theory that the game makes absurd levels that are hard to beat so you have to watch an ad for the hint or for more time. Sometimes, you get the hint, and it doesn’t even function properly. Blow this game up please.
Too many ad blocks
This is terrible. The ads that come up al,ost all the time are impossible to get out of. The game might be fine, but I can’t get by the ads.
Glitched on a level
This game has glitched and I can’t get past a level because of it. Not the first time, super frustrating.
DISAPPOINTING
Advertisement banner covers money preventing me from being able to drag it where needed.
Sigh
It’s good but I can’t pass level 11 where you have to drag money and stuff but I followed the hint and the lady still found it and it’s annoying that’s why I deleted it the first time. Now my second
I literally hate this
It won’t let me open the bag. It’s literally made me go on ad which I didn’t even click on and my screen got frozen. It’s all you guys heck fault I literally hate you.
horrible
There is too many ads and the hints are either the same and then i have to watch the ads again the ads are way too long and this game sucks
Inappropriate ads of sexual content
Even though the game has age restriction, nobody is moderating the ads in it. My kid was playing the game and many sexualized adds appeared for other mature games (with sperm images and adult content. Game owners need to moderate the ads or ads need to be also age appropriate.
The system
I was on the Escape danger and I couldn’t figure it out so I watched a add and it said swipe up on the agents pocket I did but it would work ima undown load the game if it’s not fixed
Thanks🙄
Thanks🙄
Terrible
If I could give zero stars I would. You could fail a level and try to do the excellent same action that worked last time and now it doesn’t work. Half of the levels are so counterintuitive that you have to watch a 2-5 minute ad just to get half a hint. This is the WORST game I’ve ever played.
😔
I like this game but I don’t like how it portrays bigger people as ugly and skinner people as pretty. I feel like that is stupid
Horrid on one level
On the level online dating hint four is NOT helpful at all… it said “drag the boxing glove to the man” WHICH MAN- I dragged it to both… it doesn’t work but on all the other levels… it’s good! Please, fix this bug
cool game but stopped working
i got to like.. 15 levels before it just stopped working and now its just the weird background. the game was cool and all but i cant even use it. i thought it was my phone but.. nope. restarted it and nothing changed. disappointing.
doesn’t work! !
made it to level 2 and now the game keeps bugging and won’t let me go past. i do 3 of the tasks and then it says i failed for no reason. the timer didn’t run out and i did nothing and it says i failed ! ! not a good game if i can’t actually play.
Glitches
I’ve done everything for some of these and even did a hint but sometimes you can know the answer and it doesn’t work. It said drag the thing I tried it didn’t work
Ads
Way too many ads and way too buggy
Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)