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Drop the Cat
ACTIONFIT · 20,127 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 47 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"
34 negative reviews mention this · 72% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good until it’s not. The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game. The coin option…" - gsilbers
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"timer"
19 negative reviews mention this · 40% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good until it’s not. The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game. The coin option…" - gsilbers
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"level"
17 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cool concept but bad gameplay. I read some of the other reviews and I saw they were saying something about the timer being to add stress that’s probably not true just cause you’ll have a level that’s branded in the game as super hard but then you’re given like like enoug…" - Phoenix 4655
4
"play"
14 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good until it’s not. The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game. The coin option…" - gsilbers
5
"money"
12 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good until it’s not. The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game. The coin option…" - gsilbers
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"levels"
12 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Remove timer. I really enjoyed this game until I got to the point where it is nearly impossible to beat the levels in the short amount of time provided. I would love to continue playing this game. But it just isn’t fun anymore. Please add an option to re…" - kiwi445
7
"games"
9 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "why. this game WAS perfect. until they added the feature of the explode blocks if you clear too many other blocks before them. if you have gotten to this level you know what i’m talking about. this update makes the game so difficult and just enr…" - mom12858271738584
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"until"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good until it’s not. The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game. The coin option…" - gsilbers
9
"other"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cool concept but bad gameplay. I read some of the other reviews and I saw they were saying something about the timer being to add stress that’s probably not true just cause you’ll have a level that’s branded in the game as super hard but then you’re given like like enoug…" - Phoenix 4655
10
"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good until it’s not. The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game. The coin option…" - gsilbers
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"playing"
7 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crooked not to have an option to remove timer for good. Gross business strategy. PLEASE fix. I love playing this game. But at a certain point, it becomes almost impossible to beat the timer without spending money. There are multiple endgame options to purchase ways to either keep playing or cancel out the timer for one round, but t…" - Sweetpea1112
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"scam"
6 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good until it’s not. The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game. The coin option…" - gsilbers
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too many ads. don't download
broke greedy money hungry company company making another cash grab gab omg who wouldve thought. i think i would shoot the sales manager of this game if i ever saw them
STAY AWAY
This game’s timer is so frustrating. There is so little time given for levels! What makes it worse is that when you first get the game, it’s all nice and lovely until a point, where the timer suddenly becomes short, alongside ADS AFTER EVERY LEVEL! This game is a SCAM, STAY AWAY!!!
Ruined what was a fun game.
used to love this game, but you started putting more and more ads in, and forcing more and more and more and more in-app purchases and useless content designed to incentivize spending money in our faces. That wasn’t bad enough for me to go out of my way to write a review on its own, but now you’re using ai art. Do you have no some shame?
Scam
I've been playing your game during my breaks at work, and it helps me relax a bit. I regularly buy various items in the game. A day ago, I paid $9.99 for a claim reward. Usually, these rewards are given every 30 days. But today, it has already been canceled, and the app wants $9.99 again. Are you a legitimate company, or is this a scam? Do I now have to pay for this every two days??? Also they closed support and I can’t text them. Great job!
Timer is frustrating
Liked this game at first but it’s just become too hard to advance without buying power ups. I’m close to deleting this one.
Too many ads
There’s an ad every level i finish, and getting rid of ads is up to 10 bucks???
Get out here.
It’s a fun game sometimes, the timer can be annoying but you can wait for lives.
Get out here.
It’s a fun game sometimes, the timer can be annoying but you can wait for lives.
Money Hungry
This is the most money hungry game I have ever played. I still cringe to see advertisements for it which is why I’m writing this review. They shorten the time on levels to the point that you’re almost forced to buy boosters. It would be fun if it wasn’t infuriating.
Unfair practices
App opens website pop ups even with that setting turned off. When extra time is purchased it runs out faster than the actual time purchased (20 seconds run out in 10) or the game glitches so that the board cannot be solved and your coins are wasted- all of which pushes you to make in- app purchases. Found it challenging and fun but won’t continue to play a game that unfairly forces me to lose in an attempt to get my money.
Contains Malware
If you’re on wireless data you risk the app stealing data by contacting a foreign website known for hosting malware. Thankfully Xfinity blocked access to the site te-receiver-naver.thinkingdata.kr
I would not recommend this game Apple needs to ban them
I would not recommend this game Apple needs to ban them
AI slop advertisement
I was going to download and play this game until I saw an advertisement created by generative AI. Chose not to play after that
Would be 5 without timer
This has the makings of a good game I’d even be willing to pay to remove the timer but it removes all the fun relaxing vibes from this game
The play time is reduced when comparing with youtube recorded
Obviously making customer to buy more time
It’s doesn’t support offline play
The games description said it supports offline play, so it’s perfect for anytime any where. But after some time of playing it saying that I need to connect to WiFi to play. They lied about it supporting offline play
Good till you get too far
Oh my goodness this was a really fun game until the timer went down to one minute. Then the player gets stuck over and over. Boo. Not relaxing and totally a shameless money grab. Deleting after one day.
Misleading levels
I don’t get why the easy levels don’t seem very easy. Why have a bomb piece with 1 move so that I make a wrong move it blows up and I lose. Why is that on an easy level?!?!?! Also had to pay $10 for no ads. Ridiculous
Timer takes all the fun out of it
I thought I finally found a game I love. But NOOOOO. the timer has to ruin it. They gave me plenty of time on earlier levels. But once you get to level 17 then u have almost NO time……ALREADY! And that’s only at level 17! I’m DONE! I am now deleting the app.
Love it but might delete
I love the game, entertaining and fun, but it shouldn’t have a timer. The game is supposed to be relaxing, if I wanted to rush through it all the time I would’ve gotten a race car game.
Impossible levels
The time limits are incredibly frustrating! Not the existence of them - those are normally fine on other games. This one seems designed to get you to pay to win. But even buying packages isn’t enough! These levels are so impossible that 1500 coin will literally buy you 30 seconds. That’s not enough time to figure out a puzzle! That’s enough time to make one, maybe two moves. But looking at the puzzle isn’t enough to figure it out, you have to be able to slide the pieces around because some parts are invisible! So yeah I uninstalled because this was just ridiculous.
Scam links
I liked the game, but while I was playing it, and without clicking on any ads or anything, it would take me to safari in the middle of a level. Then, it would state my phone had been hacked from visiting a website, and provided a link to “fix it.” I deleted it immediately. This only happened during this game, and it happened several times. When I exited out, sometimes it would send me straight back to the website as soon as I logged back in.
Really not happy.
Really not happy.
Potentially can get hacked
Put this at 5 stars so others can see this. You might get hacked by this game because there are sites out of the game that take you to a different website and can potentially get you hacked. You’d get a “Hacked” warning saying that you gotta download an app to protect your IPhone. Don’t know if it’s also for another phones but don’t go to the sites out of the game and don’t click on anything that claims to give you money cause they got that kind of stuff that might get you hacked.
weird update
this game has started becoming very buggy and weird. i hear random ads that i dont see when im actively playing a level, sometimes i even get redirected to websites that tell me i have a virus, the game is also very laggy aswell and im very confused. i dont like how this has only started happening after an update, quite frankly im very confused for the security of my phone and i dont think i want to play this anymore. i advise others to be careful playing this aswell.
Fun for a minute
It’s fun at first but at around level 20 you get one minute to finish the puzzles and it’s just not fun anymore. You can’t even look up from the game because the timing is so tight. You can of course pay money for more time. I ended up deleting it off my phone.
fun but nonstop ads
in the beginning you get no ads, the further you get the more ads you get. literally after ever 1-2 minute long level you need to watch an ad
Not for wi-fi
After installing, I remove cellular access so that I don’t burn through my data with games. But even if I’m connected to the internet through WiFi, it tells me that there is no internet connection- even though every other app is happy getting internet from WiFi - well almost - every other app is happy except other apps by this developer like cat escape
Overstuffed with ads
Got to level 25 or so and the game started showing me an unskippable 30+ second ad after every single level, sometimes taking more time than the actual level did. Clearly the developers would rather have me thinking about games they didn’t make instead.
Not relaxing
The first levels give you ample time to complete them but after that you only have 1-1.5 minutes as the levels get more difficult. It’s not fun rushing to beat the clock. Clearly a money grab since you can buy “tickets” for infinite time on a given level.
the timer ruins it
i like the graphics but the timer ruins the fun and i only play it occasionally because of that. the timer ruins everything.
Needs more time - PLEASE READ
The game itself is fun, but some levels need WAY more time. Running out of time and paying 900 coins for only 18-20 extra seconds is ridiculous. It takes around 20+ games just to earn that many coins, so the reward doesn’t match the effort at all. The added time seriously needs to be increased.
Edit: was three stars
But now it’s one. There weren’t ok many ads for me, but I was doing the challenge to do the three levels before others and suddenly ads are everywhere. It ruins it because you have to either restart the game or watch them. Also I’ve read through the reviews and it’s always the same response about the timer making it “more fun and challenging”, but the comments clearly state it’s not fun. Don’t get unless you’re fine being frustrated every five seconds. The developers haven’t done anything to fix it basking in the dates of these ads. And the lives is stupid, hours to get all five back. The game is a money grab.
Edit: was three stars
But now it’s one. There weren’t ok many ads for me, but I was doing the challenge to do the three levels before others and suddenly ads are everywhere. It ruins it because you have to either restart the game or watch them. Also I’ve read through the reviews and it’s always the same response about the timer making it “more fun and challenging”, but the comments clearly state it’s not fun. Don’t get unless you’re fine being frustrated every five seconds. The developers haven’t done anything to fix it basking in the dates of these ads. And the lives is stupid, hours to get all five back. The game is a money grab.
Scam!!!!
I bought the $4.99 pack and they just charged me $42.69!!!!
This game is Ads and timers
I gave this game probably too long of a chance. I saw recommendations for it and thought it could be a fun brain puzzle. The ads are constant and the timers are often insanely short, making it stressful instead of relaxing. After the timer ends its more ads, for a lot of levels it’s less than 2 minutes before another un-skipable ad. And many of the ads are adult in nature promoting erotic books, or other games with bouncing tiddies or depicting DV. To finish it off you can’t replay levels you’ve beaten! I had hoped that after beating a level, fighting against the timer, that you could then go back and replay levels to practice and relax, but no. Only high speed stress with constant ads to pull you out of what little fun you are having. I know I reiterated a lot but if it bothered you, just imagine how annoying the incessant ads will be.
Good until it’s not
The premise and game play are cool. But then the timer gets harder just so you have to buy coins, which cost real money. And there’s no perpetual license so essentially you’d spent hundreds of bucks for a small simple game.
The coin option is such a scam. If they update it to have just either a perpetual or simple subscription then maybe. Then again, not everything needs a subscription specially if it can run locally. Well, there’s alternatives out there … free market reigns
The coin option is such a scam. If they update it to have just either a perpetual or simple subscription then maybe. Then again, not everything needs a subscription specially if it can run locally. Well, there’s alternatives out there … free market reigns
Crooked not to have an option to remove timer for good. Gross business strategy. PLEASE fix
I love playing this game. But at a certain point, it becomes almost impossible to beat the timer without spending money. There are multiple endgame options to purchase ways to either keep playing or cancel out the timer for one round, but there is no option to pay to completely remove the timer. I play this game to relax, but because of the nearly impossible timers I find myself incredibly tense while playing higher rounds. It’s kind of a crooked business strategy- it seems like the developers know that once someone is hooked/really enjoying the gameplay, they’ll spend way more on microtransactions in order to keep playing than they would on a one time (or even monthly) subscription fee. I genuinely want to keep playing, but it’s starting to feel gross how obvious the money grabbing is. Looking for alternatives. There is one called “meow drop” which is an obvious copy without a timer. Not as good, but until devs fix this glaring issue I’ll probably switch to that.
Cool concept but bad gameplay
I read some of the other reviews and I saw they were saying something about the timer being to add stress that’s probably not true just cause you’ll have a level that’s branded in the game as super hard but then you’re given like like enough time to do it and you’ll still have like a lot of time left it’s really easy and then they’ll give you a random like normal level and then it’s the hardest possible thing and then they give you one minute to do it. It’s like the most complex thing the scaling or whatever you don’t wanna call it is really really bad and then you have to wait like a whole hour or so to play it again after you just lose all your five wives it’s horrible.
Remove timer
I really enjoyed this game until I got to the point where it is nearly impossible to beat the levels in the short amount of time provided. I would love to continue playing this game. But it just isn’t fun anymore. Please add an option to remove the timer 🙏🏻
I would 100% give this game a five star review.
I would 100% give this game a five star review.
add
loved it until it forced ads and can't play offline ☹️
why
this game WAS perfect. until they added the feature of the explode blocks if you clear too many other blocks before them. if you have gotten to this level you know what i’m talking about. this update makes the game so difficult and just enraging and not even fun they ruined what was one of my favorite games i hate this new challenge piece im about to delete this game
Timer ruined it…
I would have loved this game, but the timer is way too short. Instead of being a fun, laid-back game, it’s a memory game racing against the clock. And before you can repeat a level there’s an ad.
The only way to make the time unlimited is to pay cash. A LOT of cash.
I’ll be going elsewhere for a drop ball game, even though I wish I could’ve played with the cute cats 😿
The only way to make the time unlimited is to pay cash. A LOT of cash.
I’ll be going elsewhere for a drop ball game, even though I wish I could’ve played with the cute cats 😿
Sensitive subject ads
First, I’d like to say that I really enjoy the game! But I am left frustrated about what types of adds they play. As of two weeks ago, all the adds I am getting are for online casinos, sports betting and Kelshi. As the child of a recovering gambling addiction these are not the types of ads I want to see and there’s no way to get them to go away despite saying I’m not interested in the content. I honestly don’t really mind getting ads here and there, but with the sheer number of these ads that I’ve gotten lately, I’m likely to uninstall the game.
devs can’t take feedback
like so many other reviews for this app, i hate the timer. it was originally fun to have, for the first levels before they drop the timer to be around a minute a majority of the time. the idea is cute, but it’s a cash grab and the devs give the same reply for a majority of the feedback they receive. you can’t say feedback is valuable and then SWEAR the timer is meant to add fun tension when the majority of your players don’t like the timer. it’s a cash grab since they sell tickets and upgrade items for real money, especially given the in-game currency is too scarce a majority of the time to afford anything. there are more enjoyable games not trying to scam you, don’t waste your time here.
Timed game
I enjoy the game and think it’s fun but I deleted it after I realized it’s timed. I want to be able to play it just for fun and to figure it out, not be rushed against the clock. Especially when I’ve figured a level out and have one move left with a second on the clock and can’t get it in time. That’s frustrating and I won’t be downloading this again. If you want to rush against the clock though, this game is for you.
Like doing everything twice? This is the game for you!
This game is super cute and fun! Except that the time limit is so restricting you essentially need to do every level twice. The first time you figure out the puzzle but not quick enough to finish it. Then you get to do it again from the beginning to complete and move on! Yay?
Drop the cat
Drop the cat is so fun when ever I am Bored I play Drop the cat and I am think about playing after school . When u r waiting for a table at a restaurant I play
taiwan and hongkong
I rarely get curious about where a game's development team comes from, but seeing Hong Kong and Taiwan listed alongside a dozen or so other countries in the game setting-on equal footing with sovereign nations like the US, Japan, South Korea, and the UK-is really surprising. It makes me wonder about the political leanings of the dev team because most gamers aren’t that interested in China’s internal affairs. It feels so deliberate, so abrupt. In the already developed country map in the game, Hong Kong and Taiwan are both there without China. Hong Kong is okay as an internationally known tourist city, but Taiwan? That's so rare that any debate about it just feels pointless. Uninstalled it-it wasn’t that fun to begin with. I was originally enjoying the game, but this really kills it.
Cute
Cute game. I believe the levels are a little too challenging with the time limits, which make it impossible to get rewards. Ended up deleting.
The timer ruins it
I like the puzzle aspect, but the timer doesn’t add anything. It’s already a puzzle. The timer is unnecessarily short.
Timer too short
Not fun to play because of the timer. I want to relax and play games but the timer makes it not fun
Ads After Every Attempt
Timers are tightened after updates, likely synced to the fastest walkthrough time online. E.g. level 532 used to have 3 min 40 sec according to walkthroughs. I'm pretty good at the game, but I only managed to get it after a couple weeks on the level since they tightened it to 3 min. They assume everyone's using the walkthroughs online, so they make it *just* shy of impossible to solve without a walkthrough side by side or weeks of attempts. Given that every single attempt has an ad (unless you actually watch them - then you might have a break every other attempt; either way, your battery drains unless you shell out the dough), they've taken away the timer on the "freeze time" powerup (making it impossible to tell how much longer the timer will be frozen), the fact that the super hard levels are easier than the "normal" levels an embarrassing percentage of the time, and the fact that this isn't even the original game of this gamestyle if the walkthrough date stamps are to be believed... I'd say look for another app. Chibi cats are cute, but not that cute.
Sentiment summary
90%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)