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Hexa Away
GOODROID,Inc. · 301,974 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 66 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"
48 negative reviews mention this · 73% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun when it works but I’m deleting it. I am so tired of buying add-ons only to have the last ad crash and I lose the entire game and all that I invested into it. The game itself is great but this has become too expensive and too annoying to continue." - StefP40
2
"level"
18 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and power ups. I loved this fane and wanted to stay with it until I realized after every 2 or 3 games, there was and as. Then I had to tap all over the place, hoping ‘x’ would show up. Then, as I leveled up, it would be impossible to complete without the…" - BettyBoopWynne
3
"levels"
13 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and pay walls to the max!. The game itself can be fun but >75% of the levels require you to watch multiple ads for enough moves to complete the boards! One ad=One move. The boosters can be helpful but they are difficult to earn! There’s an ad in between each level an…" - Rapunzelle
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"every"
12 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and power ups. I loved this fane and wanted to stay with it until I realized after every 2 or 3 games, there was and as. Then I had to tap all over the place, hoping ‘x’ would show up. Then, as I leveled up, it would be impossible to complete without the…" - BettyBoopWynne
5
"games"
12 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and power ups. I loved this fane and wanted to stay with it until I realized after every 2 or 3 games, there was and as. Then I had to tap all over the place, hoping ‘x’ would show up. Then, as I leveled up, it would be impossible to complete without the…" - BettyBoopWynne
6
"without"
12 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and power ups. I loved this fane and wanted to stay with it until I realized after every 2 or 3 games, there was and as. Then I had to tap all over the place, hoping ‘x’ would show up. Then, as I leveled up, it would be impossible to complete without the…" - BettyBoopWynne
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"money"
11 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Expensive. Fun but too much money to power up" - Olhorseyone
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"long"
11 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads. I understand the need for advertising, but these ads last for a long time" - weary from ads.
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"watch"
10 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and pay walls to the max!. The game itself can be fun but >75% of the levels require you to watch multiple ads for enough moves to complete the boards! One ad=One move. The boosters can be helpful but they are difficult to earn! There’s an ad in between each level an…" - Rapunzelle
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"move"
10 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and pay walls to the max!. The game itself can be fun but >75% of the levels require you to watch multiple ads for enough moves to complete the boards! One ad=One move. The boosters can be helpful but they are difficult to earn! There’s an ad in between each level an…" - Rapunzelle
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"play"
9 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads on ads. Can’t play without ads" - da meistro
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"moves"
8 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and pay walls to the max!. The game itself can be fun but >75% of the levels require you to watch multiple ads for enough moves to complete the boards! One ad=One move. The boosters can be helpful but they are difficult to earn! There’s an ad in between each level an…" - Rapunzelle
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Expensive
Fun but too much money to power up
Fun when it works but I’m deleting it
I am so tired of buying add-ons only to have the last ad crash and I lose the entire game and all that I invested into it. The game itself is great but this has become too expensive and too annoying to continue.
Glitch in Game
I do love this game, but I do not like the pop-ups that’s in the game trying to trick you and telling you, you have someone that has hacked your phone. I do think they have a problem with their security within their game system
Ads and power ups
I loved this fane and wanted to stay with it until I realized after every 2 or 3 games, there was and as. Then I had to tap all over the place, hoping ‘x’ would show up.
Then, as I leveled up, it would be impossible to complete without the necessary tools I.e bones etc. I’m never going to spend $ in these times in this nor am I going to download the myriad of games in ads.
So, goodbye.
Then, as I leveled up, it would be impossible to complete without the necessary tools I.e bones etc. I’m never going to spend $ in these times in this nor am I going to download the myriad of games in ads.
So, goodbye.
Too many ads
I understand the need for advertising, but these ads last for a long time
ADS!
Ads every level that last forever. The worst I have ever seen on a game.
Ads
You sit forever through ads to get extra moves and life’s but there is no where to exit out at the end so you sit forever with an ad and get no reward. Deleting the game now!
Game started opening ads in my browser
I understand games like this needs ads but I’ve never had to watch an ad that opened a website on my browser. It’s sketchy as hell!
Ads on ads
Can’t play without ads
Not so….
More ads than any other game I have downloaded. But to add insult to injury, the ads are sometime 90+ seconds long. There is an option to pay for no ads, but doubt it stops there.
The Game’s Advertising
Nice game!
The advertising ads are extremely disturbing!!
Some of them repeat its self about 5 to 7 times!
The game, Yahtzee is a TOTAL MALFUNCTIONING ADVERTISEMENT! I have lost more games to this Yahtzee advertisements than I can keep up with in losing! I had to start over several times!! I even bought to this program’s attendance! Still get no where!
The advertising ads are extremely disturbing!!
Some of them repeat its self about 5 to 7 times!
The game, Yahtzee is a TOTAL MALFUNCTIONING ADVERTISEMENT! I have lost more games to this Yahtzee advertisements than I can keep up with in losing! I had to start over several times!! I even bought to this program’s attendance! Still get no where!
Pay to win
I really wanted to like this game and it was fun at first but once you get into the higher teens or 20s levels you can’t win without using items to destroy tiles. You are given a few free items to get you hooked but after that, you have to buy coins or items in order to advance in levels. I am uninstalling this game because I am not paying to win. It also has frequent ads which I’m not interested in. Do better!
Shows pornographic ads
Do not use this game
It shows pornographic ads a few too many times
It shows pornographic ads a few too many times
Absolutely horrible
Yet another worthless game that has so much potential to be great. However, the developers are only interested in making money through advertisements and ridiculously high cost purchase purchases. The high reviews have to be fake.
Misleading
In app purchases should be disclosed and this app stops after a few puzzles to offer you packages to continue to play. FAR more expensive than any simple game should be. Avoid.
Ridiculous
This would be a fun game if you want to spend a ton of money. The levels are impossible to complete unless you have boosters. I’m deleting this game for that reason.
Scam!
Do not play! Several times I have bought a bundle for $13.99 and once my account is charged which I see immediately as a banner, the charges have been higher. Once it was $50 and another time $44.91. Hoping to get rectified but highly doubt it. Game gets too repetitious too
Save your time and money
I purchased the no ads, but as other people have posted, it is nearly/totally impossible to complete higher levels without needing a boost. To receive a boost you must watch an advertisement, and if you wasted your money, as I did, the booster advertisement freezes, and you have to start over. Don’t bother with this game. There are plenty more games that are far less annoying.
Forced into purchases
Many levels force you to use tools that you need to purchase with coins. If you don’t have the coins from earning, you must purchase them or the tools. Illegally sorted into free games
Fix paid ads
Please fix unpaid version with paid ads. Vita Mahong ad never exits and only way to get rid of it is to exit out of the game which makes me lose my progress in a particular game level and I have to start all over . Most ads have an x where you can exit out.
Too many ads
Every two seconds you have to watch an ad and if you fail the ad only gives you 1 move.
Video ad between each level
You have to exit out the game at the end of each level. A video ad starts and it never turns out the video ad is always trying to get you to download another game.
Deleted the game!!!
It used to be a fun game! Now they put so many ads that are longer than actual commercials on TV. And now you get one move for one ad you spend more time watching ads then playing the game. Then the ads take you out of their app then Norton virus flag it so they’re not even screening their ads putting us at jeopardy for being hacked. So you also spend more time in commercials than actually playing the game. Or you have to pay them so you don’t have to deal with the ads. Bad platform altogether and it’s recently changed for the worst and the creators of the game. Don’t care. Besides it’s basically 20 different puzzles, arranged in different ways. Once you have the mastered the game becomes boring.
My phone almost crashed 3 times
Why did my phone almost crash 3 times? Does anyone else have this problem?
Fun but waaaay too many ads
Fun game but the ads are way too long and every transition pops up. Some are 60+ seconds. I’m deleting
Recent “improvements” ruined the game
Like a prior reviewer, I too will be deleting this game and I will find something else to play. To have to watch an ad that could be 2 minutes long for 1 move is just not worth it, when you used to get 5 moves for watching an add. The added need to purchase tools is also defeating. A fun game I have played for months has been ruined by greed disguised as “upgrades”
I’m done
I spent way too much money. And watched way too many ads that were overly long. And I played a game again when one of those overly long ads froze and I had to restart. But now, this is too much. I watched too many ads to finish a game and then was told that I needed another move even though the board was cleared. What a scam.
Scammers developers
The ideia of the game is good but they force you to use your money buy extra life or watch long videos and commercials but the worst part is the malicious ads that pop up mid game with phone infected warning
This game should be banned and the developers taken down
This game should be banned and the developers taken down
Inappropriate Add
Game has been fun, but way too many adds. Then today a naked woman add popped up. Super inappropriate and I’m glad my kids were not the ones playing.
Too many ads
Difficult to progress the game without an ad popping up every time you do a level or fail. Sometimes ads appear during the level and might make it impossible to finish.
Ads make the game unplayable
The ads refresh every 15-20 seconds. Nearly half redirect you and attempt to download other apps. You roughly get about 30 seconds of play before a redirect and then they keep hitting every ad after that. So by the time you close out the redirect and make it back in, you get 7-10 seconds to play before it happens again. Not worth the headache.
Impossible Levels
The game is fun but once you get to level 82, it’s pointless because it’s actually an impossible level. I calculated every possible combination with the help of AI and it’s not possible to win without using an “extra move”. I would only continue to play this game if the developers make the impossible levels possible again.
Hexa Away
Don’t download, not worth it. You’ll get to play a few games before you have to wait 30+ minutes to play a game or spend money to keep playing.
Sexual ads - not ok for children
I’ve enjoyed playing this game and occasionally play along with my child. Today an ad of a woman fondling herself in her underwear popped up as I was playing. Not okay for a 12+ rated game.
Porn in ads
When you’re forced to watch ads to complete levels and the ads are pornographic, I think they should change the age guidelines.
Gatcha game AF
Fun, but zero playability without spending money. Around level 100, items become required to progress. Shocker, items eventually cost money.
Don’t even bother
Don’t even bother
More ads than game
A fun game buried in ads. I spent lore time watching ads than playing… what’s the point in that?
Malicious Sites
Adds will sometimes lead to malicious sites. I’ve seen three over the last two days. Tracked it down to this app. Deleted it immediately.
Won’t take no for an answer.
At the conclusion of a game they slam another game in your face for you to download. They don’t provide any way to say ‘no’. Saying no is unacceptable. If merchants in brick and mortar stores were like these people there would be a lot of injured or dead merchants. I’m just about done with these people.
Ads and pay walls to the max!
The game itself can be fun but >75% of the levels require you to watch multiple ads for enough moves to complete the boards! One ad=One move. The boosters can be helpful but they are difficult to earn! There’s an ad in between each level and they’re long ads. Wish there was an easier mode or that they would at least increase the limited moves. I’m completely annoyed and done with this game.
Battery Killer
Good game to burn time. I enjoy it, but the live ads running at the bottom of the screen kill my battery life.
Games repeat
This game is addictive until they start repeating. Then it’s just the same 10 games over and over.
Scammed after purchase
I purchased the no ad subscription and now you cannot win unless you purchase additional options. Apple will not give money back so I filed a chargeback
Tie game has changed
I liked this game, I had 900k gold coins, then they changed how you get the coins, so that you’d purchase them not earn them. Too bad but I purposely blew through my coins and deleted the game. It’s fun until it isn’t. Now on to my next save me from boredom game:)
Ads too much!
Fun game, but there’s an ad embedded in nearly every level! Some, like vita majong have no way to skip without closing the game. A bit of a time waster with frustrations for free!
Glitching ads
I enjoy this game but recently ads for M a t c h I n g S t o r y are freezing up the game. There is no reason for ads to last more than thirty seconds, and I’ve waited as long as ten minutes before restarting and losing my progress. LMK when you fix this.
Way Too Many Ads
Having an ad pop up after every level, whether you complete it or not, is too much. The game can be fun and challenging but there are levels where it appears that in order to clear it you have no choice but to use a booster. The game feels like it’s designed to annoy you into getting the paid version. While it’s fun, there are way too many other games that are fun that don’t beat you over the head with ads.
Would have loved this but
When I first downloaded Hexaway I loved it. I was willing to sit through the tons of long ads. As I moved up, I decided to purchase the no ads version. There is no such thing. You have to still watch ads to get more moves or buy them. Ok I get that. But there are still a lot of other ads between games, did I say long ads. Over the levels I did purchase packs to help clear tiles My choice. But now I’m at level 305 and there is no way to win unless you use MANY extra items, like 15! Fun for a while but now I will sadly delete it.
Ads
2-3 minute ads is ridiculous
Toooooooo many adds
Too many adds
+ 16 more in the clipboard copy
Sentiment summary
91%
Positive (4-5★)
6%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)