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Sand Loop
Voodoo · 15,926 ratings · ★ 4.4
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Top complaints - extracted from 60 negative reviews
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"game"
39 negative reviews mention this · 65% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sand loop. Level 40 is impossible without using a special item, no way to buy an item without enough coins, and no way to get enough coins without using real money. Unfortunately, I will have to be deleting this game." - Mallard5320
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"level"
29 negative reviews mention this · 48% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sand loop. Level 40 is impossible without using a special item, no way to buy an item without enough coins, and no way to get enough coins without using real money. Unfortunately, I will have to be deleting this game." - Mallard5320
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"money"
18 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sand loop. Level 40 is impossible without using a special item, no way to buy an item without enough coins, and no way to get enough coins without using real money. Unfortunately, I will have to be deleting this game." - Mallard5320
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"impossible"
14 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sand loop. Level 40 is impossible without using a special item, no way to buy an item without enough coins, and no way to get enough coins without using real money. Unfortunately, I will have to be deleting this game." - Mallard5320
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"levels"
14 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Grab. Yet another app with impossible levels unless you pay. Not fun. Even with tutorials I can’t get it to work. Dumped it as soon as it asked for my review on an impossible level. This is my review." - cbrugge1
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"pass"
14 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam of a game. Game was fun for a while but over the last month or two they’ve made changes that make it worse and a bigger scam. Biggest one is reducing the coins you earn for finishing a level from 25-75 depending on difficulty to 10-50 meaning you have…" - OldmanJaycan
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"without"
12 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sand loop. Level 40 is impossible without using a special item, no way to buy an item without enough coins, and no way to get enough coins without using real money. Unfortunately, I will have to be deleting this game." - Mallard5320
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"coins"
12 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sand loop. Level 40 is impossible without using a special item, no way to buy an item without enough coins, and no way to get enough coins without using real money. Unfortunately, I will have to be deleting this game." - Mallard5320
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"playing"
12 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "BOOOOOOOOOO!!!. I've never played a game that puts the "keep playing for ___ coins" in the most INCONVENIENT SPOT EVER. Let's fix that and not make it so big, let's also make the "retry" button shop up faster so people don't accidentally click the "play on…" - Ilovemycatnamedbenny
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"play"
11 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam of a game. Game was fun for a while but over the last month or two they’ve made changes that make it worse and a bigger scam. Biggest one is reducing the coins you earn for finishing a level from 25-75 depending on difficulty to 10-50 meaning you have…" - OldmanJaycan
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"rewards"
9 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sand loop. Not given any type of rewards to be able to move past a very difficult level. There is no way around having to make a purchase to get on with the game. Very disappointing" - Hd71*****
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"spend"
9 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful. Wants you to spend money to actually succeed. Such a joke." - CharlotDHarlot
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Sand loop
Level 40 is impossible without using a special item, no way to buy an item without enough coins, and no way to get enough coins without using real money. Unfortunately, I will have to be deleting this game.
Sand loop
Not given any type of rewards to be able to move past a very difficult level. There is no way around having to make a purchase to get on with the game. Very disappointing
Waste of time.
Put your phone down and go outside. Yes I’m a hypocrite.
Fun but to many ads
To many ads in this game
Awful
Wants you to spend money to actually succeed. Such a joke.
Lost phone = lost progress
I lost my phone and now I have to start over when I was past level 250. Really not sure I want to start over. Cannot find any way to bring back my account.
Money Grab
Yet another app with impossible levels unless you pay. Not fun. Even with tutorials I can’t get it to work. Dumped it as soon as it asked for my review on an impossible level. This is my review.
Scam
You get to a certain level where it’s impossible to win without spending money. It is inconsistent - one bucket of one color will fill to 100% in two seconds while in another level that same bucket will quantify that same amount of sand entirely differently. The game, like so many of these, is just rigged.
Scam of a game
Game was fun for a while but over the last month or two they’ve made changes that make it worse and a bigger scam. Biggest one is reducing the coins you earn for finishing a level from 25-75 depending on difficulty to 10-50 meaning you have to finish basically double to levels to get the 900 coins needed to continue (or of course you can spend money). On top of that the pass they run gives basically no rewards unless you pay $10 per month for the pro version.
All of that isn’t ideal but would be on par with other games if not for this last part. I paid for the ad free version when I first got the game, and yet in the past few days I’ve started to get ads again. First it was one every 3-4 levels but since yesterday it’s every single time I finish or restart a level. If I spend money on a game I expect to actually get what I paid for, and if I’m not going to get that then I’m just not going to play and will tell all my friends not to waste their time with this game
All of that isn’t ideal but would be on par with other games if not for this last part. I paid for the ad free version when I first got the game, and yet in the past few days I’ve started to get ads again. First it was one every 3-4 levels but since yesterday it’s every single time I finish or restart a level. If I spend money on a game I expect to actually get what I paid for, and if I’m not going to get that then I’m just not going to play and will tell all my friends not to waste their time with this game
BOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I've never played a game that puts the "keep playing for ___ coins" in the most INCONVENIENT SPOT EVER. Let's fix that and not make it so big, let's also make the "retry" button shop up faster so people don't accidentally click the "play on" button. Not to mention if you're gonna have the "play on" be 900 coins then you're seriously going to need to make the rewards higher for passing levels. 10 coins for passing a level should be criminal, thank to you I have to pass 90 more levels to get my stupid coins back. But tbh this game just infuriates me so I'll be deleting it. Fix your game.
1 star because customer service is lacking
I have sent several emails to address this issue. I haven’t received a daily login reward in almost a month, since I made my last purchase. Also some of the levels are difficult to the point that if you don’t spend cash you won’t pass it unless you want to grind it for days. It’s fun I enjoy the game, but like I said I stopped receiving rewards.
Too many ads
After you pass level twenty that’s when there is an ad after every game you play.
Super scammy, ads are ridiculous
I finally paid for the ad free version, and they immediately lengthened the rewards ads.
Full of ads between deaths
Suck you in then give you an. Impossible level so you watch a lot of ads
Rewards and Ads have changed
I’ve been playing this game for months, I’m on level 956 and I played just about everyday. About a month ago, I noticed the coins you got for completing a level went down from 25 to 10. It wasn’t that big of a deal, I’d usually just watch an ad for the power ups anyway. They also removed the daily log in bonus. But, in the most recent update, they removed the ability to watch more than three ads per day, per power. And the ability to increase your buckets from 5 to 7 is now reduced to a maximum of 6, and you can only watch one ad per day to get another one. Seeing as ads give revenue, I do not understand why they are now being limited. It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t increase how hard the levels are, seeing as they are very repetitive and don’t require a lot of brain power to complete. Why not make the levels harder instead of limiting daily ads? Do you not want the ad revenue?
New update
Reduces the amount of free cells you can get in a given day. Used to be unlimited. This is the exact reason I’m deleting this app. The ads were already cancerous but I found the game enjoyable enough to keep playing.
If you truly wanted people to purchase coins, you’d make the abilities in this game more affordable.
Playing free, are you aware of how many games it takes to get 900 coins? I’ve played over 250 levels of this game and I have only purchased abilities with coins rewarded in game. This has only happened about 4-5 times in 250 levels. It’s quite ridiculous. Very sad to let this one go. But it’s just another one lost to cancerous online ads.
If this game had absolutely zero ads, I definitely wouldn’t play another mobile game other than this.
If you truly wanted people to purchase coins, you’d make the abilities in this game more affordable.
Playing free, are you aware of how many games it takes to get 900 coins? I’ve played over 250 levels of this game and I have only purchased abilities with coins rewarded in game. This has only happened about 4-5 times in 250 levels. It’s quite ridiculous. Very sad to let this one go. But it’s just another one lost to cancerous online ads.
If this game had absolutely zero ads, I definitely wouldn’t play another mobile game other than this.
Trash like so many others
The concept is fun for a while but it has the same screw-you design so many other free games have: it just devolves to levels that literally cannot be won without watching ads for the cheats. It’s not bad for a couple hours but please don’t expect to keep playing it.
Deleting game
There used to be an option to watch an ad for some kind of boost to get through impossible levels, now there isn’t, I’ve been stuck at 838 for probably 2 weeks which allegedly isn’t a difficult level? It’s pretty obvious the game stacks levels to be unbeatable unless you buy packages from them. Yall went from insane volumes of ads to removing them entirely but with a plot twist. Admittedly I have spent money when it felt fun, or like there was a little more give and take. The greed is the reason I’m removing the game. Pretty efficient method of alienating players guys, not sure who’s decisions these were, but they weren’t good ones. 👍🏻
Paid for no ads
Still have to watch ads after paying for no ads. Some games you have no chance but to use power ups but you only get 20 coins for regular game completion. Yet power ups are 1800 coins.
Ads after every level.. stay away
Would be a fun game if it wasn’t overrun by ads after the completion of every level. Good concept, but ruined by greed.
Impossible to beat without spending money
I’ve been stuck on a level for days. It seems impossible without spending money to beat this level. Super annoying because I like the concept of the game.
Ridiculous
Frustrating Im at level 130 and can’t get past it. Deleting. Games are supposed to be fun.
Ads suck. No daily bonus.
This game used to give daily bonus. Not any more. If you use the one they give you and the meager coins you get, then you’re out of luck. Obviously the creators want you to spend money. Nope
Terrible don’t bother
This game just pushes you to spend money and gives nothing for playing
Colors
Some of us have a very hard time seeing certain shades of colors. Please make a way to change the colors.
Money scheme
Funny how you can watch ads to play longer, but not to beat the purposefully impossible levels. You can only pay for those. It’s funny all the levels are comically easy until they throw one of these at you. I deleted immediately, do not waste your money
Made me spend money just to bet a level
This game was fun until I got to a certain level and it was a bit stressful because it keep saying buy this or buy that I am not spending money on a small game that I bet not even 1000 people play max this is just a scam and the level was either 30 or 40
You give users ZERO chance to succeed
At least other apps let you watch advertisements for rewards, especially when you’re stuck on a level. This game doesn’t let you do jack. Deleted.
Need to use extras to pass levels
This is really frustrating that lower levels need the extras to pass. It seems to be a push to buy in app stuff.
Ads
Can’t even exit ad after
Ads are ridiculous
After playing a level you have to watch an ad, it’ll tell you “take a break.” After you just completed level 2, and dumped maybe three buckets but sure. Also sometimes the ads do not have an option to exit back to the game, so you have to completely close out the app.
It’s not for me
I don’t get The Whole point of this game it’s ok I guess
Waste of time
It don’t let you get passed level 40. I’ve been stuck on that level for days and same with everyone else who I know. It purposely won’t let you pass it so you have to spend money. Also there’s too many ads. We all uninstalled this waste of time
Levels become impossible to win
Levels become impossible to win without spending coins.
No ads purchase is fake
Purchased the no ads bundle. Still getting ads when running out of hearts
no puedes pasar de n-40
llegas al nivel 180 y si no compras vidas no pasas.
NOT Ad Free as claimed
Starts out fun enough, but starting level 29 the game makes you “take a break” and shows you an ad for other games. Starting level 40 you cannot complete the level without purchasing credits to use special features
Too many ads
There are ads after every level you pass or every level you fail terrible
Predatory
Spent $20 on one of the packages which included 3 hours of infinite lives. I could only pass 3-4 levels in that time. It’s incredibly frustrating to find a game you like, only to find out the develops are predatory and only care about getting your money and not at all about an enjoyable game experience. Voodoo is unethical and sucks.
No unlimited lives options
No game without an option to buy unlimited lives is ever worth more than a star. It’s designed specifically to irritate you into spending money, it’s abusive and should be made an illegal act.
Annoying
I have been asked multiple times to rate this app and I did it the first time. Why would it keep asking?
Kids game
What a stupid game this is! Looks fun ar the beginning but its boring as hell. Looks like developers are out of idea and published a “whatever” product because they need to. Stupid game. 0 star.
Cash grab, play something else.
Was cool to pass the time but eventually the game becomes impossible and you are just short of the amount of coins needed to buy a power up. So you have to spend money. Coincidentally, this is about the time the game started playing ads after each attempt.
Good at first
Update: The app crashes constantly. It’s literally not playable anymore.
I was so obsessed with this game for the first 300 levels. Now, it’s riddled with bugs as others stated.
- buckets on the belt won’t collect sand. I contacted support, no response.
- buckets won’t go to the belt when you tap them. They will just dance like they are blocked. They aren’t. They are upright.
- the most annoying part, the game lags. If you tap on a bucket it will start going to the belt and the game will freeze for a second or two then the bucket will continue up and the spot on the belt you wanted it to be is now on the opposite side of the puzzle. This makes it virtually impossible to pass levels that require precision bucket placement.
I was so obsessed with this game for the first 300 levels. Now, it’s riddled with bugs as others stated.
- buckets on the belt won’t collect sand. I contacted support, no response.
- buckets won’t go to the belt when you tap them. They will just dance like they are blocked. They aren’t. They are upright.
- the most annoying part, the game lags. If you tap on a bucket it will start going to the belt and the game will freeze for a second or two then the bucket will continue up and the spot on the belt you wanted it to be is now on the opposite side of the puzzle. This makes it virtually impossible to pass levels that require precision bucket placement.
Ai is to fast adds to long..
The game is set up that by screen 64 you will be watching adds to play or spending money, game isn’t that fun or well animated to spend money on.
Just fun enough to beg for money
This game is fun and an awesome idea. It becomes annoying very quickly due to automatic placement with no buckets on the belt and exact orders having to be memorized. Not to mention it’s 10 gold for a win but 900 gold to keep playing a round after a fail and 1800 to buy in game (without spending) any tools to help. I’m ashamed I wasted so much time playing this game because the creators made this for money and not for fun like games should be.
Level 50 Impossible without power ups
No game that requires you to pay or watch an ad simply to beat a level is worth playing
Daily video limit? Nope
Loved this game. It was my go to daily distraction. It was fun, cathartic and it was oddly satisfying to watch the sand flow. Agree with other reviewers… the ads are a bit ridiculous but still i dutifully watched them to keep playing. And then today, they implemented a daily video limit that effectively cuts you off after three videos forcing you to use your coins (which takes FOREVER to accumulate) or pay. Really? Well, congrats team… I’ve reached my daily limit of the greed. I’ll find another app for my daily dawdling.
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Fun until it becomes impossible
There’s nothing that make me delete a game faster than not being able to pass a level without buying add ons.
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Sentiment summary
84%
Positive (4-5★)
6%
Neutral (3★)
10%
Negative (1-2★)