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Screw Sort Puzzle™- Pin Jam 3D
Astrasen Global · 41,225 ratings · ★ 4.9
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Top complaints - extracted from 51 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"
35 negative reviews mention this · 69% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Start good ends bad. I love this game until I got to the higher levels and now every three players you have to purchase coins or watch the same ad over and over and over it’s ridiculous" - 72Misha
2
"watch"
12 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Start good ends bad. I love this game until I got to the higher levels and now every three players you have to purchase coins or watch the same ad over and over and over it’s ridiculous" - 72Misha
3
"every"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Start good ends bad. I love this game until I got to the higher levels and now every three players you have to purchase coins or watch the same ad over and over and over it’s ridiculous" - 72Misha
4
"level"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Start good ends bad. I love this game until I got to the higher levels and now every three players you have to purchase coins or watch the same ad over and over and over it’s ridiculous" - 72Misha
5
"money"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Starting to HATE this game. It’s purposely rigged, repeatedly giving you the damn toolbox colors you DON’T need so you’re either forced to watch a damn commercial for a power-up or having to spend money. Well guess what? You ain’t getting a dime from me, especially no…" - Dead Reckoning 1982
6
"other"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stupid repetitive adds. I tried at least 10 times and got the same stupid add. This is inappropriate and must stop. Other than that I do like the game. One star on the adds but a 5 star on the actual game." - Chicev
7
"update"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Starting Over. I really enjoyed this game until it notified me that I needed to update the app. Andi it started me over from level one. It was fun while it lasted." - Fire's Domain
8
"unless"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not Fun when you can’t advance.. You have to play the same puzzle over and over and over to advance, unless you buy extra moves. They make these screw puzzles un winnable." - Toni Vest
9
"until"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Start good ends bad. I love this game until I got to the higher levels and now every three players you have to purchase coins or watch the same ad over and over and over it’s ridiculous" - 72Misha
10
"playing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Deceptive add tactics make you think it’s an update. Add pretending you need to update the current gave you playing to get you to down load on your phone also Why are the ads sooooooooooooooooooo LONG WE GET IT ALREADY" - Fidlstix99
11
"spend"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Starting to HATE this game. It’s purposely rigged, repeatedly giving you the damn toolbox colors you DON’T need so you’re either forced to watch a damn commercial for a power-up or having to spend money. Well guess what? You ain’t getting a dime from me, especially no…" - Dead Reckoning 1982
12
"without"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Same old scam. Virtually every puzzle is impossible without buying back in with ads or real money. Not worth the ads, let alone money." - saintelmo46
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Love it buttttttt
Something is wrong with the app. It won’t open. 😢
Would actually buy
If your game was the way you falsely advertise it, I would actually buy the game
Stupid repetitive adds
I tried at least 10 times and got the same stupid add. This is inappropriate and must stop. Other than that I do like the game. One star on the adds but a 5 star on the actual game.
Starting Over
I really enjoyed this game until it notified me that I needed to update the app. Andi it started me over from level one. It was fun while it lasted.
Not Fun when you can’t advance.
You have to play the same puzzle over and over and over to advance, unless you buy extra moves. They make these screw puzzles un winnable.
Deceptive add tactics make you think it’s an update
Add pretending you need to update the current gave you playing to get you to down load on your phone also Why are the ads sooooooooooooooooooo
LONG WE GET IT ALREADY
LONG WE GET IT ALREADY
Birthday frame
Didn’t give me the birthday frame! It said ended and I didn’t get anything!
Don’t waste time !
This game is a scam. It intentionally makes levels impossible unless you watch endless ads. The developers care more about ad revenue than creating an enjoyable game. Zero fun, extremely frustrating, and completely misleading. Avoid it at all costs.
Ads that won’t end won’t stop running.
Really fun game, it is too bad that even after several minutes some ads never end, so I wind up having to shut the whole game down, loosing all the progress of the game I am playing. I can deal with short ads, but I can’t deal with ads that go on for 5+ minutes at a time.
TOO MANY ADS
every freaking level there is an ad and it is so gosh damn annoying. pls take the ads dude it’s stupid
Great UNTIL last update?
It was great until recently. Now you click on 1 screw and you end up with 4 you didn’t want. What a way to lose! Does it on my husband’s Android, too. Unplayable at the moment.
Celebration Calendar challenge nightmare
The Celebration Calendar challenge has a major issue! For every screw you take out, it takes out multiple at the exact same time pulling out ones from underneath & filling up all your extra spots after just a few moves. NEEDS FIXING!
Discouraged
I like this game but twice I’ve made purchases and didn’t receive anything I paid for but I still got charged for it. Bummer dude
Starting to HATE this game
It’s purposely rigged, repeatedly giving you the damn toolbox colors you DON’T need so you’re either forced to watch a damn commercial for a power-up or having to spend money. Well guess what? You ain’t getting a dime from me, especially not with that attitude.
ADS GALORE
Fun game but the ads are absolutely insane.
Same old scam
Virtually every puzzle is impossible without buying back in with ads or real money. Not worth the ads, let alone money.
Can see into stuff
How the hell are you supposed to plan ahead if you can’t see thru items? The good games let you and your blocked items are horrible, I should be able to get that screw out but can’t. Deleted
Can’t win without spending money.
The game is not based on skill. It is based on how much you’re willing to pay sadly like most of these type games.
Malicious redirect
I really wanted to keep this game. It’s so much fun. However two things happened that made me decide to delete it.
1. There was a malicious redirect when I tried to create a user name.
2. Fishing ads. I deleted after I got one saying it was scanning my phone.
Quite disappointing.
1. There was a malicious redirect when I tried to create a user name.
2. Fishing ads. I deleted after I got one saying it was scanning my phone.
Quite disappointing.
Game sucks
After a while this game is unbeatable. Pure rage machine. They never give you the right squares to finish you get to a certain point on the screws you need are hurried at the end. They just want you to spend money.
It’s not ad free…
Advertisement states it’s ad free other than ads to obtain additional tool boxes. False….its ad free for a limited time then every 3 or 4 puzzles there is an ad!
Rigged
The game becomes quickly impossible to win without paying Money. I’d rather spend my money on Lipsticks not a Game that is obviously Rigged.
Good until recent update
After one of the recent updates, I am no longer able to watch ads to do anything. Constantly get the message ad is not available. Because of this issue, I would not download the game again.
Unwinnable
DELETED. A fun game for a little while, if you can put up with sometimes 60-90 second ads. After a while the levels are no longer winnable unless you use star or other features that you have to pay to reload. It’s unfortunate.
Does not give you double the keys
The newest update stinks. When you complete a “hard” puzzle, you are supposed to earn double or triple the awards. Now they don’t give you double the keys or the points! What a rip!
Why ads all of a sudden
I bought some package at one point that was ad free and I logged on the other day and all of a sudden I’m having to watch ads again. I tried to restore purchases but it’s saying that there are no purchases to restore?? It’s a scam
HAS ADS
Downloaded bc it said no ads. It lied
Was great, then….
Can no longer watch an ad, keep getting message “ad won’t load” - no problem with internet or any other game. Can no longer get another box. Started a few days ago. Uninstalled and then reinstalled hoping that would resolve issue. Nope. ☹️
Buggy
So many glitches needs a software update
No ads is a lie!
After every level there is at least a 30 second ad!
Porn ads
Within the last week or two 99% of the ads on this game have been some kind of porn or using AI to make pictures look like they’re pornography. They don’t look and see who they partner with for their ads. Someone needs to check up with them.
Too many ads that get stuck
They have soo many ads, which for a free game is fine but they ads run and don’t let you exit for over a minute many times and other times they don’t let you exit at all, so you have to close in multitasking and watch the ad all over again. I got tired of that happening and deleted the app.
Unfortunately Full of ads
It used to be great, you progress the levels and no ads at all, unless you decide to watch one, to get something.
until it changed and started to pop ads every two levels give or take when you finish them.
It’s annoying, and makes me want to find another game.
It’s sad cause is switched to this game, from another one like this because of the ads, and this one popped up in one of the with promises that there are no ads here at all…
until it changed and started to pop ads every two levels give or take when you finish them.
It’s annoying, and makes me want to find another game.
It’s sad cause is switched to this game, from another one like this because of the ads, and this one popped up in one of the with promises that there are no ads here at all…
What happened to this game? It used to be fun. Now it’s just frustrating and a rip off
This game used to be fun with puzzles that actually had a solution and it wasn’t too hard to win power ups, and money to use when you needed them. But since recent updates, it’s like most of the games with greedy developers. there is no true solution to a lot of the puzzles and you would have to buy and use powerups to win the level. it’s much harder to win power ups and money. Note to developers: frustrating does not equal fun. it’s not an enjoyable puzzle if there’s no true solution and the only way to win is by cheating with power ups. Also, customer service is horrible. I had to reinstall the game and they are refusing to restore my no ad purchase. Time to find another game as I’ll be deleting this one.
Pass
They ruined this game. I paid for the ad free version a long time ago and would buy the 10$ monthly thing to help throughout the month with harder puzzles. Easy puzzles can no longer be completed without paying or watching several ads. Time to delete. You got entirely way too greedy and the game is not fun anymore.
Too many Advertisements
I started playing this game thinking that it wouldn’t have as many ads. I was wrong! There are more ads then there is time playing the game. The ads are irrelevant and repeat over and over and most are broken. The app closes out automatically right in the middle of playing, and then you open it and… have to watch another ad. Very disappointed
Why?
Well I got to level 1998 and unless I pay money then I can no longer play. You can’t get past this level without having enough gadgets or coin to get to the end. I play a lot of games but this one has the longest ads of all the games I play and after every round. I get you need to make money but why is it you have the longest ads when at least most games are shorter and more bearable? The rewards are extremely skimpy, 10 coins here and a gadget once in a while, takes some time to build up any extras to get through a round. I wouldn’t have minded paying once in a while but for the length of time it takes to build up coin or gadgets I quickly realized this game would get expensive. I’d rather pay for a game with bearable ads and more gadgets.
Tooo many adds
this would be a great game but you can’t win unless you watch ten adds to get through the level, I know you’re making money from the adds but come on man, I’m here to relax and enjoy a little but the adds are just too much for me, not only can you not win without them and they are way too long, so if you want to enjoy the game you have to pay for it otherwise be prepared to be annoyed because you can’t win unless you watch adds
Start good ends bad
I love this game until I got to the higher levels and now every three players you have to purchase coins or watch the same ad over and over and over it’s ridiculous
Needs a fix
I will not waste my time on a game that gets stuck on an ad with no way to advance.
Not the best
The difficulty is not balanced well. Not as relaxing as it could be.
Fun Game but…
I was enjoying this game till
Lvl 72. Lvl 72 is not that difficult except you can’t beat the puzzle. It’s set up to make you spend money, unless you have coin to unlock the 2 spare screw holders you will not be able to beat the puzzle and no guarantees then. I will be removing this app and trying a different screw puzzle.
As I have now gone through all my gold and tools. What happens is the puzzle when you get to a certain point will ask you for example to remove orange screws and brown screws but you have 1 brown screw available, 0 orange screws available and 5 grey screws to remove to get to the next level of the puzzle. It’s an issue with the algorithm.
Lvl 72. Lvl 72 is not that difficult except you can’t beat the puzzle. It’s set up to make you spend money, unless you have coin to unlock the 2 spare screw holders you will not be able to beat the puzzle and no guarantees then. I will be removing this app and trying a different screw puzzle.
As I have now gone through all my gold and tools. What happens is the puzzle when you get to a certain point will ask you for example to remove orange screws and brown screws but you have 1 brown screw available, 0 orange screws available and 5 grey screws to remove to get to the next level of the puzzle. It’s an issue with the algorithm.
Love the game
Only got 2 stars because the game cheats
Too many time consuming ads
Way too many ads that are too long. If time is an issue for winning rewards the ads make it very difficult. Enjoy ed the game, but deleting it.
Horrible update
The new update erased my progress and doesn’t allow me to continue the level should I run out of moves by playing an ad. Spend coins or retry. I doubt I will continue playing this game any further.
Ad or die
I’m guessing when these types of games first launch, they don’t put a lot of ads in so they get a lot of good reviews. And then they totally tank. As others have mentioned the ads can be disgusting. And endless. You cannot get out of it and if you click on an ad, even to get out of it, you’re just encouraging them in generating income for them. I’d be willing to bet that if I left my iPad open to an ad, it would still be there two days later but of course my battery would’ve been sucked dry well before that.
I’m only on level 25. I’m assuming it will get worse and worse.
Totally over it. I want to play the strategy. The only way you can win this game is to watch ads to get the tools you need. That’s not strategy that’s not fun. There is no way I’m going to watch a one minute ad to get a tool that will help me maybe 15 seconds. If you’re gonna use this model, make the ads five seconds 10 seconds. That I can handle. Otherwise a waste of time.
I’m only on level 25. I’m assuming it will get worse and worse.
Totally over it. I want to play the strategy. The only way you can win this game is to watch ads to get the tools you need. That’s not strategy that’s not fun. There is no way I’m going to watch a one minute ad to get a tool that will help me maybe 15 seconds. If you’re gonna use this model, make the ads five seconds 10 seconds. That I can handle. Otherwise a waste of time.
Ads
I play this game a lot. Good time waster. Would’ve rated higher if not for the Fox News and Dr. Oz health hoax ads that they cram down your throat though. Don’t mind the other ads but it seems recently that 90% of the ads fall under this category.
No 2D option?
I thought this game had 2 and 3D puzzles. No? Do I have to keep playing to unlock it?
Angry
I am deleting this game today. It’s spring! It’s Easter! And the game has witches, vampires, wicked features. Although I have enjoyed playing this game, I am not supporting this business who cannot create anything that is not evil centered.
Too many ads
Game is great until you get ads after every game end ….. augh
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Sentiment summary
98%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)