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Zego Global Pte Ltd · 91,912 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 78 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"
53 negative reviews mention this · 68% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Literally just a vehicle for ads. I miss the days where they actually made games instead of ad delivery platforms" - No^3
2
"levels"
21 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but rigged. I like the game, it’s an entertaining time waster. But it’s actually impossible to win levels after like level 20. Once you get down to the final 5-6 boxes, 4 of them are one color and 1 of them are the color you need when all your availabl…" - Jwb154
3
"level"
21 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but rigged. I like the game, it’s an entertaining time waster. But it’s actually impossible to win levels after like level 20. Once you get down to the final 5-6 boxes, 4 of them are one color and 1 of them are the color you need when all your availabl…" - Jwb154
4
"money"
17 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth the effort. Really? Impossible levels that take. Days to solve, so you can pick up 10 points? Of course you can spend a lot of money to get more help - not gonna do that. Generally a fun idea but not worth the effort or cost. Sorry, bye." - Hepps2
5
"spend"
16 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unauthorized purchases. Thought I’d play this while it was free and bearable. Was not going to spend penny one on it and eventually deleted when it got unwinnable without purchases. Shortly after I got billed for two in app purchases I did not make. Fortunately th…" - Friday Girl 714
6
"without"
13 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unauthorized purchases. Thought I’d play this while it was free and bearable. Was not going to spend penny one on it and eventually deleted when it got unwinnable without purchases. Shortly after I got billed for two in app purchases I did not make. Fortunately th…" - Friday Girl 714
7
"watch"
12 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but rigged. I like the game, it’s an entertaining time waster. But it’s actually impossible to win levels after like level 20. Once you get down to the final 5-6 boxes, 4 of them are one color and 1 of them are the color you need when all your availabl…" - Jwb154
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"play"
11 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but Annoying. I very much have a love/hate relationship with this game. While the gameplay itself is great, it constantly puts you in situations where you’re forced to trigger ads. This is especially frustrating when you are in a timed challenge against …" - RobApproved
9
"other"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Fun but rigged. I like the game, it’s an entertaining time waster. But it’s actually impossible to win levels after like level 20. Once you get down to the final 5-6 boxes, 4 of them are one color and 1 of them are the color you need when all your availabl…" - Jwb154
10
"phone"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Restore purchase doesn’t work and support unresponsive. Bought the ad free version but had to wipe my phone. Tried restoring my purchases and the button is unresponsive. Reached out to support and email for support is not a real email. Purchase at your own risk!" - 941kingd
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"spend money"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You have to spend money to continue. Pretty fun, but levels get too hard and pretty much make you buy coins and power-ups out of frustration to continue" - Neko-joker
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"playing"
10 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Freezes ALL the time. Game was fun but recently on the harder levels the game freezes and crashes. Hard to beat a level when you can’t finish playing!" - lizzy21690732
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Literally just a vehicle for ads
I miss the days where they actually made games instead of ad delivery platforms
Fun but rigged
I like the game, it’s an entertaining time waster. But it’s actually impossible to win levels after like level 20. Once you get down to the final 5-6 boxes, 4 of them are one color and 1 of them are the color you need when all your available slots are taken up by the color that makes up the 4 remaining boxes (if that makes sense). Results in having to watch endless 90 second ads just to get an extra box. It’s ultimately a “scam” to get you to watch ads and/or pay for upgrades. Real bummer bc it’s a fun game otherwise
Unauthorized purchases
Thought I’d play this while it was free and bearable. Was not going to spend penny one on it and eventually deleted when it got unwinnable without purchases. Shortly after I got billed for two in app purchases I did not make. Fortunately they were small amounts but this is still very scummy behavior. Apple should remove this from the App Store.
Restore purchase doesn’t work and support unresponsive
Bought the ad free version but had to wipe my phone. Tried restoring my purchases and the button is unresponsive. Reached out to support and email for support is not a real email. Purchase at your own risk!
Too many ads
Too many ads
Too many ads
Too many commercials
No
The ad has bugs and wont let me finish. The actual game is nothing like the ad. Robert, it’s pissing me off.
Not worth the effort
Really? Impossible levels that take. Days to solve, so you can pick up 10 points? Of course you can spend a lot of money to get more help - not gonna do that. Generally a fun idea but not worth the effort or cost. Sorry, bye.
Pay to win
Game sets you up to fail every time. Way too difficult, to the point it is not fun. Prepare to empty your wallet if this junk is worth it to you.
Unpermitted
This game downloaded itself to my phone without my authorization! Not cool!
Explicit ads
So disgusted to see a sexually explicit ad for “Screw siren”
This game is rated for 9+ but that ad was DANGEROUS for kids. Developer needs to address this immediately!
This game is rated for 9+ but that ad was DANGEROUS for kids. Developer needs to address this immediately!
Ad city!!
WAY too many ads. It’s ridiculous…
Freezes ALL the time
Game was fun but recently on the harder levels the game freezes and crashes. Hard to beat a level when you can’t finish playing!
Mostly blocks no other shapes
Ur not gonna get the house or anything else mostly blocks
Scam
I purchased the no ads pack, yet I keep getting ads. What a scam
Terrible. Constant Ads and crashing, easy but impossible to complete.
There have isn’t hard. The folks saying it’s hard are bafoons. The problem is the ads, the CONSTANT ads. And then they gradually make the game more and more expensive (points not dollars) to get upgrades till it’s impossible. The ads though, it’s unbelievable, it’s constant. Give it a rest don’t play this garbage.
Screw dom
Too many ads
Glitchy
This game froze up my phone so badly. Go with another
Overly monetized
Has potential but the progression sucks i was also under the impression that the box level ups were permanent but they were not
Impossible and bad game
Basically need to watch ads for a shot at winning most of the levels
Superior puzzles but inferior support and required to pay to advance plus glitches
Levels are challenging, but the game is ultimately set up to require buying boosters to advance. I could put up with that if the app didn’t glitch and crash so frequently. There is no way to resume a level after closing the app and boosters are lost. When you have to pay for boosters, it really seems unfair for the app to restart so often. Even after reaching out directly to support, no remedy was provided and no in-game compensation. Don’t spend your money in this game.
Stinkaroonie
This game used to be very good. But now the app has a glitch that forces me to continuously reinstall the app -- sometimes even in the middle of a game. WOW! What a disappointment. The designers need to get ahold of this issue before they lose everyone. They’ve already lost me. Instead of reinstalling, I have removed. See ya.
overview
just like every other mobile game nowadays, to many ads and have to either watch and ad or spend coins to beat every single level
Unable to uninstall
I’m not able to uninstall this senseless app off my iPad. Played for a day or two and now it’s as disgusting as the other games that trap gamblers… I’m just trying to delete/uninstall this rubbish off my device
Can’t progress at all without spending money!
There are plenty of screw games exactly like this, but this particular one is a total scam. There is no reason you should have to spend money to get past the INTRODUCTORY LEVELS! Instantly uninstalled as soon as I realized that. Go choose a different one, do not support these predatory developers!
It’s not a game it’s just adds
You spend more time watching adds than playing
Be prepared to spend money
Fun game but eventually you gotta purchase things to pass levels .
Fix the glitches
It freezes up on a regular basis. Very frustrating to be almost finished with a hard one and lose it because the game freezes up and has to be closed.
Ads
Players beware. Ad within ad within ad within ad within ad. Just timed a “hard level” and played as well as you could and it took over 27 minutes (mostly ads). The colors must be programmed to make you fail so you have to view an ad to continue progress.
Ads and ease of use
Too many ads. It’s gross and scammy. On top of that it’s hard to spin the image an tap on the items to look thru them. I’m not taking this down unless yall give me no ads. And no I’m not paying this is crazy.
Waste of money
Used to be enjoyable but now it just freezes mid game all the time. Especially after I’ve spent money and used add ons/coins during a game. I’ve reached out to the developers to get a refund of coin packs I’ve used that just froze mid game and I lost and no one ever reaches back out. Not worth wasting your money on.
Screwdom
This is a stupid game. If you pay them to remove ads it removes all possibilities of ads so you can’t get any helps unless you pay for them. The levels are so had you CANT finish them without help.
Stop freezing my phone
All this games does is FREEZE your phone .. you can get just about to win the Level PHONE FREEZES APP CLOSES OUT OR YOU HAVE NO KNOW BUT TO CLOSE IT OUT BECAUSE ITS STARTING JITTERING AND GLITCHING ,. Never had this problem when I first downloaded
Glitchy
Game constantly freezes. You will lose your turn and level because the only thing you can do is close the game app.
Do not pay for “NO ADS”!
Once you pay for no ads there is not any way to gain items or coins to move up levels unless you continue to purchase. Such a shame because I really enjoyed the game but I will NOT pay to play and it’s NOT possible to beat most levels without help! Huge rip off!
Pay to win with too many ads
The premise is fun, but the one is bogged down with ads and pay to win transactions. The puzzles aren’t balanced and push you to use power ups to complete them drain all the fun.
Ads issue
Please fix the issue with the ads where the page freezes and you have to close to app out in the middle of the game…
Update: the ads issue is better, not completely fixed but much better; thank you! Now the issue is with the colors… you make it impossible to be able to complete the puzzle without watching ads… you give the same 3 or 4 colors constantly until they run out and then continue to give those colors. Then once you watch an ad or two to get more boxes you give the colors that are needed. Just do a better job because I am getting tired of having to watch ads to complete a puzzle… l
Update: the ads issue is better, not completely fixed but much better; thank you! Now the issue is with the colors… you make it impossible to be able to complete the puzzle without watching ads… you give the same 3 or 4 colors constantly until they run out and then continue to give those colors. Then once you watch an ad or two to get more boxes you give the colors that are needed. Just do a better job because I am getting tired of having to watch ads to complete a puzzle… l
Don’t spend money in game
Game is fun until you use money to buy anything. Once you buy anything it takes away functionality and forces you to use coins for items you could watch ads for before. A real money grab. I will discontinue playing. Don’t want to be “screwed” by this app!
Pay to Play
There are soooooo many ads, which at first I could deal with since that is how you get the tools to help you beat the levels. After a while that feature goes away and the only way to win any level is to buy packs. Unless you want to spend money don’t play this game.
If I could give 0 stars I would.
The game is literally unplayable bless you spend money on it. Good way to loose out on people playing the game. Money hungry people.
Too many ads
Constantly dealing with ads. Had to delete it
Why can I not get a no ads version
You will spend 90% of your time slogging through THE SAME AD. DO NOT DOWNLOAD!
Bad
Game keeps glitching!
Not worth the frustration...
I love puzzle games, the harder the better, but this is so difficult that it's not even fun anymore. Had the game for 2 weeks and could barely make it past level 13. There have been a few levels that I tried 20-30 times to pass, because I refused to let the game beat me. But there's no way to pass these levels without retrying each level multiple times (even the easy ones), unless you pay for the coins to buy the helpful perks to help you pass the level. The coins you get per round are so minimal that you can't get perks simply by hard work and using what you have (as good puzzle games usually allow). I was stubbornly trying to get passed each level on my own with what the game gave me, but after I had to replay a super "easy" level 3+ times, I've finally decided to delete the game. It's not worth the frustration.
Purchased No Ads, Seeing Ads & Game Doesn’t Link On Other Devices
Paid $9.99 for no ads this morning. Opened the app this afternoon and now there are ads and “restore purchase” doesn’t do anything. Downloaded on my other device and logged in, ads there too and nothing syncs except level (made me set my username, profile photo, etc all again and shows me ads). SCAM! Reported to Apple and waiting for hopefully a refund.
The ADs are the worst.
Fun concept but very money hungry. You have to watch ADs to progress. You have to. There’s no way around it. And when you beat levels they give you 10 coins (without ads) but each box costs over 100 coins. Each box. Each level. You have to buy or watch ads each level. Money hungry. Also if you watch an ad 50/50 it’ll glitch and you won’t get the reward. I made it to level 11 to add ppl for more lives cuz you only get five. So again you have to buy to progress.
Too many ad
Tooooo many AD
Repetitive
The levels are just the same puzzles over and over.
Levels Impossible Without Tools or Extra Toolbox
Would be great if they didn’t make it impossible to pass some screw levels without paying for tools. I play a lot of screw game and consider myself a pretty decent player. I like it when it’s challenging and I don’t want it to be too easy. But there are levels that I played and played and played and couldn’t pass. And it just keeps giving you the same color boxes over and over again so it’s super frustrating. You have to have enough game money to buy an extra toolbox or it’s not even worth trying to play. I took a screenshot to prove it but I don’t think it will let me add it on here. Just needs to make the screw levels actually possible to pass and it would be a good game.
Unplayable
It freezes your entire phone after about 5 minutes of playing.
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Sentiment summary
87%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
8%
Negative (1-2★)