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Sled Surfers
Crazy Labs · 44,947 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 55 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"
31 negative reviews mention this · 56% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misleading. Game play shown in the ads is not attainable in the actual game" - Deleting SC
2
"level"
18 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All your progress lost every level. Every time u finally make it to the finish line of a level, everything resets and u start from the beginning" - 2jccbb356
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"play"
17 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Misleading. Game play shown in the ads is not attainable in the actual game" - Deleting SC
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"every"
12 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All your progress lost every level. Every time u finally make it to the finish line of a level, everything resets and u start from the beginning" - 2jccbb356
5
"tickets"
10 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Tickets. You shouldn’t have to buy tickets to play your game." - AaronH 21
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"sled"
9 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads and upgrades. Lots of ads. Lots of upgrades that don’t impact improving in game. You upgrade, sled goes slower. You stop going downhill instead of gaining speed. If you like a game with lots of ads and worthless upgrades, choose this one!" - FrostyMuggO
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"levels"
9 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Repeats and ads. There are no new levels and they keep repeating. When will they make new levels? Too many ads." - Kievmc
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"playing"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why. I don’t know who would want to play this. I did it to get a reward in another app but I couldn’t imagine anybody ever finding this “fun”. It controls bad, all the levels are the same, the game changed how I could use the diamonds near the …" - AK99716
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"start"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All your progress lost every level. Every time u finally make it to the finish line of a level, everything resets and u start from the beginning" - 2jccbb356
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"upgrade"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Monotonous at best. Good Christ. How many times does a person have to do the same flipping thing over and over and over. Very little upgrade progression. DELETE" - Reptar3
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"money"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful. It’s not like the videos they show.. No more money from me" - Batlise
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"every level"
6 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "All your progress lost every level. Every time u finally make it to the finish line of a level, everything resets and u start from the beginning" - 2jccbb356
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Misleading
Game play shown in the ads is not attainable in the actual game
All your progress lost every level
Every time u finally make it to the finish line of a level, everything resets and u start from the beginning
Monotonous at best
Good Christ. How many times does a person have to do the same flipping thing over and over and over. Very little upgrade progression. DELETE
Stupid Ads more ads then game play
Was kinda fun for 24 hours then deleted
Too many ads
Could’ve been a decent game but literally have to watch ads every 45 seconds to advance. Then The ads are longer than the game play.
Starts over
Each level you have to start from the beginning. Which is kinda annoying.
Not fun
Hate how you have to put in all that work to upgrade all your gear and have to start over on the next round.
Reseted my stats for no reason
L game
Only 1 device
I can only play this game on one device since I downloaded on my phone first I can’t play my current progress on my iPad and vice versa not worth it
Tickets
You shouldn’t have to buy tickets to play your game.
Awful. It’s not like the videos they show.
No more money from me
Worst game ever
The game is nothing like the ads unless you’re willing to spend a fortune. I didn’t enjoy a single second of it. Easily the worst game I’ve ever played.
Idiotic ads
Why so many ads where it just sits there and sits there and sits there!??? Like suddenly I’m going to love what’s being shown to me if you can make me sit there and wait and sit and stare at some non-changing image??? Moronic minds at work here
So many ads
The ads ruin the game
Tickets to play
So the game was really fun for the whole first level. Intuitive and addictive. The ad rewards were well worth watching. Then you get to the second level and now every time you play it burns tickets. Now I can’t play because I have to wait for tickets to respawn. It makes the game unplayable.
Why
I don’t know who would want to play this. I did it to get a reward in another app but I couldn’t imagine anybody ever finding this “fun”. It controls bad, all the levels are the same, the game changed how I could use the diamonds near the end of when I stopped playing. From what I can tell the purpose of changing how you can use the diamonds is to make it an even more drawn out and painful process to get through a level. So it’s like I can tell they are actively making a bad game that nobody would ever want even more unplayable. Apparently there are at least 100 levels in this when they really should have done like 5 good levels or just made something different entirely since this is clearly not a passion project anyways. If I had to guess a target audience I would say people under 2 and people over 80 but I’m not convinced those age groups wouldn’t hate this too. Will never play again
Waste of time
Make you pay to play then when you think your advancing to new levels the same levels start all over again - really where’s the fun in that.
Scam
Ads and even the preview on the App Store are false advertising. Not real game play; at least by “Level 52” it’s just the same 9 levels on repeat grinding.
Cash Grab
Absolute cash grab. Ads, and then even after buying no ads, level 2 introduces a ticket system in the hope you buy more tickets to keep playing. Avoid this cash grab scam
Pokebums
Not fun enough to pay for no commercials
Pointless
Everytime I pull back and let go I literally end up in the same spot and can’t even get over the hill. Not sure how this is deemed fun. It’s pointless with no tutorial
Paid reviews
Pay to play ads
This game is awful, can’t even play it without paying. Restart on every level buying more stuff just to sucker people into paying money for a game they have to
restart every level.
Ads nothing but ads and pay to play
This game is awful, can’t even play it without paying. Restart on every level buying more stuff just to sucker people into paying money for a game they have to
restart every level.
Ads nothing but ads and pay to play
Pink Gems?
Pile of pink gems? No way to use them.
REALLY?
I got to pay for tickets? Really bruh. I was sled surfing happily until you all made me pay for tickets…just let me play without paying so much. I just paid for no advertisements and now your boy h Zz ahh make ms pay for free tickets
Paid users still time gated
After you defeat the first level, all the unlocks you obtained using gems - gets reset…you have to start over every new level - and then they also start charging you tickets for every attempt which is time gated. Immediately seeking a refund.
Forces you to watch adds
How can anyone give this anything higher than a 1. It forces you to watch an add every few minutes. Literally forces you, no avoiding it. So dumb.
To many adds
To many adds infact one add is to many
Can’t even make it past lvl 1
How is this fun? I’ve done literally over 100 runs and can not make it past level 1. It’s a grind at best.
It’s fun till it’s not
I enjoy playing the game until I didn’t. The repetitive starting all over each level to build your slingshot and tube and rockets is ridiculous. It shouldn’t take you 3 hours to get down one hill. Once accomplished you have to restart all over again. You should be allowed to keep what you spend actual money on. I think the game could be a really fun game if it was not so greedy with snatching your gear every level.
Too many adds
Not worth my time, too many adds, takes days to get past first level. 1 star
Don’t bother with Sled Surfers
Level one you start getting ads after every race which is normal. 6.99 for the no ads version which is ok, but starting on level 2 you get 1 ticket every 15 minutes and you need a ticket to start a new round.
I purchased the game, I should not have to be kept from playing it.
I purchased the game, I should not have to be kept from playing it.
AVOID
The game isn’t what’s advertised. And if you purchase the extra booster you still run out of tickets to play. It’s a scam.
This game is so slow
Idk if I’m doing sum wrong but I’ve spent an hour in the first level. I’m upgrading things left and right all the time and I can still only make it to 60% even if I upgrade something it doesn’t make the slightest difference. Terrible game Ong
Need to build upon levels
Fact that your sled resets on every level is annoying.
Great if you love watching ads all day!
You will literally spend 75% of the time playing this game watching ads or you will barely progress. You can pay $5 to get ad free and get triple coins but it only last for 12 hours. What a joke!
This game is nothing more than then a money grab. Don’t download unless watching ads is your thing. They should change the name to “Sled Ad Watchers” WOW SO FUN! 🤩
This game is nothing more than then a money grab. Don’t download unless watching ads is your thing. They should change the name to “Sled Ad Watchers” WOW SO FUN! 🤩
SMH
Forced ads AND AI ads
You guys hate your game , don’t you?
Did you k ow that the ads they show for AI can NOT be reported( nor MUTED!!!!)
Which means *yay adult adult ads *on kids games
Lovely
Nice work
You guys hate your game , don’t you?
Did you k ow that the ads they show for AI can NOT be reported( nor MUTED!!!!)
Which means *yay adult adult ads *on kids games
Lovely
Nice work
The ads are a lie
That's it. That's the review. The gameplay is not like the ads.
What???
What do you mean we have to buy tickets to play. Ridiculous to even think about for THIS game. Delete it and save your time and money.
App description is a lie
The preview videos show things that never happened in the game, and the App Store description claims there are special events that involve kicking footballs, but there are no special events.
Apple should remove this from the store for making false claims and lying about the gameplay.
Apple should remove this from the store for making false claims and lying about the gameplay.
Sadly new version is Worse
Ok so this game started put fun. Latest release, doesn’t give you Blue Gems for Boosts for completing a level any more.
It is a fun game but giving a player more than some PINK Gems to change a rider is a lame pay off.
Every third trip your REQUIRED to watch an ad as we well. They did add a couple new tracks this update. If you want me to cough up cash for this, support it and give up some rewards.
It is a fun game but giving a player more than some PINK Gems to change a rider is a lame pay off.
Every third trip your REQUIRED to watch an ad as we well. They did add a couple new tracks this update. If you want me to cough up cash for this, support it and give up some rewards.
Not as Expected Buzz Kill
I had thought this game looked fun so when I started playing it was fun… but then… the “AD’s” kicked in and it became too much to the point where I can no longer play this and will be deleting it. To force Ad’s on people every 2 turns of the slingshot is absurd! Shame on you developers for trying to sham people to force watch these Ad’s that you can barely skip and to have to force them on people every 2 turns??? Come on that’s not even realistic not even for the most patient person out there. Congratulations you killed your own game before it could be good.
Boring
Can’t get anywhere and been playing for 20 min
The ads are to often and don’t always let you exit
Overall a good lil time passer, but the ads sometimes don’t give you a lil exit and you have to close the game fully to get the add to close.
Ads and upgrades
Lots of ads. Lots of upgrades that don’t impact improving in game. You upgrade, sled goes slower. You stop going downhill instead of gaining speed. If you like a game with lots of ads and worthless upgrades, choose this one!
Repeats and ads
There are no new levels and they keep repeating. When will they make new levels? Too many ads.
Upgrades and commercials
You have to upgrade your sled and slingshot before you can have a decent slide which means watching commercials in order to do it quickly.
False advertising
The first time I played it was fun, but levels eventually just started repeating. If the real game was anything like the adds and you didn’t have to start from scratch every level, it would be great. But, unfortunately, it gets old really fast
Boring
Makes you play the exact same board over and over and over.
Easy and fun but
UPDATE: finally gave me 2 new levels after 80 rounds of the same 10 levels only to go right back to the same 10 levels. Also changed the upgrade buttons back to where I can’t choose between spending blue gems or coins and have to not have enough coins in order to use gems. I liked being able to to choose.
I would prefer a reward other than pink gems for finishing a level or surfer options that aren’t just weird humans in costumes. Other creatures would be better. So I just keep using the OG penguin because it’s the cuter, and better, option. So I don’t have a use for the pink gems.
The levels are a good mindless game that allow me to listen to an audiobook while I relax before bed. There’s only 10 levels that you just play over and over again. Which is irritating because I downloaded based on an ad that had a level that doesnt exist, and I keep seeing ads with levels that aren’t real/are old. There’s a glitch on the 8th level when you jump the pink ramp, it stops you like you hit a glass wall on top of the awning/garage. It only stops glitching once you’ve fully upgraded your sling shot and sled.
I would prefer a reward other than pink gems for finishing a level or surfer options that aren’t just weird humans in costumes. Other creatures would be better. So I just keep using the OG penguin because it’s the cuter, and better, option. So I don’t have a use for the pink gems.
The levels are a good mindless game that allow me to listen to an audiobook while I relax before bed. There’s only 10 levels that you just play over and over again. Which is irritating because I downloaded based on an ad that had a level that doesnt exist, and I keep seeing ads with levels that aren’t real/are old. There’s a glitch on the 8th level when you jump the pink ramp, it stops you like you hit a glass wall on top of the awning/garage. It only stops glitching once you’ve fully upgraded your sling shot and sled.
What’s up with the tickets?
After beating the first level you either have to wait for tickets to play or spend real money to get tickets to play. This is pure stupidity.
+ 5 more in the clipboard copy
Sentiment summary
92%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)