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Wool Crush -Escape Traffic Jam
Astrasen Global · 46,588 ratings · ★ 4.9
4.9
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1
"game"
39 negative reviews mention this · 75% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads. Good game but too many ads. You win a level watch an ad. You lose watch an ad. You want extras watch an ad. When I lose I close the app and reopen to avoid all the ads." - Shara's phone
2
"level"
18 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads. Good game but too many ads. You win a level watch an ad. You lose watch an ad. You want extras watch an ad. When I lose I close the app and reopen to avoid all the ads." - Shara's phone
3
"play"
16 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bug needs fixing. I like this game except for the fact that it constantly interrupts my audio for no reason. I like to play while listening to audiobooks but usually end up playing something else because it stops the audio over and over in the middle of play…" - Rikkiloo
4
"watching"
15 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Frustrated. Watching adds to get more spaces for wool and then not getting the space! So frustrating. Please fix." - Sunny14319
5
"playing"
10 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bug needs fixing. I like this game except for the fact that it constantly interrupts my audio for no reason. I like to play while listening to audiobooks but usually end up playing something else because it stops the audio over and over in the middle of play…" - Rikkiloo
6
"watch"
9 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads. Good game but too many ads. You win a level watch an ad. You lose watch an ad. You want extras watch an ad. When I lose I close the app and reopen to avoid all the ads." - Shara's phone
7
"levels"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Artificially difficult. This game is infuriating. The developers don’t actually have the skill to create a organically challenging game, so they have levels sprinkled in that 100% cannot be beaten without the stupid power ups. Kind of sad that the developers scam …" - The real baby Sasquatch
8
"without"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Artificially difficult. This game is infuriating. The developers don’t actually have the skill to create a organically challenging game, so they have levels sprinkled in that 100% cannot be beaten without the stupid power ups. Kind of sad that the developers scam …" - The real baby Sasquatch
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"coins"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Potential to be fun. So I downloaded this game a few days ago. In the beginning it was fun, challenging, and entertaining. I got addicted to it. Then I got to level 40 and the level was incredibly hard and for two days I struggled to win. It grew increasing fru…" - Mw008
10
"long"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads to win = false strategy game. Look I love strategy games but when you have to watch ads to figure out the strategy it makes it no longer a strategy game it is an ad game and I HATE ads game. Heck you have to watch an ad just to get credit for completing a level! Not…" - Gdave74
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"ridiculous"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many long ads. The amount of ads and the length of them are absolutely outrageous. I can’t play the game very long if I got a sit through two minutes of ads to just open up something, etc. it’s just ridiculous." - Pretzer1234
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"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Expensive. This is a fun game but it’s not worth the expense. The sort button has never worked to alleviate a color. You have to keep buying power ups and still lose the level and every power up is super expensive. I’m going to remove it, there are pl…" - Mumumommy
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My review
The game is like a carnival game it literally you in and it traps you. It’s a very cheating type game.
Игра
Это не игра, а одна сплошная реклама.
Чтобы пройти уровень надо много рекламы посмотреть, раз 20-30 уровень проходила , бестолку. Смысл этой игры если пройти её в основном не возможно. Видимо игра создавалась ради денег чтоб рекламу только смотреть
Чтобы пройти уровень надо много рекламы посмотреть, раз 20-30 уровень проходила , бестолку. Смысл этой игры если пройти её в основном не возможно. Видимо игра создавалась ради денег чтоб рекламу только смотреть
Frustrated
Watching adds to get more spaces for wool and then not getting the space! So frustrating. Please fix.
Ads
Fun till level 20 or so then you get ads after every game
Ads
Just deleted the game, because I refuse to spend more time watching ads than I do playing the actual game.
Artificially difficult
This game is infuriating. The developers don’t actually have the skill to create a organically challenging game, so they have levels sprinkled in that 100% cannot be beaten without the stupid power ups. Kind of sad that the developers scam players by forcing ads just to progress through the game.
Ads to win = false strategy game
Look I love strategy games but when you have to watch ads to figure out the strategy it makes it no longer a strategy game it is an ad game and I HATE ads game.
Heck you have to watch an ad just to get credit for completing a level! Not cool. Big pass!
Heck you have to watch an ad just to get credit for completing a level! Not cool. Big pass!
Prepare for ads
Highly addictive game, it’s designed in a way where you must watch ads in order to succeed. Spent more time watching ads than playing.
Chinese scam
Too many ads, game gives me pop ups on my browser while I play saying “you’ve been hacked”. What kind of Chinese scam is this
Purchased no ADS
I purchased no ads and I still get adds, there is no way to communicate to the costumer service ~ the game is a scam do not buy no ads package
Too many long ads
The amount of ads and the length of them are absolutely outrageous. I can’t play the game very long if I got a sit through two minutes of ads to just open up something, etc. it’s just ridiculous.
Ads are forced
Impossible to beat past level 8 without watching ads.
Too many ads
The game is fun but could be better. There are levels you can’t pass without watching ads or paying for coins to get help. You shouldn’t have to watch an ad when you lose and want to retry a level. I understand that ads make you money, but if you would cut out some ads and increase the amount of coins given, you would get more players and people would play longer and revenue would increase.
Gameplay IMPOSSIBLE due to ads
This game itself is really fun, this could have been a great time killing game to play whilst waiting for appointments or whatever. The number of ads is ridiculous and make playing past the first 40 or so levels absolutely impossible. You have to watch several ads per level, and I would guess I’ve spent 8 times longer watching ads than actually playing the game. These aren’t simple ads either. They are long, multi step ads.
Commercials are Tooo long
Commercials use to be 30 seconds long on all online games. On this game they are a whole 119 seconds long. By the time the commercials end I have completely lost interest in playing anymore. I have watched long commercials more than I have played the game. I pay for no ads. The commercials I am referring to is the ones to get extra weapons or coins or whatever you trying to get while playing a level. What’s even worse the commercials are for games that 80 percent of the players already got downloaded on their device. I rate this game as a complete waste of time. Because you watching commercials more than you are playing. I would give it a zero if I could. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Too many ads
I love this game but the amount of ads is RIDICULOUS!!! When I first started playing there wasn’t any ads but as I progressed in the game the amount of ads pushed me away!!! I just uninstalled this game the ads just got on my LAST NERVE!!!
Ads
At a certain level you can’t play without spending coins or watching ads. There are SO many Ads! They do their best to make you pay for no ads because they put one to two in the middle of each round. Had to delete.
Ads and ridiculous prices
Ads between games and ads to unlock each spool slot. Furthermore, the prices for no ads are only the “pop up” ads. You still have to watch ads to get more spools and sometimes the ads are unavailable so you can’t unlock the spools at all. NO PURCHASE OPTION TO PERMANENTLY UNLOCK ALL SPOOLS. You have to pay for a limited number of spools. Coins are not fairly priced because it’s 800 coins to continue playing if you’ve lost. I surely don’t want to spend $100 to make a game temporarily easier / more enjoyable to play.
Also, the animation when you know you’re going to die is way too long. There’s a 2x button to speed it up except it only brings the dragon closer to the kitten and you still have to wait for the animation before you can retry the level. Maybe this would not bother me as much if the ads weren’t already such a time-suck.
Also, the animation when you know you’re going to die is way too long. There’s a 2x button to speed it up except it only brings the dragon closer to the kitten and you still have to wait for the animation before you can retry the level. Maybe this would not bother me as much if the ads weren’t already such a time-suck.
Too many ads
I love this game and would play for hours….but THERE ARE TOO MANY ADS! Ads even when you win!
Ads and their sound
I look for games that I can play while listening to an audiobook. This is not one of them. I greatly enjoyed this game and would continue to play it but I can’t because not only are the amount of ads ridiculous but they also cut off the sound to anything else that I’m listening to every few seconds. If they fixed it, this would be 5 stars.
More time on ads than playtime
It’s designed to fail at least 2 times which prompts an ad, time fail prompts an ad….there’s approx 3 ads per game and then another in-between them.
Di the Devs feel the player’s base time is worthless? /delete
Di the Devs feel the player’s base time is worthless? /delete
Scam
Suddenly, my phone opened Safari, and it is written that “your Iphone may be scammed”
Ads Ads Ads
TLDR: Not worth it…unless you enjoy spending your time watching ads.
Could be great - but too many ads. Pretty early on it gets too difficult to pass a level without boosters - and how do you get boosters? Pay real money or watch an ad…each time for each booster. Lose a level? Ad. Win a level? Ad. Every. Freaking. Time. Plus the ads are long AF with teeny tiny close buttons. If I could get any play time this could easily be my favorite game. Oh well - I lived without it this long, I can live without it again.
Could be great - but too many ads. Pretty early on it gets too difficult to pass a level without boosters - and how do you get boosters? Pay real money or watch an ad…each time for each booster. Lose a level? Ad. Win a level? Ad. Every. Freaking. Time. Plus the ads are long AF with teeny tiny close buttons. If I could get any play time this could easily be my favorite game. Oh well - I lived without it this long, I can live without it again.
Disappointing
I paid for the app but found it incredibly annoying that the only way to beat many of the levels is to open up spaces by either paying extra for them or by watching incredibly long ads. There’s no way to win on skill alone.
Awful.
As if the inordinate amount of ads aren’t bad enough, it stops my audiobooks or music every other second. No thanks
Pornographic ads
Definitely not for children. The ads made me raise eyebrows for a long time and one day I was hit will full on pornographic ad. The creators have the settings on so that adult ads play for this app. Apple needs a way to report this but they intentionally do not have any way to report this.
Don’t buy
You will think that after paying for game it will be a lot better with no ads, but this game is impossible to pass a level without the need of buying more coins or watching ads. This is just a scam you pay to stop ads but the end you are still watching ads to play the game. I want my money back…..
Ads are forced
Classic trash app that forces you to watch ads or pay to progress or win unbeatable puzzles
THE ADS ARE RIDICULOUS!!!
I PAID TO STOP THE ADS & I’M STILL WATCHING ADS!! THIS SUCKS!! I NEED A REFUND ASAP!! THESE ADS ARE RIDICULOUS! WHEN YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES FOR THE FREE BAR YOU REALLY ONLY GET 30 SECONDS BECAUSE OF THE ADS! I NEED A REFUND
It gets impossible
I know level 80 is supposed to be super hard but I’ve tried so many times even with boosters and it won’t let me win ever it’s just frustrating and not relaxing at all
Too many ADS
It’s a fun game but TOO MANY ADS. Not even worth continuously playing
Ads
Too many ads!!!!
Not recommended
This game is for showing ads. There’s no way you can win without seeing the ads. It’s annoying
WAY TOO MANY ADDDDDDSSSS!!!
I get the need for adds but this is beyond toooooo much!!!!!!
Purchased No Ads
I really like this game but its super frustrating that I paid for no ads, but it doesn’t work. I have an ad after every turn I take…I have reached out to the creators and have had no response. Requested a refund from Apple which got denied. I have clicked restore purchase so many times and it just says there’s no purchase to restore. I have uninstalled the app and reinstalled and nothing is helping…logging out and back in also doesn’t work. This is so frustrating.
all ads
don’t get this game unless you want to spend as much time (or more) watching ads that can be minutes long and you have to watch a few to complete a level
Fake Advertising
This game says it’s ad-free, but all of a sudden everything I click tacked me to an ad. Now I even get an option to pay for no ads which is ridiculous
Just adds
The game is fun and nice but it is just adds, before you play, after you play and even in the middle of the game. I do not mind adds to get an extra bonus but this game is only about watching adds. Waste of time. It also pauses your audiobook.
Ad’s are just rage bait.
Ad’s are annoying and try to induce rage clicking. Don’t recommend this game based off this alone.
Way Way Way Too Many Ads
This game has like 500 ads a second and it's completely unplayable. Even buying it doesn't help because the "optional" ads are not optional. It's a trick.
Too many ads
Good game but too many ads. You win a level watch an ad. You lose watch an ad. You want extras watch an ad. When I lose I close the app and reopen to avoid all the ads.
Bug needs fixing
I like this game except for the fact that it constantly interrupts my audio for no reason. I like to play while listening to audiobooks but usually end up playing something else because it stops the audio over and over in the middle of play and there is no way for me to get support from the developer for this issue.
Expensive
This is a fun game but it’s not worth the expense. The sort button has never worked to alleviate a color. You have to keep buying power ups and still lose the level and every power up is super expensive. I’m going to remove it, there are plenty of games I’m willing to pay into that don’t suck you dry just to keep you losing.
Potential to be fun
So I downloaded this game a few days ago. In the beginning it was fun, challenging, and entertaining. I got addicted to it. Then I got to level 40 and the level was incredibly hard and for two days I struggled to win. It grew increasing frustrating because no matter how many coins I spent or ads I watched beating the level never felt attainable. I'm also so sick of the Gossip Harbor ad, and I'll never download it. And I ultimately deleted the app because it should have never been that hard.
What Am I Even Supposed To Do?
They do not explain how to play the game. You have all these arrows, but the game never tells you how to use them. I’m not wasting my time learning how to play it.
Ad galore
30 second ads between levels and 2 minute ads for “rewards” on levels that are impossible without. Shame it’s a great game but devs are just too greedy.
Virus ad
The game is fine and mindless. None of the levels pictured are actually in the game. The board just repeats after a set amount of levels. Was fine up until an ad popped up that completely took over my phone. While I was playing the ad came up “iPhone hacked” noting new, however this ad opened the App Store and began to download an app. The only thing that stoped it was that I needed to re add my password. When I was able to get out of it completely, I noticed the pop up was part of the game. Have since removed it. Beware for children, especially those whose devices are attached to your banking.
AI or just lousy
I made it all the way to level 769 till I got fed up with the game. I really enjoyed playing the puzzles, but the game has so many bugs! Many times I was blocked and had to use a power up in order to progress. That should not happen. Kinda bummed but it needs work, makes me doubt that an actual person planned out all the levels.
Forced to pay to play
Loved this game but it gets SO hard that you are forced to pay to beat levels. Uninstalled.
Ads
Fun game but there are too many ads! Why are there ads after I beat a level?!
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Sentiment summary
98%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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