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Word Trip - Word Puzzles Games
PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd · 586,207 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 52 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"
38 negative reviews mention this · 73% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It used to be good. I have loved playing this game for years and what they have just come up with some of the most intrusive ads I have seen and I think I'm going to have to stop playing" - CMorse NH
2
"play"
16 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It used to be good. I have loved playing this game for years and what they have just come up with some of the most intrusive ads I have seen and I think I'm going to have to stop playing" - CMorse NH
3
"every"
10 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Issues. There’s way too many ads. The game pauses my music every few seconds for their stupid ads. It has adds between levels.. and it really isn’t picking up all the words I find so I’m left at the end of the level wondering what I missed for the …" - KBDJOHNSON
4
"playing"
9 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It used to be good. I have loved playing this game for years and what they have just come up with some of the most intrusive ads I have seen and I think I'm going to have to stop playing" - CMorse NH
5
"level"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Issues. There’s way too many ads. The game pauses my music every few seconds for their stupid ads. It has adds between levels.. and it really isn’t picking up all the words I find so I’m left at the end of the level wondering what I missed for the …" - KBDJOHNSON
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"seconds"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good but overwhelming ads. I like the game however it goes overboard with ads, popping up after several seconds of play with sound. Then the icon to turn off the ad sound is minuscule and hard to turn off. I may be done with the app." - ElsieGood
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"commercials"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not as good as it used to be. I’ve liked playing this game for years, but now they insert too damn many commercials right in the middle of a game. When I’m on a roll, I don’t like to be interrupted for an advertisement. Sure, they have a paid version, so do the other 15…" - handymanron
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"words"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Garbage!. Makes up words the later you get in the game. Way too many ads constantly popping up." - DLKFL
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To many tournaments
You can’t just relax and play they make you join stupid tournaments which adds stress and ruins the fun only get to play 2 days a week
Ads
The ads are unbearable. I had to play on airplane mode.
Word Trip
This application wants to make money from end users who want to play the game. The application allows corrupt scams to open windows on your phone without your permission- but it’s part of the apps pay to play policy.
Although many ADs have opened many corrupt windows on my phone - the AD today posed as an Apple Message and threatened the end user, me , to click on the scam or lose my phone’s data. I took pictures so I have the receipts, however, I don’t know if it will allow me to upload the proof!
Although many ADs have opened many corrupt windows on my phone - the AD today posed as an Apple Message and threatened the end user, me , to click on the scam or lose my phone’s data. I took pictures so I have the receipts, however, I don’t know if it will allow me to upload the proof!
Garbage!
Makes up words the later you get in the game. Way too many ads constantly popping up.
So much worse than it used to be
App is laggy and absolutely full of ads and mini games. I just want to solve word puzzles. I don’t mind an ad but it’s out of hand and I’m considering deleting the game
I think it helps my memory. But I may have to quit playing because of the ads. The y are so LOUD!!!
Very entertaining. I Love the game , but the commercials are so loud it scars the dog,. I’m going to look for another game similar to
Too Many Ads
When I started playing this game I had no issues with ads. Now that I get to a higher level and not paying for coins there are endless ads! I am deleting this game because of that.
Too many ads
Once you get past the first part of the game, there are ads after every round. Seeing that the round lasts about 5-10 seconds, this is just too much. DELETE
Bait and switch
Game is nothing like advertised and then my email got flooded with spam. Absolute trash.
HATE ADS
Hate ALL ADS
Ads killed the game
Used to be one of my favorites to play. Now with constant little speakers showing up causing it to slow down terribly I’m about done. Sucks but it’s become garbage.
Lots of Ads non stop
Lots of ads and vary tricky with allowing you to dismiss it. Try another game. You can’t even turn the sound off. Horrible TRICKERY WITH ADS to much work
Played 4 <1/4 hour, Game FORCED Upgrade 2 Solitaire
I played this game for lass than 20 minutes and was really enjoying it.
Then it went to the common FORCED “Upgrade “
The “Upgrade “ sent me to a SOLITAIRE game to download.
Apparently, the manufacturer’s of this game do Not realize that it is a WORD Game.
Aside from losing all my progress, it wouldn’t even be the same game.
DELETE
Then it went to the common FORCED “Upgrade “
The “Upgrade “ sent me to a SOLITAIRE game to download.
Apparently, the manufacturer’s of this game do Not realize that it is a WORD Game.
Aside from losing all my progress, it wouldn’t even be the same game.
DELETE
No Good 4 iPad
The game itself is a great exercise for the mind, but is slow as ever on the iPad. Why does it work so much faster on an iPhone and nearly at a snails pace on the iPad? Going to max out my coins then get rid of this from my iPad…
Too many ads
You can’t play one full round w/o an ad and you can’t mute the audio. I’m deleting this game.
Ads ads ads
Theres an add played every 20 seconds and its often the same add in a different language.
Please long time player
Leaving this game now. Causes too much stress. Too many ads. Too many audio ads.
So many ads it causes glitching
The game is fun. I play it to relax, especially before bed. However, there are too many ads in between each game, which I overlooked, but then they started putting ads on screen while you’re playing the game. Which makes it glitch. Not to mention the pop-ups just within the game are super annoying. We just want to play the game. But I have to click out of all these different pop-ups just to get to the next level and sometimes it doesn’t give you the option to close the pop-up. You just have to participate in a tournament. I had to delete it.
Pop up ads are annoying
I love the game but the pop up ads are annoying and I am very close to deleting the game.
Too many darn ads
Too many ads
No
Has become unusable due to constant ads and useless pop ups within the game
Ads slow it down to a crawl
Played this almost every day for the last 2 years, but the ad burden has slowed the game down so much it’s unusable now
Ads are intrusive and terrible
Can’t go past a level without seeing an ad and forcing the app to close and open up in order to move on.
New version freezes and hangs up constantly. Impossible to play
Used to love this game but is unplayable now with constant freezing
Too many ads
I like the game but there are ads after each solution. Most last over a minute. I realize ads make the game free but this is ridiculous.
Terrible game
Played far too long. Obviously I reached a level they are not equipped for
No players reach my level and are given scam games to play
No players reach my level and are given scam games to play
Waste of Time
Every 5 minutes, LITERALLY this app continues to ask me to Download the “ NEW VERSION “. There are no variations of words, it’s usually just the same words repeated. The third time it asked me to download the “ UPDATED “ version I deleted it.
You’ve been warned.
You’ve been warned.
Elementary
I hate when a game starts at an elementary level. It’s ridiculous!
Most aggressive and incessant ads I’ve ever seen in a game
Absolutely unrelenting, nonstop ads that take over the screen or blast audio louder than anything else you may be actually trying to listen to. Why even offer a free version of this. Makes me sick to think of the devs high diving each other over this. You should be ashamed. You fail.
Used to love it … no more
Extremely loud commercials every few seconds. I like to play while listening to books on tape but the rudely loud interruptions are overwhelming. I’m out of here.
SO MANY ADS
It’s gotten worse and worse every year.
Disgraceful price update
I love the game but the price increase is outrageous. The increase is 100% to play the game. Shame on you. Plus I can’t stop my subscription for a year. You guys suck. I will never play this game ever again.
One big complaint
I play the game every day the same time but on Sunday they end the game session about 2 hours early and as a result I end up with a depressed score. Can’t see any purpose for it other than lunacy ZERO for this game and company
Ad CRAZY
Too many ads to deal with. There is one every 30-45 seconds. Time is too precious to spend on ADS. Not worth installing.
It used to be good
I have loved playing this game for years and what they have just come up with some of the most intrusive ads I have seen and I think I'm going to have to stop playing
What’s the point
Why have the option to turn off music sound and voiceover if it’s not gonna work like it’s supposed to!
Good but overwhelming ads
I like the game however it goes overboard with ads, popping up after several seconds of play with sound. Then the icon to turn off the ad sound is minuscule and hard to turn off. I may be done with the app.
Not as good as it used to be
I’ve liked playing this game for years, but now they insert too damn many commercials right in the middle of a game. When I’m on a roll, I don’t like to be interrupted for an advertisement. Sure, they have a paid version, so do the other 15 games I like to play, but I can’t afford to play and pay on all of them.
if you want my business, drop some of the ad
if you want my business, drop some of the ad
Issues
There’s way too many ads. The game pauses my music every few seconds for their stupid ads. It has adds between levels.. and it really isn’t picking up all the words I find so I’m left at the end of the level wondering what I missed for the longest time even though I KNOW I found it already.
Not a lot of rewards for time and effort
This game is challenging and I like it, but there is not a lot of rewards for your time and effort. It seems like they want you to buy things to make the game easier. It also cheats when it does the awards spin the wheel.
Irritanging
You have too, too, many must view commercials. There is also irritating voices during work search time that interferes with my music. I e joy finding new words but too many commercials annoy me.
Word Trip
I don’t feel I get all the points I earn. I earn points go forward in awards then after solving full puzzles for hours I’m kicked back levels with an “I m sorry”. It’s very disgusting! Also, there are too many ads That interrupt my game playing all the ads cutting in makes the game feel more stressful
Too many ads hold hostage
Brings you to other screens with ads and can’t sometimes seem to exit out of them.
So many pop ups
Too many pop ups. It’s not even fun to play. Between each level you gotta watch a long ad, then after every level you have to click and view all these in game updates. No, I don’t care what my ranking is, stop making me check, just let me play the game. Deleted
Worst commercials
The repetitive & distracting over-voiced commercials blast at you constantly while you play rather than between plays. The option to mute that does NOTHING to stop it. It won’t allow for listening to audiobooks and podcasts while you play. Feel so disrespected by the creators of this game.
It was great
Now the puzzles are showing letters in the words that aren’t in my letter selection so I can’t move on past this level.
Word Trip
I like the game, but just deleted it. I felt irritated by too many ads and especially some very long ads and the final straw was the audio ads that covered up the game and were soooo annoying.
Review
The ads have gotten totally out of hand. I’ve been getting six and eight in the middle of the game. I’m not playing this anymore until you cut back the ads.
Too many ads
Game play is ok but the ads ruin it
Crazy Words
I’ve been playing this game for several years. Lately the puzzles have included some crazy choices-archaic words or foreign words that seem designed to frustrate the player. Why??
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Sentiment summary
93%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)