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Wordscapes Solitaire Word Game
PeopleFun, Inc. · 167,199 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 42 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.
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"game"
33 negative reviews mention this · 79% of all complaints
★★★★★ "More ads than gameplay. It’s fun at first, and the game is highly addictive…ruined by the ads. Once you hit level 60+ it’s an ad for every game you play. An hour of gameplay is about 40mins of ads. I can understand needing ad revenue but not at the sake of gamepla…" - Sgt. Hill
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"play"
13 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "More ads than gameplay. It’s fun at first, and the game is highly addictive…ruined by the ads. Once you hit level 60+ it’s an ad for every game you play. An hour of gameplay is about 40mins of ads. I can understand needing ad revenue but not at the sake of gamepla…" - Sgt. Hill
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"playing"
11 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They now require too much personal info. I’ve been playing this game for a long time. Now it prompts me to upload a copy of my license stating it’s required for age verification. The game will no longer allow me to play with uploading my ID. I’m not uploading my id to play a wor…" - IpadInGA
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"every"
9 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "More ads than gameplay. It’s fun at first, and the game is highly addictive…ruined by the ads. Once you hit level 60+ it’s an ad for every game you play. An hour of gameplay is about 40mins of ads. I can understand needing ad revenue but not at the sake of gamepla…" - Sgt. Hill
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"middle"
9 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pop ups. Love this game but lately there has been what I hope is a glitch (and not intentional) that has been causing ads to pop up frequently and repeatedly in the middle of gameplay and other inappropriate times (not just at the end of levels or f…" - SeraphEm2
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"been"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They now require too much personal info. I’ve been playing this game for a long time. Now it prompts me to upload a copy of my license stating it’s required for age verification. The game will no longer allow me to play with uploading my ID. I’m not uploading my id to play a wor…" - IpadInGA
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"long"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "They now require too much personal info. I’ve been playing this game for a long time. Now it prompts me to upload a copy of my license stating it’s required for age verification. The game will no longer allow me to play with uploading my ID. I’m not uploading my id to play a wor…" - IpadInGA
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"other"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Turn for the worse. Up until very recently this has been one of my favorite games. However, the recent addition of the challenge rounds that cannot be skipped has me rethinking my opinion. I play this game because it is a SOLITAIRE game. Had I been interested …" - roxwyfe
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"times"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Really really need to assess your ad situation.. Most of the ads are very, very long! Many times the ads are glitchy and will cause the app to crash, cause I’m used to lose a lot of times a whole lot of progress." - Mrcoly1973
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"seconds"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I’m done!. I’ve been happily enjoying your game for a while now. The only thing I had a problem with was the enormous amount of ads you have. NOW I GET AN AD DURING PLAY EVERY 5 TO 10 SECONDS! YOU HAVEN’T FIXED ANYTHING YOU’VE MADE IT WORSE. I’M DONE!" - Ripple451
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"deleted"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "New update. After your most recent update the app won’t load. I deleted and reinstalled…did not help. Please fix." - Love crochet
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"while"
6 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I’m done!. I’ve been happily enjoying your game for a while now. The only thing I had a problem with was the enormous amount of ads you have. NOW I GET AN AD DURING PLAY EVERY 5 TO 10 SECONDS! YOU HAVEN’T FIXED ANYTHING YOU’VE MADE IT WORSE. I’M DONE!" - Ripple451
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More ads than gameplay
It’s fun at first, and the game is highly addictive…ruined by the ads. Once you hit level 60+ it’s an ad for every game you play. An hour of gameplay is about 40mins of ads. I can understand needing ad revenue but not at the sake of gameplay.
They now require too much personal info
I’ve been playing this game for a long time. Now it prompts me to upload a copy of my license stating it’s required for age verification. The game will no longer allow me to play with uploading my ID.
I’m not uploading my id to play a word game. I’m ‘required’ to delete your game for personal protection reasons. Who in their right mind would provide that kind of information to a greedy marketing team just to play a game.
I’m not uploading my id to play a word game. I’m ‘required’ to delete your game for personal protection reasons. Who in their right mind would provide that kind of information to a greedy marketing team just to play a game.
Ads ruin it
This would be an awesome game if it weren’t for the constant ads.
Turn for the worse
Up until very recently this has been one of my favorite games. However, the recent addition of the challenge rounds that cannot be skipped has me rethinking my opinion. I play this game because it is a SOLITAIRE game. Had I been interested in playing with random there are a plethora of other games from which to choose. If this “feature” is left in the game I will probably stop playing it and will no longer encourage others to join.
New update
After your most recent update the app won’t load. I deleted and reinstalled…did not help. Please fix.
Was a Great game. WAS. Now Glitched.
I was forced to update the game 5 minutes ago. Now it is glitched and will not even move past the opening screen! What a waste.
Update Not Good
Had to delete and reinstall app after every game. Not worth it.
HORRIBLE
The game freezes. It takes your additional points away from you. It’s just a horrible game.
Game Locks Up
I really like it then it started getting glitchy. Can not open tabs. Only thing I can go into are the ads!!!
Excellent
Wonderful!!!!
Game would be fun but glitches screen freezing and ads not delivering.
Tried the game again after deleting hoping it would be better. They fixed one problem but now they don’t put enough letters on the board to complete the game causing you to watch ads over and over and over just to get enough letters. Not right. Excessive unmanaged Ads. Will Delete again. Too bad was leader on the board.
I’m done!
I’ve been happily enjoying your game for a while now. The only thing I had a problem with was the enormous amount of ads you have. NOW I GET AN AD DURING PLAY EVERY 5 TO 10 SECONDS! YOU HAVEN’T FIXED ANYTHING YOU’VE MADE IT WORSE. I’M DONE!
Ads ads ads and more
If you like ads, you’ll love this game pop up all the time in the middle of the game just a little short annoying ones and that big long ones and then mod short ones. Too bad I used to like this game. It is now deleted goodbye.
Constant Ad bombs
Decent game but ads along the top keep expanding right in the middle of the game and the more you play the more it happens. Ready to delete the game it is so annoying
Not As Advertised
I’m 74 levels in and the game is still nothing like the ads or the pictures on the App Store, and now a video ad pops up every 30 seconds while playing.
Pop up ads are ridiculous!
I used to play this game a lot. The pop up ads are ridiculous! They used to never happen. Now they literally happen every few seconds. It’s absurd. I wrote to the maintenance and they said that their advertisers weren’t doing what they were supposed to, but nothing has changed. I’ve been playing this game for a long time…I’ve seen the digression. It’s bad!
Fun game? Not anymore
I deleted this game once because of all the pop up ads while I am playing the game. This has gotten really bad again! I can’t even get a word formed before another ad popped up. Five times in the latest game. I’m sick of it!
Ads Ads Ads
The ads after every game do not bother me at all. A small price to pay for a free game. On the other hand, the ads that interrupt in the middle of gameplay, NUMEROUS times a game are maddening. You have to leave the game to get the ad to stop, only to have another jump on your screen a minute after you come back. It’s not fun, it’s frustrating. I don’t know about any one else but I don’t play to be frustrated. I don’t know how much more I can endure this. The last game I played, seven different ads interrupted one game! It’s ridiculous.
So it’s much worse now. I cannot play today without being interrupted every few seconds. They haven’t even tried to make it better… it’s MUCH worse. I’m not playing until this is fixed completely. I’m not paying to be frustrated.
So it’s much worse now. I cannot play today without being interrupted every few seconds. They haven’t even tried to make it better… it’s MUCH worse. I’m not playing until this is fixed completely. I’m not paying to be frustrated.
Too greedy with ads
Ads have always been bad but now they pop-up every 20 seconds (no exaggeration). About to uninstall
Ads! Ads! Ads!
I thought I had found a game I could truly enjoy. Even the ads weren’t so bad however today I am getting pop up ads 2 or 3 times in the middle of a game. They are not only annoying but break my concentration. Great way to ruin a game Looks like this game will go the same way as others. I wouldn’t mind paying for no ads but not $10 a month.
Ads interrupt play
I really enjoyed this game at first. Then ads began flashing on screen during play and interrupting my concentration. I began playing less. Today the interruptions were constant, 4-5 at a one after the other, before I could return to play. Then, literally before I could finish the word I had started, they began again. This happened 3 times before I could finish one word! Then there are the ads that take you to their website even if you click X or cancel. If these flash up ads during play don’t end, I WILL be deleting this game. A great game ruined by greed.
Ads are awful
Ads are obnoxiously long. They are an insult. Do not bother.
Nothing like the ad
I’m sick of all these games that show ads that look like fun, then you download the game and it’s nothing like advertised. Deleting now
Inaccurate scoring
As cool as this game is, it’s annoying when I happen to lose the WiFi signal , I pass the level and meet the challenges and the stars accumulate in the chest but not the leaderboard. In my previous play, I passed 3 levels that accurate in the chest, but not the leaderboard. How does it accumulate in one area but not the other
I reached my limit with this game as you’re giving a challenge in which I need to get 700 points, 3 stars and make words starting and ending with certain things which isn’t difficult on its own, but saying start and end with O and then with the possible letters you’re giving makes any of that impossible to beat on a clock and high word challenge. None of that’s doable in that situation, I’m now done. With all the money I’ve put into the game on occasion and how you lowered for $10. ; you used to offer 6000 coins plus prizes, now lower to it 3000 and only a couple of each prize. I am done. Game deleted
I reached my limit with this game as you’re giving a challenge in which I need to get 700 points, 3 stars and make words starting and ending with certain things which isn’t difficult on its own, but saying start and end with O and then with the possible letters you’re giving makes any of that impossible to beat on a clock and high word challenge. None of that’s doable in that situation, I’m now done. With all the money I’ve put into the game on occasion and how you lowered for $10. ; you used to offer 6000 coins plus prizes, now lower to it 3000 and only a couple of each prize. I am done. Game deleted
Really really need to assess your ad situation.
Most of the ads are very, very long! Many times the ads are glitchy and will cause the app to crash, cause I’m used to lose a lot of times a whole lot of progress.
Pop ups
Love this game but lately there has been what I hope is a glitch (and not intentional) that has been causing ads to pop up frequently and repeatedly in the middle of gameplay and other inappropriate times (not just at the end of levels or for extra rewards). Please fix as this is not okay.
Was a good game
Great game with challenging options to keep the games interesting. Latest version now has ads popping up randomly during the game while a time clock is running for the game. I deleted the game. I don’t mind ads in between games but the pop-up is too much.
Quitting because of ads
Ads after every single level and now ads that pop up during play. No thank you
Great game but unplayable
I really like this game. It is challenging and keeps your interest. The downside is that glitchy ads have made it unplayable. You will be working on a level when an ad starts playing. If you x it out, another one starts playing. Keeps going and going. Absolutely terrible and infuriating.
Pop-up Ads
All of a sudden, this app has pop-up ads. In just one game, there were 11 interruptions from Amazon and other ads. If this persists, I will delete. A daily game I’ve come to enjoy will be taken off my list.
Frustrated
Very fun game and addictive as well. Loved it until the ads started popping up in the middle of a timed game and yes it does still take your time away. Sometimes it’s three in a row. Very aggravating, deleted it right away, I want relaxing games.
Ads are ridiculous
I’ve enjoy the game for quite sometime now even though some of the ads are ridiculously longer than need be. I mean how long should you have to watch an ad repeat itself? Now what makes these ads even worse are the ads at the top of your screen during word play begin playing while your in the middle of the game too. Almost impossible to continue playing.
Ads wont close
I downloaded and played this game several years ago. Not terribly interested in playing it again, but the ad keeps popping up in another game and it won't close for 2 to 5 minutes. Listen game maker, potential customers can tell within 30 to 40 seconds at the most if they're interested in your game... So torture your potential audience with an ad that won't closed for 2 or 3 or 4 minutes? An ad that has no progress bar at the bottom, or timer so that we know when we can go back to our root game...?
Great game-Now Constant ad windows appearing
This was my go-to game. Yes it had an ad for another app after every completion of a game. Now, a video shows up after every almost play of a tile. I hope you can fix this. I paid for the app as well.
Long long ads
Liked the game a lot and have played it for years but the ads have gotten longer and longer so I wouldn’t recommend it.
Ad is not same
As usual ads not the same as game
Too easy
No challenge for adults. But thanks for making the game.
Crash
Was fun up to level 72 then it CRASHED and of course I lost all progress and all of the items and catalogs gained. SUPER frustrating
Wordscapes
Not as shown
Ads In The Middle Of Gameplay Now?
I’ve been playing this for about six months. It’s a great game if you love words and a little challenge. There used to be ads of about 5-10 seconds between levels, which I’m totally fine with. Over the past couple months though, the ads now pop up randomly in the middle of gameplay. I’ve seen multiple reviews that have this same complaint and the developer’s response has been “we’re working to fix that issue,” but despite their claims they haven’t fixed the issue in two months and I’m pretty sure they have no intention of actually fixing it. Thanks for ruining an otherwise great game.
They ruined a great game
This used to be a great game. The ridiculous amount of ads now makes it a frustrating game. Ads now pop up while you’re in the middle of a game, not just after each game. Don’t bother with this one. My game just stopped four times for a DoorDash ad.
Fun but glitchy
It would be better if the app stopped randomly closing mid-play. It is even more frustrating that when the app closes out you lose any open progress you have to start completely over. Kinda lame and making me use other apps instead because what’s the point if you can’t proceed …
Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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