Arrow Maze: Escape Game

I’ve hit over level 100 with no ads and only a request to write a review. It gets a review for that. The key thing about the game is that you have to pay attention and follow the path that an arrow will take. Start moving too fast and you’ll run into another arrow. A little more instructions on what the objects on the bottom do would be helpful. That’s the only complaint I have so far.

I've enjoyed this game for quite some time now; I don't remember whether I paid anything for the privilege but I've been playing it happily for months without any ads or other interruptions from within the app or without. Sadly, I have now seen the beginning of the end of this pure unadulterated, uninterrupted gameplay. With the last update, the game has started inserting promotional screens between levels for its coin packages and such; basically forced ads, although they come from within the app and can be immediately dismissed – it's the first step down a slippery slope toward continual interruption and monetizing of what used to be a purely enjoyable game. Besides that, I don't know why anyone would pay for coins – I'm on level 565, I've got some 17,000 coins, and I still don't know what the coins are used for – I've never used a single one of these coins in my life, so it's a complete mystery to me why anyone would use them for free, let alone pay for them. I suppose they may be used to buy what game developers call "boosts" but which everyone else knows perfectly well are actually just cheats, and which are entirely unnecessary in this game either way. Anyway, at its core, it's a good game; unfortunately that core is just now beginning to become buried under a bunch of promotional dreck. It might still be worth downloading the game, if you don't mind the occasional screen trying to get you to buy useless things, but I can't promise that it will remain worth downloading indefinitely.

I had cleared most of the arrows and I made three bad moves and ran out of lives. I chose to watch an ad to get additional lives. I watched the ad and an X appeared in the top left corner saying reward granted. But clicking on the X or the words did nothing. The only other button on the screen was to get the game that was being advertised. I clicked on that thinking that I would be able to close the ad and get my additional lives. But the ad had complete control of my iPad and I had to force close my game to get out of the ad-loop. I don’t mind watching an ad if I need some additional lives, but I don’t appreciate watching an ad and then losing my game, and having to start over. It’s just a bad user experience.