Color Knitzy

This app starts out being very fun, relaxing, no time pressure, and moderately difficult. If you keep playing, though, the levels get too difficult, and it devolves into a typical cash grab game. You don’t earn coins fast enough to buy power ups or to cash in to continue playing a difficult level. And when you fail a level and use a life to try again, your reward level drops back to 1, even though it takes 5 wins to get the max reward level. That’s not fair and it’s mean of the designers to make it so hard to earn rewards but so easy to lose them. Not cool. So I blow through 5 lives trying to solve 1 difficult level in about 2 minutes and then quit playing for the day because I refuse to spend real money to buy more lives or power ups. Finally, when you get to higher levels, in the 200s, the puzzles start recycling so you’re just replaying them over and over. There are so many improvements that would make this a 5-star game, but it’s not there and probably never will be because the developers just want your cash. **Update: lowered the rating and deleted the game. Developers added a holiday challenge to collect pieces to earn big rewards. Pieces were quickly duplicated and puzzles became so difficult that I couldn’t earn pieces anymore. The developers never intended to let me earn the big rewards without paying. Shame on them. Do better.

The game is nice, clean, smooth, but does have a couple of flaws. One star deduction is for at level 20 I hit the point where to continue onto the next level, you have to watch a short video which are short 20 seconds in length. There is a banner that is constant on the bottom of the screen that is always showing ads, but it in no way inhibits gameplay. The other star deduction comes from the fact that in order to get to the home screen of the game you have to quit the level which cost you one heart each time. There is no way to just exit from the game to hit the game home screen without losing a heart. Other than these two flaws, the game is pretty nice and a great time waster.

I downloaded this app on a whim and I am really happy I did! I read that it wasn’t really a puzzle game as much as a relaxing way to pass the time when you need to disassociate for a bit. If you are looking for a complicated or difficult game, this might not be your cup of tea but if you just need to chill out for a minute then I highly recommend!