Crowd Express: Boarding Puzzle

Download this game! I’ve played so many bus puzzles only to delete once the developers show their true intentions and bus you right to ADville. I have played a large amount of levels on this game Ad free, so when they started I wasn’t upset at all. The ads aren’t intrusive and are kept at a minimum. I haven’t opted for the Ad free version yet to no fault of this game, as I’ve been waiting on the usual gotcha that makes the game too difficult to proceed without in game paid boosters or has a sudden drop in quality…welp I’m on level 450 and no gotcha and quality has actually been enhanced with updated graphics. Booster packs are available but you don’t have to have them to progress and the game makes it fairly simple to earn enough coins in game to grab one. Some levels are tough but you get breather levels in between. Finally I get to leave a good review for developers who enhance game play, use ads responsibly and respect their players time.

It’s sad that even the simplest of games can no longer be fun because it’s either ads after every move or to continue, want an extra live, power up, etc, watch this ad about something you’ll never use. Aside from that the line between fun and difficult seems to have faded. In a game so simple you shouldn’t be stuck on a level for weeks until you figure out the 1 absolute solution or use every power up you can afford with patience. No reason why after 1000 combinations and all my power ups I still can’t solve it. I’m an avid gamer and I enjoy a vast amount of puzzle games. Both difficult and easy. Never have I been forced to use power ups or currency to win. Someone else said the game is meant to force you to watch ads and I can’t disagree. It also forces you to waste everything you earned. If this game and others found on apps like “Tester up” are only linked to apps like “Tester up” I can almost guarantee it’s also because they don’t want you to earn bonuses. if you’re stuck on a level for days (since tester up has goals such as “reach level 100 in 2 days) you would miss the mark and not get the bonus. That’s an actual goal I achieved but after lvl 100 I haven’t been able to pass a lvl without power ups. (Next goal is 450 in 8 days, been on 103 for ~2 days.)

I really like this game. It is the perfect design of throwing in some puzzles that are really hard but not impossible. I have to do some of them a few times, which improves my memory and puzzle solving skills. But, with the bonus parking spaces, etc., it is always solvable. BUT, there is an ad for TRAFIC BUSTER:PARKING ESCAPE that there is no escape for unless you download their game, which I am not interested in doing. So, I have to close the game, without getting the reward for finishing the game. So, I CAN’T PLAY THE GAME. I’ll have to wait until this ad stops playing. Oh well.