Drop Away: Color Puzzle

I find the game fun, challenging and a good concept, however I ended up deleting it after spending much to keep it going. It’s absolutely not balanced unless your an AI or have a lot of money to spend. I do NOT RECOMMEND this game. I not only purchased the game but spent money on the pass as well as other bundles. There are gotcha, moves as well for example placing the continue button for the cost of your money in the same area as your game which causes you to spend coins unintentionally. That’s extremely shady! It happened multiple times and that is when I deleted it although not the only reason. I’ve been a gamer for many years and this is one of the worst but clever tactics I’ve seen. I had 3000 coins left but still don’t care. Done and done.

I started playing this game while they were apparently in the middle of revamping it to screw people into the micro transactions just to be able to play. First it didn’t let you bypass the ads, which was annoying enough, but when they finally did fix the option to remove ads (paid feature), the button didn’t work for several days. Once I was finally able to get past that, it was fun for all of about 2 days before I noticed the timer on the levels kept getting shorter and shorter. Now it’s nearly impossible to win a level in the time limit (30 seconds, really?!?!), so you blow through your lives. The only viable option is to extend your time by a few seconds, which costs 900 coins for the first extension on each level and just goes up each subsequent extension, however you only get back 40 per level. To make matters worse, the cost to buy coins is insane… $2 for 1000 coins is the smallest package available, which will buy you 15 seconds on a single level. My advice… steer well clear of this game, it’s total scam. I’m left getting screwed out of my $10 to remove ads, and the game is still unplayable unless you want to fork over tons of cash.

The game idea and graphics are great. Puzzle itself are super fun it’s sometimes hard to imagine so many steps are required! However the monetization scheme is just horrendous. Extremely unforgiving timers making people feel like paying ransom. Paying got u 20 seconds but you will spent like 5 seconds to get your brain back where you are. The widget clock freezer only freezes for 5 seconds. When I go click it and back to where I was, half the time is already lost. I would be surprised if people are paying for this. I dunno if it can be fixed but here are my 2c: When using the coin, probably better to start count down only when people make a move. Same for the freezer. The fun of the game is not only in finishing the puzzle but also in the process of solving it. Removing ads is also way too expensive. Would work much better if it’s just 1.99 or so and for a month. Can’t imagine people want to buy out the ads forever if the game is consistently asking them to quit. The bag system I think is a good idea, but the shrinking gun is probably too strong. Sometimes it trivializes a puzzle. I dunno, sometimes I feel I am in this game for the challenge, but the game either made the challenge too harsh requiring me to try many times and memorize the steps in order to overcome the harsh timer, or too trivial that yes I get the good feeling of completing levels and levels, but really not nearly as much of a satisfaction.