Blockudoku - Block Puzzle Game

I've been playing Blockudoku (amongst other games by the same developer, but this one has been my favorite) for a few years now. I love puzzle games and I love that this one is so simple, I have ADHD and it helps keep me focused when need to listen to something. In a somewhat recent update (within the last few months) they started adding stuff to the daily puzzles. Now instead of reaching the target score, you have to do stuff like clear all the bubbles, or the flowers, or collect x amount of colored shapes. I don't like it as much now. I expected it to just be part of a spring holiday event, but it's still here. I played all of the daily puzzles for the last 2+ years until they started adding this. I haven't played in over 2 months now. I understand why some users would like the change, but I do not. I just want to get to a simple target score. Some of those were difficult enough as is, without the use of extra objectives, and I loved it. I miss it very much. I find the endless mode too boring for my ADHD, but the bubbles and stuff are too much. To the devs: Maybe you could keep these as part of the seasonal sets of challenges (like right now there's one up for Mother's day). You could swap the bubbles and bushes out with stuff depending on what season or holiday it is. Change it to snowballs for winter or something. That way players still get new stuff added regularly, and simple players like me can still enjoy a new daily challenge.

Look I highly enjoy this game. As a disabled combat veteran it helps me to focus on something other than the pain and the PTSD from combat. I even paid to remove the ads it was so good. However, recently they added this one feature that has started to make me not want to come back as often, and I’m assuming it’s a bandwagon thing but it’s one of those “let me show you a percentage of people who only made it passed this puzzle cause they are better than you are” sort of thing at the beginning of each puzzle, even when you have to restart the puzzle. This function…. And this function alone…. drives my anger scale up and over the boiling point beyond reason and I hate being compared to others. Especially when it comes to my intelligence. So as a paid customer and a long time fan of the game, I’m not asking you get rid of the feature, I’m sure there is some Masochist out there who enjoys the challenge but could you add in a setting under the cog wheel for the rest of us who don’t want to see that garbage? Even if it’s just for paid customers like myself? It’s just a small feature. A small on/off switch. Nothing more. Please and thank you!

Oh how I hate the ads, but the business model of subjecting you to torture until you relent did work on me, so I guess it’s my own fault. I’d rather pay the few bucks up front, but we’ll never know if I would have, will we. Hoping that my purchase extends to both mobile devices, or I might have to demote my rating, but assuming it does, I adore the game for its testing of your logical acuity while keeping an overall sense that you’re subject to the random forces that could run you over in the street like a dog if you ever drop your guard — and even if you never do. I guess my mixed feelings about the inevitability of doom and despair in life are enough to hedge the one star. Sometimes in life and gaming, it’s good to indulge in the illusory fantasy that you can survive longer and succeed with more certainty if only you can hone your abilities and apply more diligence to the matters at hand, and it’s such a seductive notion that it’s easy to lose sight of the shadow of death that awaits around the next corner, or maybe the one after that. The best one can do is to become acquainted with principles of logic and probability, and to learn to be comfortable with the fact that anything that involves the fickle cruelty inherent in matters of chance will, by those very rules that govern such things, occasionally open up a steaming can of unhappy circumstance that, in life, at least, is as inevitable as the rising sun. Well done, developers.