App Profile: Escalators

PickAny21

Rating: 4/5

Downloaded this after seeing and playing an ad. Thought it looked satisfying. (It is!) The game is exactly like what you see- send a group of people through areas that multiply or divide their numbers and try to get as many as you can to put in a boat at the end of the level. Simple, but watching the characters multiply is fun to look at. There’s also some “goals” to work towards: you earn coins (used to buy different looking people) and there is even a town you build by earning hammers. My only complaint is the amount of ads. There is almost always an ad after a level and the levels are not to long. It gets annoying! (I know it needs ads though- maybe an ad every other level or two)

Eagelgirl

Rating: 3/5

1) Ads usually pop up before or after game play, which are tolerable, HOWEVER Escalators did not do this. Their free version has ads while you’re playing resulting in loss of points & is very frustrating. It’s marketing is towards driving you to buy the game without ads. 2) Aside from that, the game has multiple game play errors (clearly wasn’t tested enough). Particularly in the moving escalator round, you typically are forced to re-start the round & is just annoying bugs like these weren’t fixed when the escalators don’t show up to allow you to move or a person is flowing on the side & can no longer move. 3) Along with this, I’ve found I can’t play competitively without my phone completely crashing out of the app due to the amount of data needed to be computed when too many players are accumulating (potentially damaging hardware long term). This is a particular drawback when playing in the Fight round, where it is again, lightly to crash out of the app. My phone (iPhone SE) isn’t the problem. The programmer should know the limitations of their main consumer’s device, as opposed to their processor on their PC development tools. I like the game, due to its premise. But it is ridiculously easy & wish it was slightly harder to play. (Ex: Endless Version where you are more likely to die, timed variant get to the end quicker for more bonus points, highest score on single round competing against yourself)

JMarie033

Rating: 3/5

I’ve been playing this for a few days now and I might say it’s slightly addicting. However, I can’t get over the glitches. I’ve taken screenshots because I feel as though they could be helpful for the developers. If I get too many people the game ,at the end with the boats, will freeze and throw the people in the air Then when I tap to send them forward they die because they are jumping way over the boats. Also it has more recently been freezing when I send people forward on the escalators. When the lag catches up it sends a ton of people forward and then a group of them gets stuck beyond the number flags and they just spin in a circle. I can’t go beyond it because even though I have no more people on the elevator it’s registering that I do because the people are spinning before the other elevator. My only other complaint is that there are ads that will cut me off in the middle of me playing and then I have another immediately after I’m done playing. I know ads are how it stays free however it would be nice to not have one about every 15-25 seconds. Perhaps offer an ad free version.