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CloClamSadly

Rating: 5/5

I love merging games. I’ve only been playing this game for a few days, but I find it really simple and fun. If you’re looking for a time killer this definitely is recommended. There really isn’t any reason to spend money on it other than for the ad remover which is only $3. I usually don’t buy the ad removers unless I have been playing the game for a long time, but I got it on the first day this time because I knew I’d play for a while and there are a lot of ads. I only have one complaint for the game though: when I accidentally tap the ad chest where you get stuff, it says I have no connection. I’m connected to the wifi and it works for everything else so I’m not sure why this happens. I don’t watch the ads for the chests anyways, but if this is happening to anyone else it might be a problem.

engie_VA

Rating: 2/5

It’s a solid game as far as mergers go, and the visuals are nice. The lack of a time based or waiting mechanic is awesome too! The only big issue I have is the constant pages showing up trying to get me to watch ads, even after paying to get the normal ads removed. Every time you level up a building, ad. Randomly after tapping something, ad. There’s chests that spawn from crates that take up space and you have to watch an ad to turn into something useful or wait like 2 minutes to despawn. Almost every time there isn’t one already in your crate bar a purple crate that takes an ad to remove shows up and brings you down to 5 usable slots. At this point I just sorta think of myself having 5 slots instead of 6 because of that crate being there constantly. There should be an option to get rid of those, especially for people who paid to get rid of ads. Edit: originally a 4 star review, dropped to 2 after I started getting banner ads even after paying to remove ads. The restore purchases button didnt get rid of them either. Also when you merge things up you sometimes will have YET ANOTHER thing clogging your space spawn that takes ANOTHER ad to remove.

NPointer

Rating: 2/5

A lot of things work well - it’s a straightforward merge game that avoids some of the annoying tendencies of similar games in a way that puts it head and shoulders above them. Doesn’t get caught up with annoying “story” nonsense or pointless mini games. Smooth performance with level breaks that do a good job of appropriately punctuating the monotony. The kind of game you could happily play forever. Where it fails, as with so many of Popcore’s games, is ad frequency. I respect the need for devs to put ads in games so they can develop and maintain their content, I do, but the ad breaks are so frequent that you spend more time watching the screen than you do playing the actual game. Even with the ad-free purchase (attractively priced, don’t get me wrong) they expend so much effort trying to force you into the “optional” ads with pop-up pages and timed tile-blockers that the frustration soon overwhelms the enjoyment. Given the current state of mobile gaming, it’s not exactly surprising that this game ends up too annoying to be worth it, I guess I just wish the developers had more professional pride in their product.