3D Bolt Master™: Screw Master®

Downloaded the app after seeing an ad where it was said you could play the game with no data. I like small mindless games for car rides but so many of them block you from playing without internet via either wifi or data and I have no want to waste my data on these games for ads. At first I was happy to find I really could play it. It was an enjoyable game and not too terribly easy nor too terribly hard. Not using data simply meant I could watch ads to get benefits and that led to some levels taking a few tries but they were bearable nonetheless. However, suddenly after 80 levels it is requiring internet just to play a level. I’m disappointed and annoyed. This app is not worth data consumption whatsoever and I’m not interested in these types of apps otherwise. Plus, this trend of forcing ads absolutely everywhere is exhausting. I understand devs wanting to be paid, but when there’s constant ads with almost being popup ones that you have to watch and not just being in the bottom is annoying and not user friendly at all. Noninvasive ads in games make me more inclined to play an app more and I’ve even paid for no ads in apps because devs that aren’t over the top with their ads I want to support. I’ll be deleting this app as at this point the ad I downloaded it because of has become a lie. Truly disappointing.

This was the first of these games I tried. I played several levels at a sitting. Then yesterday it seemed like I was getting repeats so I deleted it and started trying other similar games. I deleted them almost as soon as I started playing them. Too many ads and other things I just didn’t like. You failed. Want to try again? No, I just want to keep playing! Then my next issue was trying to find this one again. More trial and error. Finally I found it. I guess I’ll just keep repeating and hoping more levels are created.

EDIT: I got rid of the game at level 379. By that point, on every single game they give an item where there is literally no strategy possible. You just have to click any color screw that matches what you need. And items don’t fall away! It drove me crazy! I could never get to new screws since items wouldn’t fall away to reveal screws underneath. I sometimes really like this game. I like it when it comes down to strategy and thinking ahead. I get really frustrated with it when it comes down to simply luck, when removing screws doesn’t remove pieces of the item, when the screws you need are buried beneath so many other hidden screws that there is no way to win without watching many, many ads or paying. I really hate it when there are only 2 screws visible and 60% of the puzzle left to solve with no place left to put the wrong color screws, which has happened. Making puzzles impossible to beat just takes all the fun out of the game. I guess I am supposed to try the same level over and over and over like in the ads, but I don’t have the personality to find that enjoyable.