Wood Away

The gameplay is addictive, and I’m not entirely against the timer. But the timer BREAKS the experience entirely. “Hard” levels are only so because the time limit is inhumanely low. Couple the weak payouts of 20 coins per level completion (40 if you choose to watch ads) with needing to spend 450 coins to continue a level when, not if, you fail a level really diminishes the urge to keep playing. I’ve kept an eye on reviews over the last year or so with the devs saying they’d look into a “no timer” option. Nothing. I’ve made it through over 3,700 levels and said levels are blatant repeats. No update to my knowledge has added ONE new unique level. Lack of meaningful updates, failed promises, boringly repetitive levels, timers requiring AI-levels of dexterity and speed, and predatory coin payouts forcing you to pay money to advance just a trickle has made this bar none one of the worst apps I’ve sunk a significant amount of time into. Taking note of your developer name, and will never download an app by this group again.

The concept of moving color blocks around until you can yeet them off a board is definitely a tried and true fun pastime. The user interface is easy and the rules are simple. This game is great because even though there are possible in-game purchases (which I don’t want to do ever), they are not necessary to advance levels. When you come to a difficult level, to get tools to help pass the level the game allows you to watch a _short_ advertisement to get a reasonable amount of coins to buy a tool—no real cash is necessary! So much better than some other games out there. Thank you creators!

I downloaded this puzzle because another popular similar one was driving me mad with how little time it gave. This one has a timer but is generally more generous with time and has more “easy” puzzles in between to relax you. That being said it should ABSOLUTELY have an option to play without a timer. Devs, please work on that. Additionally, and by far more importantly, they need to stop repeating levels. I’m on level 341 and have repeated many levels (not that I am playing them again but let’s say I play level 25 (only hypothetical for illustrative purposes). That same level may be the one given at 211. In fact, some levels have repeated 3 or 4 times. I mean if that’s not annoying and lazy I’m not sure what is. Overall it’s a fantastic and fun game (not sure where people are getting that levels are impossible especially without the help options because that hasn’t been the case for me) but those two issues are in need of fixing. If those can be taken care of, you’ll get MANY more five star ratings, I suspect.