Yarn Fever! Unravel Puzzle

I downloaded a few games when trying to pull back from social media. I wanted to find something relaxing but fun. Yarn Fever was definitely that… until you have done about 30 games. Then, you need to start using their pay-based tools to get through rounds. In the beginning, the tools are free or earned. So, you’ll have some to pull from and won’t feel the pressure but once you get used to using them the freebies or earned items run out and you need to buy some to make it through the hard rounds. I hate games that force you to level up just to play. I considered it was just me but my entire family have tried to pass one round a least a dozen times without having to use a tool. It’s impossible. They force it on you. If you just want a simple game to relax and have fun with, unfortunately, skip this one unless you don’t mind pumping money into the game just to play. I like it this game a lot, but not enough to spend money just to sort digital yarn.

I want to start off by saying this game is actually one of the best games I’ve played in a while. To some it might be boring but for me, it’s actually great at keeping my attention these days.. However, this game is CONSTANTLY freezing even after it’s been “updated for performance”. Another issue is, the SHEIN ads that randomly pop up during the game. If I wanted to shop on SHEIN, I wouldn’t need their ad to come up in the middle of a game to get me to do so and because of that happening, I actually deleted SHEIN’s app off of my phone. If this app doesn’t fix its issues, regardless of how great of a game it is, I will be deleting it as well. It’s 2025, if an ad has to be prioritized over the consumer’s experience then the company needs to reevaluate who its main focus is cause it’s clearly not the consumer.

I love this game! It seems they have listened to previous reviews and tried fixing the issues. There is an add after each level is complete but can skip after a few seconds. The glitching still happens occasionally but I haven’t had it click randomly as others have stated. One thing I don’t understand is that you have spare spots for yarn but once you fill the last spot you automatically lose. I don’t understand why it allows you 5 spots but once you use the last one you lose. It would make more sense to me if you can utilize the last spot and play until no other moves are available. (For example if you need a yellow but it’s covered by red and you put red in the last spare spot you automatically lose instead of being able to play the yellow and continue the game) I hope my explanation makes sense. I still love the game but that gets annoying.

I think it’s really stupid to only allow people to be able to watch 5 free ads per day to get rewards, especially when you have to use them to get through all the hard levels and then it’s like you can’t play the game anymore until the next day. Also, I have another problem with this game that I want to mention. So I like to listen to podcasts while I play mobile games, and the ads that are unmutable ruin it. But what I usually do when this happens on other apps is I’ll close the app and start again so maybe I’ll get another ad that can be muted. But apparently when you do that on this app, you lose a life and when you lose (I think five?) lives you can’t play anymore for a certain amount of time. Between that and the issue I mentioned above, it feels like the developers don’t even want you to play their game which I won’t anymore because I’ve tried out other yarn unravel-type games, and because of the those major issues this is the most poorly designed app of this type that I have ever tried by far. Basically this app is hot garbage and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. I’ll uninstall and stop playing like y’all apparently want me to lol.