Deceiving

I’ve played a lot of hex apps. Despite the huge amount of ads on this one, it has the most satisfying game play. The sound when they merge, challenging enough, creative challenges and new twists. What I really dislike is that the “people” you are challenging against are most definitely fake. MAYBE the leader boards are real and POSSIBLY the races to certain levels, but the leagues, and treasure quests are not real players. Once you’ve won a certain amount of levels in a league, the algorithm keeps the “second place person” just 2 behind you no matter how frequently you play… ugh… and the treasure quest…. There’s no way it can be real with the different rates people play at. Competing against other real players is really motivating and it’s another tool they use to keep you motivated to keep playing. I like that type of thing.. BUT.. It just really rubs me the wrong way when they are deceptive about them being real people. I would rather compete against their algorithm knowing they are fake if they were honest about it. Just really creepy tactic IMO that makes me have a bad feeling toward the creators. I want to stay and play as I like how they’ve mad it very satisfying in other ways, but the deception just puts me in a bad mood every time I open it now. 😒

Fun but way too many ads

I downloaded this game because I liked the preview. But let me tell you while it is addicting. It’s not fun when all there is is ads. First let me tell you they give you the option of having 30 days no ads. If I’m gonna pay $10 I expect to have zero ads not endgame ads or banner ads, but no ads. you can be in the middle of gameplay and an ad will pop up. If you have more than three hours of free lives, you get an ad at the end of every game regardless of you win or lose therefore, you don’t get your free time. If you’re lucky enough to win the tournament you are given approximately four hours of free unlimited lives after the ads you maybe get two hours and 15 minutes. Save your coin don’t purchase anything and if you are going to purchase coins, use it for the power ups that is all it’s worth. don’t get extended lives because ads eat up everything. The game would be better if you actually gave the time that you earned unlimited, but they don’t do that so in a way it’s very deceptive. but on a sidenote, if you have less than 10 minutes, you don’t get very many ads. but mind you if you get 15 minutes free unlimited after watching an ad. You don’t really get 15 minutes. You get maybe seven because there’s ads. I truly don’t recommend this game unless you want to sit and waste time watching ads.

Addictive but Annoying Honey and Ads

I have been playing this game off an on now for a few years. It’s addictive and lots of fun, I’m at level 364. However, the ads are very annoying, with half of them you can’t skip. It used to be only when a game ended or was beginning, but now it’s ALL THE TIME. Beginning of the game AD, end of a game AD, hit the home button AD, sometimes even in the middle of playing AD. I get that free games need ads to make money, but it ruins a lot of the game experience if I’m constantly watching the exact same add for the 5th time in 15 minutes. Additionally, the new challenge spots with honey pots if awful. You have to empty the pots and they splash and stick fast the surrounding stacks you had so they can’t be joined. In order to pass any of the recent levels, I’ve spent over 300 coins. That is ridiculous. I really used to love the game when it was simply stacking and sorting until you hit the correct number, or stacked enough to empty the balls in the ball pit, but the honey makes the game 1 out of 5 stars. PLEASE FIX THIS, I really liked this game.

THIS GAME CHEATS!!!

Like others I have seen, I too paid for no ads but I got that refunded from Apple bc I was still watching 3-6 ads per game! Now, I found out I am not playing other players, I am playing a computer! I’m just wondering why when I play in a league, the other 2 players in the top 3 stay exactly 2 games behind me no matter when I play. I just took a pic of the Bronze League where I battled the same 2 players in your illustration-Leonardo and Legendary!!! I thought it was a mistake bc everytime I won a game, they were BOTH always exactly 2 games behind me, no matter the time of day, they were always 2 games behind up until a certain level when I finally pulled ahead. I felt and still feel like Leonardo and Legendary were fixed by the game and developer to keep me playing the game! It’s also odd that even though they ranked 2nd and 3rd consecutively behind me, neither moved up to the Diamond League!!!! I am now battling 2 other “phantom” players for 1st place and they also remain exactly 2 games behind me in 2nd and 3rd place!!!! With every win, they also win and I am ALWAYS 2 games ahead of 2nd place and 4 games ahead of 3rd place! THIS GAME IS FIXED AND THAT IS UNFAIR!!!! I liked this game but that was when I believed it was fair!!!!! Now, I can’t trust this game when I know I am not playing against real people but against a computer likely set by the developers and I call FOUL PLAY!

Color differentiation hard to tell because graphics have no contrasting in colors.

The color separation and graphics have little to be desire. It is hard to tell what colors are in the stack as you move them around. There are times with white right next to yellow or blue right next to green Or any other colors that are close blend together in a stack. I play this game on the phone with a rather large screen and it’s still hard to tell. When you think there’s one color in the stack and it turns out there’s several, then it messes up your whole strategy. They need to have better contrasting colors so you can tell what’s in the stack. The viewing angle and the graphics are Poor and then differentiation is hard to determine as you play. Very misleading and it’s hard to set up your strategy when a surprise color comes up that’s not what you thought it was. They really need better contrast colors… or the ability too adjust to a higher quality graphics. A sharper image! I found the experience lackluster and frustrating. It could be an enjoyable game, but it’s flawed. I also determined that the stacks don’t jump consistently the same way by size or by number of chips in the stack. This game is rigged. I’ve deleted the game from my lineup.

Fun but as always ads and money…

This game can be really fun and addicting. It’s he bright colors and you build little areas from around the world. However, I paid to remove ads and of course they still find a way to choice them in your face. The ad remover that costs money only removes ads in between levels. Yet when u play levels you are almost always forced to need the extra slots that require watching ads. Almost everything you want in this game is involves you watching ads or paying for bonuses. You can collect some bonuses while competing in some side games but they never last. Then they just increased the prices for the bonuses as well. They used to 50 coins for a swap hand, it is now 100 coins. Then the refresh button, that refreshes the que of tiles u need, used to be only 10 coins now it’s 30! Also the ads are terrible. Always the royal king game and the worst ones are the gossip harbor ones. I hate watching women with babies in the cold suffering and ask you for help. I always have to just turn my phone away while the ads playing. It’s sad cause I really love this game. I have already played over 2500 levels. Now I’m not so sure I can play as much.

If you like to waste money, this game is for you.

This is a hodgepodge of games and collecting tasks that is really just an excuse to waste your time and money. The premise is to solve various puzzle like challenges using the hexagonal tiles, by which you compete with others to get enough stars to complete various small dioramas. However, the payout on stars is SO FEEBLE that you then have to engage in any number of secondary games which you have no control over, or rather, the only control you have is to complete more hexagonal games so your race car can drive faster. What happens if you win the race car game tied to the hexagonal tile game? Another feeble payout!!! All of this ultimately is designed for you to spend actual money buying more resources in the attempt to win more hexagonal puzzle games and win a contest. Except I think the winners of the contests are all bots, or they have unlimited cash…or both. Don’t get me wrong, I know that many games feature in app purchases, but most of these games have SOMETHING GOING FOR THEM in terms of a plot, or interesting gameplay, or the opportunity to make a decent run at winning. This game has NOTHING except tedium. I’m finishing the last round I’m on, then deleting the app. My advice, do not download. Life is short and the game is long and wrong.

Used to be better: power up costs tripled, earnings stayed the same

When I first downloaded this game, I only watched ads if I wanted to earn extra slots on the board or double earnings. Now there are ads ALL the time and the cost of power ups tripled and the coin earning per level is still the same. The power up earnings for the side quests hasn’t gone up either. This makes it almost impossible to buy the power ups needed to complete certain levels. I also feel like the levels are now almost impossible to win without power ups or extra slots. The levels used to be winnable based on strategy but there have been a lot of times where I need one of six colors to win and I will get 3 of the same color that is the only one not on the board back to back to back. The “switch out” power up was 10 coins before and now costs 30 coins so I wasted nearly 100 coins to get dealt the same one color over again. Game is forcing you to watch ads, lowering the value of coins while simultaneously increasing the cost of power ups, and changing the algorithm to make it nearly impossible to win without power ups making strategy obsolete. If there are no fixes to this, I will delete it soon.

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