Cut the Rope Reviews

by RMW1987

This game has the absolute worst ads I’ve ever seen in an app, they are constant and stay on the screen forever and extremely difficult to exit out of even after the time runs out!! Naturally, plenty of kids are playing this game. My son LOVES this game, but I deleted it off of the iPad because the ads are so bad they cause a meltdown every time he tries to play. Not only that, but some of the ads are totally inappropriate for children! No filter at all on the content of the ads. So you might think, well then pay for the ad free subscription? Well, yes it has to be a subscription and not a one time payment. I’d be happy to pay a couple bucks or heck even $10 once to get rid of the ads on this game. But no, the only options are weekly or monthly ($5) subscriptions, or $30 for 6 months. Seriously? What in the world makes these people think a simplistic little game app is worth that much? I pay less for monthly streaming services. That’s outrageous compared to normal prices to get rid of ads on other apps in CuttheRope Store. Could’ve been such a great game, it’s just a shame.

by Alexcneal

As with many others reviewing this game, I too had the pleasure of enjoying Cut The Rope back in the day, before the greed of the higher ups and marketing decided that their game (loved by thousands) should be completely overrun by advertisements from others, and for their own products (this particular one is understandable). *But* The monthly “ad-free” option is absolutely unacceptable. The amount of money they receive from a *subscription* to remove advertisements instead of allowing their customers to just plain enjoy their game is insane. This game was a masterpiece, and still can be if they don’t completely destroy it by continuing to force their fan base to pay to play. You may as well start setting a price on CuttheRope , as any attempt to play the actual game is nearly impossible, especially the first 5 levels where if you’re not new (like me) you can breeze through them fairly quickly. I experienced 6 different advertisements in the first 5 minutes of playing. It was a game I enjoyed in the beginning and was satisfied at the end. This experience has me deciding I’m better off keeping that early memory, and finding something else to play.

by Goaskjeevesig?

Like a lot of the other reviews I’ve seen, I also played this game years back and loved it, so I thought it would be worth getting again. The ads, however, are ridiculous. I have nothing against the creators making money from their app, but these ads are overboard. Any time you pick a level, try to replay a level, fail, etc., an ad pops up. You wait for the X to show up to close it, and ANOTHER ad follows it.

Now like many other apps like this, I assumed there was a full/ad-free version I could buy, but nope. Instead, they have a $10 a month subscription (more than I am paying for most of my streaming services). This is unreal, I’ve never heard of a game this small trying to get that much money consistently from people who just want to play the game.

All things considered, I really tried to dive back in and play a few levels, but I can’t take the ads, so within a day of downloading this, I’ve deleted it and don’t expect to return. Good luck devs, but I don’t expect this frankly insulting idea to really work out for you.

by Life 360 Ruins Lives!

I used to play this game as a kid, I redownloaded it to see what it was like now. It’s sad that this game was killed by ads. 80% of the levels you complete are followed with ads. Restarting the game to skip the ads isn’t an option either because a “VIP” membership for 10$ monthly is shoved down your throat every time you start up the game. For one this game is marketed towards young children how can’t fully grasp the concept of micro-transactions, and secondly is that its TEN DOLLARS MONTHLY, that’s as much as any streaming service out now. The developers will never listen because this game has become their cash cow. Please fix your game. It’s sad that such a memorable game for so many children years ago has turned into this mess. If I had given this a rating years ago it would’ve been 5 stars, now its 1 star for everything I’ve mention in the previous. (Wish I could give it 0 stars). You’ve killed your game and player base because you got greedy. While this game will go down in history as one of the best phone games ever to come out, many who redownloaded it, like myself, will get to see the mess you turned it into. It’s quite sad that such a great thing has turned into a pile of waste that you force feed advertisements into.

by Airimder

CuttheRope is unusable in its current state. Despite this being a 14 year old game, whoever owns it now wants $9.99 every single month for the privilege of playing through this dusty old game. Because without that subscription, the game is unplayable. Like most free apps, this game is ridden with ads like fleas on a dog, but in addition to that, the game is filled with obtrusive pop-ups begging you take surveys, advertising pointless minigames, and repeatedly asking you to enable notifications, making even the ad-free experience utterly unacceptable and certainly unenjoyable.
The laundry list of data collection (for which there is no option to opt out), including the maximum amount of personal data that it is POSSIBLE to collect via an iOS app, confirms to me that this game’s app store page has been taken over by a piece of malware. Unusable as entertainment and doubtlessly selling every piece of information about each of its users for pennies each.
Whoever owns CuttheRope and has implemented these exploitative practices is shamelessly exploiting children and those seeking nostalgia and should be ashamed of themselves. I support developers being fairly compensated for their work, of course, but despicable practices like these to wring every last cent out of a 15-year old game is disgusting.

by Spencer Garlick

Buyer beware! Feeling deceived!

Yeah it’s fun… but I am extremely disappointed! I purchased several cut the ropes games a few years ago, played them and them moved on. Now it’s been a couple years, and CuttheRope changed from one time purchase to a monthly subscription! Total bait and switch! When I originally purchased them, they were not month to month. I even paid to get rid of ads for life. I redownloaded 2 of the games to see if it didn’t recognize my game-center or Apple ID but no change. I will not recommend this product or any apps from this developer (don’t follow thru with their side of the terms, or decided my rights are not good enough to abide by. I just wanted to play a nice thought provoking game)

Other apps at least will stop supporting and leave players like me to play on older devices, switching to a subscription base after having a one-time-purchase model is really underhanded and I now feel ripped off. I’m not sure if I can recommend Zepto games anymore.

by Batkiller

Why is everything being forced into a subscription model? $10 a month is about what most streaming services charge, but in this case, all you get is the privilege of playing a single iOS game uninterrupted by ads. There's no option to simply buy the game--it's either agree to hemorrhage $10 every month, or suffer through these ads.

And let's talk about the ads. I fully support an ad-based model for a free game, and I wouldn't care if it were just banners that constantly ran at the top or bottom of the screen, or an occasional pop-up. That's not what we're dealing with here. These are full-screen videos that are at least 45-60s long that can't be skipped, and they run so frequently that you might spend more time watching them than playing the game. It's faster and far less irritating to simply force-quit and relaunch CuttheRope so you don't have to suffer through another one.

Why does all this matter? Because beneath all these terrible publishing and marketing decisions is a fantastic, polished, and super fun game. I feel terrible trashing this game for things that have nothing to do with the game itself, but the free version is essentially unplayable this way, and $10 a month is outrageous. Do you think playing Cut the Rope ad-free should cost the same as an Apple Music subscription? Yeah, I don't either.

by Simarien

Wow! You really changed this nice little app a lot.. i use to love this game.. but the new updates has just been hijacked with ads.. i mean I appreciate your intent to get us to buy stuff so you get commissions.. but you really went all the way down to abuse the trade off.. so much so that whole experience suffered big time.. i have done only 3 levels and I already had to forcefully watch at least 20+ ads and that after i closed a lot as well. And then what is this subscription model about ?? Seriously? Why is everyone is trying to tap into it.. even when it just doesn’t make any sense.. i don’t want million features every month. I just want a simple game. Anyway, since i like CuttheRope , i wanted to still check your subscription out.. but your ads keep coming in the way of that too. 20mins in and I still don’t know how am I suppose to buy that subscription and what am I getting from it ? This is classic case of too much greed by the developers. Unfortunately you at least lost 3-4 users in our home. I don’t think you would care but that’s ok, all the best.

by LizardLovesEpisode

I can’t even begin to explain the amount of ads in this game. I get one after almost every level. That’s not the problem though. Every time I open CuttheRope it floods me with ads. I open it and get the subscription pop-up (if I didn’t want it before I don’t now, so don’t keep pushing it), then when I close out of that I get a self-promoting “OmNom Run” ad. You might be saying, “Don’t the ads let you close out of them early?” Well, they used to. Now, I have to sit through the ad unless I want it to kick me out of the game and delete half of the levels I *just* completed. Right now the ad isn’t even letting me close out at the end, so I can’t even get in the game. If I make it past that ad, I can click play, and then I get an ad. Then after the ad, I’ll get in my level, and mess up, so I’ll click the restart button, and it gives me an ad. After that ad I’ll finish the level and go on to the next level. OmNom Run ad, ok, that’s fine. Well no it’s not, because I’ll close out of that ad and be kicked out of the game. Then I get back in and all of the SUPER difficult levels I *just* completed are now gone, and I have to redo them. I don’t want to complain just to complain, I just want this bug to be fixed, because it’s driving me insane.

by Somechickwithaphone

It’s a fun game, one I loved playing as a kid and downloaded again for nostalgia. Now, there are ads. I understand including advertisements to a degree. In order to run a free game, you need ad revenue to keep going. However, the problem is the length of the ads, frequency, and mechanics of it. The ads are around 30 second long and play every two attempts at a level. Every attempt is usually only a few seconds long. So you’re watching more ads than playing a game.

The biggest problem and the one that is the most inexcusable and also fixable is that many levels have timed stars meaning you only have a few seconds before that star disappears. The problem is that, if you restart a level and an ad plays, the level is still live while the ad is going, meaning that by the time the ad is over, the timed stars are gone and you have to restart again in order to try to get them. This means that, in levels with timed stars, you get one play that lasts 5 seconds per 30 second ad. The level SHOULD NOT be playing in the background while the advertisement plays. It’s RIDICULOUS. It’s easily fixable to just auto-trigger the pause if an ad plays. There’s no excuse to not fix it.

by Ebb_0

I really love this game, and I used to play it all the time when I was younger on my iPod touch. I now redownloaded it, super excited to revisit it, and it’s still as fun as I remember, except every two levels or every time I restart, there’s an ad. Is this many ads really necessary? I know the developers and such need support and money, but the sheer amount of ads really detracts from the game for me. I looked to see if I could remove ads and there was a 10$ per month membership offer, which I don’t think is a great price for just a game of this caliber, especially for one that’s been around for so long, it seems really expensive. Most ad removals on games are like 2-5$ maybe, but this is a subscription fee?? 1,200$ a year is a lot, and even so I don’t think a lot of people would be willing to subscribe to a game in this way. I don’t want to leave a bad review because the levels are really creative and fun, but i feel disappointed about how many ads there are.

by ALVA84

TL;DR 2 stars cause the game is still sort of good but removed 3 stars because of the subscription and the bombardment of ads.

Ok I’m sorry but when I used to be younger I played this game so much. So one day I decided to get it again after years of not touching it and omg there are so many ads. You might be like “tHeN wHy DoNt yOu gEt ThE sUbScRiPtiON?” Well you see I’m 13 tryna play a game that I played when I was 5-7 and I obviously don’t have the money to pay 10$ a month and obviously my mom and dad are not gonna be ok with that. Especially in the time of COVID were money is kind of tight due to my dad being payed half of what he’s supposed too and my mom not having a job. So if y’all tryna feel the nostalgia of this game then you won’t feel it due to the ads ruining the whole feeling. I might have been ok with the ads if there weren’t so many also. After dying twice or finish 2 levels you’ll be given an ad. Like dude sometimes I get the levels finished faster then the ads themselves smh. It’s like I’m trying to have fun but I can’t if I can’t even play the game without being bombarded with a load of ads. Don’t buy this game if your trying to feel the “nostalgia” cause you won’t feel it.

by Drakovitch

I remember when this game came out back in roughly 2012. It was pretty fun. So, after about a decade and a half I redownloaded it to play and enjoy it once more. However, it seems the creators got a little money hungr. So there are ads every game retry and moving to the next level. When the game was first released I didn’t have a single ad. Let alone these “super powers” that you’d have to buy if you want more then what’s originally given. No, with the ads, I’m well aware that you can pay money to remove them, but, why the heck would I want to pay money to remove something they added in to more more money when they didn’t used to have them to begin with when they first created the game? Simply put, I’ll never give them the satisfaction of paying them money for something they decided to put into the game to make more money. It’ll never happen, but if they remove all the extra stuff like ads and superpower and make it they way it was originally when it was released I’d give it 5 stars.

by ,wkajw

First let me say cut the rope, this game is great for entertaining kids 7-13. Much to my dismay, this game has an end. This game is NOT Informative. In places. In this game you cut different ropes at different times to give a monster a cupcake. But what you need to know……….this game, sometimes,….has inappropriate ads. Once I was expecting the game and a ad came for a game where you clean windows! And when you did there was a naked woman! Facing away from you! Now, ads are expected. But thankfully they (almost) never come up. But that is not the game’s fault, just never let your child watch the ads. It is a huge risk. Ether you get this or not. Make your choice whilst I tell you more. This game has different levels and features. You chose a box to do it in. By playing more you can unlock new boxes. Now if your a kid reading this review don’t even think about getting the game until you have shown a parent or guardian this review, AND they have said you can download it. Remember to stay safe online. Thank you for reading this review.

by Kmn#🌪

I’ve been playing this game since I was a child, and I just re-downloaded it a few days ago. I was excited for the game to bring me back and to play it like I used to, and it was doing good for the first couple minutes of playing. I was excited to see the new candies, and also happy that the levels hadn’t changed much but then after playing for a while, I noticed the same king of thieves ads kept popping up after every single level. There was no way to skip the and the ad is very long. Along with the annoying ad, when the ad is over, it makes me replay the level I had just finished. Then I finally finished the level again and it lets me skip forward, but then I have to watch another ad just to play the next level. It’s very annoying and generally takes away from the fun of playing that game. I know y’all have to have the ad on there to support King of thieves, but it can be annoying if it’s replayed too much. otherwise, I love the game. It’s super fun and it would make me so happy if you would just narrow down the number of ads between each level.

by IrishAmerican69

This is definitely a classic iPhone game. I remember having this back on my ipod touch when I was a kid and enjoyed every second of it, but since re-downloading it years later I find myself extremely disappointed in some of the companies decisions.

1.) My major complaint is ads after every 3-5 tries. The game was free and didn’t have this back when it came out, and I don’t know how they can even justify it besides rampant greed. IF you had to maybe pay a couple of dollars nowadays to buy the game since they have added tons of new features and levels. I could totally understand that, and would happily buy the game. Yet, they think they can charge you 10$ a month for a mobile game just to not have ads? That’s 120$ a year, for one phone game! It’s ludicrous and has corporate greed written all over it, and frankly, it’s sad to see the game in this state.

2.) The game has become extremely easy with the amount of hints and powers you’re given now. This doesn’t bother me as much, since I understand they’re just trying to make it more accessible to young kids which is good. I only wish there was a feature to turn hints off.

Cut the rope is a classic, but the ads really get on my nerves so I can’t play it for more than a couple minutes. I only gave it 3 stars for my nostalgic love of the game, but really, it should’ve been lower. A great game eroded by greed as is the trend on mobile.

by Brebrebrebreeeee

It’s changed a bit, even without internet you get an ad every 3 LEVELS. It’s really annoying and makes CuttheRope just unplayable. What makes it even more annoying is that it’s the same king of thieves ad over and over and over, you can’t click off, and it lasts like 20-30 seconds. I understand that the ads are necessary to promote king of thieves, but the ads get very repetitive and do the opposite of influencing me to play them or even continue playing cut the rope for that matter. I’m sure other players feel the same as well. Having ads displayed after every 6 or 7 levels and able to be clicked off before the ad is over would be more reasonable, in my opinion. Plus, even after I beat the level, I’d get the ad and after it’s over it wouldn’t move on to the next level and instead it’d replay the same level *every* time. I would still get stars for my previous attempt, but it’s frustrating clicking to the next level each time I beat a level and then get an ad. At the very least, it’d be nice if this issue was fixed.

Otherwise, this game is really fun, yet still challenging, and I really like all the new options for candies.

by AmazingAmbom

First of all, I love this game. It’s so fun and challenging. I used to play this game all the time when I was younger, and it brings back great memories. But, I recently revisited CuttheRope and I am very disappointed. CuttheRope is mostly the same, but I’m disappointed about the ads. There’s too many. If you fail at a level, chances are you’re getting an ad. If you want to retry a level, chances are you’re also getting an ad. The amount of ads that games have to use today makes the gameplay less fun. It takes away from the game. I usually don’t mind ads, but when there’s so many that just pop out of no where, it’s disappointing. And I hate to leave a bad review on this game. I honestly love it. I really don’t think this game needs the amount of ads as it currently has. Sure, once in a while is ok. But, every single level? I know people that makes apps like this want to make money off of their apps, but I don’t think they have to go to the extent of ads popping up in your face every time. I’m ok with being able to watch ads for extra hints or something like that, but pretty much every time I fail a level or hit restart, another ad.

by Angryamericanx

When I upgraded to an iPhone I figured it would be neat to re-download all the old apps I had on my iPod touch that I played when I was in middle and high school.

This was a personal favorite of mine. The game was addicting and fun to play, and was just adorable in general.

The fun gameplay hasn’t changed much aside from the addition of “superpowers” (which I don’t use to begin with), it’s still as adorable as I remember, but I find myself playing this without my WiFi or mobile data on for what is obviously the biggest change.

Ads
Lots and lots of ads.

I don’t like the addition of obnoxiously intrusive ads, and I’d like to emphasize intrusive because I had a 30 I skip panel second video shoved in my face while trying to restart a level. I have to play this game with any network connections off or else I’ll be forced into watching videos for things I don’t care about.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s still ads with internet off, but they’re far less disruptive than the videos.

The addition of micro transactions is also upsetting as superpowers add nothing fun or useful to the game since levels were easily solve-able on their own and any level you couldn’t pass required some trial and error. Now, like most other games, you can plop down a dollar and get past it.

I’ll still be playing the game for the nostalgia and fun, but I feel the recent additions to the game are disheartening and greedy.

by 🥜🦔Pnut The Hedgehog🦔🥜

I love this game SO much. I played it when I was really little and loved it more than anything in life. Om nom is so cute and the game was fun and challenging. There are no glitches, the game is hard but not lose-your-mind hard, there are tons of levels, every level is unique and it’s probably the best game I have ever played. HOWEVER, there is one tiny* (*very large) problem:
THE ADS. I can never get the timed stars because an ad pops up WHILE I’m playing. MULTIPLE ads play between rounds and sometimes the INTERRUPT you when you’re about to win and then they make you start the level over. I love(d) this game but now I can’t stand to play it. I know ads are a way to make money, but it’s a lot to play a non-skippable ad every other game, and you are playing 2 or three EVERY round! Some ads are fine but this is TOO MUCH and I will probably delete the game if it doesn’t change. I REALLY love this game and it’s very frustrating that I can’t even play it. I’m not going to say much more because it seems like EVERYONE gives this review and there is no response. I know you are busy but It’s really important to pay attention to what people say about your game because I don’t want to write a long and detailed review and it be a total waste of my time. Thank you.

by Just A Loaf Of Bread

So to start, I’d give it a 4.5 but that’s not how it’ll let me. Anyway. OM NOM IS ADORABLE ❤️❤️❤️!!! I used to play when I was young and decided when I got a mobile ‘Why not enjoy my work free life while it lasts?’ So I downloaded it. IT HAS CHANGED. I mean, did it change for the better??? Superpowers make it to easy. Ik this is aimed for younger kids but (Uh pet peeve don’t judge) I did, and still do, enjoy the game. Hints pop up after some time. The hints aren't hints they are solutions. TOO EASY. I am sorry, but I think they made it a bit to easy. AND WHY, EXPLAIN, DOES IT WANT ME TO WATCH SOME CARTOON??????? WHY??? I’m sorry it keeps popping up like “Watch Om nom now!” “Season (Xyz) came out yesterday! Watch now!” I mean, we’re not all 4 year olds are we?? And then there’s ads for other games made by same developers. Why do that? Ik they are like Om noms adventure or what not but I’m just there to feed Om nom. Uh I haven’t had much of an ad problem so there’s nothing to be said there. So, my opinion in which they should not have added is; 1, No superpowers. Like why? Much too easy. 2, Hints popping up like every 2 mins or so! 3 WHY THE DANG CARTOON???? And lastly, 4. I think they should ad a candy (acting as money) thing where you could earn candy by playing levels and feeding Om nom. Then you should be able to BUY the hints not just watch an ad. But there’s not to many things to be said abt this game. So I give it a 4.5! ❤️🏆🌟 Thanks for reading!

by Anonymous 3846

I’ve been playing this for a while and I’ve noticed somethings. 1: Why should you have to buy solutions? 2: This may be a problem for only me, but sense I play on a phone when I’m cutting some of the ropes on the slide rope it moves the rope instead. Honestly it isn’t that big of a deal but in some levels it matters. 3: Ever sense I updated the game I’m getting ads EVERY time I mess up. No game, I don’t want to watch ads every time I mess up. Like why now start adding advertisements? After I update? 4: Stop saying to watch this Om nom show. I don’t want to watch it. Im always about to cut a rope and the arrow to pull up the ad comes up. 5: In my opinion you should be able to do more interactive things with CuttheRope. Like getting coins after finishing?! Like maybe you could buy skins for Om nom, or other candy skins then the ones you already get? In conclusion, this is a pretty good game but there are some things that make it annoying. Thanks for reading. 💚💚

by Elk4444

I adore this game. When I was younger my dad put it on his iPad and I would sit on the couch for hours playing it. Om Nom is adorable, the levels are simple yet tricky, and it’s a very well designed game. BUT. The ads! I have to watch one every five seconds! No joke! I will be in the middle of a level when an ad pops up and I have to restart the level. Not fun. I rEALLY rEALLY wish I could give this game 5 stars but with the ads I can’t. After about 3 minutes of playing it, I get so bothered by the ads that I stop playing, yell, and throw my phone across my room. It’s infuriating. Also, the cheep ads that are on here don’t let you click the X button to get out of the ad, it just takes me to CuttheRope Store where I have to exit out of the window and go back into the game. It happens SO often that this needs to be addressed. PLEASE PLEASE FIX THIS! I LOVE this game!!

by DominicFoxSS

I’ve heard a lot of people call it “their childhood” so I figured I’d check out what I have “missed out on.” I figured it would be a game I play for a minute and then delete but no, it was the complete opposite.
I personally preferred Angry Birds before this but I like both. Besides, Rovio has removed Angry Birds from CuttheRope Store so why not find something else to play to pass the time while waiting for a dentist appointment.
Obviously I dislike ads but every game dev needs ads for revenue. Why make a good game when you can’t earn from it? Plus there’s a premium of sorts so you don’t get ads (I think) while playing. I could be wrong, but, it’s no reason to hate. I don’t have any reason to complain so far.
I see why people call it a good game. So here’s my five stars, and ten minutes of me tapping a keyboard!

by AsiaMoo

I used to play this when I was really little and I liked it a lot, so when I got my new phone I was like “why not?” and downloaded it, it is not exactly how I remember it.
1st off the superpowers, they make it super easy to pass some levels and totally ruin the game play. You get sooooo many hints so that when you finally get a level where you have to acutely try you have like 20 hints stocked up. + you get like 1 to 4 superpowers every day 😑
2nd Ads... this game used to be ad free!!! Why did you change that!!! Now pretty much every level I have to watch an add for an app I will NEVER get! ( and stop telling me to watch the “new episodes” of cut the rope, it’s a game not a 4 year old cartoon 😒) .
3rd this isn’t really a real problem but the new episodes and seasons of cut the rope really bug me, they are constantly trying to get me to watch a show that is super cringe and I will never watch. I mean come on, the majority of the players aren’t 4. (Yea I get it this game is made for smaller children, but it is still a pet peeve of mine).
Other than those reasons I really like the game, and think it is a fun way to pass time (on airplane mode). It has changed a lot but still really fun and addictive 😊