Slices: Relax Puzzle Game Reviews

by Yfimc

great concept but two main problems:
1. too many ads! i get a 30 second ad every time i win or lose a level. this 30 second ad is consistently followed by .. wait for it .. ANOTHER 30 second ad!! 60 seconds of ads every time i win or lose a level (regardless of whether i choose to “continue” when losing). it may only take about 30 seconds to lose a level (see below) so this is a LOT of ads. tbh apple should not allow games with this many ads in Slices store but i guess they’re too greedy to give up even a tiny portion of their massive ad profits (on top of the billions they make selling iphones and ipads! .. for everyone’s information they have $285 billion in the bank they do not need to be drowning us in cheesy add to cover their costs of doing business
2. this game is too much chance and not enough strategy. i love a challenge but so i get impossible combinations way too often. for example i’ll get seven pieces which cover the upper right slice and zero pieces which cover the center left slice. this is an automatic failure and nothing you can do about it. tbh this seems to happen more than i would even expect from random chance, i think the game is deliberately giving impossible combinations to push more ads!!

by Shannon11667

This isn’t a puzzle game, yet its being advertised as one. I even paid for this, because the ads were just too crazy terrible, and the first couple rounds were simple and fun. But once you get about 5 rounds in, it becomes apparent that the pieces spawn in a completely random (or worse, intentionally impossible) order that forces you to lose the round. A puzzle game provides a set round with a set way to solve it. You can even tell these rounds are just a random set of pieces because when you fail and start over, it’s an entirely different round!

It just gets insanely frustrating when you get far in a round, and then you’re presented 7 of the same piece in a row and you automatically lose, no matter how you played any others piece the entire rest of the game. There’s also no satisfaction to finishing one round, because it’s not like you managed to get the placement right, figured out the puzzle, get to move on to another one. Because like I said, even if you fail the round, you’re given a totally new one regardless of if you technically advance or not.

The ads in this game are as awful as everyone says. But the game itself is only $3, so if you enjoy it, I personally think that’s a very reasonable trade off to just pay for it. It’s not loaded with micro transactions or a monthly fee, just the one time $3. So if you can tolerate this to level 7 (just to be safe), just pay for it.

by 37598

I do believe this game is fixed to make you watch the ads. I’d gladly pay the $3 to get rid of ads but that would only get rid of the ads I don’t mind as much, the ones in between the levels. I complained about the ads that I have to “choose” to watch in order to keep playing the game, you know the ones that paying $3 dollars doesn’t get rid of. After I complained, suddenly I get to now “enjoy” commercial breaks in the middle of the game, as if the multiple ads I “choose” to watch aren’t enough to go through. I’m on a level in the 70’s so it takes a lot of points to win, which means that I have to “choose” to watch a lot of ads during the game in order to not start over and lose my points. Now I get the lovely commercials too! While Slices itself shows an option to pay $3 to get rid of ads, according to this actual description page, if you really want the whole thing, you get to pay them $8/ WEEK, that’s $24 per month or $32 for the months that are 5 weeks long. That’s insane. These people are seriously greedy. And they are not above throwing every ad at you they can in order to get you to “subscribe.” I’m at a point where I spend more time watching ads than actually playing the game. I’m now looking for another, similar game that is maybe made by makers who are less greedy.

by MinewastakenthoShadowisangry

Don’t bother with Slices.
As already stated by another reviewer, this game is extremely difficult to win. There’s a lot of free apps— that are bogged down with ads— that are exactly like this. This this app game in particular is the worse I’ve seen. I was constantly getting the same pieces in a row until I had no more space and was forced to deal with losing or would just quit in aggravation. The algorithms for the piece selection are either poorly randomized or designed solely to get you to lose. But, even worse than that is the fact that I received an extremely alarming ad that is most likely to blame for why my phone keeps freezing and crashing.
One night while playing, I’m suddenly stopped by a random ad for pornography. It’s never happened to me before, and I don’t know who’s to blame for it happening with this game. This ad was a 15-30 second long series of uncensored video clips from some porno, and I could NOT skip it. I had to wait it out. However, my phone freeze right after, and I can’t press any of the buttons either. My phone then inevitably crashes and restarts after several minutes. I’ve since deleted this wreck of an app, but the damage is still there. Just yesterday my phone crashed three or four times in less than 24 hours. I can’t believe this nonsense.

by DONT_PLAY_SLICE

I never write review of any app, but from playing this game it made me want to write a complaint. First I think this a great idea of a game. I think if this was coded right the game would def would be 5/5, but other than the concept everything else about this game is crap.

Your constantly bombarded with ad. I really don’t mind having ads once it’s a while, but for this game there are constants ads that pops up and you can clearly tell they only made this game to make you either buy the no ad version(which I actually would have if this game wasn’t to RNG based game)

As for the game itself, I think this games idea is well thought of but coded incorrectly. First of all I don’t mind getting random pieces throughout the game, but you should have a RNG checked to make sure that you gave the user at least 1 of every piece in order to clear one circle. It’s really frustrating when you start the game blank but you get 6 right pieces in a row followed by a random piece then to come up with another right piece. That is not a good game design nor a good algorithm. If you want to develop a game at least let the user make a stupid mistake to make them feel that they messed up instead of the gaming screwing them over, which this game doesn’t constantly.

by Dylveigyfhjjvy

Don’t get me wrong, the first hour or so you play, you will enjoy. But you die constantly in situations you could not possibly avoid. You’re using good strategy, carefully planning where you put each and every piece in a painstaking process, and then it gives you three of the same piece in a row. A piece that won’t complete a circle, and that you only have two spaces for. This happens CONSTANTLY, and leaves this game less challenging than just frustrating and miserable.

But don’t worry, there’s a solution! The hammer! Watch a thirty second ad with some additional thing that makes you wait on a title screen, and you can clear one circle. And die again within ten moves. Each and every time I’ve used the hammer, this has happened. There’s also an option to watch another long ad when you die to clear the board and keep the score. If you don’t like the idea of losing and retrying a level repetitively to hope the luck’s good, this is the only possible way to reliably beat levels, some of which have time based access. Yep. It’s one of those games. On top of that whenever you win or lose a level and go to retry, exit or move on, you get slapped with yet another ad. They gotta make crazy money on everybody.

I never write app reviews, but I hope I can spare someone this nightmare.

by LylaAnjo

Have you ever been doing 60 on a highway only to roll into a small town and have the speed limit suddenly drop to 30 or less? The police in these towns are always prepared for those who don’t slow down in time. They immediately set after you, blue lights ablaze. These towns are often commonly referred to as “speed traps” Well, this game is an Ad Trap.
I noticed as I was playing the game doesn’t correct itself for overdoing it on the repeat pieces. So I took my time and thought carefully about the placement of every single piece to ensure I wasn’t missing some way of solving the puzzle. No, even when the utmost care is taken to place every piece in exactly the right order and fill to completion as many circles as possible you can end a round with a score of 35 and nowhere else to put your right angled 1/6th of the pie. After you end a round by losing you’re given the option to play an Ad to continue or click the small x to start over. You’ll be played an Ad no matter which you choose. Click the home button instead? Ad. You will sometimes lose the same round 8 or 9 times even when planning your every move. I am convinced this is simply for the ad value. What could have been a very fun game and still has a great concept is absolutely ruined by the obscene number of unnecessary advertisements.

by BreezyMBaby

I really love the concept of this game it is the right amount of challenging without being too easy or hard and lots of fun to play. Unfortunately I had to delete it though because there was not enough of a gap between ads. I understand in order for there to be free gameplay ads are necessary but the bombardment of ads is a little excessive. If one round gave you maybe a minute of play time before a game over you’re looking at least a 35 second ad every time. If this game actually allowed you to skip the ads after five seconds I would consider keeping this game. However, it does not. My philosophy is that no matter how great the game is if there are excessive ads to the point where I’m frustrated and I don’t get a break between them it doesn’t matter I delete the game. Unfortunately I had to delete this game because every time a round ended I got an LONG ad I couldn’t skip. If it was ever changed to every other time a round ended or you got a little bit of a break between bombardments of ads that would be a different story. That is why sadly I had to give a five star game three stars. It’s not relaxing when you’re constantly harassed by ads.

by DukeBaseball316

This game is a clever, moderately challenging, but flawed game. The upside is that the visual design is extremely well done and the game play in general offers a moderate challenge. I choose games that make me think, but I don’t want my time wasters to seem like advanced calculus.

The game play is where the game fails, however. I assumed that the game would randomly select the game pieces, but based on the three or four months I have been playing, there is absolutely no way the piece selection is random. I don’t remember a lot of my statistics class, but I’m pretty sure is is impossible for the same piece to be delivered six out of eight times.

This is made worse by the fact that while the game is driven by ads (the free version), the fame will shove ads at you between games, but when you actually want to see an ad so you can continue playing, it won’t let you. You are literally locked out of playing. While I understand that game designers would like to get paid for their games, the reality is that I’m not going to pay for some to waste my time for ten minutes while I’m in a waiting room. So I stop playing and move on to another game. Who chases away their audience?

by RayeofSunshine83

I’ve been playing this for about two weeks now. It’s a fun game but it can be difficult and even impossible to pass a level without having to watch ads. The game will give five of the same exact piece and then the sixth piece will be different, and the seventh the piece you just got five of...and then the board is filled and cannot accommodate anymore pieces. Then you have to watch an ad to clear it. If you clear the board on your own, you have to watch an ad. Sometimes the ads freeze and the only way out is to force close Slices , which means you lose all progress and have to start the level again. That’s really frustrating. I think the developers don’t care about the game, they just care about ad revenue. Clear half the board? Ad. Win a level? Ad. Have to clear the board because you’ll lose the level if you don’t? Ad. Been too long since you’ve seen an ad? Ad.

It’s a fun game, but the ads get so annoying, but the game isn’t fun enough where I would want to pay to get rid of ads.

Also, it would be nice to be able to pick what the pieces look like. I enjoyed the fruit levels.

by Hshshbd

I understand having ads on a game to make it free and I’m all for that. It helps me play fun games and spend no money. But the game offers an ad to continue when you’re out of moves and then when I click not to watch an ad it takes me to the menu and proceeds to play an ad. It’s ridiculous and angering and I feel like I might as well watch the ad to continue because I’ll have to watch an ad either way. It’s disappointing to see the ads are overwhelming in this game because it truly is a good game. I think a better ad system would help. Possibly giving you retries and to get those you have to watch ads or pay. Then rather than offering an ad after you lose, you can watch as many as you want in the store for free retries. Then set a certain amount of losses per ad, say three. Every three losses it shows an ad. And I can continue my game with retries from the store (using real money or watching ads). This is just one method of fixing the ad problem. It’s infuriating to spend all the time in a level and then not continue, just to see a new ad and it’s what made me delete the game the first time. Hopefully this gets improved although I doubt it will as this game grows older.

by Vatech90

I don’t reviewing apps but after reading how many people feel this is an “Ad Trap” I thought I would. I don’t have a problem with the ads simply for the fact that you have an option to “kill” it after only watching a few seconds. I don’t think I’ve ever had to watch a full add. I agree with the one reviewer that it should be easy to win each puzzle if you prioritize the circles; however, I realize the pieces are randomly generated and sometimes you get the same piece so many times there isn’t a move left. The game does give you a little hammer which you can use every so often when you see a piece coming that will cause you to lose. Either people are not paying attention to the next piece or they’ve already smashed a piece and are waiting for the hammer to regenerate. I’m on level 42 and I’ve only been playing a little while and have used the hammer once. So for those who find it impossible after level 5, you’re obviously not placing your pieces in the best order. I too get frustrated that I can be so close to completing a level only to have that ONE piece screw me over, but that’s what keeps me coming back. If it were so easy to win then nobody would play.

by Aretisssssssssss

Pretty good. Yes, a lot of ads, but there’s a one-time 3$ option to remove them, and if you can’t spend 3$ on an app you enjoy I’m not sure why you even have a smart phone.
As far as the RNG, this I don’t mind either. I’ve gotten past level 30, there are some basic tricks to it, but it’s also like any card game: Chance is involved, and you just have to deal with that. If it wasn’t it’d be based on memorization and a lot of trial and error, and to me that’s just a drag. So I like the game, and there’s also daily challenges that require a different strategy to change things up.
One thing I will say is I wish they’d change the leveling system. Each level gets harder and harder, until you need 500 points or more to advance to the next level. This is fine as far as it goes...but eventually you get stuck, as your chance of randomly getting the right piece combinations gets very slim mathematically. And then you’re staring at the same pattern forever and ever. I’d suggest maybe varying the number of points needed, or maybe adding a way to reset your levels or randomize the pattern—so you can still feel you’re advancing and get to look at different things.

by Missy479853

First and foremost, LOVE the game. Four star rating even though the newest update is a complete rip off. I find it relaxing and the designs are creative, it plays well. I’ve managed to get a few of my friends hooked on it as well. I enjoy the challenge of getting almost to the end, but not getting quite the right pieces. I understand how it can seem rigged to many people, for me I find it motivating.

I did pay for the no ad version and was excited to see the addition of “around the world” levels. However, 3 days free and then 7.99 A WEEK for unlimited tickets is asinine. If the owners of this game truly expect their players to spend $415 a year to play without extensive Ad breaks, you will absolutely see a decline in downloads. There has already been multiple reviews about how this game is an Ad Trap and at this point, with the new $415 total charge, I am in agreement. I’ll continue to play the regular levels, but the “around the world” portion will go heavily unused by me and many others, I’m sure.

I urge you to rethink the steep fee. It makes the game seem incredibly greedy and therefore makes me think to play it less which is disappointing to say the least.

by Lexi Pelland Watkins

🍁🍁🍁 I agree with the person who said “same pieces over and over”. This is a good game, but you should make it better. By “Better”, I mean you should update it to make not the same pieces every time. It’s the ONLY thing that frustrates me. I also read another persons Review, and it said “ad trap”. Then I read ANOTHER review, and it said “if you don’t want ads just turn on airplane mode or turn off your internet”. I agree with just turning on airplane mode. I’ve been playing so many games with lots of ads, and by turning on airplane mode, I’m getting NO ads. And if the person who said turn on airplane mode is reading this, I am very thankful to you because I actually never new about airplane mode. Thanks for reading if your the one who said about airplane mode, or whoever made the game, or whoever else. This took about 22 minutes to write, to thanks for reading! I love the game except the same pieces over and over and over and over. This was made in 2018. October 7th. Bye! And have a great Autumn! 🍁🍁🍁

by Pupsdumps

I have got to say they were right that this is super relaxing and it's not like games that are really easy all the way to the very end of the levels but it's actually getting progressively harder but still not impossible! One reason you should get this game is that it really does give you something to do when you're bored, I have played this for almost a year straight so I can tell you how addicting it is and how it never gets old! There are some ads and they can get annoying if you are really not into ads but it's not too bad, unlike other games where I have deleted them because there were ads every two seconds it felt like. So don't download if you have a thing about ads, but I can tell you that they really aren't THAT bad. It's also completely free because unlike other games, there are no in-app purchases unless you are dying to get tickets but you get those every time you beat a level so you can't be too picky but they don't offer a premium version or a VIP version which is nice. Have a good day, and I can promise you that your days will be just a little more fun if you download this game! I hope you take my advice but don't download it if you hate commercials very very much but again they are not too bad.

by Zelsar Salazar

It’s true that the game is a bit of an ad dump but that is easily avoidable if you have data. Just swap to your data for a few seconds, open Slices on data, go to your phone settings and cellular data, turn off this app so that it can no longer receive data. Wham bam, you’re done. As long as you’re on data the game will no longer play ads because it has no connection and you’ll still receive all your text and notifications from other apps. If you don’t have data then just use airplane mode or turn off WiFi. Not a big deal. Anyhow, a lot of people are saying the levels are impossible, those people are wrong. They just haven’t figured out how to play the game properly. You have to make use of the upcoming piece to finish circles as quickly as possible to win. All in all 10/10 game, definitely recommend it to pass time

by 100Rainbows

OK, so I’ll start off with THIS... REALLY?!?! this app is a pretty good game, but it’s one of those games that you don’t play on a regular basis. I have this game on my other device and I COULD NOT STOP PLAYING IT!!!! It was SO FUN!! But then, after I got to level 21 I stopped playing this app because of how BORING it got to me!!!!!! Ok, so this is why I typed: REALLY?!?! It’s because... REALLY?!?! It didn’t happen once, it didn’t happen twice, it didn’t happen THREE TIMES, it happened A LOT. What happened a lot? HOW THE GAME WOULD CONSTANTLY GIVE ME THE WRONG PIECES!!!!!! Yeah, I get it you have to put the pieces in the right place to pass a level but the game would literally give me THE SAME PIECES OVER AND OVER AGAIN until I ran out of space to put THE SAME PIECES!!!😩😩😩😩😩😩😒😒😒😒😒😒 another thing that made the game boring was how you weren’t in control of the next fruit or veggie in the next level!! It would be nice if you could make your own fruit or veggie!! That way you could kinda customize your own level! Other than these two problems, this app is a really great game!

(BY THE WAY, I RATE THE GAME BY HOW MANY PROBLEMS I HAD. I HAD TWO PROBLEMS SO I AN GIVING THE GAME A 3/5 STAR RATING)

by Kk100

I love the game. It’s different, clever and fun. Quickly addicting.
I paid $2.99 to remove the ads, which I was fine with as it’s a good value. I was seriously PO’d when I found that i could easily find myself watching ads again. This is my third iteration of writing a review for Slices and I finally get the ad policy and I must admit I like and use it. Basically, if you’re stymied in a particular round you get the chance to restart and keep your points for watching a 30 second ad. You can choose not to watch the ad and simply reset to zero. So, they really should explain this in a help file as it would create a lot less confusion.
I can finally give Slices the five stars it deserves! PUT IN A HELP FILE and save yourself from many bad reviews!
Some suggestions: you should give a bonus every time the player clears all the this app. Also, you should allow the player to continue the game even though he has achieved the next level. It would be fun to see if a very high score can be achieved.
Good job and keep going!

by JillianKawaiiKitty

Okay, first of all, this game is amazing! I saw it on an ad one day and it caught my attention. I came here to say that it’s an OUTSTANDING game!!!! I’m on level 11 I think...I have the pink grapefruit this app. Too lazy to look XD. ANYways, I came to this review to say that this game is very fun! I like that they added a world tour, and daily challenges, and all that fun stuff! That way, the game is way less boring! I also think that the idea of making each level a different little object is very creative! It lets out all the work they put in to make this game. I also think it’s really cool that you get to go to all sorts of different places in the world on the world tour games! Right now I’m at China, and I’m about to move to another place! I’m stuck on level 12 in China :c I also just love the idea that you guys made all sorts of different objects for the daily challenges! I just did one today. It was a cute little koala! I have done emojis, foods, yin yang simbol’s, and more! Again, I just wanted to say that this game is one of my favorites of all! Thank you for the amazing experience, developers! 🙏🏼😁

by @€mmaLikesTurtles

This game is so relaxing! I always play it now. I just have one problem. (1) I just don’t like how one you are out of moves, and you watch a video to revive, and once you are out of moves again, you can’t watch another video when your about to level up. That’s what I don’t like. @€mmaLikesTurtles I also just have one more thing to say, I used to always play ROBLOX, eh? But, after 3 years of playing ROBLOX, I got very bored. So I downloaded some new games, but then those eventually got bored like ROBLOX too. So that’s when I started seeing more commercials for this app
again. So I wanted to see if I liked this app, so I downloaded it! And right when I finished/played level one, I absolutely LOVED this app!!! >;) Please keep up the good work with these awesome games! Everyday is a second chance! @€mmaLikesTurtles & there is one more thing to say, I usually never , and I mean NEVER write reviews for games. But I felt like this game really needed a review once I was shocked by these horrible reviews! To the creator of this game, IGNORE THOSE RUDE REVIEWS!!!!!!!!!!! @€mmaLikesTurtles