Kick the Buddy Reviews

First off, dont get me wrong, despite the problem I will mention later on in this review, let me say this right off the bat: I. LOVE. KICK THE BUDDY! It probably ranks among one of my absolute most favorite mobile games of all time. There is just something so fun about having a plush guy go through many different things, both harmful and helpful. I have loved his game ever since I played it way back in 2013, when another company owned it. I loved everything you could do to him, especially his reactions depending on the weapon!

However, now its 2021, and this game is now owned by Playgendary. While I still love this game as much as I did years ago, there is one problem pretty much every mobile game nowadays has: THERE ARE ADS EVERYWHERE!!! I cannot go even 5 minutes, maybe even less, without having an annoying “oh no grandma hates you for messing up her apartment” ad pop up on my screen. Kill buddy? AD. Want to change weapons? AD. Doing nothing? AD AT THE BOTTOM. It’s VERY annoying. Like all games, you can pay $0.99 to get rid of these ads. Normally, I don’t do this and just uninstall right away, but that’s what I will do since this is one of my absolute favorite games.

In summary: If you aren’t willing to pay an extra $0.99 for this game to avoid the ads, I suggest staying away from it and finding another time waster. Otherwise, you’ll be entertained for WEEKS!

You may be aware of the ad problem, but as a Playgendary game, it’s money-hungry and god-awful. It basically forces you to buy more ‘bucks’ because there are giant gaps between weapons which can take a while to get. Theres an unskippable ad between every two deaths and an ad you can choose to watch every one death. Not only is that an issue, the quickest way to get certain guns which were previously purchasable by bucks (mind you, ive played this game a year or two ago) is to watch 5-20 ads in clumps. The gameplay is even worse. I played with the mace and at first got a hundred bucks in two deaths. After i got 900 bucks, it started giving me about 10 bucks per play. After five ads i could’ve just used to get another gun, i got the bomb. It gives you one buck per explosion, so unless you plan on using thousands of bombs to progress, you may want to find new weapons. Even with new weapons, you get barely any gold. The argument that the game is purposefully hard is invalid as well, because even if that was true, they’re not making it hard for any reason other to make you watch more ads. Sometimes a few hits from a weapon will give you a quick 40 bucks, but will kill the buddy, giving you the choice to watch an ad. Another kill and you have to watch an ad, and the cycle repeats. If you most literally have nothing to do for days at a time, this game is for you.

First off. I am a fan of this game, but, its an app of disappointment. Beforehand, Kick The Buddy used to have all its weapons with gold and money only. Now in 2021, they decided best to have a “membership” to access select premium weapons that come with the membership. I don’t see a reason for this idea to be brought up and its just unnecessary. Even if “some” of the weapons maybe great, the premium weapons in the membership are just non-premium at the same time. We’ve been using the same weapons for the game all the time in the past and its not really worth being in the membership in my opinion.

Another thing that might make your poor head boggle is that nothing comes permanent and even the game will be a former glitch in the history of app games. I seriously need to get this out, YOUR ITEMS WILL NOT BE SYNCED. I been restoring my purchases and my progress, but the weapons your attain and save and delete the game later on for the sake of moving on. Those items you attainted all that precious tine don’t get saved at all. A waste of your time to come on back. Kick The Buddy used to be a memorable childhood app, but with the combination of these and a poor ad campaign just strikes to me as being way over the top. Sorry, but you have disappointed me with all these unnecessary things you put in for its return.

I used to Kick Buddy all the time in the old version of the game. I just re-installed to see if I could bring back some memories and on first launch they told me to buy a premium membership for $7.99/week which is INSANE. I don’t because I figured it won’t hinder my gameplay, but boy was that wrong. 75% of the items you can buy with in-game currency are Premium member EXCLUSIVE. If you don’t pay them weekly, you get the most basic weapons and items to use on Buddy. After a few minutes of playing I was already fed up with this game, and then the ad waves hit. I got ad after ad. It even glitched half my screen after closing one and crashed the game another time. I can’t believe they have the audacity to ask for an insane weekly payment like that, while they’re getting paid for showing an ad every 15 seconds. If you don’t buy Premium, the game is 75% unplayable or locked, and almost 90-95% unplayable with the ads and crashes. I used to want as many people as possible to play this game back before this new release, but now it is the steamiest pile of trash on KicktheBuddy Store.

And to the developers,
Thanks for ruining my old memories and many other people’s with this obvious attempt at a cash whale. Your greed is going to be your downfall if you don’t change the way you run your game. Good luck trying to scam anyone with this game.

Kick the buddy is such a good game. But there’s a few problems. There way to many ads. I click the ribbon and theres an ad. Like I cant stop it from happening also i got this thing that popped up. It said free gold so i clicked it. I saw that the top one was 5000 gold so i clicked it. I was shocked to see that it was 5000 gold. I looked threw and it was a website. I saw that you can buy the product I was confused because I thought it was an app. after that I saw that it costed money I got off the website. Yep totally free gold. I was mad about that. And also why does every thing cost gold. Like if its money its either bad or way to expensive. For example the uzi is cheap but bad and the golden gun is 9999 dollars. Like how much do i have to play the game for that much and finally this is my opinion but you guys should make it so you can get your money back. In game money not real money. What i had a lot of gold and accidentally bought something that I didn’t want. It would be very unfair. Although there some good and bad parts pf the game I still respect the game. But one thing please fix these problems in the game. Not just me but others might agree with this message that I am writing right now.

I thought this would be kind of entertaining at first, and it might actually be a really cool game, but only if you are willing to spend either a lot of money on a ridiculous subscription system, or sacrifice a lot of time watching videos of 30 seconds each. I understand that developers need to win some money, and this is usually OK with me, nevertheless this is way too much.

If you don’t want to spend money (just as me) then you will have to watch a series of videos to unlock a few things to use; depending on the “quality” of the item, they ask you to see certain amount of ads (there were some items that required me to see 20 videos to unlock). Ok, I was willing to accept that, when I found out KicktheBuddy has a limit of videos you can see to unlock stuff, and when you reach it, you have to wait a couple hours to unlock more videos. I mean, you have to wait to be able to see advertisement. That’s ridiculous! I’ve already deleted it. You literally spend more time watching videos than actually playing the game.

On the bright side, you can say this is entertaining and definitively funny, but this flaws I mentioned kind of ruined the experience. In other words it’s a pay-to-enjoy kind of game. I barely rate something, but I thought this was worth my opinion, hope it might be useful to someone.

I got this game for my young cousin. The day after I decided I would check it out, even more, as I had this game before for him but deleted it. I didn’t explore it a lot before, but now, my first impressions were, this is pretty fun! I played for a good few minutes, but then came the problems. First issue, ads. There is a ridiculous amount of ads! If you want to get a item, you have to watch 5, 10, or even 20 ads, and the majority of the items you have to watch ads for, or work a lot for the amount of coins required. And it’s not just for if you want an item, some points Buddy’s box tears and appears a ad, for say Party Masters, and on the right also appears a character from the game Party Masters. It’s ridiculous and annoying. Second issue, when Buddy dies, if you keep hitting him, while he’s dead you get no coins! It shouldn’t be like that, especially since a lot of the items cost tons of coins. Third issue, might just be for me but, sometimes when I click on an item, like Super Glue 909, I have enough coins but it just does... literally nothing! No pop up saying you don’t have enough coins, no pop up saying to watch an ad, nothing. It’s ridiculous, once again! I should be able to get the item, when I have the coins. I guess it’s a little bug, but it needs to be fixed. Overall this gets one star.

People review other apps saying "this has the most ads in history I can barely play it, it's like a hundred ads everytime I play"
But of course they exaggerate, but if someone says that about this game, they are really not joking, this game is ridiculous and has extremely unsatisfactory content.
First off, some glitch has happened where you can't hear anything but the doll speaking or screaming, and ever since I've discovered that glitch, it wouldn't go away, second of all, the subscription, it's completely blasphemy and pathetic, who's gonna pay over 5 dollars just for some unlockable weapons, weekly? You are truly not right In the head if you think that would work, I can't imagine such scam and cash grab to fail. Now the worst for last, the ads, everyone has complained about them, and for obvious reasons, this game is literally infested with adds, you get un-skippable ads for almost every time you knock out buddy, you have to watch at best, 5 or more adds to be able to use most weapons in the game. Not only that, you have a little banner at the bottom, meaning you can't ever remove it unless you are lucky and don't get it when you open KicktheBuddy , it's extremely bothersome and block a lot of the screen, doesn't help when you have to play the game horizontally. What a let down of an app.

I have been playing since I was at least three or four years old and I started playing on my tablet and then as soon as I got my phone I downloaded this this app it has been very good this year it’s a great game but nothings changed it says read the game and you will get updates but since like 2009 and I just feel like you added some more stuff this is my opinion and also can you make gold easier to go as a guest button because it was one of my daily login because I haven’t logged in in like five months and it sent me straight to an ad like come on like I know I had to give you guys money but like we don’t need as many adults like we just wanna play the game and also can you make gold a little easier to get because like we just Gotta do these things for free golden and we got a wait to do these things again go to so hard to get and then you have to have like 1000 gold or 985 go to see a one item on can you see a little easier on us to read the reviews they just wanna play the game but add & D popping up in your face! I’m sorry for getting mad but this is annoying so please do something about this thanks 🙏🏾

I really like this game and all I have to say is that there’s too many ads. But, I remember a day when I could tap on a button and it would let me watch the ads for rewards. Now it says ‘no ads available!’ Which makes me mad if I’m trying to grind ads for a new weapon or something. Other than that, I have some positive feedback!

I used to play it a lot a few years ago, and I came back since I was bored. This game gave me that nostalgic feeling since I always played it. Sure, I don’t have all the stuff I did have, but it’s still good. I like Buddy’s reactions to things and what he says is funny and I think that really brings out his personality, which is something you don’t always see. And my favorite one is where he goes running around the box screaming, “ IT’S A NEVER ENDING STORRRRYYYYY-“ sometimes I’ll sit there, waiting for him to do it because it’s kinda true, and funny. It also shows he’s trapped in a never ending cycle of torture and being forced to be revived and living through it. Sad, but I don’t think too much about it.

Anyway, that’s all I have to say! Thank you!

Ok, I’ve had kick the buddy for maybe 3 or 4 months by now.
I have the diamond pass too, honestly it’s pretty expensive. Before that, I was literally DROWNING IN ADS. Seriously this is too many ads!!! It’s very frustrating whenever he dies and takes like 30 seconds to load back in. It’s kind of stupid. “Free” items are 5,10, or even 20 ads!! This is bogus and I one day wish they would reduce the amount of ads you encounter throughout the “Gameplay” overall it’s a pretty fun game. I enjoy playing it with my friends. You’re basically watching ads more than you actually play the came. It also makes your stress level higher than lower. Why would you need to blast someone with a machine gun to “Remove stress” instead you can relax or listen or watch something soothing or relaxing. I can’t stand why you’d need to spend money on a “stress relieving “ game. I’d rather take a seat and relax and even make myself a cup of tea.
Do you all agree with me? I also hate how quickly buddy dies. It’s too fast. On the ads it shows buddy can last like 10 minutes without dying. I understand other players also have a problem with that PARTY MASTERS gangster and the I guess you can call it a “hole” in buddy’s box that says PartyMasters. Overall it lacks lots of features.

Thank you

This game is quite fun, I enjoyed flinging the little guy on the screen around and using a large arsenal of weapons and devices to hurt the little fella. However, to get to use some of the most interesting devices, you will either have to buy a subscription, or watch about a million ads to get the things you want. Most weapons require 5 ads to unlock it! But the ads don’t stop then either, oh no. They have ads at the bottom which cover up a bit of the screen, so when you’re trying to play, you click the ad and it takes you to the page. Then, you go back to them game and continue playing and it says you have a “present” then open. But to open it, guess what? That’s right, another ad, and you can actually skip getting the present. But say you open it, once it finishes and the box opens and gives you either cash or gold, it will then ask you if you want to watch ANOTHER AD so you can double the reward you got. At the end of the day, it doesn’t feel pike they’re doing to support the game but just to get a bunch of money out of people. The only reason I didn’t give this a 1 Star is that I like the concept, but it’s filled with so many ads that I can’t get myself to play it.

I like this game and bowmasters etc... but I just feel like playgendary is an ok company while I also think that most of their games are kind of a money grab. This freaking game is drowning you with ads most of the ads are about playgendary’s games. The ads are Bowmasters,Bouncemasters,golfmasters,and finally Party Masters. This Company thinks that they can get away with forcing you to watch ads for a game you most likely will play one day seeing all the ads there are and then never playing it again. The diamond membership price is way to over priced for an app and most of the weapons in this game are pretty much just the same thing. I have the mace with spikes and watched 10 ads, yes 10 ads to get a clever that worked the same way the mace did. And if you don’t want ads but dint want the diamond membership either? Then buy no ads which is also over priced. 4.99 to remove ads. Now, back to the ads....again the ads are mostly about playgendarys games but the one add that keeps popping up is that god annoying bowmasters game. NO, I dont wanna install Bowmasters so stop asking. Maybe if this game and this company as a whole would stop ripping you off the games would actually be playable.

It was hard to even give this a two star. I grew up playing this game. I found out about it in 2012 when my friend introduced it to me, and I couldn’t stop playing it. It has many memories that stick with me to this day. Times changed and I got bored, until an add popped up for a weird bear game, that looked exactly like a game I remembered, so I looked around and eventually found this game again. I decided to compare them. The bear game was horrible, easily remembered the sounds from Kick the Buddy and saw it as a wannabe. So I went back to this to remember the old times. But what I found wasn’t fun at all. It’s no longer fun or challenging to get anything. It’s all ad based. I already got all the clothing items with cash in under an hour, and got 1/8 of the weapons in under an hour. I honestly don’t know what happened, but who the heck had this idea? Why would you think of trying to transition to a modern game? This literally reminded me of wannabe games, please fix these things. This game was one of the first if its kind and was unique, and now it’s slowly losing what it was as a unique title. Please fix this, I remember the good days when this game was unique and fun to play. Please, please fix this.

I used to play Kick the Buddy Second Kick all the time when I was younger! Now I saw this in KicktheBuddy Store and decided to see if it was as good as the OG game. Now it’s all about videos and texting people! It’s really not fun when you really want something and you have to watch 100 videos for it. Also where did the background go? It’s been replaced by “More Stuff” section that I can’t seem to even get into. There are ads at the bottom of the page always and sometimes I accidentally click it and it totally ruins the game. I wish you didn’t take away the little bar at the top where you could store your favorite tools and use them without searching the inventory. I do still think it is a fun game so I gave it 2 stars. But please this needs fixing! Stop making me waste my time watching videos and texting ads to my own number over and over. This game really has potential if they made it more like the old one. And if the reason they are putting ads in is because they are low on money, then I think if they make it good then they might make back the difference. Wake up a little, people only want to play fun games.

I played the game before it was removed from KicktheBuddy Store it was amazing but there are some problems. Some of them would have to be original weapons that were added into the new one or more expensive than what they used to be. This is a feature that I do not exactly like I remember how an acid tank would be like 1000 now it’s 18,000. Also in app purchases don’t get as much as as you used to like the one dollar one only gives you 100 gold or $1000 while back then it used to be around one dollar would give you $5000 or 300 gold. The final problem I have with this game would have to be advertisement. There is a very heavy, advertisement amount. This is very easy to change and it would most likely attract more consumers. But I still love the game how old is that these things that I have explained I would just really like if you bring back the original weapons and items like the games section it would just make it more interesting. Please take acknowledge (best stress reliever) games.

So, great game, used to play it years ago, got back into it recently. Don’t remember having these forced ads at all though a few years ago, only optional ones. Please remove the forced ads. And, of course, there’s the problem with the items. Everything costs a ridiculous amount of gold or cash, which would take months to get without purchasing any currency. And I’m not gonna spend real money on this game, not yet at least. So please lower the prices of most items, or make some of the cheaper items do more damage and give you more cash. Make it easier to get gold! Maybe give us a free 5 gold per day and 1 gold every time we kill Buddy. WITHOUT WATCHING AN AD. I also suggest you watch out for some of the knockoff games, all over KicktheBuddy Store. Just look up ‘stress relief’ or ‘kick the’ to find most of them. Thanks for reading.

I can’t say how much I enjoyed the old game, but this has just become EAs version of the game and all it needs is loot boxes. In the old game you only saw ads about a tenth of the time you played but now every second of he game is filled with ads, and to access some of the weapons you have to watch around five million ads or pay with gold. I knew the old was kind of harsh on your wallet but this takes it to a whole new level. Half of the weapons require you to spend gold to get them and another 1/4 offer you to spend it instead of watching ads. The diamond subscription is the worst of it offering you to get it for a large $8 a week giving you supposedly all these things each day although I when I tried it out for the 3 day trial I never received anything, and getting the weapons locked behind the diamond membership sign never get unlocked during the free trial from what I experienced. I didn’t play the game after the free trial ended so I may be missing s few things but if this is how the game is going to react to new players I don’t think the game would get any better. If you remove the watching ads for weapons, the diamond memberships flaws and the harsh ads maybe this could be a solid game.

This game is great, pretty fun to I don’t like a lot of add games, but it is worth it, this game is cool it’s like just destroying a doll constantly with different weapons. When Buddy says “loser” it reminds me of how the game creator added voice affects into the game with a makes it very funny in my opinion. Getting cash is not the easiest but the more you play the more cash you get tons of cash to get new weapons. For starters with not much cash I’m glad the creator added “watch a add to use a free item to destroy Buddy” Witch I really like for starters. Just I really wish I didn’t have to go through so much adds and I feel like they need to add one more thing not to use for an add just so people have two choices instead of one if they do not want to watch an add. But they have a lot of stuff to me too use better so the game isn’t short to beat the game like other games like this game I am rating. Overall this game is pretty fun I rated it 4 stars because of the adds and the other stuff I have said earlier.

Finally, I can play this game again. I had so many memories of this game. Was it with the wait. I don’t think so. Many weapons now require you to watch ads or pay excessive amounts of gold. That’s bogus. Also reports of weapons costing gold when they were originally normal bucks. Ads now pop up and are stuck at the bottom of your screen when originally there were no ads whatsoever. Watch 100 videos to unlock this weapon. This is just stupid. You ruined an amazing game since you were corrupted by greed. Shameless reboot to get more money. Still some playability, but not worth it since the good cheap weapons now requires you to watch ads. There was one that costed about only 200 bucks and you have to watch 100 ads. Yeah seems fair. Also, many features are missing such as the 5 item bar at the top of your screen where you can quickly swap to another weapon and many weapons are not present. Until this game is restored to its awesome original self, I will not play this. This is stupid. So sad this game has been totally changed. Many of the 5 star reviews are people too infatuated with nostalgia and rate it only a few minutes after playing it. Open your eyes people.