ZEN Block™-tangram puzzle game Reviews

by Ttub_holeSurfer

Starts off with an interesting idea (that still has potential) but you fly through the levels without any noticeable increase in difficulty and enjoyment quickly goes down. I found myself not even thinking or really paying attention through most levels.

Once you get past the first handful of ‘introductory’ levels it becomes obvious that this ‘game’ is just another advert spam marketing ploy. After every 2-3 quick levels you get forced to watch basically 2 advertisements for some other game etc. Its clear there was no intention to actually design real levels and that they just want you to fly through to the next ‘ad break’.

If this were an actual game the developers put meaningful time into to make interesting levels that actually required thought it could be good game. It’s sad because way too many games (on both phone and console) are like this now and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.

by Nunyah Biznee

As other reviewers have mentioned, this game is too easy. I kept expecting it to become more challenging, but I’m on level 230 and it’s practically as easy and level 1. Almost all puzzles take less than 20 seconds to solve. The 3-4 most challenging took me maybe 2 minutes. ZENBlock displays predatory ads and scams aimed at duping people into giving out personal information and infecting their devices with viruses. I was so overwhelmed with ads from the start that I paid the $2.99 to get rid of them only to be disappointed that the levels never became challenging. So be ready to solve a puzzle in 20 seconds only to watch 45 seconds of ads, then solve another puzzle in 20 seconds and watch another 45 seconds of ads. A total waste of time and money. It’s clear the devil-opers just created this to spam people and made no real effort to create and interesting or challenging game. ZENBlock Store should create stricter rules to avoid such nonsense. I want my money back.

by Elolvido

It’s not very ‘zen’ to have this many ads. One on nearly every puzzle page, a pop up after finishing advertising their other games, and obligatory 30 second ads every couple puzzles. For a game so simple and easy to program/develop, I’m not sure what the rationale could be other than greed.

The puzzles don’t get very challenging either. I’m here on level 63 (and about to delete d/t ads), and it’s still just a couple triangles with obvious places.

I downloaded because I remember tangrams from elementary school, as a challenging and fun puzzle. I know they get more difficult than what’s on offer, and they’ve been around for years so it’s not as though you have to think up new puzzles or anything...

by NOBODY KNOWS ME!

1. There are way to many ads. I get that you are trying to entice us into buying the two dollar no ads one up thing, but some of us are children with parents who won’t let us buy anything in games. Also, it is hardly fair that the people who can’t buy the no ads have to watch about 200 ads before we can beat the game. Seriously guys.
2. There is no way to switch levels. My friends want to play this game. Level 453 is to high for them. Also I like to keep my own progress instead of other people doing it for me. I also have 6 and 7 year old cousins, and level 453 is to complex for them. Please fix that.
3. I went to my home screen and played on another game for a while. I closed all my apps, entered Zen, and then I went from level 365 to level one! From what I saw of the other reviews, that has happened before. I was on level 365, and it has taken me three months to get up to level 453 again. Please fix this. Thank you.

by I Am A Potatoooooooooooooo

Ok ok before people hate me hear me out I love love absolutely LOVE L.O.V.E LOVE mind and puzzle games,BUT! ZENBlock has so many adds. At the end of every puzzle I complete it says “watch a video for 100+ coins or a prize” but I just like the puzzles so I skip it and TRY to do a another puzzle BUT NOOOOOO it makes me watch a video. I think if it makes you without clicking on the button to watch the adds you should get like 500,000,000 for your suffering. HA! Jk 😂 but still I think we should get like 20 coins for every time an add comes on. Even though I talked some crap about ZENBlock/game I still like the game/app and the great difficulty. Thanks for listening if your still here.😘

by Technological Support

To get around the problem of there being so many adds it’s simple just turn off your WiFi and a thing called roaming data to do this just go to settings and click on WiFi and turn that off to turn off roaming data just go to cellular data (or something like that) and click on roaming data and turn off that I know you’ll have to do it every time, but there will be no more adds (I’m pretty sure this will work but if not I’m sorry). Oh yeah and make sure you turn your data and WiFi back on

by Owoshh Usu

So I downloaded ZENBlock and now I’m on level 376 and this game doesn’t have problems of rinse, cycle, and repeat like any other game in this genre, so there’s where the three stars cane from and if it wasn’t like that it would’ve gotten a flat out “zero stars” now I downloaded this game originally because it was titled “the most relaxing game” but putting ads every two to three levels is just plain annoying and it’s not even relaxing, I find my self getting more angry at the game than I started off the day/ending the day, so you need to give people the OPTION to turn off ads for less than $3 because not a lot of people are going to pay $3 out of nowhere to get no ads but I mean I see why they do it though and if u just put less ads , say every 8-10 levels that would be so much better than every 2-3 puzzles

Sincerely, a very agitated 14 year old - have a great day and take this to heart

by Shyjoyfulgirl

Okay- I absolutely loved the game. Very relaxing and easy, of course.
But- it does have a few flaws. I’ll list them:
1. No Level Selection - it just bugs me that I can’t go back to earlier levels if I want to play them, plus I can’t see how many levels there even is.
2. Levels Reset?? - I don’t know if this has happened to anybody else but, I left the game for a bit. I don’t know why, I just stopped playing for a few days. I was around level 270 when I stopped playing, and when I entered ZENBlock again I’m suddenly at level 1?? I can’t go back to the level I was on without going through all those levels again.
I’m hoping these reasons are noticed and get fixed. Thank you to whoever read this.

by UrGurlEva

So when I got this game I was excited for the puzzles to get harder and harder and harder but once I got to level 259 I stopped. It was like the puzzles got easier as I went. I was ready for a challenge not some dumb puzzle that a 3 yr old can do. I would not recommend to get this game and lose storage on your phone and waste time playing this thinking your going to get better at puzzles and get a challenge because your not! If you like easy and repeating puzzles then this is the game for you but it’s not a game for most people. So I rate this “puzzle” game a 2/10 rating. I just want challenges and more levels ahead.

Goodbye
whoever is reading this.

by ShadleGuy

The puzzles are in a lot of ways lacking. I understand it's difficult to design so many puzzles with the simple and basic design of what you're going for, but a lot of them are just place the triangle in the triangle hole. You can't go back to a previous puzzle, and the settings feel really restricting. There's no customization of anything whatsoever, and there's no freedom of picking any puzzles. I'd suggest the ability to change the background and puzzle piece design, and allow users to create their own puzzles and upload them. I feel like this would be very easy to implement, and would give a lot more to ZENBlock .

by Chantilly Sharon

I just found this game and am enjoying it. I love logic games. I don't mind ads if they are short. But since these are long I paid $2 to be ad-free. I suggest annoyed players spring for $2. I don't need a timer. I'd like to see just one change - currently it only allows me to play while the screen is portrait but only one way. I need to charge my iPad often and would like to be able to turn the device so the cord plug doesn't have to be at the bottom. (I.e. just turned 180°). Thanks.

by ARC890

Why did you change the colors the color before was fine I actually liked the color but now the colors are really weird and look terrible that’s my opinion some people may love it some people may hate it but I prefer the color you guys had before now I’ll probably not be playing it as much now because of the color and etc. If you want to change it then thank you but if you won’t then it’s war! Jk but please bring the old color back

by SuperSharkLady

First of all... I LOVE ZENBlock! I’m a person who uses SO MANY HINTS, and it used to be that you earned 100 coins for watching a video. But they changed it from 100 to 25. Could you please make it that you earn something like 50 coins or 75? I’ve been reading some of the other reviews, I agree and disagree with all. I agree that there are too many adds and that Zen is a very fun, addictive, and challenging game. I also agree that there should be some way to see previous levels. I’m currently on level 933 (Probably not for long) and I’ve noticed that some levels are super easy and that’s why people are deleting it, and some levels are SOOO HARD. I get that these puzzles are challenging your brain and can be very relaxing, but also VERY STRESSFUL. Overall, the game is very good. Some updates should be done and I do recommend Zen for all ages.

From,
A person who is (almost) completely satisfied with ZENBlock and it’s functions

by Shashley0-0

I’m a person who really likes games this. I really enjoyed this game! It’s hard sometimes! So I use a hint. The problem is... In my opinion, the hint costs way too much! I don't know if I'm just overreacting but they cost alot. Maybe just 100? Not 200. I wasted all my coins for a hint. And they only give a piece of the puzzle. If you ever want to get this game, maybe get somewhat 600 coins to buy hints. Other than that, this game is really awesome! But can you guys fix that problem? I hope people have the same review as me. So can you fix this? I just really want this to be the game that I would LOVE! So maybe to get better reviews make hints less expensive! :p

by Blondie1119

I LOVE this game. But it needs more levels. You might be expecting me to say something like there on 350 levels and it needs more, but no, that’s not it. Once you get past like 500 levels start to repeat. There is a good amount of variety keeping the game fun but it’s a little bit repetitive. But that can be said about most puzzle games. In addition the game needs more actual levels. I was waiting to get to level 1000 then call it quits but when I reached level 889 it stopped me and said "Coming Soon". So I love this game, but it just needs more levels.

by Lkk1739

I thought the reviewers were perhaps exaggerating about the annoying ads, but they really are ridiculous. Not only do they pop up after about two or three puzzles, but there’s always at least two and sometimes one of them will be 30 seconds and then a shorter one. It completely takes any enjoyment out of the game. I’ve only done 18 and I’m deleting it. Too bad because it seems like a great game.

by AlonnaT

I use to play Letsans but the developer of that have didn’t upgrade ZENBlock to support the 32GB app size change that came with iOS 11 so I was forced to give up my favorite game so I’m really happy I get to play this new game it’s just like Letstans game. Could you add a timer optional option so we can see how long it takes us to beat our personal time. And can you make a screen where we can see how many puzzles we have completed and how many we have left to do and cane you make puzzles in categories like kids , juniors, hard and by color matching

by Spades369

I agree with other reviews shown that there are to many ads but ZENBlock features a great mix of easy and very difficult tangrams. You will sometimes use the free hints given to solve more difficult tangrams. Today I solved level four hundred eighty and when I hit NEXT instead of getting level four eighty one it said Coming Soon. Bummer. I left ZENBlock on my iPad and wait for new levels. I waited awhile then deleted ZENBlock , reloaded it, resolved all the levels again, waited awhile again, loaded it a third time and again solved all levels. Now what do I do?

by Unicorn🍩🍫❤️

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by JH70706

There was a bug that reset my progress down to Level 1 after an update, but that was fixed with the very next update, thankfully.

I saw a review that indicated that there were too many ads. I disagree... they were there every few levels. If you find that there are too many, perhaps you’re playing for too long. Time to close the game and do something more constructive? :-) Seriously, though, I don’t mind supporting a developer of a good game by purchasing a reasonably priced no-ad upgrade. I like being paid for my work, and I’m sure the devs do too. I probably played over a hundred levels before purchasing the ad free upgrade BECAUSE the ads weren’t that intrusive. A good balance of ads to gameplay and a decently priced upgrade to get rid of the ads.

by Nj777jn

I absolutely love Zen, I’ve beat the game once with hints; and I’m on my way to doing it again without hints. The concept and simplicity of the game make it a go-to for any moment of free time one can spare. However, there are some issues. First of all, the ads. I understand that an app benefits a lot from ads, and I’m okay with a few here and there. But the amount of ads this game had is almost unbearable. With an ad after almost *every* level, the fun of the game is almost stripped away completely. I’ve been very close to deleting ZENBlock for this sole reason. Second of all, the coins. The coins in Zen provide a motivation to beat more levels and allows one to buy hints. When I first downloaded the game, watching an ad (by choice) would give the user 100 coins. And a hint cost 100 coins. A fair deal, watch and ad, get a hint. I was happy with it. But then the prices and ad worth changed. At first, the hint changed to cost a person 200 coins, and that was it. I wasn’t delighted, but it was still an all right deal. Then, however, and ad would only give a player 50 coins, then it changed to 25! This is a but outrageous.

So, in the end, this game is good for you and your brain, but the ads and ridiculous coins do make it challenging to keep at some points.