Drop The Number : Merge Puzzle Reviews

by Wiseguys77

Played this game as an add and it looked pretty fun. Downloaded the game and realized all of its problem. For such a simple game that they expect people to be able to play in an ad without the tutorial the actual game has a super redundant tutorial any person with half a brain coulda figured out. So starting the game my first 5 minutes were wasted. Every time you get a 1048, 2096, etc you get an ad. If your lucky the ad will play and your game will be fine. Most of the time you have to completely restart or the ad will cause the game to seriously slow causing it to be unplayable. Most of the upgrades are pointless too and cost coins. If you spend 100 coins to see the next block doesn’t matter because seeing that you got 5 64 blocks in a row followed by 5 128’s and then followed by 7 2’s doesn’t make it feel and better when you lose. Also the game does not feel like the blocks are randomly generated at all by the amount of duplicates or going 20 blocks in a row without seeing a single 2 or 4 block. Last game I download off an ad again.

by Tholr1530

Fun game. But still very frustrating that DropTheNumber does not consistently maintain your progress and will simply start a new game even though you hadnt finished your first game. And this is still happening even though I got the paid version. Also, I know that these apps are add supported so I don’t mind the adds. But But this particular app has soooo many adds - and does not work without wifi and eats up to much data outside wifi. And this is for the paid version!

UPDATE: Problem still persists and worse sometimes right in the middle of a game, if an add is somehow interrupted by a phone call or any other life event, instead of just restarting the add or watching a new add, the game gets reset and will restarts from the beginning. This has happened to me several times and in the middle of a point that took me a long time to build up to! It is obvious that the game is designed to REQUIRE repeated in app purchases to continue a game! That should not be the case if you paid for the game already!

by Ayo_urmom

If you think of downloading this game I would recommend reading the reviews, I downloaded this like 2 days ago and it is just so laggy… First off every time I click to play the game it shows the “super” loading screen or whatever and it never loads to the actual game. I’ve also read reviews that once you get a certain number there is an ad and after you watch the ad you will most likely have to restart your game or it will cause it to be really slow. But sometimes it could be fine. Honestly some people say the game is great but for me it’s not. Also earlier when I said it never actually loads in the game , I checked all my games already and they work fine , it’s not my wifi or anything!!! When I see the ad to play this game , the ad actually works better than the actual game. So next time if you think of downloading an app check the reviews!!!

by BayBayBay97030

TLDR; I get an ad when i press START, that causes me to delete DropTheNumber , not give you money.

Nov 7th 2022
The nature of this type of "endless" game is that you can play for extended periods of time until the difficulty gets to be too much or you're overwhelmed with a bad move you made and weren't able to fix it, there is always an actual natural end point to a play session.
BUT this game decided that once you hit one of their check points (big numbers) it gives you the option to share as if its a big accomplishment, or earn only 10 coins and a button that i thought would give me ad skips (i still dont know what it is), no matter what you do you get an ad. This game uses them at all points possible making for a SUFFOCATING experience. The game itself is good but this much clutter shows how desperate they are, people who are invested in their games will spend money on power ups and things that will advance their game if they deem it worth it. Thats just not gonna happen with a game with this many ads. I know that you can pay to remove ads, i think most people would even if it was just the one SURROUNDING THE SCREEN and an end of level one.
I get an ad when i press START, that causes me to delete DropTheNumber , not give you money. It's like you hate the people playing your game and you hate that they want to play it.

by Kelli_1971

This has been a nice way to relax for a couple weeks. I really want to like this game, and a lot of it is great. It has a Tetris feel but with numbers instead of shapes, so cool idea.
The ads are insane. After every big move, there’s an ad. And they’re all so long - most are around 30 seconds with no way to skip. Half the time the X for the ads are so small or even completely hidden you feel like you can’t continue. Too much for just a casual game to play.
And then my poor phone wants to act sluggish anytime I’ve played the game recently. I can’t just switch back and forth with this game and texting or something because my phone moves so slow. The only exception is when I turn my phone to airplane mode. But seriously, it ruins my phone til I restart and it destroys my battery too. Not worth all this, I’ll go back to candy crush or something.

by E_piphany

I did my homework and read prior reviews. But, I had a glimmer of hope. The developers only care about money. You watch ads more than you play the game. Even with options that imply there are no ads, there’s an ad. I understand that ads pay for the development of the game. But, THIS is ridiculous! When you click “start” to play. Guess what? You guessed it, an ad. Developers, listen to your customers. There is a healthy balance. I play an unpaid Wordscapes like I breathe (innate). Anyway, I know when I say this you will reply anyway, with hope that others will see your view and to display developer concern….ANYWAY, I’m deleting immediately; after only 10 minutes of play. I know I’m not the first and won’t be the last. But, there are too many other games being developed to be stuck on a game with developers that are “stuck on stupid.”

by 11232453

look, I’m a game dev, I get it. We all need to eat. But this game is basically a scummy trap to get boomers to waste their time and generate ad revenue. You play until you reach 1024–and then you sit through a 2 minute ad break while tapping ineffectually at the (minuscule) close/next button. Half the time, you end up opening DropTheNumber Store to bring you to the download page of whatever third rate knock off of a knock off app that buys ad space on mobile games.

After the ad finally closes, you immediately lose because you’re knocked out of the flow of the game by swiping through the ad. It’s frustrating, to say the least. BUT THATS NOT ALL, NO, THATS NOT THE END OF YOUR TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS. NOOO. Then you have to either forfeit coins, or search around for the exit button, go into a different interface, and then hit the restart button.

Whoever designed this hates people.

by Fklwmn

I used to love this game. It’s addictive and very relaxing sand I would play while listening to audiobooks. After the last update, most of the ads come with sounds (some very inappropriate if you’re around kids while playing or in a public space) ON. I have all audio turned off in the game settings, but that does not seem to help. Some ads can be muted manually but some can’t be silenced at all and all off them turn my audiobook off so that I have to switch out of the game to turn the book back on, which can trigger ANOTHER ad when entering the game. This game went from my go to game to a gone I play occasionally until that first ad comes on and reminds me why I hate it now. I don’t hate ads themselves, but an ad that interrupts anything else I am doing prompts me to stop playing immediately. Very disappointing to lose a formerly favorite game.

by YuppitsmeLori

I don’t mind advertisements—and I don’t mind waiting to watch them (not really, but I’m not paying to not watch them. However, now you have ads that spin from left to right and then spin from right to left, to show all 3 PAGES of their ad. Family Dollar store is an example of one of these ads. What I want you to understand is that certain ads that move quickly can make people sick. I personally get very nauseous from ads that move quickly or spin WHILE I’M TRYING TO PLAY. Why do you have to bombard the actual FIELD OF PLAY with these ads? Not cool, guys. Please don’t suggest I pay the money to get rid of the ads. I can’t afford to pay that.

There is no way to change the ad, or to complain about a certain ad.

I AM NOT ALONE. There are many people who get motion sick.

I hope you’ll send me an email to inform me, if you decide to fix the issue. I can’t afford to get physically sick, or get a bad headache, so the game is gonna sit there while I wait. It’s a shame, because I really love playing the game. Before you added those moving ads, this game got me through my first 12 weeks of chemo.

Please consider investigating this—you’ll find out that you may have lost many people. Sometimes so much motion is too much.

by Cristi G

I very quickly became very addicted to this game, so much so that the first day I played it for seven hours straight (I checked), deleted it because I was playing it too much, and immediately downloaded it again the next day. It’s a fun game that would easily be worth five stars, but holy god the bugs. So many bugs. Giant, freaky, StarshipTrooper type bugs that spit acid or breathe fire or whatever, it’s been forever since I’ve seen that movie.

The game freezes a lot. It crashes a lot. It slows down a lot, then freezes, then crashes, and half the time it crashes you have to start over. I spent the last half hour trying to play except it’s frozen and remains unplayable despite several force-quits.

Unless there’s some kind of remedy for the endless crashes and bugs, the level of enjoyment I get out of the game is going to be dwarfed by my frustrated with it, and the next time I delete it it’ll be for good.

by YO8G

Loved this game until it started locking up. I did pay to remove ads because i liked this game so much. That definitely helped make the game more enjoyable. I understand you still have to watch ads for certain advantages (unless you spend real money when you don’t have enough game money) BUT after an ad plays, the game locks up, I have to kill it and then I am forced to watch the ad again. In some instances, I have lost my in game money too. Here’s an example. I watch an ad to replay my lowest score in the tournament. there is no getting around that. ok fine. now i can watch ads for boosters. I might pay for the one (use 100 in game coins, not cheap btw) and then watch an ad for the next boost and after ad plays, black screen and no returning to game. I have to force close it and when i go back, not only am I out those 100 coins but now i have to start by watching ad to replay that low score. i end up in a loop at times and it seems to be getting progressively worse. i tried playing without the boosters and i can’t rank in the tournaments as well so with that, i am close to being done here. It’s a shame really because this little game was a highlight when i sit with. y coffee in the morning. Let me know if you fix this problem. And btw, the hunting ad is extremely offensive and grotesque.

by Peter-b-y

The game is really fun and addicting and the concept is great. I love that there’s a paid ad-less version, but having said that the game’s biggest difficulty is fighting the controls - they’re very unresponsive AND inconsistent. Sometimes you’ll hold the finger on the screen before the block appears and suddenly it’ll immediately drop instead of letting you move it, other times you hold the finger on the screen and not only does the block not move, it doesn’t respond at all until you lift the finger and place it down again. In addition to this, the tendency is to run your finger across the bottom so you don’t put it over the square you are trying to see, but the problem is that across the bottom are paid power ups that keep popping up because you keep accidentally pressing them while playing the game.
Fix those things and it’ll be a 5 star game.

by Eminetalic

I’m usually totally fine (if not supportive of) free apps using ads for revenue— how else would they pay their developers? That said, I’ve never seen an app use ads quite like this. In addition to the usual video ads (sometimes halfway through a level?) and banners at the top/bottom of the screen, there are also pop up windows that periodically cover menu options at the end of each game. It’s early 2000s internet nostalgia, but not in a good way. Since this is a game that’s meant to be played on a small screen, the amount of information obscured is particularly egregious. I would love to support the developers of DropTheNumber by watching ads, but the old-timey format actually makes navigation and gameplay pretty difficult.

by Danthepianoman1234

I’ve already left a review talking about how there were so many bugs with the ads, but the bugs disappeared after a few days of playing (idk if it was my phone or the game and the developers fixed this or not). Now that the game is relatively smooth, there is one massive problem: the ads. There aren’t many but the anticipation of the ads is what is the most frustrating. Like usual there are ads before and after you play most of the time, but during the game there are ads every time you hit 1024, 2048, and 4096, and it gets aggravating pretty easily because you KNOW you will get an ad when you reach that. Please developers, keep ads at the beginning and end of playing. I’m pretty close to only playing this game every once in a while because of this.

by What Do U Want Here

I love this game. There’s something satisfying about combining your blocks. BUT 1) the low numbers (e.g. 2s, 4s) get very annoying once you’ve gotten good at the game and want to increase your high score and 2) don’t get excited if you get a high score of participating in the tournaments- it’s very glitchy and doesn’t always save. The flip side to that is when you get a low score and doesn’t save. Still irritating, though, since you never know what’s going to save and good luck accumulating points at Level 1 through the tournaments. I keep trying hoping going to higher levels will eliminate lower numbered blocks, but am about ready to look for something g better made if it keeps ignoring my scores!

by Queenofelves9

Hello! If you are reading this, you must be thinking about downloading DropTheNumber , and yes, please do so. It’s hard and all but I think you will enjoy it. Anyway, I don’t think it is necessary to put rewards for watching ads. They also rated it 12+? I know, I know, it’s weird talk about this and all, but what if you’re an age younger and want to download it? Seriously weird, right? Sometimes when I play this game I try to make towers and end up with a 4096 on the bottom, a 2048 in the middle, and a 1024 on top, and I only have so much space left to build the rest of the tower to make a 8182. So maybe you can put one more row of space? I’m really sorry I am asking for so much, but I just need as much as possible to make the game a little more fun(even though it already is). Thank you so much.

by Triple Z Roblox Player

So I love this game but it’s not as addicting as it said in the ad. When I saw the ad it let me play a round and it was more addicting this is less fun. And WAYYYYYYYYY too many ads. I would rate this a 5 but not today. I’m not saying it’s terrible it’s just not as addicting as the ad showed me. And I hate ads so the fact that it lies to me just proves that all these games have cons in them no matter how much the ad convinces you. So I just wanted to say this I hope the ads in this game really decrease bc it’s so annoying and my whole family has to hear me complain and my bf is so tired after work and every single night I tell him and he is Sooooooooooo annoyed so please fix these problems.

by JJ The ReVeiwer

I like drop the number but it’s kinda hard and laggy. I can barely move the block. I think the game space should be longer so the game if longer because the game is fun. But over of I love the game. The graphics are great and the gameplay is fun. But I do have a few things that could help the game. Maybe a reason why you are dropping the blocks and each holiday the theme could change. Like maybe you have to drop the blocks to save someone or something like maybe at Thanksgiving it could be a turkey and at Christmas it could Santa and so on and so on. And maybe you could add a multiplayer server so friends can play together. Or a online server. But if you don’t want to do that it’s fine because I like your game the way it is and I love playing it. And if you would at least consider my ideas that would be great. Thank you for reading this. Have a good day. Bye! ✌🏼

by Purple Review 0731

So, here’s the sitch. Love the game, loved it since I first got off the ad. Sooo fun! It just challenges your mind with numbers while still being fun! I try to find that kind of stuff these days with apps but it’s REALLY hard to find! Just one thing… the ads!!!! I know that so many people are saying this in the reviews, but it CAN’T BE SAID ENOUGH!!!! There are sooo many of them! :( I would play this every living second of my every living day if there weren’t so many ads! I mean, sure, wordscapes is fun, but people, can’t you find a game that doesn’t have 10,000 wordscapes these days??!! Yeah, so that’s that. Love the game though! Happy Merging!! 💖

by Random_gameryt226

Okay, so I was playing Word Scapes when the ad for this game popped up, I was excited to play the demo ad version because I always end up enjoying just playing this simple merge game. Once I got to about 2 full minutes of just merging numbers, I ended up forgetting what I was even playing before this,(XD) and so I went on to download the game itself to see a whole lot more to this game. Yes this game has ads, but coming from living off of free games, you’re bound to see a couple here and there, that part I can deal with, but aside from that, this game is oh my gosh... so dang addictive, but I think the piggy plank is a little unnecessary. I don’t think it’s very fair that I merged a number for coins, but then not adding it to my actual currency balance. But other than that, thank you for introducing me to this simple convenient time-consuming game, Happy merging!

by Dit Dot Dit

It wouldn’t let me put zero stars Because this game is terrible oh so There is so many ads it’s fake you shouldn’t get this There’s an appropriate you shouldn’t let your kids have this I mean I just wanna write boo so I’m gonna do it👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼 I HATE THIS SO MUCH 👎🏼. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Just kidding it’s a really good game I love it that’s right let your kids have this i’ve been playing this game since I was six and I’m about to be nine so yeah I’m glad to read this part downs as so I’m gonna give 1 million see Azeris sizes likes now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 This is how many stars that should get ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

by #Cozy Sunday!

You should download this game I think it doesn’t need any changes and I am addicted to this game I’ve have been playing for almost 2 days now I have not played a different game all day I almost lat my breakfast get cooled this morning I am that addicted to this game one thing I would like that is a pause button is there is one I just haven’t seen it but if there is not it would my nice to have a pause button cause some times I just want to pause the game for just a few second you now but other wise I think this a fantastic game and hats why I pot 5 stars for this and I really hope the creators of the game read what I wrote cause I would really like to see a pause button added to this game will we are playing have a nice day hope you like this game just as much as I do!

by Ugyuoygiou

So first I saw an ad of it and I loved it so much I played it for 30 mins I decided to download the game and after the ad finished I played it and saw the daily spin and got 100 coins I already had 600 coins it was awesome I was super happy to click start and play it there was a tutorial I followed the steps and played it now this game has changed my life and I play it all the time I’m so happy this game exists huge shoutout to the creators of this game I still play it today thanks so much for all your confidence and effort you put into this game and it doesn’t have too much ads or to little ads it’s so perfect and whoever read this review this far I hope you have the best day ever may your life be blessed in the name of god everyone have a great day!-Jordyn ❤️🧡💛💜💙💚🖤🤍🤎💗 YOU ARE UNIQUE AND SPECIAL!!!!!!!

by Anonymous8978987

I just want to start off with saying “WOW.” I’m used to buying cheap, knock-off games that aren’t like the ads at all, but this was not a letdown. It’s a really great game! I play it when I have extra free time and it’s super addicting. Once you start, you can’t stop until you lose. Then you might rage quit 😅 but hey, who doesn’t? There are ads, but what games don’t have ads? The ads are definitely not as frequent as most other games, which is awesome. I love that there is a leaderboard which pushes you to work hard. Keep making games!!! Awesome!

by Holyshitplease

I just wanna start off by saying I almost never write reviews unless a game makes me. This game, however, earned the five stars i’m giving it. Not only is is a great brain workout, it just doesnt bombard you with ads like every other game. Sure, it has ads but they’re always very short and sweet unless you’re looking to watch an ad for a prize. It has some nice features like the hammer (it allows you to get rid of a block) and everything can be bought with coins for a fair price. I’m actually okay with watching ads to get coins too, because this game is just that enjoyable. It’s not buggy and one of my favorite parts of it is the fact that if you have to leave suddenly, you can pick up your progress where you left it if you so desire. Amazing mobile game, keep it up.