Bloons Pop Reviews

First I just want to start off by saying overall this game is a lot of fun. It does have its issues though early on. I’m playing on an iPhone 12 Pro Max and this game absolutely drains battery life. Also there are a few bugs where you will lose your on fire status out of no where which is a big deal. Without the on fire status good luck beating levels. And even with with the on fire status your constantly watching ads to get 3 more shots so you don’t lose with it. This is the most ads ive ever watched for a ninja kiwi game but they still don’t seem overwhelming. Pro tip to always empty out the bloon containers by watching ads before playing when they are full as you waste the bloontonium. Great game and can’t wait to see where this games goes

Editing review as this game has been out for over a month and only had enough content for 2 weeks. Doesn’t seem like Ninja Kiwi is going to keep up with this game as they never update it. Sad to see as it was such a fun game. Have over 300 red Bloons and nothing to spend it on

I got this game recently and not even a few days in I have already encountered huge walls to climb over. At the beginning of the game, you only have a few types of shots. This makes it feel like you are more in control of your actions. As soon as you unlock all of them by getting to level 25 or so, the random factor takes over the game tenfold. Some balloons have effects where the multiple when popped, some say that damage from specifics shots won’t do anything, and some say that the balloons will become invisible and shots will go through them. Now you get a level where you have three full rows of balloons with each of those types all in one. The game tells you to use ice and explosive damage for the multiplying balloons, but also that you can’t use ice or explosive damage on that balloon. So you are stuck hoping to get lucky with the random shots the game decides to give you. You also have to grind bloonstones to progress the story of the game, but to get then you have to ether encounter something new or play a huge amount of time just to wait a 4hr timer. That also only give you about 8 stones when you need around 50-60 just for the second part of the story. I’d recommend playing the game until you hit level 50 or so. It’ll just be an annoyance past that.

I got this game after a friend had shown me about it. I’ve played other BTD games and thought this one might be worth investing time and energy into. So I tried it, got to about level 40 and started noticing some things that have made the game nearly unplayable or at least not enjoyable. As previous reviews have mentioned, there is not strategy to the game. Monkeys are randomly selected and depending on the load out, it could really make or break a match which is a hassle when all the best power ups are via your hot streak which sadly, resets and makes the game harder to progress in. It’s still satisfying watching the balloons get popped and it’s still satisfying seeing all the different monkey abilities but all the satisfaction is torn away the moment an ad appears. Which is all. The. Time. I’ve had the game for about a week and in my personal experience, I’ve had an ad play after every single round. It really takes away from the game as some of these ads can be pretty lengthy. Unfortunately I’m going to have to knock this down to a 2/5 simply because of the excess amount of ads and no way around it (I can’t even do the little cheat by turning of all connections on my phone because it’ll try to load an ad but I’ll only be met with a blank, black screen).

Reached level 60 and got bored. There's no actual strategy, because monkeys are randomly selected. Prices are expensive for crappy power ups, and I hate those 7 day/30 day "subscriptions". Are you guys that desperate for money? Just give me a permanent purchase, please. While I didn't have to purchase anything to get to level 60, I had to watch a lot of ads. Sometimes you get lucky with a powerful hero, sometimes you get a dart monkey with his worthless 3 darts. Sniper is also pretty useless. Churchill is the only hero who can clear the entire board, but he appears randomly. Gwendolin is also decent. But she's like the rest of the heroes who pop a few and disappear. The higher the level, the shorter time they stay on the board, yet Churchill will float all the way to the bottom (only if you do it in a tight side-to-side motion to make him bounce off the sides). Regrow bloons are just mean because they increase your counter and expand up into your red zone as you pop them. You can't look at the encyclopedia during a match, so they expect you to memorize everything? Would be better if we could choose from all of the monkeys, rather than 3 random ones.

As a long time Bloons TD fan I was excited to try this. The game is fun enough and carries over some of the tower mechanics into this plinko style game. I always appreciated in Bloon TD games that you could buy it and it was a fulsome game with new content but no ads after that. The problem here is while there aren’t ads initially, and you can watch ads for bonuses (standard) at some point when you get up in the levels (I’ve played over 100) you start getting pushed ads at the end of rounds which just ruins the whole game (you normally have the option to watch an ad to double rewards, but at some point you get them regardless). Additionally the game has a mechanic where if you win multiple round you get “fire” rewards which allow you to start with additional items, in the later rounds you won’t stand a chance without there… but you can also watch ads during a round to get more turns so it becomes almost impossible to lose a round but you are also often watching ads for an extra shot because losing those bonuses would just screw you so it’s somewhat risk less. Besides those elements it’s a well made game and the mechanics are fun lol.

As of Sept. 1st, 2021. The latest update has introduced ads to the game BEFORE each level starts (when you hit the play button) now. This is the line for me where I say it was fun while it lasted. It was already teetering when there were ads to get the multiplier post-level, an ad to get a roll to the daily pop, an ad to get a daily crap roll from the store, and an ad (twice) to get some extra monkeys (barring paying the $250 monkey bucks) during a level; some levels of which really have arbitrary difficulty.

Had this game since it launched, and made it to Wave 311 before this latest update. Was working on completing the final available area in the list (Monklantis), too.

But no more, there were a lot of ads before, but now it’s simply too many. It’s too ludicrous and far too push-heavy to getting you to buy the recurring “gold pass”. I’m disappointed, NinjaKiwi.

The game is a good time waster but it gets boring really fast. I like that you only lose life if you don’t beat the level, rather than using a life per game. I hope they don’t change this because I could easily spend an hour playing, as long as I don’t lose all my life. There used to be events to play if I ran out of life but now those are locked behind a Ninjakiwi account.

There’s also an issue with ads and lags, I don’t mind ads because this is a free to play game, but their ads will freeze and crash BloonsPop , or it will freeze and play twice or even three times! It’s honestly ridiculous. Also, if it does crash BloonsPop , the game counts it as a lost life, so you lose your on fire streaks and your life.

Sometimes the game will lag and darts will disappear so you can’t tell where they are going. Monkeys will also get stuck on a certain type, so I don’t know which monkey I’m using. For example,if I used a super monkey, visually it will show as a super monkey for the rest of the game but the powers are that of a ninja monkey.

It’s frustrating and I couldn’t find a place to report these issues on the game itself. I hope they come up with a patch these issues in the future.

This game seems very fun and engaging at first, until the progression becomes very slow and tedious, making you watch many ads just to have a chance at beating a level. The ramp up in difficulty is huge from the game becoming laughably easy at first and then suddenly only getting halfway through a level with the moves given to you. Once all the new characters are unlocked, the game just kind of stops becoming fun and getting the bloon gems take a long time to get. One way to fix this issue is to update the levels, they can be easy in the beginning, but certainly increase the number of turns you get in later levels to keep the game somewhat entertaining and rewarding. Secondly, the game doesn’t have much to it, I would try to find a way to create a sort of “deck” with the monkeys you have so you can make a well balanced deck that suits you. Also adding some sort of upgrades for the monkeys would help make the game more enjoyable to play because if you lose a level, you could upgrade a monkey that you need. Some monkeys are also way more overpowered than others, getting one dart monkey to kill 100 bloons doesn’t do too much. Great game and new take on the franchise but certainly not one of Ninja Kiwi’s best (at the moment).

Now I enjoy challenging and difficult games however some of the extreme levels feel UNFAIR as opposed to challenging and believe me there is a clear difference between those two words. I don’t think extreme levels should have an RNG element at all. Every shot has got to be fixed in order to learn and improve but instead, since every shot is random you are pretty much FORCED to watch an ad maybe once maybe twice. The worst feeling is watching two 40 second ads just to lose and retry again knowing even with an additional 6 shots I still couldn’t make it. Meaning the next time around I’m going to have to watch 2 more ads again. I made it to 100+ levels and that feeling of knowing I have to watch ads or lose is unbelievably ~~unfair~~ NOT challenging

This is a lot more well thought-out than I initially thought. I’d pay for a game like this. But the ad model gets frustrating. A few examples:

Eventually, you will reach levels that you can’t beat unless you use power-ups or play ads. If you get far enough, you get a generous flow of power-ups, but not generous enough to use on every level. So you’ll need to play ads. That’s bad enough. There should really always be a way to buy an ad-free experience. Separately, as with many iOS apps, depending on hardware and the random history of what you’ve done on your device since last restart, any multitasking has the potential to crash your game. There shouldn’t be severe consequences for this in a casual mobile game, and that’s true of most other games by this publisher. But here, it means you will lose your streak bonuses, which are more or less necessary to maintain. Now put these two problems together. Some rotated ads will by default open BloonsPop store. There is no way back except to multitask back to the game. And then it’s crashed. Too frustrating to continue, even though I’ve paid for some upgrades.

Update: level 86. Oh, there are thousands of levels lol. The difficulty curve has evened off. I have used a power up yet but I have paid in game monkey money to get the steak again. You lose the steak if you don't finish a game so never stark a game and then close BloonsPop . This limits the "two minutes here, two minutes there " playing ability unless they'd a continue I missed somewhere. They need a research option to power up the monkeys, especially the base monkeys. Upgrading is the heart and soul of bloons, if they don't add this feature I can see myself losing interest very soon. The streak kills the candy crush pickupability factor, research would balance that and improve on the formula.

Previous review :Played thru without a loss until level 40, more I'm stuck there and there's really nothing else to do but keep playing until I pass the level. They really need side missions and random mission generator instead of just having the main progression.. Also no way to play old levels to get stuff. They really need to add monkey leveling like in TD6

The gameplay was fun, but it was a let down in a few areas. The later levels require insane luck with shots and heroes or you could watch ads to get power-ups. If you choose to retry to get good luck, you're going to drain your lives. Once you run out of lives, you're either forced to stop playing the game entirely or watch ads. Which means once you get to the later levels, you almost have to watch ads to progress.
On top of that, you have "optional" extra rewards you can get if you watch an ad. But most of the time, even if you don't select that, an ad plays anyway.
This game also crashes and freezes way more frequently than any other mobile game. Sometimes it will even crash/freeze while playing an ad. If it crashes during a level, you cannot continue where you left off and the life you spent is gone.
It's a cool concept, but falls victim to every other terrible mobile game. The first few levels are fun, but definitely not worth playing after that.

Let’s get one thing straight: this game is fun. For a little while. Then you quickly reach “unfair” territory, where you either have to watch an ad or you’ll lose.

So many of the monkeys are underpowered, notably the Ninja and Bomb Shooter, and so many Bloon types, such as Camo Bloons, are irritating and poorly balanced.

Most of the Bloon types in this game worked in BTD6 because you had access to so many more options. In this game, what do you have? Only 3 RANDOMLY SELECTED cards. Sure, you get to see two cards ahead in your deck, but what if you’re faced with countless Zebra Bloons and only have explosive-based monkeys and/or an Ice Monkey? It’s awful.

Also, heroes. Great idea, and it works decently well. But Obyn needs a buff. Every other hero works pretty well, but Obyn’s too weak to really be of use in later levels.

My recommended changes: Add a system that allows you to upgrade your monkeys. Reduce the time that Camo Bloons are camouflaged. Make the Ninja’s attack area bigger and give it one more attack per use. Make the Bomb Shooter destroy more layers on hit and make the explosion radius bigger. Add a way to switch monkeys from your “next monkeys” bit into your hand, maybe on e per turn.

Overall, a decent start, but I expected better of NK at launch. Here’s hoping that rebalancing occurs soon.

This game is pretty good at the beginning, but once you unlock all towers and heroes it just becomes an boring grind through levels, as there isn’t much of a goal besides that. Purchasing buildings in the various areas has no purpose, and the towns only give you power ups when completed. This wouldn’t be a problem if there was some game modes or something like that to do once you’ve finished the “story”. The team mode is alright, but it would be way better if you could make your own team, inviting people so you can do challenges with people you know rather than random, seemingly ai-generated people. Another problem is that most of the levels are pretty easy, but the ones that are hard are pretty much impossible without ads.

I’m having fun with the Bloons style popper game. They have lots of cool merge units that are upgraded versions of the classic monkeys and towers we know and feature lots of free to play mechanics that are actually attainable without paying. The main thing is you can use your monkey cash similarly to other Bloons games to buy powerup which help you complete levels. My only gripe is that these are the same time gated progression methods we have all seen before so that aspect of the formula isn’t new. I like that you can choose to watch an ad to amp your bonus round rewards at the end of levels or just not watch the ad for standard rewards, but I HATE that if I don’t watch an ad often enough I’ll choose the standard reward and they will play an ad with no bonus reward and I could have just chosen the extra rewards if I had known. Very frustrating. Otherwise the game is fun if your okay playing only once or twice a day due to the timers on rewards refreshing. 8/10 Would pop again

When I first got this game it was simple and had a good concept and the gameplay was fun pass a day and it’s not too Grindy most “Pop the thing by throwing something at it” games get Grindy after like a hour but this one doesn’t get too Grindy where it’s pay to win or watch ads to get so or so but this game doesn’t have that stuff so it makes it more fun by no pay to win or watch like a thousand ads to get so and so or this and this but this game just keeps it simple also this is my first review so hope the developer responds and I’m just happy that one of my favorite developers made a game different then the other games the developers made.

This is my review.

I came from Btd6 not expecting much about this game in my mind I was thinking this is just going to be a worthless cash grab. But I am glad to be wrong I adore this game. You can really tell how much effort love and care NinjaKiwi put into this game. This is undoubtedly my favorite one of these puzzle poping games I’ve played and forever will be. But for as much as I love this game there are a few things that I would hope could be fixed in the future 1. Lag when fast forwarding 2. The content becomes repetitive after you unlock everything (maybe more monkeys and Bloons??) 3. Balancing (overall this game is pretty well balanced but there are some places where monkeys fall short and I would like to see bomb shooters to have a use other than ok at group Bloons. Other than that though I love this game and can’t wait for future content updates!

Quite fun and puzzling, it falls into the same pit as other mobile games with ads and micro transactions but both and minimal, like seriously the micro transactions are pretty useless, but the ads give bonus stuff, such as extra shots and chances, but this is only needed if you are bad (like me). Anyways onto gameplay. It is extremely challenging in some sections and not in others. Relies slightly on rng not dicking you over on some really hard levels but this can be bypassed. Art and sound are amazing and make this so highly rated imo. You will see the puzzle gameplay once you get into the game, it’s not fully balanced, but it’s fun in that way. Leaderboards are a nice goal to work towards. The lack of Bloonstones is a bit annoying at times but it’s maybe just because I rush it, and I’m slightly early game. Not really much else to say. I wish they let you edit your villages you made though.
It has its ups and downs but overall I would rate it highly, maybe I have some bias for the art and series in general but eh, worth your time.

It might seem like those generic pay to win match the color of the bubble game but it’s much different than that. The gameplay runs like this. The bloons destroyed the town (somehow, this still isn’t explained.) and your set to repair it better than ever using bloonstones and money. You get these by playing shooter “mini games” where you line up a shot that bounces around the walls to hit the targets, the multistacked, multicolored, bloons. You can use different monkeys with special ability’s to wipe them out, and it also features a merge system where if you have two of the same monkey in your first three slots, you can combine them into a “mega” monkey. Overall 5 out of 5 go play it, and of course it features some in game ads and purchases, but this is to support the devs and its not pay to win, just some helpful rewards. So try it yourself, and see if you like it. Essay over.

I love Bloons Pop! Its a very addictive game with lots of luck and RNG, but not so much that it is all luck. It requires some skill, strategy, and planning to pop all those pesky Bloons. I wish there was more! I can really envision and visualize this game as a tower defense or card game as well. Adding onto the prior suggestion, I think a Town-Building style game would be such an incredible idea and would fit with the style of Bloons Pop! I’m saying that the rebuilding aspect of important Monkey Cities in this game would look out of this world if there was upgrade unlocking, PvP, and buildings! If you folks at Ninja Kiwi are planning on a future continuation of this franchise and expanding to different categories, that would be just swell and wonderful news!

Another thing to add is the beautiful art style! First off, it’s a 3D style which is difficult to pull off on mobile devices. Secondly, it Pops (get it?) out from the background and has a extravagant cartoonish style that I personally think would make even the people of the cartoon monopoly and headquarters of Cartoon Network jealous! It sounds completely out of the picture, but I think they would be open to collaborating on a Bloons franchise game! Maybe the characters of Steven Universe or Adventure Time could be the major focus.