Tile Connect Reviews

The first day of playing, I enjoyed and didn’t mind the ads. I was still getting a feel for the game and wasn’t familiar with how often the ads popped up.

Well a few days in and I’m over the crazy, ridiculous amount of ads. You press pause, and you are approached with an ad before resuming the game. You want to go the home page, well you gotta watch another ad. You finish a game, hold on here’s two more ads to watch before you can move to the next level.

I understand the ad game is a business and they gotta make their money someway but man! Do you really need to watch an ad after finishing a game within 20 seconds, even though you just watched one 20 seconds ago? Unbelievable!

And the process just to get out of an ad that you already finished watching is another story. You would think after watching an ad for so many seconds, you would be given the option to exit out and continue with you game. Welp nope! Not that easy. You literally have to press the double arrows that appear to be the exit, only to find out that you have been taken to TileConnect Store, to press done, and then you are given the X to exit out of the ads.

The in app purchase is so aggressive! They throw all these ads at you so that you can give in and just buy the darn game! What happened to the games that gave you the option to watch the ads? When it was voluntary to watch them if you wanted reload on your tokens, lives or whatever it may be.

How very tiresome and upset I am! I have lost count of the number of one star reviews I have written about the placement of your pop up notices of level achievement in the middle of the playing field with, of course, an option to watch an ad for more coins. I have this notice popup just as I am clicking on a match only to click on the ‘watch ad’ option and am FORCED to watch an ad whether I like it or not even though I PAID FOR NO ADS! I have stated numerous times that this so called level up notice is placed the way it is in order to be a back door way to get people to watch ads even though you gladly took their money to insure they DIDN’T have to watch ads. I thought that by leaving numerous one star reviews you would fix this issue, but nothing has changed. So now, I will do some research and find out the legal steps I need to take to file a formal, legal, complaint about this issue. You took my money so I could play ads free but are not honoring the service I paid for! Shame on you!

I submitted a rating of a 5 Star and left a comment that the ads are too much and every time I “x” out of the ads another “x” will appear. If I wanted to download that game, the ad was for, I would have done it the first time. You keep the ads going and going. So frustrating. Now there are even more ads. I know of several people that love this game but are going to delete it because there are more ad time than game time.
This time I rated this a one star because of the additional ads now. I need game time this is supposed to sooth and relax me and all this is doing is frustrating me and I have to get off the game. I refuse to buy it. I pay enough for my phone service and you should be getting more money from the provider. These are free games and should not be forced into paying for them to get rid of all the ads. Please do something about this issue!

I’ve played this for years and really enjoyed it. It used to be one of my favorites. I took a break from most my games, found a puzzle game that I like a lot with few ads and most importantly no ads during gameplay, but decided to play some of my older games for a change and I am so disappointed in how bad the ads have gotten. It’s no fun. I’m spending more time watching ads, clicking on close tabs and done tabs and waiting for ads to end, start playing the game again and then another ad pops up, several times throughout game play. Games nowadays are nothing but ads. Very few decent games anymore. I got a Nintendo Switch and I can play that with no interruptions. Everything’s about ads and trying desperately to get people to buy subscriptions to every thing. Buy a home game system instead. 👍

I love this game! I’ve been playing for awhile and even began paying the $5 a month to avoid the pesky ads that usually pop up in these types of games. However, it seems as of today the levels have suddenly become larger, more complex, with less time to complete; which results in having to watch those pesky ads in order to continue on the level, sometimes multiple ads because the time just drains within seconds. It’s too bad really, to spend money to avoid ads, and be forced to watch ads in order to play a once wonderful game that you’ve advanced so far in. Is it a bug? Perhaps. I hope so. In which case I eagerly await the fix and alter my review. Until then, I’m just massively frustrated and disappointed.

I have been playing this game for years and really enjoyed it. However they have recently changed their format and ads pop up after several moves. What’s more frustrating is that previously if the bomb exploded you hit Continue, sit through the same ads they show all the time and then you could get back to the game in progress. Now if you hit continue and then try to get back in, a message comes up that you failed the level and have to start the puzzle again if you want to play. You’ve now sat through at least 3 ads and you can’t pick up where you left off. Sorry to have to do it, but I am going to delete this game and look for one which shows some respect for my time. As entertaining as it sometimes was, the way it works now I would never recommend this game to anyone who asks, and discourage anyone from joining. I guess all good things, sooner or later, must end.

This game, apparently, is supposed to be hard and it IS. Honestly I cannot figure out how or why it’s so difficult since all it is is matching for God’s sake, but somehow they (the computer) manages to displace the tiles in such a manner that makes you lose your mind trying desperately to find a set of pairs before the time runs out, or the bomb goes off, whichever comes first. So yes, it is challenging, but not in a good way- not for me at least. Playing this game actually ended up increasing my anxiety and stress level to the point that I had to finally delete it. So if you’re looking for a difficult matching game that truly puts your mind to the test, try the one. If you’re looking for a chill game to relax your mind, definitely do not get this game. I gave it two stars for the game creators not allowing its players to earn points more easily to get help when they need it (shuffle, image reset, hint, bomb, etc).

I was really enjoying this game as it’s challenging and fun and would have rated it a 4 or 5. But the last couple of weeks the developers have added so many “ad breaks” that it’s just gotten annoying. Sometimes as many as 3 or more in one level. I don’t mind ads — I know they’re part of the whole gaming system — but this is ridiculous. The ads are really long too and quite often the time is still running in the background and when the ad is finally over you find out either time has expired or a bomb has gone off while you were held hostage to the ad and then they want you to spend 900 coins to resume your game. Can’t you at least pause the timer while you make us watch ads? I’m really close to deleting TileConnect and finding another by a different more reasonable developer!

This is a game I play every day and I enjoy it a lot, but the ad handling and performance issues keep me from giving it five stars.

I don’t mind a short ad between levels, but you have to wait seven seconds (yes I was so frustrated that I timed it) until it presents a skip button. Then you have to wait five more seconds until it pops up a close button. Then it pops up TileConnect Store splash page for the game, then you have to press “Done”, then you have to press *another* close button to FINALLY exit the ad. Net result is twenty seconds of button pressing in between levels which is more than annoying. Miss a button press and you’re in the ad forever.

While I will pay for ad free (and I have with other apps), the other more serious issue is that the game gets progressively slower the longer you play it. After four or five levels the game is so slow that you have to wait three seconds or more for a button press to register. Even after you exit the game, the phone is still slow until you force quit this game.

What happened to this game? I used to love playing it, but… #1 - didn’t mind the ads after each game was completed, I understand they’re needed, but now there are so many ads ‘during’ game play on the pretense of telling me I’ve reached a new rank (which means nothing) and the exploding icon continues to count down while ad is playing then explodes before I can get back to game. #2 - sometimes when I hit the ‘X’ to close the ad it won’t let me and I have to force ad closed and restart game. # 3 - the gold star coins that were added I try not to ever touch because a few times during play when I got to the end of game it had replaced something leaving no match just one icon and the gold coin. Very frustrating. Guess I’ll have to find something else.

The concept is easy to understand, but the gameplay is less than enjoyable. Here are some suggestions on how to make it better.

Every time you “rank up”, a pop-up interrupts your flow in the game and you have to tap to get 2 measly coins and then go back to playing. It is extremely annoying. The rank up should happen *after* the level is completed. I’m sure most players don’t even care about ranking up, only beating the level.

On levels where more tiles are added as you play, more TIME should be added as well. If it’s a level that (seemingly) never ends, the time limit should reflect that. You end up having to watch 3, 4, or more ads to get enough time to finish on those levels. The most recent one I played like that (level 203) had less than 2 minutes on the timer and added more tiles SIX times! Get real, developers.

Final suggestion - rewards on chests need to include the special items more and coins less. At least make it 50/50. I have thousands of coins, but no special items all the time. I know I can spend the coins on the special items, but getting them in the chests is better.

There are TONS of ads, but I just deal with those. I save up gold coins like crazy by being careful and watching ads to get coins. While I’m playing along, when a game ends and there is an offer to double the prize by watching a few ads, I’ll click on it. At least every day, a message comes up saying ads are unavailable right now. This is ok at the end of a game. However, when the timer runs out and I don’t want waste my coins I want to click on the watch ads to continue button.

Hey developers, this is happening every day. Why? There are so many ads and suddenly there are none available?! Can you please fix this?

This game is challenging and somewhat addictive. There are aspects of it I do not like at all. I don’t like the excessively long ads that you are forced t to watch to continue. I enjoy playing the party games to gather a few extra stars, but once you’ve played each one 3 times, it’s a long time before there’s another chance. I especially hate the notice that there are no more ads to watch so you can’t get the bonus stars. I have played a lot of games and now the format has changed. I don’t care that someone on the other side of the world did the board faster than me. I want to see how many stars I have and I don’t need the cheesy comments after every game. I only keep playing because I like the matching game.

It seems to me that the better I play the harder the boards get....Just how am I supposed to match ANYTHING when the matches are all locked in the center where I am forced to watch an ad to get a ‘shake up’? I love this game, but where I am, I’m not a happy player! I was perfectly happy just matching....nothing fancy, just the satisfaction of clearing my board. I do like the random shake ups, and the side to side shift...makes new choices. Just let us enjoy....I understand that too easy is no fun....as is staring at a board with no moves... *** I quit one of my favorite games (this one) because of the frequency of your ads…..too bad. Good games ruined by greed……LATER: just checking to see if you have a way to NO ADS. Apparently not yet….

I am enjoying this game, HOWEVER, I am on the verge of deleting it because of the long ads, 30 second ads. I do not sit through long ads. They insult my intelligence. I can “catch on” to the concept or idea of an ad in 5-10 seconds. Most people are able to “get it” in much less time than 30 second ads. These long ads cause me to immediately leave the game and go to a game with no aggravating long adds. Sitting through 30 seconds of an ad for a Solitaire game (Duh!) is ridiculous. That’s the ad that made me decide to delete this tile connect game and to come to this page to say, goodbye to your delightful game that is RUINED by long ads! 30 second ads send me else where.....to a game with short ads.

I’m one of those users that don’t write reviews. It’s rare that it happens. But this game is incredibly fun. I haven’t encountered the lag nor even the ads every level, but I also play this on an iPad and not my phone. The background music is probably the best of any other app I’ve ever downloaded and sometimes I play the game just to hear the songs again. The themes are fun and I love the maps based on constellations. Fun and entertaining game I’ve has quite some time now(at least a year) and definitely a nice lil brain teaser and stress reliever.

Not like a typical match game! There are only specific ways to make a match, and it’s often difficult to hunt one down. I’m at level 45, and can’t get through a level anymore without extending my time and/or using some kind of hint. The game is generous in handing out the hints and gold, and it gives you side quests where you can earn even more gold and extras, in addition to the gold and extras you earn when you beat a level. There are other side games you can play to earn even more helps. (Of course, to get the extra extras you have to watch ads, but by now we all know that.) 🤨

I really love this game!! Its much more challenging than other games I’ve seen in TileConnect Store. Give it a try!

I downloaded this game because I was bored at first and when I read the reviews saying it was challenging and fun to play,I honestly doubted it was all that. Of course,when I actually downloaded it I literally couldn’t stop playing it lol. It’s not so simple and easy,it’s challenging but in a fun way. At times it can be infuriating,but it’s so fun!! Honestly the thing I love most about this game is the uniqueness and diversity among the tile pictures. Like there’s one entirely for sports and another for numbers and letters. It even has Japanese festival pictures. If anyone is reading these reviews to debate wether or not they want to download this game,download it. You won’t regret it I promise.

UPDATE: Been playing nearly everyday for a month or so now. Decided to up to 5 stars. It really is a good tile match app. Best I’ve tried so far. Ads are minimal. No constant push to spend money though the option is there if you want. Just a great game with easy to learn rules. Perfect for a quick distraction from normal adult life and keeps the mind sharp.

Like that the ads are only between levels. Fun side quest options for more of a challenge. Kinda hard at times to select tiles on the large boards with my small phone, but that is no fault of TileConnect . Overall a fun game when I only have time for something quick. Lot to like about this tile matching game. Highly recommend giving it a try.

I love this game. Some of the things that matter to me include: “Things” that help you Availability of the “things” because they are no good if you can’t get them Tells you how you are doing-rating Games are winnable if you try. I like movement! Timing- challenging & you can work & get there (I hate having to play one game section a zillion times to move on ...boring). Usually because some “thing” that’s needed doesn’t come up . Plus the graphics are good & you can identify them. 🤭 Plus I really like to move along & this game moves as quickly as the person playing it. So for me it’s prrfect! These are just some of what makes this game great. Thank you for the fun.