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by Snail Jail

I used to love this app. It was far and away my favorite sudoku app, but after the recent update it’s far more stressful to use than fun. Most of the “errors” I make are just misclicks in which I tap the wrong cell or number by mistake, but I’m being punished for this while solving. This “feature” does not make me better at the game. Why would I be playing a sudoku app in my spare time if I were just going to solve the puzzle by correcting displayed errors? I understand that I could change the settings to check for errors less frequently, but I would prefer to know if I made a true error immediately rather than after I’ve filled half the board with mistakes. I do not mind the ads, as I know the devs need to make money for their work. However, these could just play between puzzles instead of ruining the in-game experience. I am also not willing to pay the ridiculous repeating subscription fee to return to the previous state of the free app I once loved. I hope these mistakes are fixed, but until then I will be looking for a new sudoku app.

by Everyone Should Get This Game

I enjoy this app the variant puzzles are unique. Sometimes I want to play the app but the amount of ads have me choosing a different one. I don’t mind ads in a free app everyone has to make $ but this app makes you watch ads before and in the middle of puzzles. Also if you get too many errors you have to watch ads to continue. It also feels like the ads are longer than other apps it will cycle the same ad two or three times before it lets me play. Good app ads ruin it for me.

The developer contacted me and said they try to minimize ads but couldn’t make the game economically feasible without all the ads. And it’s comparable to other games.

People can make up their own mind. I considered buying the game but they are so greedy I don’t trust they wouldn’t find a way to charge again.

by Doogla531

I finally figured out how to deal with the advertising with minimum pain, but since updating the app, they insist on showing me “relevant” ads despite me previously opting out of relevant ads. Relevant ads =trauma, so I have no option but to stop playing this game until the issue is fixed. (Same traumatic ad 3x in a row since updating app … only as I’ve seen since updating)

Since the developer responded by telling me how to have ads track me, I would love to know how that helps me avoid ads that track me (which inevitably seem to be traumatic). Because there’s no way there ads are random. They absolutely are using data that has tracked me despite me turning off ad taking for this app in multiple places. I’m not paying a fee just to avoid these people traumatizing me. That’s called blackmail. Besides, this whole situation just seems deceptive. I might be willing to pay if it didn’t feel so deceptive to me (it’s a decent game…) but wow…no…

Previous review: I mean the app is fine. But suddenly overnight it went from an occasional brief ad to extremely frequent ads that you can’t stop without closing the app entirely. I don’t appreciate apps that are deceptive like this. I might otherwise have considered upgrading to avoid these ads, but now it just feels dirty.