Doodle God™ Alchemy Reviews

I remember playing this game on my 3rd gen iPod touch, I’m talking 5 maybe closer to 10 years ago. It was great, drag elements together, make new ones, repeat - did it all day long. Downloaded it again because I was sick of games restricting me from playing, dousing me with ads and trying to get me to pay ludicrous amounts of money just to play a little more. Doesn’t it make sense that in order for people to play your game more you have to actually let them play it? Why can’t I combine more than a few elements before I’m “out of essence” and I have to spend 10 minutes watching ads just to play the game for another 5? Of course I could just fork over A HUNDRED DOLLARS for unlimited essence so I can actually play the game for more than a few minutes without being bogged down with the same ads over and over. When did all the developers decide “hey screw the customer experience let’s just see who’s stupid enough to pay for this”. What ever happened to being able to play the d*mn game you downloaded. I’m still gonna play it out of nostalgia but I’m not happy.

I recently picked this game back up because I used to love the creativity aspect. However, there are some major bugs to be squashed. I have the latest version of iOS. I thought it was my phone that was acting up, so I deleted the game, and then re-downloaded it. When I opened the game, all of my saved data was gone :(... Some current issues I am having are; 1) 50% of the time when you click on DoodleGod , a dark screen comes up with few balls of green light floating around, so you have to restart DoodleGod 2) The Facebook connect link still does not work. It does ask to open facebook, but when you do, you get an Error message stating “App not setup: DoodleGod is still in development mode and you don’t have access to it, ect”
3) About 40% of the time when the ads come up during the game, when I click the X button, the games shuts down

Sorry for this being so long, I enjoy playing this game, however these setbacks are quite a nuisance. Please address these issues, because I would not like to play this game anymore if these bugs continue to show up frequently

I would give this game five stars... if it didn’t pull you away from the game after every match to look at the earth. It’s SO annoying, pulls you out of your groove so you can easily lose your place if you aren’t intently memorizing where you were. Honestly I stop playing after probably 10 minutes purely because the constant switching back and forth is annoying, just like being pulled into a 5 second ad. Pleeeeease stop this. Make it an option to look at the earth when we want to. Don’t pull us to look at it at every freaking match. Seriously, please fix it. If this is fixed I will gladly give DoodleGod 5 stars.

I do really enjoy the quests so far, though. They are creative, fun, and no interruptions! 😊

In terms of the game itself this is 5 stars. The way this game operates, however, is nothing short of infuriating.
I got so fed up of the ads that appear ever 10 seconds (literally) that I tried to buy the full version in order to get rid of the ads. I COULD NOT find where to do this so I had to uninstall DoodleGod and then reinstall in order to buy the full version. After doing this I promptly continued to get ads, even though it explicitly says no ads will happen in the paid version.
I’m honestly incredibly annoyed and do NOT recommend DoodleGod to anyone. The point of an app is to entertain, not force ads on the players constantly in order to make money. Utterly disappointed as I played DoodleGod years ago when it first came out and thought it was great, now it is just a sorry excuse for garbage.
Quite frankly, I want my dollar back for false advertising.

After attempting to play for a while and getting frustratingly hounded by ads, I started trying to count them. After I had my 7th ad in less than 2 minutes, (not an exaggeration, I was timing the), the game froze then closed. Upon trying to get back into the game I was forced to sit through another, full 30 second ad, before I could even select the "main game." I understand ads in free games but I am literally seeing more ads than gameplay at this point, and to me that makes this unplayable. The fact that it is free is the only reason I didn't give it 1 star. I would say spend the money and buy the ad free version, but frankly I refuse to reward this kind of blatant anti-consumer crap. Uninstalled.

This game loves to throw ads at you. Even if they decide to put it on airplane mode to avoid the ads, you'll still have to wait 10 minutes for another creative spark when the max is TEN so basically with ads the game takes ten minutes, 8 of those are ad time. Without ads the game lasts two minutes every time and you have to put it on airplane mode to even accomplish that. OOOORRRRR you could pay for a game that won't last you long, who's company supports giving people LITE versions of apps that bombard potential consumers with ads and get you less play time then a game of pong. Just play the computer version. If this review gets out I'll be surprised, they'll probably decide this is tarnishing their name too much

doodle god is the best game I have played (not really) but it’s really good I know there are a lot of ads but man this game knows every element it started with earth fire water and I forgot the other one because I’ve been playing this so long I forgot it so please take out the “watch ad to play again one more time” I don’t say that but that’s an example also take out the inappropriate things like human + human

There are so many things DoodleGod can do, like make you think and stuff like that. But WAY too many pop up adds. If you keep getting things wrong: pop up ad, if you want to fuse more stuff after you have already fused 10 things: pop up ad, and so on. If you could have infinite tries without spending time getting 2500 mana, it would be more fun. But it’s doodle god, it’s a fun game, so 4 stars. Only because of ads.

This game used to be a fun time waster, now it is consumed by a sea of ads and a energy bar that depletes in minutes of play if our lucky.

Also this is a blatant example of how the rating system on some apps in the Apple App Store is false. If you look at the reviews, and I sampled several hundred because it was a better use of my time than playing this game in its current state, you will see that around 70% of the reviews are 1 or 2 stars, yet when you look at the distribution that Apple says it has it has overwhelmingly positive reviews, which just isn’t the case.

What happened to this game?

I used to play this game when I was younger and decided to give it another nostalgic go. I saw that it was made freemium and played it anyways, but the ads system is glitched and botchy. The game will make you watch the ads and then not reward you for it or reward after you watch an ad, but after tacking an extra ad on top of it. I for one will watch the ad as it being a free game makes it fair, however don’t lie to my face about it being watch an ad for a reward when you are actually marking me watch two for the reward or even nothing if I am most likely to get thanks to the reward system in place

This game has a lot of things to do but it is horribly buggy, every time I back out of the game and go back in the screen freezes, when I tap to fast sometimes it will crash, sometimes when loading the game it doesn’t load right, also I think there are too many ads when you make several items at once and that I would like there to be quests for more than just the beginning so that I know what I can make.

I love this game it’s addicting and scientific .1st There are all lot of ads I would make a feature for if you have a lot of mana you could disable it. 2nd there are some bugs where sometimes it would lag and freeze yes it could be fixed with removing the tab but it sometimes gets me mad having to do that and wait to load it agine. So far that is it it’s a very good game and I hope it goes viral but I’ll recheck.

Please take the Devine glow out of the game it’s really annoying and also what’s the point of it? I have to wait 10 minutes just to get 1 Devine glow please just take it out of the game but besides that it’s a good game 4 stars 5 if you take the Devine glow out of the game

Simple as that. Ad bombardment. Every click, every achievement, and every other second you have to sit through another ad. It’s almost impossible to read the screen because the ads pop up so frequently. You close one out and before your eyes can even lock back on the screen another one pops up. I literally couldn’t even play I was just being bombarded with ads. Use to love this game, redownloaded it for the nostalgia but found it to be the worst experience I’ve ever had with ad bombardment. 0/10. Would not recommend

This is a great game, which is why it’s such a shame that it is riddled with ads. The first few days were fine, but after I started actually making real progress in the game, Every minute there would be another ad. No reward or anything, just ridiculous ad after ad until I finally gave up playing because I couldn’t tap a button without watching another 30 second advertisement! Better off playing the game for free on a computer.

This game is something I played a while pack when it was only about mixing elements not putting them on a world and I thought it was a really fun game for passing time. Now I came back to try it again and the free version forces the player to buy the full game by spamming ads whenever you click play then sending you back to main screen, if this wasn’t a problem I would give it maybe 3 1/2 or 4 stars but this free version of the game might as well just be removed if your not able to try the game for more then 2 seconds.

This was an old favorite of mine when I was younger. I used to pour hours into this on my old phone and had discovered almost every element. Just thought of it and redownloaded it for nostalgia’s sake, and... Boy am I angry right now. I am not exaggerating when I say that, since downloading DoodleGod a half hour ago, I have spent more time watching ads than playing the game. All I can say is it’s insulting. Way to throw an amazing, nostalgic little app down the toilet. If anyone behind the game ever actually reads this, I hope you’re ashamed of your greedy, memory-tarnishing self.

Often times I will get stuck in an ad loop where for some reason closing an add takes me all the way out to the main menu but advancing past the main menu triggers another ad making the game literally unplayable. Not only that but the developers have slowed the gameplay down so much that even if you somehow manage to not get an ad and make it past the menu the game isn’t all that fun anymore. I used to play this game years ago on my old iPod Touch and it was really simple and fun. It’s sad to see that the developers ruined it.

At first I hated the game for its ads, but I remembered that I could turn off the cellular data DoodleGod and when you want to play the game, just turn off the WiFi on your phone and turn it back on when you aren’t playing the game, hope this helps!

The most irritating thing to me, is that when you run out of "glow" (the divine power used to cause reactions), you get a screen that offers you ways to get more. That's all well and good, but THERE'S NO CLOSE BUTTON ON THAT POPUP. You can't get out of it! You have to close and reopen DoodleGod , which is very irritating. Other than that, it's a very good game. There's ads, yeah, but it's the free version after all. I mean the ads pay for the game to be free.