Twisted Tangle Reviews

I really enjoy the game, but TwistedTangle has tons of problems. The first time I burned through all the levels and got to boss level 600. TwistedTangle completely froze at 600 even though I shut my phone off and tried a bunch of different things. So the only thing I could do was delete TwistedTangle and add it again. That took me down to level one, and I had to start all over again, which I did. A few days later, I reached level 600 again. It actually let me play boss level 600, but after I’ve finished the game I reset itself back to the beginning. I kind of assumed that maybe 600 was the highest level they have developed this. I made it to that level in three days. So for the second time, I’m at the beginning, level one (yawn), and soon made it up to 350. Then it started regressing back to 300, then 250, then 200. And there it stayed, stuck at 200. Over and over and over again, stuck at 200. I have level 200 memorized. So once again, I deleted TwistedTangle and added it back and now I am on good old level one. TwistedTangle has some serious problems.

I just did the update hoping this would fix the loss of lives even when you win. Why are we losing a life even if we pass or win the challenge?? Shouldn’t it be if you lose or fail the challenge where you lose a life? We are already spending the coins to play it, so you have to lose a life too even if you win? It should be only if you didn’t pass the challenge. That’s how it is in other games I play. Otherwise it’s one life per challenge no matter if you win or lose? Then have to wait another 30 mins to get one meanwhile you are getting notifications that you earned a challenge. Makes no sense & doesn’t sound right. Please fix.

I really love this game. If I could rate it here just on the game, I’d give it 10 out of 5 stars. The reason for the lower stars is based on some really disgusting, inappropriate game ads with no vehicle to report them within the game. I actually deleted the game from my phone because of these ads but missed it so much I downloaded it again, hoping to find a way to report these ads and this was the only way I could find.

These ads are for games where you can play as a medical person helping patients with their problems by “cleaning out” various parts of the body, etc. Some of the game names are Happy Hospital or Happy Cafe to name just a few. They are really just disgusting and the reason I don’t know the right names is because I cover my screen until they are over. I can’t imagine how bad the games must be if just the ads are this bad.

PLEASE remove these types of ads and stick to ones that aren’t gross. There’s enough gross in real life without bringing into “play”. I’m absolutely positive that I’m not the only one who feels this way.
Thank you in advance.

I would give this a 5+ star rating except for a couple of annoying glitches. One is that the threads start vibrating mid game and the one last moved turns a different color for a couple of seconds, which is confusing. During this I can’t move anything. The second is that I have gotten to the last two threads and the game freezes and I have to start over. Also, there is no option in the regular games to skip a game, which I have wished to do a few times. Otherwise, this game is totally addictive and fun. Developers, please work on the glitches!

So many ads that I deleted the game after about 10 minutes of play. The game is obviously designed as a way to show you ads. Don’t bother!

I really enjoy this game, learning the different ways that I can move the stretchy cords to get what I want and earn more points. When I first started I was earning in the low 30’s but now I consistently get mid 50’s to 60. BUT, and this is a big point for me, every time I’m playing a Boss level it interrupts in the middle of play for an ad which supposedly gives you extra points. Sometimes it actually works that way but all to often the screen freezes, an ad never plays, and there is no way to get back to the level I’m in the middle of playing. My frustration level has reached its limit. Sadly I will probably delete this game the next time it happens.

I don’t recommend this game unless you like watching ads. I paid for the no ad feature but the problem is the main game play is super easy and the challenges while challenging but not unbeatable, give so few moves that in order to finish you have to watch long ads to get additional moves. The first time you get 8 moves and 4 every time after. I enjoyed the challenge of the challenges games (which there are many) but got tired of watching ads for extra moves and I didn’t see any help to finish them except for watching ads for extra moves. Will be deleting 😔

I purchased the ‘no advertisements’ option. For that, I get thousands of puzzles that can be easily done - they don’t get MORE difficult as one progresses, and I earn coins that can’t buy ANYTHING useful - like extra lives or power ups. I can purchase different backgrounds? And all the difficult puzzles give limited lives and all kinds of ads.

I feel I was duped into purchasing their ‘no ads’ option which really just puts you into a loop of easy games to distract you away from the fact that if you truly want more difficult puzzles, you have to suffer thru TONS OF ADS. Collecting coins is also a distraction.

I am currently in the 500+ level and have $200K of coins. The levels haven’t really increased in difficulty and the coins only purchase aesthetic items.

This company is sneaky and dishonest. I won’t be purchasing any more of their games.

The game has a great concept, but I have a few issues. First, the levels aren’t very long nor hard, therefore easy to complete quickly. Secondly, there are ads after a level or two. I’m fine with ads, but not so frequently. Thirdly, the hard levels are limited both with time and moves. I played one and there were nowhere near enough moves. I would like to play huge levels like that, because the ads I see for this game show only the hard levels, and no timer nor move limit. Otherwise, this is a decent game.

When I first got this game, I thought this was going to be fun, and it was, until I had to delete it. The reason I deleted it was the ads. Yes, I understand completely that you guys need to advertise but after 2 levels, I’ve had these really annoying ads that are like 30 seconds long just to play 2 more levels and get another 30 second ad. Like I said, I understand your trying to make a profit with these ads but please for the love of god make them shorter or atleast no ads at all. Thanks for reading 🙏🏼

I really enjoy the mindless challenge of this game for a break. But I have become fed up up with the offer of 4 extra moves for at least 60 seconds - or more - of the king puzzles which is the worst bait and switch game ever. Then after suffering through all that, you don’t get 4 moves - EVER - you get 3 and when you put your finger on the phone to make the 4th move - more another ad for four moves that are really 3. I’m done. I’ve watched the same ads till I’m dreaming them when if I’d gotten my 4 moves I’d have been done 8 to 12 ads earlier. You don’t get what you suffer for and it’s ruined the game.

I play games to distract me from painful nerve pinch. Really enjoy playing this one but way too many ads! I usually just delete games with so many ads but this one is really a great game to think about solving puzzles! I decided to pay to get rid of the ads and did. The ads are fewer now but not gone. Ugh! If paying to get rid of ads doesn’t get rid of them I want my money back and will sadly delete game.

The levels aren’t hard so basically you’ll be mostly watching ads, I mean I get trying to get people to pay the 5 dollars but this is crazy! When I play 10 levels in a row and it takes me about 15 seconds to beat it and then after every sing one I watch a 40 second video that is like 90 percent watching adds verses actually playing. Even though I see this has great potential the way it’s managed doesn’t make me want to buy the ad free lol it makes me want to give a bad review and uninstall since I can’t even enjoy the game!

The game itself really is super fun, but what kills it is the OVERLOAD of unskippable ads. Seriously, there is an unskippable ad after every 1 to 2 levels. It’s honestly faster to close the game and open it again than to sit through these ads. I know most popular mobile games are like this now, and I also know I can pay to remove the ads, but I don’t like the game THAT much lol

Rant aside, the game really is fun to play!

So recently the challenge area stopped working. There was an update and now it shows but if I click on it nothing happens and then it acts like I won it. Doesn’t work. Frustrating.

I used to like it a lot until all these bugs started happening. The regular part still works ok. Would be nice if there were an option to try again on the boss ones.

It’s a fun game in principle. I’m not opposed to advertisements, but most games that you skip advertisements after may be five or 10 seconds. Of course I could pay and that’s what they want me to do. I just get tired of playing one level, then having to watch a 30 to 45 second advertisement. I don’t mind watching an advertisement like that if I’m getting something in return. But the amount of advertisements takes away from the actual fun of the game.

I’m tired of playing the same exact games over and over. Do they ever change? Also - obviously - the ridiculous amount of adds 😡 The worst ad issue is you can choose to watch an ad for more coins at the end of a round OR click NO THANK YOU, take your 25 coins and STILL HAVE TO WATCH AN AD.

Seriously?! That’s overkill. Don’t give me the option to say “no thanks,” if you’re going to make me watch, anyway.

Submitting review then deleting TwistedTangle . ✌🏼

I played this game A LOT for a week. I accumulated over 39,000 points. There is nothing to use the points on! I cannot use them to get extra time on the extra hard puzzles (which were mostly unwinnable, btw, for me) which would be logical. The puzzles are either too easy or too hard. Wish they would fix this, then i would come back.

This game is ok, but goes way overboard in the number and frequency of ads. It offers an optional ad to boost earnings for the level, but often shows you an ad regardless of your choice. It will throw in “ad breaks” every few moves while playing levels, and it just gave me another ad after one single move! I don’t need this.

The gameplay is a lot of fun with good puzzles. The only negative issue is the oversaturated amount of ads. The level is completed in 15-30 seconds of gameplay followed by 30-60 seconds of ads for 1 of 3 games. I get it, it’s free to play and they gotta make money, but this is ridiculous, I had to delete the game.

Either charge to download it or cut back on the ads. It’s clear you want people to pay to play. There is ads in between every game it feels like, and they are 30 second ads, so it doesn’t feel like I am playing a game, it feels like I am wasting time watching ads. And I would have perhaps made in app purchases had your set up been different, but I don’t like feeling forced to do something. Your get rid of ads pop up almost immediately was a red flag, and it just feels greedy, manipulative, and almost retaliatory for not purchasing the $4.99 ad blocker. I am uninstalling. I can’t reward the gimmick.

Have we got the game for you! We’ll overload you with ads, putting an ad on the bottom of the gameplay screen at all times. Not only that, we will ask you if you want to watch an ad after every level, PLUS every 2 or 3 levels we’ll force an ad on you. Just to push you further toward that $4.99 purchase of no ads. And then, of course, we’ll make your phone heat up like it’s left on a parking lot in the middle of an Arizona summer with clear skies. Because we TOOOOOOTALLY aren’t secretly using some of your phone’s processing for malicious purposes :D

It’s actually a cool game but obviously company greed took over. The frequency of ads is insane. I finish a level in about 10-15 seconds and every 2 levels passed I have a long ad. When u get an ad after 20-30 seconds of playing time it’s to frequent and I had to delete TwistedTangle . If you don’t mind ads then this might be for u but like most, they are already annoying and playing them non stop worsens it especially when it’s the same exact ads that over saturate other games with ads and no diversity.

It was a fun game to play but after playing over 300 levels the skill level does not increase.. basically it takes about 10 seconds to complete a level and then you spend 30 seconds watching an ad.. so for every minute of game play you are watching 6 minutes of ads

The other negative is that the skill level of the normals levels are way too easy… after every couple of levels you get a challenge level that actually poses a challenge.. but before you get a challenge level you have to complete a few normal levels and watch a bunch of ads..

Giving it 1 star because I am tired of seeing developers abuse the ad system…. It is one thing to show 2-3 ads per 30 mins.. but to have to watch an ad every 15 seconds is just tooo much!!!

This is one of my favorite sites. However, I can’t get into play anymore because an ad from Wordle won’t respond when I touch the star. So I can’t get into the site. Can you fix this?

I downloaded this 20 minutes ago and I already deleted it specifically because of the ads. I can deal with an ad every 10 levels or so, for unlocking content or getting bonuses; but when there is a 5-15 second ad (some with multiple screens to close!) between every level, after every challenge level, and when the main button for a “you unlocked this!!” popup is to watch an ad (the option to just continue is on a delay to load in!!) - it’s too much!! I love knot puzzles and from what I could tell the actual puzzles were fine, but I literally could not take the constant barrage. 0/10 would not recommend!!

I won’t play the game again until I see an update about reducing the ads. I get you need them, but to play two games in 30 seconds and then get a a 30-45 seconds of an ad is too much. That’s not even playing the multiplier game to get more coins. It’s fun, but not worth it, as all a do us watch ads. Not paying for ad free as it seems that’s the creators intent. I play a lot of app games and never pay for “no ads”. However I have never seen so many on the free app. Thanks, but no thanks.

I totally understand the ads allow users to play for free, but the FREQUENCY and LOUDNESS of the ads is overkill. I turned the sound off on TwistedTangle but the ads still blare on full blast and there is no mute option on the ad or ability to report them. I like to listen to music or podcasts while I play and the ads just smother whatever I’m listening to in volume. It is supposed to be a relaxing game and it is becoming the opposite! I’m reading so many reviews of people reporting the same issue with ads and deleting TwistedTangle . Please for the love of all things… FIX THIS.

After each win, there is a gauge, you touch to see how much you can win for watching a advertisement. Cool. However, once the advertisement plays there is a small pop up in the top right corner that says “rewards granted” with the normal little x. Hit the x a thousand times and the ad doesn’t close. I have to close TwistedTangle to start the next puzzle. Has become annoying. Didn’t do this when I downloaded TwistedTangle 3 days ago. Just started last night.

First, the ugly. There is a blocking bug on level 2004. So I tried to contact them via their setting dialog in TwistedTangle . My email was rejected because their mailbox is full. That was two days ago. They released an update yesterday and that did not fix my problem. So I emailed them again with the same result. A bad look for the company.

Second, the good. It’s an interesting exercise in untying knots. The main screen has pretty straightforward problems to solve. More difficult problems are available in the Challenges screen and the Boss exercises.

Third, the bad. The main screen is fairly simple, typically requiring less than a dozen actions to untie the knotted ropes. No limit on time or number of actions taken. But the “advanced” exercises are much more complicated. They have limits on moves and sometimes on time. I had one Boss exercise recently that allowed 68 moves and 28 minutes. The only reason the limits are so high is because there are actually four unrelated complicated knots to untie, instead of the single, simpler knots in the main screen. I think the challenges should be not be so arbitrarily long. I don’t mind the difficulty but it seems like the move limit is chosen so that the player must watch videos to get extra moves to finish untying everything. Nope, I will not watch a video just to complete a challenge. I just quit and start a different one.

I quite like this game, but have some problems with it. Firstly, it runs my phone (4 month old iPhone 14, battery health 100%) very, very hot and drains the battery faster than streaming movies. If I am charging the phone while playing, it will pause the charging due to overheating. After about 10 minutes, my unplugged phone, in a case, will leave the side buttons quite warm, and if I play for 15-20 minutes, they are almost too hot to touch.
As other reviewers mentioned, for the challenge levels and boss levels, there often aren’t enough moves, relying on adds for extra moves (draining and heating further)
The rate that the ‘lives’ refill to play the challenge levels is far slower than unlocking those levels. You have to spend a life to play it, win or lose. And since I prefer the harder levels, it is frustrating, as I don’t want to pay for extra lives.
I would play this game more if it weren’t for the issues

As with all other games on your device, the farther along you get the less game cooperation you get. Fewer runs, fewer moves, and buying out of ads is a joke with any game, because you either do a level 50 times or watch an ad to get back where you left off, only now the game isn’t functioning the same as the first few levels. This particular game the ropes stop stretching as far, which cost more moves, and don’t stay where you put them. The ends fly back where you just moved it from, only this time it’s now wrapped around twice. Costing more moves and ads to stay where you were on the level. It could have been a very fun game but greed takes over. Buy this and buy that, which in itself wouldn’t be so bad, but then they force you to use up all your “boosters “ in the next round. So they’re all basically RIP OFFS! Rant over lol have a great day! 2023
Update : you are thieves? $5 for no ads ! 1 move left on leverage 100 and something and 15 ads and won’t let me go where it would untangle!!!!! STAY AWAY PEOPLE!!!!

Great game! It has just the right amount if varying degrees of difficulty. It has occasionally exceptional difficult bonus levels. I play this game for several hours every single day! To all the others. Please only review the game itself. Don’t simply complain about ads. Ads are advertisements. Advertisements are commercials. Commercials are commerce and commerce is money. They need money to make the game so complaining about ads is just a waste of everyone’s time.

This game is great for my brain. The first time i played i made it to level 323 and then something went haywire. The tangles twitched and went rogue without the pins attached. Then i couldn’t move any tangles. I thought it was just a glitch and took TwistedTangle off my phone, then put it back on. And here I am at 251 and it did it again. It’s not something i can refresh, or anything. Ya can’t play the level. I’m hoping this is a glitch that will get fixed really soon because I love the game.

I also wish there was an option to purchase the game without ads.

I’m afraid I’m going to have to delete TwistedTangle and I really don’t want to. Please fix this. It’s sad because I really think it’s a lot of fun. Unfortunately the game repeatedly glitches. When I’m in the middle of playing a game or when an ad is playing the screen goes dark or freezes every time, sometimes it will start working again but generally I end up going out of TwistedTangle and having to start that level again. It’s beyond frustrating to have to play a level over and over again because it wouldn’t let you finish. Believe me I’ve been patient. I’m currently on Level 335 and Challenge 66 but now the glitches are closing TwistedTangle . I’ve tried at least 8 times on this challenge it won’t let me complete it no matter what. It took my coins and my lives then every time right in the middle of playing it stops working and closes.

I paid for no ads while working with this game which I love! It is a great and challenging game! Never paid any game for “no ads” until this game. I was working on my iPad when I played it first and paid the money for “no ads” but now I am working on my iPhone and there are ads and no way to get rid of them! On iPhone I went to TwistedTangle Store and it just said open and I did but there was no way to deal with the ads because they were not mentioned. Can you help with this problem please! I can’t do just two games and then watch the one about the king being attacked by screws!

I’m over 1000 levels in & I love the really tricky hard levels & challenges. I keep waiting on more of the bonus hard/epic levels. Wish there was a way to buy level packs with coins. I’ve got over $100k but nothing to spend them on since I bought all the custom things in the store.

Fun game but I paid for the ad free version and yet, if I want to do the more challenging “challenges” levels and need extra moves, I have to watch looooong ads. Meanwhile I have 86k stars that I can never use unless I’m willing to watch the ads I paid to never have to see. So dumb. Plenty of games revenue model allow for in game purchases without ads. Switch to that please. I’d gladly pay $2.99 for a package of extra moves. Check out Royal Match for the best revenue model I’ve seen in a game. First game that has consistently gotten my money.

So first of all the gameplay itself is great! Untwisting the tangles is just a lot of fun! However removing ads is expensive and does nothing except remove the banner at the bottom. The boss, hard, and epic levels, which are the most fun, unfortunately need waaaayyyy more moves than you are given to solve. So you end up watching an ad every 4-8 moves, so that means during the last half of those puzzles you play for 10 seconds and then watch a 30 ad. It is extremely frustrating and I will probably not be playing much longer.
I expect to see zero ads when I pay to remove them! They are very clear on what you get when you pay, but I expect to have a reasonable amount of moves to solve a puzzle. I literally have never paid so much to watch more ads than I have ever watched in a game! Note to developers: people will not continue to play your games if they don’t get anything for their money! Note to app advertisers: most game players like me will never download a game that makes you watch an entire 30 second ad repeatedly!

Now the horrible oozing pus and pimple ads have been replaced with Gardenscape and ToonBlast. No more pus but now a blatant scam … there is no timer and the X … usually a click sign … is on the upper left side of the screen. As the ads lumber on endlessly, one obviously clicks on the X. And gets a hateful reminder “to continue watching” to get your reward.

Twisted Tangles already has the longest and most frequent ads of any game I’ve played … and I play a LOT. Now it’s clear that they’ve reduced an otherwise good game to trash in order to trick you into paying fir no ads. Apparently that doesn’t remove ads … they’re still there as “rewards” for extra moves. Shame ! Shame!👎

You’d get 5 stars from me if you weren’t so greedy and bent on arm twisting to get me to pay for no ads. Ok … the games good enough to pay for it. But if I have to tolerate the oozing pus in Happy Match Cafe, I’m not willing to risk being continuously required to click it to get time extension. Unless you are honest and can guarantee I won’t see Happy Match Cafe ads … or any of those obnoxious pimple and pus games … I’m not paying and I’out of here. Revolting ads … be fair and respect your gamers.

There's an ad (30 seconds in length) about every sixty seconds (they're *likely* shown based on passing levels, rather than time, but the beginning levels are very easy and I got through them quickly.). I downloaded Twisted Tangle less than an hour ago and have been forced to watch over twenty ads in less than thirty minutes of game play.

*Once* was, I suppose, my fault, because I clicked on what I thought was a 'free point multiplier' - but no, it was another ad. I just thought I'd won something after passing a lot of levels.

It's too bad, because the ad I saw that caused me to download the game did make the game look interesting and challenging indeed, but I won't pay $8 to find that out, and I can't (or won't!) take an extra 10 minutes to watch ads every time I happen to get a half hour game break.

Played a few tournaments, took down a few boss levels, played a few dozen campaign levels…and this is where I landed:

Way too many ads. The cost to remove the ads is too high early in the game. What I mean to say is the problem with having so many ads right out the gate is the user doesn’t get far enough in the game to really get a feel for if they enjoy it or not in order to justify paying to remove the ads.

I got in a habit of just dismissing TwistedTangle every time an ad popped up after a level…which was about every 1-2 levels. So I wouldn’t play long before I was already killing TwistedTangle until I did it so many times I’m just deleting it. It looks like it had potential and I would have possibly paid to remove the ads, but I never got far enough to get past the “easy” levels to really determine and got super sick of forced ads. Buh bye 👋🏼

This game is pretty cool, it’s a great time killer, it’s fun, satisfying, and pokes at your brain. The problem to me personally is that it requires connection, I don’t normally play phone games at home cause if I want to play something, I’ll play a console, but when I’m commuting or at a restaurant or something, if I don’t have decent connection, it just shuts down altogether, doesn’t let me in at all.
The other problem is just how many ads there are, after every level, u get an ad, complete a level, advertisement, lose a level, advertisement, open up the game, advertisement, feels more like the creators made this game with the intention of being more of a place to store their favorite advertisements, remember the connection issue? Yea, no airplane mode either, it costs $8 to turn off ads.

I got to level 200 and it’s says level 201 coming soon. So it seems I beat the game. The standard levels up through 200 are easy, there might be a few, less than 10 that are kinda tricky but otherwise a bore. The hard levels and expert levels are irritating because of the move limit. This game has glitches in which include: there are points when you move a string and it does not stay in the spot you loved it but moves back to where it was. There are also points when the strings are not overlapping but they are next to each other and touching and it will not clear those strings. These are glitches that especially in the hard and expert levels where you loose a move when you only have a limited number of moves to complete the level.

Within the first 5 minutes of playing this game, I had 4 pop-up ads. It's not consistent, either. It's not every _ minutes, it's not every _ levels. I counted having a pop-up after I completed 3 levels, then another after I completed 2 (which was less than a minute after the last!)

The amount of pop-up ads is WAY too much and too often to even get a good feel for how the difficulty of the game may progress. $7.99 to remove pop-ups is asking quite a bit when I wasn't even able to get through 10 levels without those 5 ads. I definitely don't mind the banner ads at the bottom since they don't get in the way of the game, but I was really disappointed that I can't even enjoy the game at all. I understand people need to make money from their games, but this is way too much. Definitely a game I ended up deleting after 8 or so levels and 5 minutes of playing 😕

There’s just too many times where the yarn does things you have not intended it to do - examples include going to the wrong hole when they’re super close together, twisting underneath/doing an unintended loop around a neighboring yarn, not reaching the hole you want it to go to even though it lights up as a possibility, using up turns through all of these faulty mistakes. It uses your hearts up each time you fail as a result of these faults. This happens mostly when you have challenges and that stinks because the challenges are the only thing worth playing - the regular levels are too easy and pose no challenge whatsoever. I really wanted to love this game but it’s too hard to navigate as is !

This game is so glitchy and often freezes while I’m in the middle of playing. On top of that you have to watch an ad after every level. I’m probably watching ads longer than I’m actually playing this game. On top of all the ads there’s a pop up before each game trying to sell you no ads for the low low price of like $30. Sorry but I’m NOT going to pay that much for no ads on a stupid phone game when I could buy a normal game on a console for that much. If the ads and glitching wasn’t annoying enough the game absolutely kills your phone battery. It’s too bad it has all these issues because it is a fun time killer. The cons truly outweigh the pros for me and I will be deleting it and moving on to greener (and less full of ads) pastures.

I loved this game, the game play was super fun, the design was easy to understand and the graphics were appealing enough. After playing a hundred or so levels I came to HATE this game. There are ads everywhere, they’re super long and they generally can’t be muted, so if I’m listening to music while playing I have to listen to annoying sounds overlapped until the ad ends. Still, not a deal-breaker, I get that game devs need to make their money. Where I ultimately decided to get rid of TwistedTangle was on 2 items: 1) (more minor) the game play is a little glitchy, in that the string ends don’t reliably stay in place, and can take a few tries to get them to stick, which makes it untenable for 2) the time limits. I like puzzle games, and these puzzles are super fun, setting ridiculous time limits on the level to make it difficult, and not because the actual puzzle is difficult, but as a cash grab, is where I couldn’t stand this game. Some levels take time to untangle, and if you don’t pay your way out, you’ll be stuck for a long time until you can memorize (and get lucky, see #1) and beat the level. Nope. Nope. NOPE!

I’m on level 321 and I love this game. Figuring out tangles is tons of fun and great for my 71 year old (tomorrow) brain! But I’m finding that the boss challenges no longer have the number of moves required to solve many of them. Just as I’m getting close to solving, I run out of moves…and for the last five boss challenges, not even watching ads for 8 moves are not enough! AND WHO is the genius (NOT!!) who has started putting loops with no moving ends? That costs too many of my moves…so I lose now! Come on now, staff; play nice here! Invent something that rewards me for good playing; create a circle ⭕️ that if I free a tangle with/using that circle ⭕️, two sets of tangles disappear! Thank you for a game that engrosses me with the gameplay. (Please, not so many 🚫circles in one game…🤔🤔)

So this game has been the only go-to game on my phone to relax and focus my brain at the end of the day. I had been throughly enjoying it, I’m on level 439, but out of the blue all the levels are now incredibly challenging with time limits. Like what the heck? Why change the formula? I paid $7.99 a while ago to enjoy the game with no ads but was that not enough? Now you want me to pay for coins in order to add a whole 20 seconds when I don’t beat the time limit game? AND the challenge level menu has completely vanished. I’m so disappointed. What used to bring me joy now frustrates and annoys me, and where I thought my $8 was worth every penny, now I wish I hadn’t bothered. PLEASE go back, this game was pure gold before.

This is a fun game at first but the hard levels are almost impossible to beat without spending money on extra items. After awhile I found the game to be stressful and not relaxing. If someone took this concept and made a game that was actually paced to the users progress it would be such a fun game. Or just have you the option to play the puzzles. They start quickly reducing your time and increasing the difficulty so you will buy in app purchases, which is fine, but they don’t give you barely anything and it will make you mad to no end. Not at all what a game should do. I deleted TwistedTangle because it quickly became frustrating and boring when they don’t pace the progress through. You don’t get much for TwistedTangle purchases, one of the more expensive games I’ve played as far as in app purchases. Quickly lost interest. Wish someone would come up with this game where you could just figure out the puzzles (tangles) and it wasn’t making it difficult in an attempt to get you to buy in app purchases. The ads are constant. Nothing relaxing or satisfying about this game after level 20 or so. I waisted money hoping it wouldn’t be so frustrating after several more levels. I’d pay monthly for an app I just enjoyed playing and was challenging but not frustrating and TwistedTangle purchases cost waaaay too much.

It’s a fun challenging game. My problem is the movement, when I go to place piece if it’s not exactly precise it won’t go where I want it. I understand there are some strings under tension and have a limit to their travel but these are ends That have slack and should move to any one of the spots near by and I’ll waste valuable time on the harder levels trying to get ends placed and then run out of time I also don’t care for the clear greed of TwistedTangle , 30 minutes to get a heart back before I play again but if I buy add on at an insane price The if you watch am ad you get 15 minutes of unlimited play but have to wait six hours for that to be an option again. The game is fun but not that fun
Level 99 was my breaking point. There is no way to make it without using a bonus somehow. At that point I had to buy something to make it work. The pieces in the upper side of the map are so jumbled I could not get any end to move to another spot so I just kept wasting time eventually running out. I got tired of wasting two days trying the level and the delays I’m earning hearts to play added to the frustration with the game…..so I’ve deleted it

With the advent of the timer, which can’t be eliminated, this game has dropped from on I played on a daily basis to one I only play occasionally. I like relaxing games, especially ones that challenge my ability to figure out a puzzle. It’s the reason I enjoyed the game so much. The timer ruined the game for me.

Now all the relaxation is gone. The timer makes many levels a scramble to get complicated tangles undone before the timer runs out. Not at all relaxing. I just spent at least 5 times adding 20 seconds onto a super hard level rather than having the opportunity to plan out my moves. The cost doubles each time for a piddling 20 sec.

How about adding a no timer option? There are those of use who want to play relaxing games. With NO TIMER. Once I end up using all my coins I’ll delete the game. I do purchase items in games I enjoy. I won’t be purchasing anything unless there is a no timer option added back to the game.

I used to really enjoy TwistedTangle UNTIL they added time limits!! I’m old. I don’t want to be challenged this way. I liked figuring out how to untangle the ropes without trying to beat a clock every single time. I thought this was a great way to keep my mind active to help fight off dementia and such. Too much stress and frustration now.
Why couldn’t the time limits be on optional challenges?? Oh I know why…because you can’t make money that way!! Now you make it so people want/need to buy more lives or have enough to “pay” for more time when the clock runs out and they won’t have to spend a life to start over. Shame on you!!!!! Please rethink your changes and make it more like it used to be.

Okay I have a lot of things that I’d like to address in this review. First off, there are way too many ads. It seems like every minute I’m seeing another ad. Because I am. The time limits on each level are crazy. Maybe one level I’ll finish with an extra minute and a half on the timer, but the “super hard challenge levels” are designed to make you fail so you’ll pay 900 coins for 20 seconds. This is impossible when you only earn 15 coins per level, so the only option in the end is to spend your money. This game is pay to win, and although the concept and some levels are fun, I think it’s completely ruined by the timer. The ads would even be acceptable if the game itself wasn’t so incredibly frustrating. But hey, at least the money farm is working, right? Because it doesn’t matter how horrible the game is when you don’t pay, you only care about the experience of people who have hundreds of dollars to spend on mobile games, which is a fair business practice at the end of the day.

When I first saw this game on the ad, I was like, “oh my gosh, I will not get this” because they did not have good ads yet. Then I saw it again and got it because they had better ads and I read the reviews. Now I have it and I love this game so much. It does not cost any money or anything like that. It looks exactly like it does in the ads. It starts out easy and gets harder as it goes. I love it very much and it is also just like the best game for everybody, myself included. Now it is one of my favorite games. So if I were you, I would not even think about turning away from this game.

** Update** Deleted the game, couldn’t take it anymore!

I’m a huge puzzle fan! When I saw the ad for this game I was like, “yes please”! The game is fun and keep getting more difficult as I progress 😌. The huge downfall is the number of ads 😫😤. I can understand an ad after a few puzzles solved, but after every, single, game, played?!? There are two options after each game I thought would help with this issue. First option is to receive all the points won if you watch an ad., and the second option is to receive half the point won to skip ad. I clearly selected skip ads. Yet, the ad plays and is as long as the live long day. It would be great if you’d allow players to skip ads for a few games than play the ad or even make the option after each game actually work. After the four or fifth game, issue the full points won and play ad without an option to skip. Let’s be clear, I know there is an option to purchase the game to avoid ads completely. With prices on everything going up, I can stand to watch an ad once in a while. Emphasis on once in a while! Not watching ads more than playing the game and longer than it takes to solve the puzzle. I’m not one for writing reviews, but this was truly warranted. I’d hate to delete TwistedTangle , but with it operating as is, it’s causing more frustration than relaxation. Hope to see changes in the next update!

I really like the game but can't really recommend it. Based on reviews I stuck with the free version to level 100. The ads are pretty intrusive. I'd be happy to pay for the ads free version but from what I can see it won't really get rid of even most of them. You are constantly asked to watch an ad for some kind of bonus. A bigger issue is the timer. The amount of time to solve a puzzle is really short so this is more of a beat the clock game than a puzzle. When you run out of time it will cost 900 coins for 20 secs. Since most of the levels only reward 15 coins it takes a lot to save that much. You will have to buy them. And because there's no time to actually figure out how to solve the puzzle you will fail a lot and run out of lives. It will cost more money to replenish lives. I don't mind giving something to the developer but this will run into serious money for a little bit of playing time in between a LOT of ads. And you still have to race the timer. There's no way to remove it. Very disappointed.

I have played a lot of this game and for the most part it has been interesting and engaging but when you get further through and the more complicated the knots get the game I think stops being able to handle it and stops letting you move certain pieces. It’s not a distance thing, you can always try and stretch something and hang onto it despite it not fitting somewhere else, but instead the piece just jumps back to its spot the moment it seems like it might work somewhere else. It’s specific pieces at specific times and for the more complicated levels that means you can’t finish them. Also, sometimes if you tangle certain strings enough they’ll clip through each other, or more likely themselves, and so they untangle for you. That part is actually handy for particularly frustrating 2 string tangles but it does prove that the physics system is messed up

In the beginning, I had a lot of fun with the game. There was no timer and it was simply trying to undo tangles. As you proceed, the game obviously gets more difficult. Other barriers are slowly added to make untangling more challenging.

However, after a certain number of levels, the untangling becomes timed. There is no way to go back to “easier” levels and no way to get around timed games without needing to pay for infinite lives or hoping you have accrued enough coins to pay for work arounds.

I really am not a fan of timed games in general and wish it was at least possible to go back to earlier levels to just play the untangling parts. Or to have an option of toggling between easy and difficult instead of forcing timed games. I may be in the minority in this desire though.

The games fun. Gets you to use your brain. Move your phone around to see different view points. But I think it’s absolutely stupid how expensive everything is. You have to buy more lives for 900 coins but each passed level is only 15 coins? So then you get tempted to PURCHASE coins. And the time limits are ridiculous and don’t count down correctly (we’ve clocked it) and it takes half an hour for 1 life to come back. I think they’d benefit more if each level gave you more coins (like I’m on level 64 and still only getting 15 coins when I complete a level … same amount as level 1. Seems stupid) it’s also incredibly annoying and completely unfair they most the time when you go to stick an end of a rope somewhere, it won’t go there. Not because there’s no more slack. But just because the game glitches and you have to waste time trying to stick it several times.
It’s a good concept. But poorly executed.

I really enjoy this game, but I am only giving it two stars because of the placement of the continue game button. When I play the game, I don’t watch the clock, I just try to finish. But when the clock stops, it immediately takes you to the page that has a giant button that charges you coins if you want an additional seconds. If you want more time, then you just press the button, but most of the time, I’m not even given a choice because of my finger placement during game play. Depending on where my fingers are during play, when it immediately switches to the page asking if you want more time, my finger is on the button that charges me coins to continue playing. I don’t even have a choice. It’s so frustrating. I’ve lost thousands of coins this way. When I tried to get support, it would not go through. For these two reasons, this is a two star rated game for me.

I’m at very hard level 99 and I’ve spent about a week trying to move forward. I paid for no ads and I won’t buy items to move through a level. When you can’t move forward even on a hard level after a week and you can’t use the coins you accrue in the game that tells me one thing your just a money grabber and you don’t want me to enjoy your game. I’m bored at level 99 and now since I can’t move forward I will now delete this game and no longer play. I miss the days you pay for a game and literally play info play two others games like this here and I treasure them games aren’t fun if I have to spend a week playing one level. Also I waste so much time moving pieces to places and it not sticking it’s crazy. Your telling me you don’t want me to move forward unless I pay well I did and what’s your excuse now? Gave up one week playing one level it’s deleted.

I was enjoying this game fairly well up until I hit level 700. Yes, there are a lot of annoying pop-ups with this game—especially with always asking you to watch ads for things. There should be a “don’t ask me again” option. I don’t mind sitting through the occasional ad here and there, but being constantly asked to do it is very annoying. Also, really think the emojis are a crappy detail. And don’t even get me started on the issue with placing the pegs—I’ve lost levels because the darn thing won’t be consistent. You know where I’m trying to go, stop bouncing around!

Puzzle games are some of my favorite games to play, and while I love a good challenge, making something impossible to beat without having to buy more time is just ridiculous. The “hard” and “very hard” challenges were usually the really frustrating levels with lots of easier levels in between that made the game nice and relaxing to play (more or less), but once I hit level 700 even those became next to impossible without buying more time. It’s just so disappointing. I don’t need my games stressing me out more than I already am, and I just wish they’d give you more time or a no-time option all together. All this has made me go from playing daily to hardly at all now. Will likely delete soon. So disappointed.

I was excited for this game and really started to enjoy it. I would have liked some rules, like why do bands turn colors or don’t apparently go into some holes but also what the bonus things do. Make sure to read everything and be super careful NOT to “accidentally” hit the buy 20 seconds for 900 points, that ate away my points three times because I was playing on my phone and hit the button by mistake.

Takes way too long to earn points, ads are ridiculous, and I have no problem paying for an Ap to get through levels but there are levels that even with purchases you can’t pass. And give me something when I spend money. To pay and get two items but it will take you 5x’s that to possibly use to win is ridiculously greedy.

I love a good challenge and enjoy puzzle games but the timer is ridiculous and makes the game stressful and more of a race game. Limited moves to make it a challenge or give that as an option would make this better. Although, some game glitches kept me from even moving into an open hole. I just got frustrated and mad….those are two very big reasons NOT to play this game. I want my games to be a distraction and fun. I deleted it but am still grumpy and came back to write a review because it had so much potential. After seeing a bunch of other reviews, guess I am not alone!

Horrible customer service…. Until I ran into an issue with their app, it was a fun game. Been playing a few months, at level 700+. Then, would try to make in-app purchase and all I get is the shuffle circle with the only way to exit is to either shut my phone off/on, or, delete/reinstall TwistedTangle . Then, I discovered I was being charged every time I attempted purchase, yet, never receiving the purchase. I sent emails via their settings “contact us” x3 with never even an acknowledgment of my communications, ever. I have asked Apple to refund for what I didn’t receive, although, gotten no response from them as yet either. Does “no company” have ANY sense of how they get paid!?!?. I can just as easily walk away as I did begin to play. I hope they choose to refund. By the time I realized I was still being charged, it was a decent chunk of $$. Won’t be recommending TwistedTangle to anyone. I’m old enough to remember, the law used to be, if running a business, there had to be a person you could physically contact.. that needs to return. Hiding and ignoring will only work for so long… …. The worst customer service. They don’t exist if no one buys.,

I enjoy this game but progress is definitely difficult. There are few ways to earn coins, and then it costs 500 to 900 coins to buy a little extra time. And so far I haven’t found ANY way to earn more boosters and buying them is nearly impossible because they cost thousands and, as I have said, coins are difficult to accumulate. I was moving slowly on my iPad so, I decided to open another game in my iPhone. Interestingly, more lives or extra time costs 500 coins on my iPad but, it costs 900 coins on my iPhone. Why the discrepancy? It makes no sense. Hard and very hard levels are difficult to pass but, with patience you can do it. I am on level 99 after a few days. I have not decided whether to keep the game or not. But for now I will continue. Developers . . . If you made it a little easier to progress, people would be willing to spend more money. But I for one am not willing to spend money on every difficult level that comes up.

The developers need to work on this game some more. I really like this game but I’m going to need to delete it.
I’ve been on level 99 for well over a week. The time allowed for the level simply isn’t long enough. I can’t ever get to the last section of ropes to figure them out because time runs out. You do the same moves over and over but don’t have enough time to finish the level. I refuse to spend money on games.
If there were other ways to earn coins to extend the level time that would be great. Maybe daily bonuses to save up coins to extend the time on a level, something to help. At this point I would need to spend money to make it past this level. I simply refuse. It’s too bad because I do like the game, but it has become too frustrating and not relaxing at all. Why continue when I’ll never make it past the level.
It is the very definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The reality is that I won’t make it past this level without paying money for more time. Ba-Bye!

So it is so much fun and addicting especially if you have ADHD. But don't bother with the ad removal--for every single thing you'll still have to watch ads. new skins-ads. New pins-ads. Extra coins-ads. level boost-ads. it most definitely is NOT worth $8! you don't really get anything! Next let's talk about the timer- i get a timer in games but most give you 2-3 minutes to figure stuff out... less than a minute is ridiculous. kids have trouble beating it-as an adult i just barely come in under it! i'm constantly having to get them past a level. Upgrades are awesome- if you have any hope of getting them before getting old. good upgrades 4-5k in coins which would be fine if you didn't make 20-30 a level ugh. They make a fun game way more stressful than they should. i gave it 3 stars because it is fun and the graphics are good especially compared to others

I’ve had so much fun progressing through the levels of Twisted Tangle. They start out extremely simple, but get a little more difficult as you go, but not too hard. The game is very similar to the ads. Just move the ends of ropes around until you isolate the whole rope and free it. keep doing this until the board is clear. I wish I could go back and play old levels again, but it won’t let you do that.

Boosters will be introduced that you can use to help solve more difficult levels. It’s good challenging fun until level 119. Then the Hard and Very Hard levels are too difficult to solve without using one of the boosters to cut a line or add more time. Getting more of those requires spending real money even after I paid for the game because I loved it so much. Now I’m stuck on level 139 and have given up playing it. Such a shame because it was so much fun.

I really enjoy the challenges on this game, but it’s really frustrating that you only get 5 lives. I even paid for the ad-free version, thinking that would extend lives since that’s the case on other games I’ve played, and you still only get 5 lives. Some of the levels are pretty difficult, so it’s frustrating to be stuck on a level for so long. For $7.99, there should be more perks than not having to watch 10 seconds of an ad before moving to the next level. Plus, there are still a ton of ads to watch, unless you are willing to spend even more money for coins or tickets. I’ve tried watching the ad to get 15 minutes of unlimited lives multiple times, and even though the ad says reward granted, I’ve never actually been rewarded with the unlimited lives. In short, I love the game itself, but I want more lives.

This game could be a lot of fun but in reality it is just frustrating. It is designed to milk as much money out of the user as possible and the CONTINUE button is the worst!!! It is placed in a way that it is hard to avoid accidentally pressing at the end of a game, which means you will lose 900 hard-earned coins for a measly 20 seconds of extra playing time. Given that the reward for playing all but the most difficult games is a maximum of 30 coins, it can take a long time to collect 900 coins. Of course, you can always purchase more coins but that is the point of placing the Continue button where it is isn’t it? I personally don’t think the ads are too unreasonable and I would be happy to pay some money to support the developers, but I have completed enough levels to know that I would rather not spend my relaxation time playing a game that is just an exercise in frustration!