Number Sums - Numbers Game Reviews

This is unacceptable! When you select all correct numbers in a row, the game used to autocomplete the row by erasing the remaining numbers. With the last update, this has been changed. Not sure why the video to advertise the game still shows that feature being part of the game. I’ve read from other reviewers that they were told this was done to enhance the game experience. For who! Those who have been playing this for sometime have had the feature and enjoyed it the way it was. If you wanted to ‘add more challenge’ to the game play, an option to turn the auto-complete feature off could have been added. Or bigger grid sizes could have been developed. Instead you decided for the user if they want to waste time clicking on all the numbers rather than determining the correct ones and be rewarded by the rest clearing. You have lost a loyal player. I found another version that still has this feature and I will be spending my time with their game.

The function that automatically erased incorrect numbers after selecting the correct ones has been removed. Now, players are required to manually erase all incorrect numbers. I find this function to be repetitive for no good reason. With this game, I picked the lesser two poisons. Ads, I understand as they make revenue for the company as annoying and frequent they are. But removing the function of erasing all incorrect numbers AFTER you’ve already selected the correct ones??????

There’s no real reason no matter how they spin it but I put in a ticket inquiring the new development and was told verbatim that, “This change was made to enhance the gameplay experience by encouraging more active and deliberate participation from players, at the same time, making the game more challenging.”

I personally don’t find this change enhancing or encouraging but it is what it is?????

I’ve reached 950+ levels and to have this new development take place, I find myself not playing Number Sum as much and frustrated enough to write a review at 3:44AM. Out of all things to “fix”, this wasn’t it and a poor decision in my opinion.

It feels like whoever OK-ed this change was the kid that goes, “Oh teacher, you forgot to collect homework!! 🤓” right before class ended.

The game is great, customer service was amazing, Polina gave me a timely, thorough, and polite reply and I’m not mad, just disappointed.

First, I love the game. Challenging, addicting, fun. Keeps this retired persons brain functioning. I would give it a 5 star rating BUT the addition of ads during games is unacceptable. I understand that ads are required to make games financially feasible for developers. I’ve not purchased the game so I accept whatever ads the developers choose to display before starting play or between games but interrupting every game multiple times is, as I stated previously, unacceptable. I guess I’ll have to determine my next steps. Continue as is (extremely irritating), delete the game which I hate to do, or pay the purchase price which I have never had to do previously. DUH, guess what, getting more subscribers is obviously the reason for inserting ads in games.

I submitted a help ticket informing them of the issue with the spam website popping up every few seconds. They ended up working on making it to where it doesn’t happen. So the customer service is great and so is this game! Just hope those websites stay away. Thank you guys for working on fixing the problem!

Not another dead end, boring, match game for sure. This game is enjoyable, challenging (but not to the point of frustration) and definitely a good workout for the brain. My only advice is not to waste a ton of time getting sucked into their tournaments with “unique rewards” which end up being a little picture of some stupid medal or something. Really? Can’t do any better than that? I thought they’d at least pony up on a few free hints!! Won’t make that mistake again. I’ll still play the game but won’t let my competitive side get me involved in another non-rewarding event!

But then the developers turned it into a world wide competition. Not a fan

I was disappointed by the developer’s response to my review “just ignore that part”.

I have been playing this for months. I decided to support the developers and buy the ad elimination feature. Simple game, no stress. Then the developers change the premise and created a competition. There response was to tell me to stop playing that portion of the game. To the developers, instead of telling a supporting customer to stop playing a significant portion of your game, why don’t you provide the ability to opt-out of the competition. From the looks of the scores, the competition doesn’t appear to be very popular anyway.

I enjoy the game and used to play a lot but they’ve added so many ads. Like a lot of times they’ll have an ad show up when your in the middle of a game/level. It’s super annoying and makes you lose the flow you had going. And not only are there so many ads, a large majority of the ads are really stupid and annoying to watch. There has been multiple times I’ve just stopped playing because I was so frustrated with the constant ads. Plus, some of the ads are pretty long and all of them require you to press more than one ‘X’ to get out of the ad. A lot of times you have to press three separate exit buttons just to move on.

I’ll start by saying I DO love this game/ When I started playing the ads weren’t too bad because it was just one after some games and each one allowed you to skip after 5 seconds.. now there’s ads before games, in the middle of games, after games, when you try to start a new game after - and not all of them allow you to skip after 5 seconds like before. It’s just become too much and I rarely find myself playing anymore. Quite a bummer.

I loved this game. Honestly, I had to slow myself down. But, now, I’m doing daily games and I am CONSTANTLY bombarded with ads. Why are you interrupting me after hitting every 3 numbers? Why am I forced to watch and get another life then press a number and be forced to watch again? More often than not, I just put it away and DON’T play it until I can tolerate the ads again. So get the game. I guess you can see how tolerant you are. I think I’m in the medium range. To the developers, just stop.

I introduced my friend to your number sum game on my iPad and we both love it.
He wanted to add it to his iPhone games. unfortunately the game is
Different and more difficult. Why only 2 hearts and why don’t the extra numbers disappear when the line is complete?

Very fun and engaging game. Low stars due to the endless amount of ads. I have to sit through 3 different segments of the same ad so I can finally skip all 3 of them? Absolutely ridiculous.
After lvl 47 my brain was rotted with all the ads. I finished a level, an ad and skipped it, cool. Press the next level button, another ad, wait 5 seconds, skip, need to wait another 5 seconds to finally skip that ad and start the level.
Ridiculous and unnecessary, if the game wasn't like this definitely this would be my day to day game.

I know ads are needed to keep games free but where the ads pop up is important to the playability of a game. They can pop up before or after a round or when you request a hint or some other item. But for a logic puzzle it is illogical to have them pop up in the middle of a game. It breaks your train of thought. If you had a series of moves in mind, you forget what they are. It does introduce a new thought: “it’s time to delete NumberSums”. So that was my next move. Done and gone!

I rarely write reviews and I typically have no issues with ads, but NumberSums has gone overboard. An ad to start a game, another ad when the game ends..click “new game” and another ad to start the next game. Now to add to the ad nonsense…when you make a correct, educated guess up pops an emoji with “good job”, “way to go”, or “congratulations”….and your reward for making a correct selection...another ad! How stupid…you get penalized for making a correct selection.

The ability to make a tentative selection like the Sudoku game. Does the remove ads option remove all ads? I’ve seen games from other companies that removes only some ads. I’d like this for my grandkids but would want to make it as ad free as possible.

Added a star to the rating. I haven’t seen any ads since I purchased NumberSums !
There are still features I’d like to see added but removing the ads is a very good step!

Ads between rounds is acceptable - even if I have to wait for 3, 4, or 5 between rounds I can tolerate (on mute while I freshen my tea), but multiple ads during game play is inexcusable. In the midst of toggling between circling or erasure, as I’m selecting numbers in the row or column to erase or circle, I am FORCED to watch an ad! My senior brain loses its train of thought and I have to figure out what I was in the midst of doing. It’s not just once per level… it’s constant. This is a good mind exercise but too many ads during play… not for me. Time to delete NumberSums .

I love this game and I’ve been a big fan of NumberSums since just after it released. It had ads between games which is fine, I can deal with, but now they’ve started advertising in the middle of a game. You can’t wait two more minutes for me to finish this puzzle before you shove ads down my throat? This is what’s turned me off of many games in the past and I’m sad to say that my engagement with NumberSums will probably massively decline because of this.

I really like the game. As I’m retired, I like to challenge my brain and this one does. I do really hate the deceptive ad for the game. It’s nothing like the game itself. But as mentioned in another review, it’s better then the ad.

I love the concept of the game. It is so inventive and original and fun! But the ADS have become WAY to much. Like, I was doing a puzzle, and ads would keep showing up in the middle of the puzzle. Like, every 3 minutes, my puzzle gets interrupted by ads. I feel like maybe once every 10 or 15 minutes if you really need to, but this is insane.

Sadly, I’m uninstalling.

I see this suggestion has already been made, but this game would be even more addictive if there was an option to change the white screen. Even on my phone’s lowest brightness, the background of this game can light up a room if playing at night. Otherwise, LOVE this game!

I understand free games need to make money and a break after a level is actually nice sometimes but the developer crossed the line when there’s an ad in the middle of a game. The ads are as long or longer than the game and it’s annoying. Too bad, there a lot of competition out there to exercise my brain and this change made the game no longer fun.

I’ll start out by saying that no ads for this game is a one time $5 USD charge, which is so much better than some other puzzle games that charge subscription fees or insane amounts.

I have always been of the mind that if I like a free game, I’ll buy some add on from the developer (usually no ads) because I don’t mind spending money on a great app. This game is fun and challenging. I probably would have bought no ads anyways.

That being said, I want new players to know that at some point (I’m not sure if it was a change that happened at some time, or if it happens once you get to a certain level) the game starts throwing ads at you mid-puzzle. In my opinion, this really takes the steam out of completing the puzzle. You could be adding numbers in your head and suddenly not see them anymore. To me, it’s pretty annoying and disruptive. I understand why the devs did it, but I want to let anyone know before they go into it since it made the game a lot harder for me.

I very well maybe the only to struggle with this, but I don’t like the circle and erase options. I wish that they were separated or maybe different colors when one or the other is selected. I lose more lives swearing that I selected the circle option and the erase option is actually selected or vice versa.

Maybe the background turns red when erase is selected and the background turns green when the circle option is selected. Just a suggestion 🤷🏾‍♂️

Okay, I love this game but the controls which consist only with a toggle switch have given me trouble from the start. You choose an option to circle keep or delete any number on the board. The problem is , and it happens many times in every game, is that say you choose delete and the game slips it back to keep and vice versa, there are only two choices and it should not be hard to keep you choice in the place you have chosen.

I do the math, decide what action I will take and pick the keep/delete option I want but it does not necessarily stick with your choice.

I know that I could just say, no big deal, but it is a big deal.

I love this game because you can use your brain to think and it is good education for young children probably in second or third grade and up. Fun way to get your child’s mind thinking during the summer instead of having them watching videos on YouTube.👍I would definitely recommend this game to other people. 😄