Hexa Sort Reviews

I’m an on level 437. I have not paid money, but I have paid in time I won’t get back with ads and the game crashing.

Similar to other reviews, the “leagues” seem rigged with someone always trailing only 2 levels behind. Coins are difficult to get, but there are times you have to spend them on the power ups to beat the levels. My BIG complaint though is ads have started playing mid-level - while I am playing and overrides my volume/mute controls - then I cannot exit out of the ad. I have to close out of the game and go back in. I’m ok with ads between levels and voluntary ads to get coins. I’m ok with having a constant banner of ads at the bottom of my screen, but mid-level, spontaneous, game crashing ads cross a line. When they override when my phones on mute, that crosses a line. In addition, you can pay $10 to remove (some) ads for only 30 days. That’s insane. Lastly, I’ve noticed the power ups now cost more of the previous few coins you can earn. I’m done. You made your ad money off if me. I’m out ✌🏻

Just updated to version 1.9.61, now app crashes/ goes to a black screen after the many ads. HexaSort has you watch ads as soon as you complete a level, to get extra coins, to open extra spaces. everything that you do requires you to watch ads.
But now the update goes black after you watch one of those ads. It's not enough that most of your playtime is taken up by ads, but now you have to close HexaSort and reopen it to be able to get back to yet another ad. if you're watching an ad to open a free space and it goes black, when you open HexaSort up again, you have to watch the ad all over again you don't get the credit for watching the ad.
This update is worthless!!
Well, it's one way to get me to quit playing your game. Without the update problem and all the ads, the game is enjoyable. But between the ads and HexaSort crashing, I have to give it just 2 stars.

I got caught in this game. Loved it. Was in a competition I was in first place. Second and third and the rest trailing behind about 21 points so I kept playing to keep my lead. When I finally needed to sleep I was at 107 points the others were still about 20 behind but advancing. After I woke and opened HexaSort I still had 107 but ALL the other players were at 40 or less! (The names were the same). I opened and closed HexaSort and shut down my phone too. Still the same! I wish I had thought to snap shot the scores before I went to sleep! Why did this happen? To keep me playing? Now my confidence in the integrity of these games is shattered. Deleted!

Another one of those games that quickly reaches a point where the only way to play is to pay. You can usually tell the quality of a game by when they ask for a review. The earlier they ask for a review, the sooner the game is gonna start going downhill. This is a great concept that’s ruined by greedy developers. If they weren’t so desperate for $ and cared even 10% about their customer’s experience, they’d have a winner. Unfortunately whether or not the game is actually enjoyable to play seems to be irrelevant. Don’t bother. Unless you have a trust fund you’re willing to drain in order to play this game. Thumbs WAY DOWN. 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

Game starts off as a really good puzzle game. I managed to get to level 19 with only a few failed games. Then my luck changed. Every time get on a roll and they start to add additional colors into the mix, they give me combinations that are impossible to use on my board. I often get the 3 new colors all at once. Since I can’t use them so solve any part of the problem I have to just through them in strategically. Well then I’m out of space and it’s game over. Unless I use power ups, which means spending real money or watching endless ads for one power up, but wait I’ll need probably 2 or 3 power ups to get out of the jam that RNG created. Time to restart, oh look an add just to restart. So close to being a fun game.

No idea what determines how chips move or placed. It’s not clear and is never the same twice. Sometimes it moves to an empty slot. Sometimes it moves to a short pile. Sometimes to a tall, multi-colored stacked pile. That element of randomness leads to very frustrating playing experience. It would be nice to be able to place a pile and then tap another spot/pile to move or stack pieces. It’s completely automated and random and inconsistent and frustrating… 👎 👎 👎 👎 👎

There’s also no way to “quit” a level once lost. It just loops between “revive” or “replay”. There needs to be an “end game/round” button on losing screens. I realize the screens are prompting to use in-game currency to continue but there should be a way to get out of those if you don’t wish to continue or spend currency.

Seems like an incomplete game…

I paid the $6.99 fee to remove ads, yet I still have to watch ads just to be able to open spots on the board. I am constantly having to watch 1 minute+ long ads in the middle of my game. Very annoying! If you’re going to charge me to remove ads then I shouldn’t have to keep watching ads in the middle of my game! Then yesterday, I was in third place in the Mercury League. Before each game, I would check the stats to see where I was behind the leaders. I would complete another game, and suddenly the two leaders had both advanced another win. I would wait a couple of hours. Check stats. Complete another game, and both leaders had advanced exactly one game at the same time. A couple of hours later. The same thing occurred. Both leaders had also advanced exactly one win at that exact time. Sorry folks. This game is rigged. I deleted HexaSort ! Don’t waste your time.

Download this game because it was everywhere and looked incredibly fun. It is not level 25 and it’s impossible to beat. There’s no fun and relaxing to it. Looks nothing like how it did in the ads and yes I did mean to put an S I seen over 100 ads for this game used all my coins to get passes level still didn’t beat it. I don’t know if this is just a new updated version but it’s terrible. Oh also a very big lagging issue as well try to put blocks one place and they’ll go to an entirely different spot. It’s just terrible.

Game play is good but even if you pay for no ads it still tries to force them down your throat to continue playing because it will give you impossible pieces you can’t do anything with leading to need to use your coins which are limited anyways unless you watch ads. AD FREE needs to mean ad free. If i pay you to remove the ads and you only partially do you deserve to be removed from HexaSort store.

Paid to remove ads ($7), and then got into the swing of things. Made it to about level 10 before I started consistently getting unlucky. Stacks started moving inconsistently, new colors come in when I only have three spaces on the board.

No worries, I told myself. Just get better at it! Concept of lives finally strikes. Well, that’s a bad taste in the mouth, but I choose to ignore it.

Next thing I know, I’m watching eight and ten ads per level, when I’ve *paid* to explicitly not deal with them. Stop taking ad rewards. Start losing consistently because I don't want to deal with ads. Have to wait for lives to come back.

Try again. Now I’m watching more ads than I’m actually playing the game. Get constant offers to buy this or that for real money!!! And when you run out of purchased resource, go ahead and just purchase more!

I regret giving these greedy jerks the $7 I already did. Deleting and never coming back. Anyone saying they’re going to fix it or asking for changes, all they care about is ad revenue and whether or not they can squeeze money out of you for power ups that they have tweaked the game to force you to use. If you don’t believe me, check the responses the devs have left. It’s only about inappropriate ads.

This game is pretty fun, I like to play when I’m trying to wind down from a busy work day. I personally get annoyed at ads in general just because there’s plenty of free games that are fun without having ads, but I understand having them. What I do not like is the sexually suggestive game ads for story games! That is completely inappropriate to have ads like this on there. I don’t want my kids to be sitting with me seeing that or if I’m sitting somewhere in public having one pop up, that’s embarrassing. Please fix this.

This should’ve been a really fun game. The problem is is absolutely cluttered with advertising and pretty much requires you to continuously spend money on coins if you want to make any real progress.
I paid the seven dollars to get the advertising turned off only to find out that’s not really what it did. granted, it turned off the uncontrolled pop-up advertising, but a variety of the game spaces that require one to watch a video advert in order to use them are still there and you still have to watch the advertisements if you want to be able to win the levels. So much for having in theory, purchased away the advertising. This deceptive practice disqualifies the game for me already. But then once you’re actually playing you find you need all these little power ups to get through and those things cost game coins and game coins are very scarce unless you are ready to shill out still more real coin to buy game coin packages. I cut my losses and deleted the game seven dollars wiser and sadder. Avoid!

They list the problem w ads going to black screen in their FAQ!! and ask you to submit a screenshot of the advertisement that has the error but EVERY single ad produces a black screen. You either get a black screen immediately, so you have no idea which ad is causing the problem or you get almost completely through the ad and suddenly it goes to a black screen. Once it goes to a black screen there’s no way to do a screen capture of the problem ad and I’m not gonna do a screen capture of every single ad when it begins because they ALL turn to a black screen. they tell you it’s the ads problem but obviously it’s not. You have to force quit the game to get past the black screen. No tapping in any corner of the screen does any good. It’s a great game but I am not going to have to force quit after every single level and restart it to play and I’m not going to watch an ad after every level either. If this issue is part of your FAQ, and it says that you’re aware of it, then you need to fix it before you bring HexaSort back online. I’m deleting HexaSort . 😡

Like many other people reviewing this, I saw this game from another app and decided to give it a try. I actually really enjoyed the game and even made it to the sapphire cup league, but I noticed early on that you aren’t completing against real people it’s all NPC and computer generated. The coins you earn from watching ads doesn’t make it worth sitting through them ever time, not to mention if you let your screen go dark or click off HexaSort for more than a minute, you have to watch an add to continue playing. All of that I was willing to put up with, but with the recent update almost every ad you watch crashes the game to a black screen where you have to restart HexaSort to continue using it. Then there is also the fact that the ads seem to cause the actual game to bug out and it stopped reacting properly leading to it placing blocks other places than I slid them to. Over all it is a huge money grab and little to no actual competition, that is chalked full to the brim of ads. Don’t bother, with it just go play merge games.

Within a given level, the game play is smooth and it’s a decent puzzle solving/pattern matching game. However - almost ANY in-game ad content has about a 70% chance of ending with a black screen that you cannot interact with, forcing you to close HexaSort completely and restart - without receiving credit for the crappy ad you just watched. And there is entirely too much ad-driven content — small bonuses and special/extra spaces on the game board. So one level ends up having anywhere from 2 to 5 ads either in-game or post-game and at least 1 of those is guaranteed to brick the game.
Additionally, you absolutely do not want to play this game without either unlimited data or wifi… HexaSort is constantly streaming meaningless data for ads/banners as well as all the little “achievement” systems that just end up spamming more ads. And the $7 “remove ads” fee DOES NOT REMOVE the bonus content ads. So they can whistle for that $7, since those are the ads that everyone will actually want to get rid of.

I played HexaSort for 3-4 weeks & noticed my iPhone started acting weird after installing. Battery was draining 5X faster, phone was constantly hot, & it got slow & glitchy. This was happening regardless if HexaSort was open or not. Like other reviewers, the black screen involving ads was utter maddening! I reached out to support 3-4 times (even though they were aware of the issue-it’s posted under their FAQ) letting them know it was affecting my game play, I wasn’t receiving the coins for passing a level, & I wasn’t able to receive daily log in rewards. The response was always the same vague answer & nothing ever got fixed. Meanwhile, my phone continued to act up (yes…current on iOS update) & the ONLY thing that changed was installing & playing HexaSort. I was having to do reboots 2-3 DAILY because my phone was soooo slow!! I deleted HexaSort & my phone is now back to normal. I CAUTION people before downloading HexaSort because it’s just NOT WORTH IT!!

Like I said I love the game, but the ad I have a problem. No I’m not complaining about how many ads , I’m complaining about the ad that was for the “adult coloring book “. Talk about rude. I’m thankful my nephew wasn’t playing this, but I’m sure there are children playing this. I know their parents would not want them seeing those kind of ads. Please fix or I will make sure this game will be deleted off of my tablets, and that my friends with kids know about the kind of ads shown.

I liked playing this game but the stupid glitches are absolutely infuriating. The stupid game lags a lot and freezes up. Also, when I try to watch an ad for a free space, the ad will not load AT ALL. I click watch ad and nothing happens at all causing me to lose the stupid level. I’m completely stuck unable to proceed in this game because I keep losing the stupid level and the ads for free space won’t work at all and I don’t have enough stupid coins. I bought a hammer with coins and I can’t even use it AT ALL because when I click a stack to clear, nothing happens. I’ll be deleting this useless garbage app now. Absolute waste of time 🤬🤬

Like others I have seen, I too paid for no ads but I got that refunded from Apple bc I was still watching 3-6 ads per game! Now, I found out I am not playing other players, I am playing a computer! I’m just wondering why when I play in a league, the other 2 players in the top 3 stay exactly 2 games behind me no matter when I play. I just took a pic of the Bronze League where I battled the same 2 players in your illustration-Leonardo and Legendary!!! I thought it was a mistake bc everytime I won a game, they were BOTH always exactly 2 games behind me, no matter the time of day, they were always 2 games behind up until a certain level when I finally pulled ahead. I felt and still feel like Leonardo and Legendary were fixed by the game and developer to keep me playing the game! It’s also odd that even though they ranked 2nd and 3rd consecutively behind me, neither moved up to the Diamond League!!!! I am now battling 2 other “phantom” players for 1st place and they also remain exactly 2 games behind me in 2nd and 3rd place!!!! With every win, they also win and I am ALWAYS 2 games ahead of 2nd place and 4 games ahead of 3rd place! THIS GAME IS FIXED AND THAT IS UNFAIR!!!! I liked this game but that was when I believed it was fair!!!!! Now, I can’t trust this game when I know I am not playing against real people but against a computer likely set by the developers and I call FOUL PLAY!

You can not win in this game. Do Not Download. Frustrating game not fun!! Will always give you colors that you do not need in order for you to lose and pay to get more points.

I have enjoyed this game quite a bit since I downloaded it about a month ago. I’m not bothered by the obvious fake rankings. I don’t care about the tiny coin values. I don’t even really care about the number of ads.

But since the last update this game has become so frustrating to play I may need to delete it. First you see all the complaints about the ads freezing the game, which are true - I can’t even attempt a free space ad anymore. Then today the game has started lagging so substantially that it’s not really even possible to play.

I don’t know how the developers have ruined so much with one update, but I can’t believe that in five days and with all of this complaints they haven’t bothered to fix it. I think maybe they’re abandoning this game, given the lack of attention. Which would be a shame. Great concept, really failing on execution.

I’ve had this game for a several months and I play it often. The game typically only has ads when you either minimize the game during a level (which will earn you some coins when the ad is done so it’s not a huge deal) or when you want to buy an extra spot. Then literally yesterday (August 22, 2024), ads started interrupting the level! Weird, short, repetitive ads that happen frequently and randomly. It’s so bizarre! I don’t know if they did an update or something, but interrupting ads are so ridiculous! It seems clear that this company doesn’t put their consumers first if they’re willing to do that. It’s totally unfortunate because this is a super fun game that’s stimulating and easy going, and the graphics are dynamic and well rendered. I genuinely enjoy HexaSort but I’ll have to leave this negative review because I am pretty insulted that the designers of this game feel it’s okay to interrupt their short levels with multiple ads. Just seems like a revenue making program now.

They will purposely give you the wrong colors so you keep losing and have to watch their ads. I knew I was gonna lose, tried to end the game. They took my a life away, made me watch an ad then gave me the same game I tried to get away from just for me to lose another life and have to go through another ad. Just deleted the game

I really enjoy playing this game. It’s very addicting and helps pass the time. However the “leagues” or “tournaments” that are played against other players is not real. The other players only seem to play when you play and level up as you do. I can not play for three or four days and everyone is right where I left off but as soon as I level up so do they. And the top three players are always within 10 levels of each other. I can end the day and screen shot the levels everyone is on, and the next morning come back and the players that were beating me are now below me. Over night the amount of levels they played went DOWN. Make it make sense! But as you play it makes the competitors seem like they are going to beat you so that you’ll spend money to progress faster. In the end it doesn’t matter because they aren’t real players and in the morning you’ll be winning anyways. 🙄

I really like the concept of this game. But it’s ruined by two fixable things: 1) the colors in the stacks are not clear enough. If you have a red token on top and blue underneath, the blue tokens can look purple. I’ve misplaced dozens of stacks because I failed to accurately identify the lower tokens. (I’m not colorblind, but colorblind mode doesn’t help here since it only adds symbols to the top tokens.) And (2) the logic of which direction the computer decides to flip the tiles is often the wrong decision. I’ve lost a level several times not because I didn’t have a sound strategy, but because the computer chose the wrong direction. Instead, the player should have the opportunity to decide.

Fix these two annoyances, and you have a great game.

I’m not sure how the chips move. It’s never consistent, whether they go from the tall stack to the short one or short to tall. It makes the game harder to play. Also, there may be continuous levels but there are only certain “setups” that just get repeated. By that I mean, the same way the boards was set up for level 12, it also is then repeated for 22, 36, 42. There’s just a few different set ups that just get rotated. So the games never gets harder. Boring.

This would be a fun game, if it weren’t so ad invasive. I play plenty of other ad supported games, and I don’t mind having a few for a quick free play game. I know I’m not spending money on the game, and developers have to eat too. However, this is one of those games where the actual game play is just filler between more ads.

You WILL spend more time on ads than with the game. There are even ads when you open the game sometimes. You have to wait for it to finish to play your first round. They have the potential for a fun game here, but they ruined it. This is day 3, and I’m deleting it.

I don’t usually write reviews but I don’t think anybody who may have any illnesses aggravated by stress should play this. It’s fine and fun at first, but then it sabotages you. Giving you stacks of colors that you can’t use, making you use boosters which you HAVE to watch ads to be able to afford. I’ve also discovered that there really is only one way to beat each level past 20, I am stuck on 25 and without knowing what exact order I need to do everything to beat the level I can’t do it. I have stress induced migraines and this game has simply become too much of a hassle to play, I have I downloaded it for this reason.

I am at level 205, and I am running into the issue of watching an ad and my screen all of a sudden goes black. I am forced to exit out of the game completely to be able to play again, but then shortly after I watch another ad and then it goes black. Obviously it’s not an ad issue, it’s this games issue. I have been sitting here trying to beat this level for about 2 hours but I can’t because of the ads. It wouldn’t be to much of an issue if you earned more coins, so that way you can buy boosters. But instead the developers have refused to fix the problem because if you want to play, you have to spend your own money to buy the boosters. This game is fun, but you have its very much designed to take money out of your pocket. Also, after awhile the levels repeat themselves. Nothing new or exciting.

The game itself is fun- some levels are challenging and a few are not. Overall a nice relaxing time waster. But the number of ads is obscene. You have to ad spaces per level and often need them unless you play a near perfect start. So there is a minute or two wasted just to start a round. Ads between rounds. Ads for everything. I purchased the $6.99 add free- it said something like ads still for bonuses. It took out no ads near as I can tell.

I get that games cost money to make and maintain but- if you’re going to offer an “ad free” version make it worth it. I would have paid 15 to get rid of all adds.

I cannot get past this ad

Just updated to version 1.9.61, now app crashes/goes to a black screen after the many ads. HexaSort has you watch ads as soon as you complete a level, to get extra coins, to open extra spaces. everything that you do requires you to watch ads. But now the update goes black after you watch one of those ads. It’s not enough that most of your playtime is taken up by ads, but now you have to close HexaSort and reopen it to be able to get back to yet another ad. if you’re watching an ad to open a free space and it goes black, when you open HexaSort up again, you have to watch the ad all over again you don’t get the credit for watching the ad. This update is worthless!!

Well, it’s one way to get me to quit playing your game. Without the update problem and all the ads, the game is enjoyable. But between the ads and HexaSort crashing, I have to give it just 2 stars.

I wanted to love this game. I really did. I’m at level 259 if that says anything. And getting first place in every “league.” I put league in quotations because it seems fake. I played for hours and hours on the last league I was in so I could get first place. The first three people are named Leonardo, Legendary, and Parker. With 75, 65, and 55. I was able to surpass and get first place again. Boom, promoted, yay. Now I started a new league. What are the odds that the same exact people with the same exact amount of levels beat, would be at the top again??!! Seems a little sus to me. Makes me not want to play anymore. I want to beat actual people. Not fake people with the same stats as last time. Talk about BORING. Also, the levels never change. When you played as much as I did in a row to beat the fake people, you start to notice the levels are the same ones, just recycled. Nothing more challenging, nothing different or exciting. If this game makes improvements, I’ll continue playing. But who wants to beat fake people, or play the same levels over and over? Not me.

The game itself is fun, and I’ve enjoyed the game play so far, but I am giving it a low rating due to the outrageous amount of ads. To unlock spaces that you have to have to win a level, you have to watch an ad. Sometimes there are four of these spaces. The ads themselves would be bearable if they were the 20 or 30 second kind, but no, these are 75 second ads a piece! That’s at least 5 minutes of ads per level sometimes, and that’s if you clear it the first time. To play a level twice, I could possibly watch 10 whole minutes of advertisements!?!? No thank you. That isn’t including the ads you have to watch to revive yourself, earn coins, etc. It feels like all I do is watch the same minute and 15 second ad over and over, which completely takes away from the game I’m trying to play. There is an option to “get rid of ads” for $8, but it seems they make this part unbearable just so you will have spend your money. I would rate this five stars if they would get the ads under control.

I was addicted to this game and absolutely loved playing it until I realized they were cheating on their competition leagues. It was interesting that the very top three people were always the top, and first place had 75 games place two had 65 games, and place three had 55 games. It could be the first day of play, and it already started out that high. I tested my theory four times, and as I tried to beat them, there was no way to ever win because for every one game I won, their fake players had already moved up two more. I did win first place three times in a row, but never again after that. There was no way to win What is the fun in playing on a league when the people are fake?

This game can be really fun and addicting. It’s he bright colors and you build little areas from around the world. However, I paid to remove ads and of course they still find a way to choice them in your face. The ad remover that costs money only removes ads in between levels. Yet when u play levels you are almost always forced to need the extra slots that require watching ads. Almost everything you want in this game is involves you watching ads or paying for bonuses. You can collect some bonuses while competing in some side games but they never last. Then they just increased the prices for the bonuses as well. They used to 50 coins for a swap hand, it is now 100 coins. Then the refresh button, that refreshes the que of tiles u need, used to be only 10 coins now it’s 30! Also the ads are terrible. Always the royal king game and the worst ones are the gossip harbor ones. I hate watching women with babies in the cold suffering and ask you for help. I always have to just turn my phone away while the ads playing. It’s sad cause I really love this game. I have already played over 2500 levels. Now I’m not so sure I can play as much.

I’ve been playing this game for a few weeks. I have reached a level somewhere around 330.. I believe. I love the game but the quantity of ads I have to watch is ridiculous. Every level up, every free space, and it’s not just a quick ad… these ads STOP and force you to click on them (supposedly to make SURE you are watching them). .. watching an ad I’ve watched over and over and the length of them is often longer than the time I actually play the game. It’s mind numbing and I think I’m going to delete the game as much as I love playing it, because of the ads. I feel so much of my time is being wasted.. and it’s frustrating. I WILL NOT PAY to stop the ads.. if you want to keep customers.. shorten the ads, don’t allow them to stop (to force us to actually WATCH them.. they’re mind numbing, and if we want to join in with whatever is being advertised.. we will probably do that within a few seconds of seeing it once or twice. To force people to watch all these ads is unkind to say the very least.. do better!

But the ads are not only intrusive, but unavoidable and verging on ridiculous with their length and repetition. The only real way to effectively use the boards is to watch the ads for the free spaces. The ads are so long, many of them simply never offer a close option, a couple of them fully black out and freeze HexaSort . TL:DR - if you enjoy ads, this is the ad-watching platform for you! I hope another dev comes up with a better version of this game, the game itself holds promise.

I love the gameplay and mechanics of Hexa Sort the coin economy and ads need serious work. Winning a level only yields 5 coins, while boosters and life refills cost much more, creating a frustrating bottleneck. Maybe considered tiered rewards based on level difficulty? Some levels I beat in one go. Others take 30+ lives so it’s not very exciting to finally beat a difficult level and see 5 coins.

This is one of maybe 5 games I’ve ever paid to remove ads on and I’m still frustrated with the ads. Reward ads are too long (over a minute) and offer minimal benefits, disrupting gameplay flow. I think the twice daily bonus ads are nice but it’s pointless to watch a minute and a half ad to free one space on a level that I’m only going to get 5 coins for beating.

I could easily play this game for hours. But the poor coin system and ad time/reward ratio are making me consider deleting the game.

This was one of the rare games I saw an ad for during another game I was playing and actually downloaded. I love playing the game but I have to stop because the sheer amount of ads is insane. There is an ad after every game and if you switch to a different app while you’re playing, there is an ad when you come back to the game. There’s buttons for ads everywhere and things free spaces for ads and just ads ads ads ads. I don’t mind games with ads in general and would probably actually voluntarily watch some to get free spaces now and again. I finally just had to give up and stop playing. If the game were a little less expensive or if I could play it a little longer to see if I wanted to buy it, I’d buy the ad-free version. But as it stands, it’s getting deleted. Hoping I can find another similar game.

I’ve been playing for about a week and I like the game but there are way too many ads. If your screen turns off and you go back to the game, there’s an ad. If you want extra coins after winning, there’s an ad. If you want to use a booster in the game, there’s an ad. Even after you complete a level, there’s an ad. There’s also no real reward for playing a lot or often. The prizes or rewards are sub par. For example, if you beat levels consecutively you get a prize but I’m all the way up to 38 and I only get 25 coins which is only enough for one booster in the game. A lot of improvements can be made. It’s alot of fun and addictive while in game but it becomes unplayable after a while

I was super excited to download this game because the ad i watched on it said, “no ads”. I was currently playing a Hex game and love the game, hate the ads, so when I saw this game ad and it stated, “no ads” I immediately downloaded it and deleted the one that I was playing only to find out 5 or so levels into it, that there ARE ADS! And not just the voluntary ads for things that are needed for the game, but ads after each level and ADS DURING THE LEVEL, which interrupt the game play. This is why I was so willing to delete the other hex app and download this one, because to level interruptions. Well, I will be deleting this one as well. DON’T LIE ON YOUR ADS FOR YOUR GAMING APPS. LYING CREATS DISTRUST. And I really do like the game. Just not the ads interruptions and the lies about it. And do not tell me to purchase the ad removal option. I would it if would permanently remove them but I’m not interested in paying to remove ads for 30 days of play. NOT WORTH IT! Thanks and good day to you.
UPDATE: This actually was the first game and the ad I watched was for another hex game. I still HATE the ads that interrupt the game play in the middle of the level, but this is NOT the game that lied about the ads. I am sorry for that misunderstanding on my part and I have deleted the second game and left this 1 star review on that one as well.

I really enjoyed this game at first, and like some ppl said, I don’t even mind the ads after every play bc they are pretty short. One thing that bugs me though is that when you lose a life, rather than allowing you to return to the Home Screen, the game bounces you between two windows, revive/watch an ad, or replay. Every time you press x, it takes you to one or the other. All of the ad opportunities while playing is also annoying. I’ve accidentally hit the “free space” a couple times, and it launches into an absurdly long ad. I had to remove the game unfortunately - seeing a million ads or paying $8 is kind of wild.

I’ve really enjoyed this game and haven’t had to spend any $ yet (and I won’t), but I noticed something “odd” about the leaderboards. The top 10 names are typically the same all the time and don’t move day to day (even against each other) until I get near/above them and then they start to move, as if they are AI generated. I think “normal” players would advance as I do and play, but they don’t. Therefore, I think they are placed on the leaderboard to try to get players to spend $ to catch up with them. I hope I’m wrong, but if I’m not, that is a pretty petty way to get players to spend $, that’s why not 5*. Don’t spend $ to win - just play and have fun like I am… AB Another note - why should you have to watch an ad after you WIN? Another dissatisfier…. down to 3 stars. AB

I downloaded this because the ad said it was a relaxing game- and in the beginning, it was. It was fantastic. But now, I want the throw my mf-ing phone across the gd room while I scream. Some of the levels NEED for you to use a booster or two- and there literally NO other way to get coins except waiting an hour or finally being able to spin the wheel- where you can pretty much bet your entire paycheck on it landing on the smallest amount of coins- a 5 cent… thanks. I want to find whoever made this “relaxing game” and give them a nice, friendly high five. I can’t say anything else or my comment will be deleted.

This is a fun game, but there’s some serious glitches that need to be worked out. After I finish a round, the screen blanks out and freezes. This has happened several times. I have removed HexaSort and reinstalled it. Still the same glitch. If this continues, I will just delete the game all together and not look back. Also, the ads are so long and depressing with the homeless lady and her daughter. The game would be so much more fun if the ads were 30 seconds or shorter. These 60 second+ long ads are too much! Consider changing the long ads to shorter ads. The interact ads are fun to play and I don’t mind those. But even those don’t been to be 60+ seconds long. It would be nice if there was an ad free purchase for this game. I’d happily pay for it just to not be bothered by ads. Plus the ads that interfere during game play are annoying. Sometimes they happen 3-4 times in a row. Please fix that. But all of those ads need to come with coins earned.

I thought this game would be fun, and it is, however in the advertisements you see misleads you. The stack you are adding to the board has colors A, B. & C stacked together. Once placed, the game moves A to the matching color neighboring stack, B to its neighboring stack, and C to a third neighboring stack which happens to be on top of Color D. The three colors you just stacked remove from the game. In reality, Color C will move from the neighboring stack onto your moved piece, and only if it reaches a certain height will it be removed. You expect one thing and it goes opposite. Now you have a stack in a place you weren’t planning. I know it all sounds confusing. I just wish the advertisement matched real game play.

1. Ads are why games like this are Free to play. I don’t like the ads but I like the game. This is how the developer earns money for game. So I accept ads are part of playing.

2. Algorithm is set to make you fail a lot which is meant to provoke players to make purchases to get past a level. This is when I begin to consider deleting the game.

3. Developer needs to reduce the amount of times the game makes you fail. People deleting app loses you opportunities that someone MIGHT spend on the game once in awhile if they continue to play.

4. Developer should consider making alliances so players can request from fellow players “lives”. This will allow longer play time and keep players from deleting app.

Deleting:
No true skill level needed because the game decides when you win or lose. Losing happens more often than winning. I will delete the game for this reason. Shame too, I really liked it.

This is an AWESOME game. It looks nice and is fun to play.

However, it’s super laggy. It’s not my phone because I’ve done all the troubleshooting, and it’s still the only app that lags. It’s been unplayable for the last couple of days, but it’d been a struggle the entire time. Just worse now.

Also, we are simply just not given enough coins. Either give us more lives or give us more coins to buy them with, but the amount we get now is honestly kinda messed up. 5 lives cost 75 coins and we only get 5 coins every few hours. The worst part is you can use up 5 lives in 5 minutes, and then you have to wait 30 minutes for ONE life to refill. I don’t know who thought of that system, but rethink it because this is a great app that is getting in its own way.

Starts off fine with all the usual mobile game mechanics. Then the typical predatory tactic where the incentive to pay real money is very subliminally slipped into the game loop. It begins with the concept of have “lives”. Now, in theory, you could play this game without paying anything but be prepared to sit through artificial timers or suffer through ads. Me, I play mobile games while I’m in between activities or something to pass the time while waiting. I like brain games and this has potential to be a solid game. However, these artificial timers really drag it down. My suggestion would be to lose the “lives” mechanic. I wasn’t going to spend any money on this game so instead I deleted it. Shame because the core is entertaining.

Every time an ad plays my game freezes and I have to close HexaSort . It’s very annoying cause I do like the game.

It was a fun little game about strategy and I just loved playing it but this most recent update changed the game in the middle of round I was playing. I stopped for a little while and came back to the game. I lost the round, updated the game because I saw there was an update, came back to the same level and it was completely different. Same level but configured differently and now I have to break caps off the other towers?!? And break planks to open more spots? Not every game needs to be like this. Bring back the simple game please. I’m really not impressed with this update at all

Personally I find it interesting and a mind challenge but I do have some issues. Some levels giving me pieces that are very useless or the blocks not going in the way I wanted and making it impossible. The ads on the other hand. Just as bad. They sometimes don’t play and make it so I don’t get the reward for it since I never watched it and is annoying. I may revisit if I try hard but I’m probably leaving HexaSort .

Love the game but the adult coloring ads are a turn off. Get rid of those ads and add more communities to build

I have played all the levels and wish I knew when you are going to add more. I normally do wish the extra times I play the game I am getting built up some more building materials so when you get the next levels on I can use the building materials I have gained while I am waiting because I am bored.

I like this game but when it plays adds for free spots it freezes. The I have to get out of the game and redo it, if it continues I’ll just delete the game.

So I absolutely love the game and find myself sitting for extended amounts of time playing it. My biggest issue is the lifes, coins, and anything involving making the play go longer. You have to wait 10 minutes between watching videos to earn 5 coins. Now to get lifes you have to spend 75 coins… They only allow you to revive once on the game by watching a video and after that youre out of luck for 10 minutes until you earn health which only gives you one life :( It honestly brings the whole concept of the game down for me

I don’t normally write review, but I figured submitting feedback would help. I don’t mind ads in games from time to time, but I had purchased no ads for this game, in game. And unfortunately it is still letting ads through. Not by selecting addition assistance and watching an ad when you are low on coins. I hope this helps developers

Before buying, the number of ads is excessive. That should have been a hint at what was to come. I decided to pay the $7 to support the game creators after getting through enough ads to be able to sample the game.

Unfortunately, after purchasing the “ad free” option, there are still ads to unlock spots on your board.

Look i dont write reviews for games but this one i kinda had too.. i love the challenges and levels it gives… im just finding my phone literally burning up over this game ive tested it on other games to see if it was just my phone but it wasn’t, i also noticed that the game freezes up and i meant to put the tiles on a specific spot but it lags and puts it on another spot i had no intention putting on and messes up my ideas for the next move, it fustrated me to the point where i had to write a review. Otherwise i love the concept of it!

The game itself is great. Well designed and easy to pick up and play a level or two with even just a few minutes of down time. I’d honestly rate at 5 stars, but I’ve purchased the No Ads pack and after the “payment success” notification, there are no less ads than before. I tried to restore the purchase but the button seems to do nothing. Tried to refund through Apple which also doesn’t work. The option to buy the pack is gone so I know it’s supposed to be activated but it isn’t.

I like the game but wish there were more cities. I finished them all in about a week.

I loved this game until I didn’t. Once I started getting the same impossible puzzle over and over and I just when I thought I figured out how it is played…. It takes weeks to get past puzzles unless you watch ads or buy stuff. Not happening. Sorry. So download if you want. And “play” till you can’t.

The game itself is fine, but I’m only giving it 3 stars because even if you pay for no-ads you still have to sit through ads to unlock free spots on the board. Also the fact you can’t exit back to the home page if you fail a level is annoying. I shouldn’t have to close HexaSort entirely if I’m out of lived and don’t want to buy coins to retry a level.

I have really been enjoying this game. I think it’s really satisfying to play. I do have two issues with it. I purchased the option to remove ads, but I still end up watching a lot of ads due to the difficulty of level 60. Even though you purchase remove ads, all it does is remove the random ones between levels. You still have to watch the ones for reviving, the daily coins, and there are a few spaces in most levels you have to watch an ad to unlock. From the few games I actually do remove the ads on, it usually removes ALL of them, including the ones you watch voluntarily. I feel like coins are too hard to get. I think having daily missions would help that (like clear 100 yellow tiles). I think it would be cool to have themes too. I saw an ad on TikTok where the video for this game the tiles were fruits. That’s not actually in the game. I do feel like some levels, especially level 60, the game is giving me colors I can’t use on purpose so that I use items. I’ve been stuck on this level for a few days now.

Its fun, simple and good to play when bored, a little slow when screens are popping up but other than that good 🤷🏻

I love this game so far I would love it even more if there were an arcade version. Like choose your layout and the amount of colors. Hëll yes!
Also, I think $7 for ads is nuts which is why you get 4stars, however there aren’t many so that’s why you don’t have 3 stars.

It’s a fun, if not sometimes frustrating (at least when you’re starting) game, but the game seems to end at the London location. It keeps generating puzzles, but you don’t progress any further. It says I’m on level 92, so I don’t know how many times I’ve replayed the last level.
Are there more levels coming or is there a glitch in my version?

I love this game, maybe too much. I have no idea how long I spend on it and find out I’ve been playing for an hour. I have to really have some self control when I have other things to do and play this when I’m taking a break. To be honest, the one thing that gets me mad about it is when the levels end. I understand that once I’ve hit the goal the level ends but I would love to see how far each level can go. If you give the stars when the goal has been reached but let us play on till we get the board filled that would be awesome. I really get going and have the next move on my finger and the board stops, it gets frustrating. I honestly have no other improvements to add (maybe add a pink chip) and if the levels could continue till you fill the board it would be definitely more than five stars (I have not seen another game I’d even give five stars to). Great game

I love playing this game but was disappointed when I reached the end and couldn’t advance further. Then suddenly there was an update and I couldn’t have been happier to see that. Now I’m frustrated again because the update is broken. I’ve played close to 20 levels and somehow I’m still stuck at 2% build progress. Hope it’s fixed soon.

This game is fun and I enjoy the levels. However I would love to have just a continuous play for while I am waiting for next levels to come out.

I’m currently on level 100 of the game and i’ve enjoyed it a lot! It works with no wifi & no service which is useful. All the video ads are avoidable, they only show up once you finish the level, or leave HexaSort without closing it and returning. If you just completely close HexaSort and reopen it, you don’t have to watch the ad. I saw someone complain that some levels are impossible without boosters, but that’s simply not true. As I said, i’m on level 100, and I have not been using boosters. Being able to switch the language of the game easily has been nice as well. I’m learning German and I have HexaSort in German to try to learn the language a bit more. My only complaint is that in the past week or so, the game has become a bit glitchy. It will sometimes lag, making me place the hexagons where I did not mean to place them which is quite annoying. I hope the lagging is fixed soon, but besides that, very good game!

Great puzzle game. Keeps my attention zoned in. Good stim for multitasking. It could really benefit from an endless or “zen” mode. After a while, I wish the levels wouldn’t end so that I don’t have to start from scratch.

Thank you for putting in a colorblind mode. I absolutely love these types of games but being colorblind they are difficult and we (those who are colorblind) usually don’t even try these types of games. I did take off one star because of the constant ads and when you run out of lives you cannot get past “continue” or get more lives banners. If you don’t have the game coins or buy them you have to close the game and restart.

Edit: Changed to 4 stars because shortly after I made my review the bots were disengaged. So customer service is fire.

A lot of complaints about the ads but I am fine with them. They don’t interrupt game play.

There are three users that suddenly become 1, 2, 3 in the weekly league - legendary, Leonardo and Parker. If anyone gets ahead of them, their rankings increase as the other rankings increase. I like my games mindless. This game has enough difficulty to make it challenging but not impossible. I quit Candy Crush because it was stressing me out. However, these bots make the game irritating. I’ll be moving on.

I don’t write app reviews often, but I am for this one because I think it could be a great app if a few updates were made. It lags/freezes during gameplay making it difficult to pick up/place stacks. The lag caused stacks to be dropped in the incorrect place. It also makes my phone very warm and drains my battery at an insane rate. I’ll probably end up deleting HexaSort because of the issue with the phone heating up and the battery draining.

Otherwise I love this game. It’s very addicting and I’d love to continue to play it if the above were fixed.

I’ve played this game for a few weeks and I’ve become obsessed with it. The ads are excessive but I’ve played enough phone games by now to know it’s expected. My only gripe that I’ve noticed is that the levels have become pretty repetitive. I’m on level 174 currently and I’ve started to notice that I’m doing the same challenges over and over. I think if there were more difficulty levels and a bigger board occasionally then that would make it more interesting. Otherwise it’s a great game that’s starting out and has the chance to grow and be better.

I have been playing this game for a while and it’s great for satisfying my OCD. lol! It’s also relaxing, however, the last week or so, when I want to get an extra space and click on watch ad, my screen comes up blank and I can’t watch the ad (I actually found this game thru an ad), so I don’t mind watching them. But for some reason, the screen is black and if I touch it, the ad app appears at the bottom of the screen and never shows a video to get my free space? Is this a glitch in HexaSort ?

It doesn’t matter how much I like a game, if I'm spending as much time watching adds as playing I will delete the game.

This one is a good model for how it should be done. There is an ad after every level, it the level take enough time to play that it doesn’t feel unreasonable, since these ads are short (make sure to pay attention to one the X or forward icon appears).

There are longer ads, but they use that when they are giving you something, like adding a hex. Since you are getting something out of it that is helping with your game, it makes sense to place their longer ads there. I just like that I found a game that doesn’t try to make you watch ridiculous length or # of ads.

The gameplay is fun and addictive as well, but even th best game I won’t reward with in app purchases if they drown you in ads.

just started playing this game & I feel it has the potential to be very addictive; however I’m very frustrated that I can’t change the screen to landscape so that I can play it on my iPad
**I delete the games that don’t have a landscape option.
MESSAGE…..To the game creators from ALL of us who play games on our iPads, please create your games with the option to change the play area to landscape as it’s to awkward playing with our keyboards standing up in our way!
Thank you in advance for adding “landscape mode” to your settings on behalf of every game player, who like I do, will eventually delete an awesome game because it isn’t iPad friendly.

This is a great game. However, it has problems when I want to use the free spaces. It goes to the advertisement but the screen goes black and then freezes up. I have to close it out and then wait a while and open it up again. I would purchase the game which I rarely do but I’m not sure that would stop the issue. This occurs on both my iPhone and iPad. The same thing happens some times when going from one level to the next. I have cleared the memories on both devices and also turned them off but that doesn’t make a difference. 😢

I absolutely love this game! I could play it constantly but there are entirely to many ads. I told my husband how fun this game was and he asked if there were ads and when my response was “yes, a lot” he refused to download it. Other than the ads this games is great!

The ad pack for this one is really the worst kind. Ad buyout is premium level for a single player puzzle game. The “semi-elective” ads to open tiles in game are justified but not followed by 5-45 second jump ads randomly throughout the level. Levels take minutes to complete and half of that time is spent loading ads. Make your game, get your dough, but maybe act right on the ads because currently it’s graceless.

I bought out the ads, I’m over it.

At level 160. Love this game. Updates por favor

The only thing that I caught that sort of drives me wild (not really, but I got your attention, didn’t I?) is that I don’t understand how the chips move! Do they go to the smaller to bigger pile; or do they move bigger to smaller pile? I plan ahead (best that I can…there are a lot of variables here….) and suddenly the piles change direction. Or is this where your RNG (Random Number Generator) comes in to play?
Don’t get me wrong, I am enjoying playing; and could you reduce the cost of no ads? ($6.99 is a bit high….I’m an old fart and have little money…$3.99 will have EVERYONE BUYING IT!) If this game takes off; I am guessing it will, since it engaged me so-well, that when I looked up I forgot where I was; you will reap the benefits of many, many players wanting to buy NO ADS!

I do not appreciate the squares indicating I need to watch an ad to open them…if we buy NO ADS; do they go away? You wall says you have 4 reviews. If I’m the fifth, listen to me becauseI have been playing games since 1986…64 bits! I KNOW what I’m talking about! Do nice with your players and they will be eternally fans of your games…..so, please tell me about those piles’ moving, ok?

Liking this brand new game.

Look I don’t mind watching ads between levels or for coins or lives , but I find it annoying to have a ad to pop up in the middle of the level. I understand that ads have to be in the game to keep it free but i really don’t like them popping up in the middle of the level, and I cannot afford to get rid of ads so I have to put up with them because I love this game. If you could stop the ads from popping up in the middle of the level I will be happy and will give it 5 stars

This game started out with a 5 star rating for the fact it’s fun, I’m being generous by giving it a 4 star rating instead of a 3 because it could just be my phone. I don’t mind the ads after passing or failing a level, but the ads during gameplay is absolutely frustrating. Not only does it severely lag and drop my stacks in the wrong area, but sometimes it freezes up my game entirely where I can’t pick up the stacks at all and have to reboot HexaSort only to lose my level progress. I’m sad to have deleted HexaSort because it was fun, but devs seriously consider trashing the ads during gameplay. I’d rather watch two ads before playing the next round then deal with that game breaking travesty at the bottom of my screen :( still giving 4 stars though because it was fun. If this problem is remedied I’ll definitely add it back onto my phone. Just saying :/

Loved playing this sorting merge game. Highly recommend! It’s addicting, fun, and relaxing

I'm still at very early levels and I enjoy it so far but one of the reasons I downloaded it was the ad that said "no annoying ads." Then I got to the "ad break" in the game. And I'm amused that the ad it just showed me is the same ad, for the very game I'm playing, that says there are no annoying ads. If they mean they only show non-annoying ads, they're even wrong there. Royal Match ads are always annoying.

Adding now that I've played for awhile: I've just finished level 521 and I really love the game. It's challenging and addicting, and I haven't spent money yet. I've noticed your ads promote improving your "brain age," whatever that is. I would love it if it really did that and showed what it was.

This game is one of the best! I love the graphics; so pretty when the Hexa’s “sort!” Also, I really enjoy that they add more colors as you advance levels to increase the difficulty. I love strategy games!!!

I really enjoy this game and get caught in a binge of playing it. There’s three players. Legendary Parker and Leonardo. I swear they were always there with me and sometimes their points would go down and up. I don’t think they were real players. Doesn’t take away from the game but just was weird. Honestly compared to other games the ads aren’t that aggressive. You might get one here and there but other than that it’s like you can choose to watch them if you want to double the points you get.

easy to understand and addicting!

***I haven’t had the black screen so you’re back up to 5 stars, no gripes here! Redownloaded and playing ***

I know they’re working on it but even for the “small break” ads it’s blacking out my screen entirely. If I decide to watch an ad for revive I can’t guarantee I’ll get it and have to close out the game. Again, I know they’re working on this but I had to uninstall cuz it’s just too much work to play now - free spaces, boosters l, anything ads idk what I’m gonna get (one that goes through or doesn’t). I’ve tried watching the ads a few times hoping one will go through but honestly it’s turning into 3+ ads and no reward so idk. Fix it and I’ll change the rating. This is my only complaint-I have fun playing otherwise even as a non spender.

I absolutely love this game but I am very unsatisfied with the new update. Whenever I complete a round, die, or watch an add to revive myself, instead of it going back to the normal screen or playing the occasional add, it just goes black. There are no buttons to click or anything, causing me to have to clear out HexaSort and reopen it and wait for it to load back up. This is also very inconvenient because whenever I got to watch an add to revive myself and it goes black, I have to again close out HexaSort forcing me to restart and not pickup where the revival should have brought me to. Please fix this because this game is so awesome and calming and I would hate to have to delete it because of a frustrating thing like this.

I just love this game keep up with the good work you guys

Very addictive! But I agree with the other reviewer. Would love to keep going. Also, why are there only 3 areas? Camping , Japan & London?

I will start this by saying: I love this game. It’s highly addictive and I just passed level 1100. I have noticed what other players have noticed: amount of ads and same top 3 players. However: I’m normally in first … I get bored and will play through 10-20 rounds and then have to get up to go do something else.

I’ve won events with 200+ games in a series. The ads aren’t as bad as I’ve seen and if I get frustrated with a level, I’ll put it down and then come back later. I tend to mainly use the booster that changes your color options…which is typically the lowest cost booster. I also track how close I am to beating it to determine if I should use a booster/watch an ad.

At the end of the day: you make the game what it is…a fun way to pass the time.

I can’t say enough good about this game. The actual game is fun and challenging. AND the way they do ads is sooo reasonable. They aren’t overwhelming and they pay you in coins to watch. Oh an almost all of them are pretty short. I don’t feel like the ads bother my gameplay really at all. Other ad games should take not of how this one handles.

Love it.

I enjoyed playing it and nice to see levels coming every week. One of the most fun sort games I’ve played in a while!

Every time I watch an add to get the free coins or get an extra space on the board it cuts to a black screen of death I can’t get out of unless I exit HexaSort . It’s become irritating that I can’t access these things. I still play the game but can you fix this bug, please?

UPDATE - It froze on a building screen when you unload the tiles into the objects you’re trying to collect on the pyramids. The percentage and everything but the back ground and the partial pyramids were all gone too.

UPDATE - Works perfectly again, still playing! Love this game! Changed to 5 stars :)

There are several things that I could say about this game.

The first thing is that this game is extremely addicting. It’s definitely one of my favorite puzzle sorting games that I’ve ever downloaded. It has so many different levels, it has a very appealing aesthetic, and it’s just overall fun in general!

Second, This game definitely test your brain, and although other comments may say that it cons you into spending money or that there’s too many ads, it’s definitely worth it.

Last, It’s very time-consuming, sometimes, so just be prepared to spend a couple hours of your free time on this! I honestly don’t mind, it’s perfect for airplane rides, and it’s constantly having updates that improve the overall gameplay. I definitely would recommend this game, it’s the most fun that I’ve had in a while with a puzzle. Definitely download it, you won’t regret it!

This is a really good game when you need to focus your mind somewhere else. It offers enough of a challenge to keep you engaged, but the mechanics are simple, the animations are lovely, and the colors are nice.
This has quickly become my go to game for winding down at the end of the day. If you’re like me and struggle with meditating or the thought of meditation, this is pretty dang close I would imagine.
I did pay for no ads pretty quickly, and it has made the relaxation aspect 1000x better. I figure I’ll easily spend $5-10 on some snack or some other little thing that brings me joy for a couple days at most, might as well spend it on something that brings me some joy daily.

I download this game last week so much fun..love the camp ground , carnival and London however after finishing London there were no more levels is this a glitch I removed game since could go ko further but again loved the game