I bought the game because it was a nice way to geek out without pressure of competition. I've hit 300 levels and whammo! Now I have to buy any extra bottles, which used to give me 2 free if I needed. The moco wheel freezes the game. The wheel has been finished for a while but I can't use the spins without going in and out of the app. Now that I need 900 coins at least to have an empty bottle I need the options to gain coins without my real money. I don't appreciate the competitive challenges. I don't care about cards like the other games. I want a simple, cathartic game. I can appreciate a challenge. However, I don't want every game to frustrate me. This was supposed to be that game. Slightly challenging yet cathartic. Good while it lasted I guess. There was 1 really cool puzzle on level 300 that matched the ad. Kudos to that.

You should probably be playing Offline Games instead. It has the same game, albeit with less spiffy graphics and gimmicks, with fewer ads and a cheaper price to remove them that also gets you loads of other games. Water Match ASMR is, as the tacky title and advertisement that probably brought you here would suggest, a typical knock off water sort game with a couple of added fun gimmicks, like big shaped theme bottles (peacocks, etc) and nice graphics. It has some dark patterns, like challenges that discourage you from pausing or taking a break and encourage binging the game. The price to remove ads is a bit higher than typical, and through cheap cheats the game will attempt to drive you into spending currency on power ups, because some levels use hidden information to trick you into making “mistakes” and are unplayable without bonuses, rather than being a proper puzzle with optional power ups if you’re having trouble solving it. I fear this is probably pretty typical. It’s not quite as obnoxious about it as some similar games, though I only got so far and it might get worse with time. Ads every level. Easy to accidentally click on ad buttons you don’t need, too, and get stuck in one. Careful management of resources will let you get by without spending real money or having to redo levels over and over to collect information like a bad game of memory…to the point that I reached, anyway.

Too many long Ads and the difficulty levels come too early on for us who are not good with these type of problems. The Ads are after each and every solution and long and it constantly and annoyingly pops up the pay for no Ads in between the regular Ads before you’ve played the games enough to even know if you like it. Saying all of that, the game is intriguing and fun with clarity so I give them that, but I’m at the beginning and they still keep asking for a Review so I’m giving it as I see it now, if I change my opinion later if the semantics change, then I will change my review. You should make different levels of intensity so people can select their level and increase each one appropriately. I’ve seen reviews that say it’s too easy and I salute them for having the brain level to do these easily so if you make them more challenging then you can put them in the Hard Level. Something like Easy, Medium, Hard for your levels. In our training for new people we never start them at the medium or hard levels until they can work the beginning stages and move up at their own pace.

When I first downloaded this game I was really pleased that I had the ability to purchase no ads. That was not cheap. Once I had done that I got two free empty bottles. Those bottles would normally require watching an advertisement to get so it was really a nice thing to get those as a result of purchasing the no ads option. Now they have changed that so that you have to pay 900 coins for each empty bottle. You only earn 20 coins each time you play so it does not take very long to go through your coin bank. As a result you have to purchase more coins. And the difficulty increases woth each level so you reach a point where you have no choice but to purchase coins if you want to continue. I think this is a real rip and in spite of the fact that I really like this game I am going to remove it because I don't like being manipulated that way. If you were going to require that kind of purchasing to play you should state it outright so people know what they're getting into.