Block Puzzle - Brain Test Game 4+

I have literally never left a review for anything on the App Store before, but felt like I needed to add my opinion. This is THE PERFECT GAME to whip out during those middle-of-the-night feedings with a baby. Seriously. Here are my reasons:
• There aren’t many ads at all, and the ones that do come up are skipable within seconds.
• It’s slow-paced and not timed. Timed games cause way too much stress at 2am while you’re just trying to stay awake long enough to feed a hungry baby.
• **My favorite aspect** is that you can close the app in the middle of a game and the next time you open it it is right where you left off. When it’s 3:23am and the baby is finally asleep again, usually the last thing you’d want to do is HAVE TO keep playing a game just so you don’t lose your progress. You can put that baby down, put the phone down, crawl back into your warm bed, and the game pauses for you until an hour later when the baby is awake again.

Seriously. This should be marketed to new parents.

This game is so much fun and so addicting that I literally imagine shapes fitting into everyday spots (in my real life). It’s so fun and the great thing is, it’s not timed and provides for a relaxing but brain-building activity.

In my addiction to Block Puzzle and extensive hours playing the game, I’ve come to want to beat my high score each time. However, the problem with this is that the game KNOWS I’m getting close and intentionally gives me pieces that may fit in my puzzle, but will not clear the way for the “gray” pieces that “won’t fit.” It’s quite infuriating as one time I was 20 points away from beating my high score (at the time, 2819, but it is currently 3140) but physically unable to destroy any more blocks. I know one of the “helpful tips” is to “always leave room for more blocks” (Block Puzzle, 2021), but this is not always a possibility, or I was working on a bigger block to gain more points.

Thus, I’d really like to see an update in which the game doesn’t stop the player from beating their high score. Also, I personally find the ads a bit obnoxious, so I’d love an option to buy an ad-free version of the game. It would be a perfect opportunity to use my iTunes credit lol.

Love this game. I love the organizing, the risk taking to get higher points, and especially the way it holds your place when you need to close it so you don’t have to start over when you come back to the game. BUT, the ads annoying. A forced 5sec ad before the game, a forced 5sec ad after the game… the same ad 4 or 5 times in a row… even more annoying, it shuts down in the middle of the game and takes you to safari, then to the App Store to purchase other games.
I get ads make money, but enough is enough.

The glitches are also a problem. The game closes when loading and sometimes when I close out an ad, and it freezes during play. The freezing causes the pieces to be dropped in the wrong place and can cost points or even worse, losing the entire game. I don’t know how to fix this. I’ve tried both closing the game and reloading it, and completely deleting the app to reinstall it several times. It just keeps happening and seems to be getting worse.
Love the game, but I’ve given up on it and deleted it from my phone. Between the ads and glitches, I’m done. I would’ve been happy to pay for a low or no ads version this game.