Bubble Shooter Arena - Skillz 17+

I'm not really a betting person, mostly playing the practice levels. However, I did like having the chance to play for up to $100 in prize money if I wanted to. Now, the $100 prize level is gone. Also, for the practice levels, you would earn tickets whether you won or not. Now, you only get tickets if you win, which means it will take way, way longer for practice players to earn enough to redeem prizes. This isn't fair since not all jurisdictions allow playing for money. AGAIN - game developers - it is NOT legal to mobile gamble in a number of jurisdictions. Adding to this, the number of tickets needed to redeem most prizes has INCREASED. So again, there are very few incentives to continue playing, something I probably won't be doing for much longer.

This game has two ways to play. There is a “Free” way where you rack up tokens that can be redeemed for prizes (although most require ALOT of playing and winning). The other way is to put up your own money and bet it against someone else, while Skillz takes a 17%.

Overall the free play was fun for a bit. I ended up redeeming some of my coins for a sticker and “$2 “free money” (which you have to play with and cannot cash out).

As for the playing for money, it almost felt like a slot machine and really came off kind of fishy. You would win a couple and feel some luck coming on, then suddenly get blown out and lose all your money. The moderators, aka rent a cops, claim “by winning, you go up a skill level and play others in that level” and if you argue they would suspend you. So, essentially unless you are in the top 1% of the game, they will always pin you against someone they know will beat you, take a 20% cut, then expect you to keep funneling money to try and get it back.

I like this game a lot and I play it almost religiously every day. It’s a nice throw back to the original Bubble Blaster arcade and it isn’t a pay to win game. You receive free “Z Coins” in the beginning to use and hopefully you win more, but if you struggle you can always get more free coins.

Now with all that being said, there is absolutely no consistency with this game at all. I have shot two bubbles in the same direction and angle, with both bubbles going to the same exact spot between two other bubbles. The first bubble will go between the other two and the second bubble shot will not go between the other two. Why? Sometimes a bubble will be shot and the shift of all the other bubbles will happen at the same time and send the bubble shot to a different spot. I have had the bubbles shift, I shoot two bubbles and the shift happens again. I will get colors of bubbles that aren’t needed, like getting 5 or 6 green in a row when I don’t even need green!