Bus Escape: Traffic Jam 9+

I discovered this type of game platform recently and got hooked, but every app I tried was ridiculously hard, downright impossible, after 2-3 levels. This is the first one I tried where that wasn’t the case. It’s a good balance of moderate to difficult in rotating levels. However, OMG the ads are ridiculous. Yes, you can buy your way out of forced ads, but the price is too steep. I refuse to pay more than $5.00 to remove ads unless the app is of extremely high quality. This game is good but not that good, and all of them are a knock off of the other. However, everything else in this game is ad-fueled. Some levels literally have no solution without using a “power up” and once you run out, you have to pay coins or deal with ads. There’s no getting around it.
What’s worse is some of the ads are disrespectful, ignoring your silent-mode on your phone and playing audio anyway, ridiculously long (90+ seconds), and an “X” to close out that is so hard to hit precisely that you end up in a loop of App Store, game, App Store, game.
The other issue is some of the colors begin to look too much alike in higher levels, especially the blues.
Overall I like the app but the ads are just too much.

From someone at level 500: One of the better ones out of all of these types of bus jam games, however some levels cannot be won without watching ads or using one of the extras. I like to challenge myself and try to win without using the extras or the 200 ticket or ad parking spot, but some levels are set up in the way that you HAVE to use these extras in order to win it. That’s kind of annoying since it’s supposed to be a puzzle game. Why make the puzzle unsolvable without watching an ad, spending a ticket, or using an extra? For this I’ve lowered my rating since my last review.

Also- a few changes I’d like to suggest to the developers. Primarily, the red and the pink colours are too similar, same with green and teal, it’s too hard to tell the difference between them when you’re playing at night and don’t want the screen up full brightness, or have on the night shift mode. It would be nice to have them obviously different values (ex. dark red, light pink) or add a colorblind mode such as stripes etc. which would be easier to tell apart. Secondly, it really really REALLY needs an undo button! Something like pay 10 coins for first undo, 20 coins for second undo, and so on. I like to try to challenge myself to win without using the extra abilities but having to reset the whole level to try again for a minor mistake or a misclick is very frustrating. If you add these two features this game will be great.

Great game. I play it to keep my mind sharp without any extra pressure for big daily goals etc. does well, works well, and has great levels etc. best bus puzzle sort game I’ve tried. 👍 Only thing I would add is like a day ago they did a big update. It changed the background color from dark to very white/light grey. I’d REALLY appreciate have the option to pick the dark background again orbbeing able to switch back and forth. I play this before going to bed plus I have sensory issues (especially with lighting) and the dark background made it perfect to play without blinding me. Now it’s wayyyyyy too bright in bed at night. Just a simple option of dark/light in the setting would be great. If there was a way to give feedback I’d have sent this there. Thanks! Keep up the great work. 🩶