Cryptogram: Word Brain Puzzle 12+

Fun game but SO TIRED OF ADS

This game would be five stars if the ads could chill. They are so long and annoying, and ironically? oftentimes the games advertised claim to be “ad-free”. I don’t believe it personally, because they’re misleading to begin with. (The game with the mom and the baby in the snowstorm? Yeah, that actually does NOT exist, folks.) But if this is true, then surely this game doesn’t need ads. Really it would just be an improvement if you could exit out of them after ten or so seconds, like the case is for other games. Anyway, this is the one reason I can’t give the game five stars, and also no, I’m not going to spend a portion of my money for the premium version of a word game.
I acknowledge that this is one way game designers make an income, but there has to be a better way to handle it, right? Like I said, at least give us the option to x out of the ad after 10-20 seconds…and if Apple could maybe pay the designers more, that would help. But that’d be an ethical decision and Apple’s CEO is anything but that.

SO MANY ADS IT LAGS

Let me say I enjoy the game itself. I play it daily. The puzzles are fun - even if they still aren’t very challenging as of level 193. ****My issue is the ABSURD amount of ads. I’d give it 5 stars if not for that. I do understand the reason for ads. But one at the end of every level + one before you start the next is bad enough. Like just one in between should suffice but whatever I’ll watch two in a row... But several “Ad Breaks” throughout while you’re in the middle of a puzzle on top of that? WHY? That’s just too much. The ads slow the game down massively. Sometimes it will crash and restart a puzzle I was nearly done with or it’ll lag so badly I have to relaunch the app. It’s also very annoying and distracting when you’ve got a train of thought going solving a puzzle, you’re trying to enter in a letter and suddenly an ad breaks in and it’s like 10 mins long and when it’s finally over you don’t even remember what you were doing! Bug to fix: Could the timer please stop when you close the app or close your phone? I can’t always finish a puzzle before I stop playing. The timer will keep going - sometimes all night and then say it took me 12 hours to complete the puzzle - which throws off my average time. It’s not the biggest deal in the world but if you’re going to have a feature in your app it might as well work properly.

Developer Response ,

It's wonderful to hear that you enjoy the puzzles and play daily! Your feedback about the ads and their impact on your experience is important to us. We’re here to help! Could you share more details about the lag and crashes via in-game support chat or at contact@joyteractive.com? We’re committed to improving your experience!

Overall - good

I love cryptograms so this is a perfect game for me. I enjoy that in addition to the traditional levels, they have a daily puzzle as well as weekly tournaments and activities you can play. I do have some issues though. 1 - my phone gets insanely hot while playing. I don’t know why, it’s the only app on my phone that heats it up so much. That leads to me only being able to do one or two puzzles before I have to turn off the app. 2 - the new multiplier countdown thing that counts down if you’re not putting in letters immediately, causes insane lag for some reason. I don’t understand how a game like this can have lag, but it does. Meaning it’s hard for me to enter letters correctly because if I do two back to back, because of the lag, the game marks me as putting a letter in wrong because it was about 10 seconds behind my keystroke. And 3 - there are a lot of ads (and they’re always very long ones). There’s an ad when you open the app, there’s at least 1 ad in the middle of doing a puzzle, and always an ad at the end of a puzzle. I understand needing to have ads in games to keep them free, but this just feels like they’re milking the ad money because they can.

Developer Response ,

It's great to know you love cryptograms and enjoy our puzzles! For the heating and lag issues, try lowering your screen brightness, closing other apps, avoiding play while charging, taking breaks, and keeping everything updated. If these steps don’t help, please share your player ID, and we’ll do our best to assist!