Games for iMessage Text & Chat 12+

Love the app, bugs need to be fixed.

Originally it was called ‘GameWave’ then you had to update it, but after the update it started to glitch a little bit. The app instructs you to move it to the top of your app bar in the imessage keyboard, then hit continue when finished. After doing so i tried to hit continue but it wasn’t working. so i cant really play anymore. im not sure why its happening but i wish it would be fixed!

Pop up screens and glitches have ruined what was a good app

I’ve been playing games with a friend on this app for a year or more, and it was a great, simple app. With the latest update (Aug, 24) they’ve started adding a pop up screen at the start of your turn about 50% of the time that makes you decline to buy the app and makes you miss seeing most of your opponents turn. Weirdly it also keeps asking me to recommend new games with another popup.

I get it if you feel you need to do those things occasionally, but put them at the beginning of a game, where they don’t affect game play. I’d actually pay for this if it were getting better and weren’t so expensive (I paid for game pigeon ages ago) but at least at the moment, it’s way too expensive and getting more annoying to use. If that continues I’ll just delete it.

Predatory Pricing $200/yr for full games and no ads

It does have some fun free games and there’s a lot to do for free. But 2 games (skee ball and hoop dash) are locked behind a paywall as well as a few other features (like 3 frame bowling instead of the free 10 frame option).

If you’re like me you might think, that’s fair, obviously it can’t be fully free without ads and I don't mind paying a few bucks to get rid of ads and get the full experience. That’s what I thought until I saw the price tag: $4… PER WEEK. That’s $208 PER YEAR. No wonder I don’t know anybody that plays imessage games with this app even though it could rival game pigeon. Who on earth is spending $200+ to play skeeball in imessage? I don’t think Jeff Bezos himself would pay for that.

And since no sane adult would ever pay that I can only assume their target audience is kids who’s parents forgot to put a password lock on credit card charges. It’s really the perfect scam. A lot of people would notice a $16 charge every month but 4 separate $4 charges? That’ll slip under a parent’s radar a bit longer.

Imo they’d make more money if they just had honest business tactics. Theyre immediately rejecting 99% of customers with $4/week

Developer Response ,

Alr, how about let’s Calm Down.

Fr - not gonna stand for the major conclusion jump re/ kids. The majority of our plus members are over 18 and they just really like our games. We’re grinding every day to make both free & paid versions better; next update is straight fire - and it's up only from here.

Really appreciate the passion that went into this review though lol. Please feel free to dm me on X @JaredDowning_ — would love to chat about how our team can make the experience better for everyone.