Moxie - Word Traveler 4+

Awesome Game!!!

Fun and very addictive game!

Previously, I wrote the review below that I’m leaving up just in case someone else had the same problem I did. Thank you to the administrators for clearly explaining what the problem was. I had just jumped in and played for points, thinking I knew how to play. I never had gone to “the book” to read the instructions before. I just completed Level 199 which I had tried to best at least 2 dozen times (maybe 3). The game is even more fun now. Thank you also for responding in such a timely manner! Great game, and good people at the helm! 😊

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What I wrote previously…

“However, there is a glitch. There is a “goal” amount posted at the top left. Reaching that amount MAY cause the system to recognize you successfully reaching the goal…or NOT. Most of the time, while it will acknowledge “goal reached” on the top left, it does not end the round. It will just keep on counting until you run out of tiles, THEN tell you you FAILED to reach goal! On a 700 goal, I just did over 2200 and it still told me I failed! I wish y’all would fix this.”

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for the updated review! We're glad you're having fun with the app!

Addictive But Somewhat Frustrating

This game is all the good things that others have expressed, but it also has drawbacks. For one, there are few ‘rewards’ of coins or power tools along the way, just lots of “opportunities” to purchase same. All other games I play provide a small daily reward for checking-in, and bonus rewards during game play. Some levels are highly challenging (a good thing) but highly frustrating without power tools or coins to buy them (not a good thing). There also seems to be some stinginess when one runs out of lives, which take ½ hour to regenerate. I’ve used up all 5 lives, then closed out the game only to open it hours later and see that all 5 lives are still expired. As soon as I open the game, the first life is just beginning to regenerate. I’ve seen several times when I’m on Life #5 and it tells me I’m 26 minutes before the next life is available. Several minutes later when I’ve still not conquered that level, the clock resets back to 30 minutes until the next life is available. I have also been awarded 4 power tools upon reaching a new ‘destination’ only to have them all disappear after using just one. Also, the “Undo” tool is not available when one is at the end of the 5th life. Glitches or greediness? Either way, makes the game less pleasurable.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback. There is a daily reward available: look for a small suitcase with an exclamation point beside it on the upper right hand side of the home screen. Please send details about the issues with hearts and disappearing power-ups to support@blueox.email so we can determine why this is happening to you.

This one is a miss - skip it

I have played all of the Blue Ox games and enjoyed them all so far. This particular game is half baked. There’s just not much here. Not sure how this has over 4 stars. The game functions in such a way that you will just end up creating the same few words over and over again or will resort to just swapping out vowels. There is no real incentive to come up with unique words and that’s where this game misses. It gets really repetitive and boring pretty quickly. Also “ras” is considered a word but not “fart” or “farted”? Come on! The word bank is very odd and excludes many common words which results in a lot of unnecessary twaddles. Also there is no way to see the game’s road map, meaning you can’t see how many locations there are to travel to and you can’t look back at where you’ve been which makes the leveling up seem arbitrary and doesn’t feel rewarding. This game feels unfinished and was clearly just pumped out to make a quick buck. Not what I have come to expect from Blue Ox. Bummer. Skip this one.