Pix-o-Mania: Pixel Logic 4+

I love Conceptis games, but this one aimed for kids and pay-to-play mechanics is a solid FAILURE for this previously-great company. Unfortunately like others have said, penalizing your target audience for experimentation and/or not “picture-perfect hand-eye coordination” means your kids (and we adults) will put this game down quicker than you can say, “I’ll go back to their similar and MUCH MORE FORGIVING titles of Pic-a-Pix or Link-a-Pix. Even the skinny-line block-style fonts will have anyone on their 5” screen-size phones ready to trash this game because you can’t tell if any illegible numeral is a 2, 3, 4, a question-mark, or a currency symbol. And yet thus really shouldn’t surprise me because font readability has been a continual oversight for years, such as “Sum Sudoku” has 3-pixel-high numbers, or “Link-a-Pix” often having tiny yellow numbers against a white background. And all of this leads to the common thread here that ANY mistakes by the player equates to lower score, running out of times/moves, and eventually costing real money because of THIS 1 APP’s focus to make money not upon friendly appeal and good design, but rather punishment via their own unrealistic expectations upon an imperfect gamer. My message to Conceptis is to stick to brain-games and making profit by sticking to good puzzles, rather than wade into the greed-stained depths of loot-boxes & micro-transactions.😓

Love this game especially when I've played through all the weekly releases of all the other Conceptis games. Yes, it's cutesy and it took a while to get to the challenging levels but it's a great game! This is the kind of game that will get my young son into logic style puzzles. Thank you, Conceptis!

There’s a zillion apps out there that are covered in ads and nickel and dime you over everything: clues, an extra few minutes of play, whatever. I have every other game by Conceptis specifically because they don’t use that model — every other conceptis app has a very reasonable model where you get a certain number of free puzzles, and if you want more you pay for more. No ads, no gimmicks, no surprises. It’s a great model! It works! And then there’s whatever this is. M

Thanks, I hate it.

(Not because it has cutesy features that seem to be aimed at a younger audience. That’s fine. Because I don’t need a puzzle app tracking private information, and I certainly don’t need an app where the amount of money you can spend on in-app purchases has no upper bound, which seems to be the case here.)