Sand Blocks: Blast Puzzle 4+

I enjoy this game quite a bit. I’d like to give it 5/5 stars but I’ve reached a point where the fun is limited by poor level design. After about level 60, the amount of item drops you need to clear becomes too large to complete an entire level without paying for special items and extra moves. I’ve been stuck on level 64 for a week now. I’d rather not have to pay real world money to buy my way past the level, but the level design forces this. The special items do not drop within the 120 given moves, which forces the player to buy continues if they want to reach level 65.

Game is worth the $5 for ad free. It would be a 5/5 if a player could continue to advance without spending more real world money.

many people had negative things to say about this game but honestly if i had this game as a kid i would’ve been OBSESSED. even now, 19 years old, i enjoy playing this game. when you clear rows of the same color sand, it does “damage” points to the enemy, but there’s no actual fighting, it’s all just health bars and numbers.

And honestly i read a lot of the bad reviews before playing expecting negative things but most of those reviewers have no idea what they’re talking about 😭. One review said that the game is filled with ads and you can only play with an internet connection, but i played just fine on airplane mode… Another one said you can let the blocks fall in the center and easily win every game, but i tried that and it just doesn’t work because you have to strategically place different colored sand while paying attention to the next colored block or you’ll screw it all up. ANOTHER review said that the “fighting” aspect takes away from the fact that it’s clearly supposed to be a spin-off of tetris, but if it’s a spin-off, isn’t the whole point supposed to be adding something new/different???

There’s genuinely no reason why someone could dislike this game. It’s fun, it passes the time, it’s simple, some levels are challenging.

Overall, definitely a good game :D

I got this game a few weeks ago because it seemed interesting and, it was fun, I cleared upwards of 70 levels. Then this update comes out and it completely changed the look. The ads I can understand because it is getting more popular, but the new aesthetic and also slightly changed mechanics makes it feel like a completely different game from what I grew to like. Don’t even get me started on the pay to win stuff. When things like coins (available to buy in app) get added to a game alongside hearts/lives and you need to pay to keep playing it just completely destroys the chill vibe that was so great about it in the beginning. In other words the game has started to lose all of its personality. Really what I’m hoping to do is bring attention to someone that the game is going downhill…