Save The Dog - Dog Escape 12+

I love this game. It’s a quick way to distract you, get your mind going, and think about things. The first few levels are easy and get progressively harder. Then you have unique challenges once you beat the main levels. However, one teeny tiny detail. I love completion of games. I like to have 3 stars on everything. This game makes that impossible with Queen Mode level 11. The bee speeds are unpredictable and sometimes the bees even sting the dog before the line falls (and yes, I’ve used my hint to see how to fix it, and the hit doesn’t work). Approximately every 10 tries, the box finally falls perfectly onto the dog. However, the bomb inevitably blows it off every time. The closest I’ve gotten to beating it is 3 seconds. Please fix this. It’s infuriating.

It’s a great game. I’ve played like crazy since I got it just a couple days ago, and I’m already at level 120, full 3 stars. However, some of these levels are very luck based, which I hate. A couple levels so far, I’ve given up trying and used a hint. After drawing the hint in PERFECTLY, it still takes 10-20 more attempts before you finally win. Sometimes it’ll glitch out and the dog will magically pop outside of the drawn line. Sometimes the bees actually sting the dog THROUGH the line! And now, at level 120, I’ve hit a brick wall. I used a hint and have drawn it in perfectly over 50 times, and still have yet to finish the level. I’m the kind of person that wants to get 3 stars across the board. I’d almost rather delete the game than skip a whole level because it can’t be completed. Please fix this and make the levels REALISTIC AND WINNABLE.

READ FULL REVIEW. The free version is terrible with ads. Once you spend the $1.99 to get rid of them, you can still get coerced into more ads. BUT! If you’re in just it to play the game the game like me, just say no to all the extra stars and stuff and you avoid the ads.

Once you figure out how to avoid the ads, it’s a cute and fun game. It can challenge your mind on concepts of physics and invite creative thinking and spatial awareness. It’s a good game for kids for that reason too - it not only teaches these concepts, but there is an element of empathy that’s instilled because it’s sad to see the little dog get bitten by bees or fall into honey lava, or whatever it is - so it motivates you to get the challenge right.