Pixel Flow!

This is actually a pretty fun game. It’s nice when I have a bit of down time. I only have two issues: 1. I can tell it’s starting to go down the greed hole fairly quickly and I haven’t been playing very long, only just started seeing ads for it a week ago (assuming it’s a fairly new game). You don’t get many coins as a reward, which I get, to a degree. If you give too many coins, no reason for people to ever spend money, BUT you shouldn’t have to play about 50 games to afford a power up. Especially when you often need them to get past a Very Hard level. Then, as every single game seems to feel the need to do, it has a season pass or whatever they’re calling it here. I’m absolutely tired of those. Does every game have to copy Fortnite? Even mobile games? I don’t even play it and don’t think it was the first to implement a season pass, but it definitely popularized it, and I see its influence everywhere. I guess it’s nice they have free stuff on the passes (stuff I rarely use, though, besides coins). 2. The game freezes constantly. It’s not too bothersome on the regular games, but when you’ve finally figured out how to beat a Hard or Very Hard level and then it freezes, so that you have to start over… it’s really frustrating. I like to play games for fun and a bit of challenge, it’s not a challenge if it’s just the game freezing up. Which, honestly, brings me back to point 1: wanting me to spend money on a game that freezes is lame.

I downloaded this game on a whim and it’s become one of my favorite stress relievers! It’s engaging, fun, and challenging enough that I don’t get bored. I will echo a couple of folks that mentioned that the difficulty level can be frustrating as you reach higher levels, but so far I’ve found that paying attention to the queue order and replaying levels works for me. My main complaint is the app refreshing during a level. As I’m sure most people do, I have a life outside of this game and so sometimes I need to stop playing and do other things during a level. However, more often than not, when I come back to the game, it doesn’t open to where I was; it starts the level over and counts it as a failure. This is annoying, especially when I’m in the midst of a lava challenge because it means I’ve failed the challenge even though I didn’t actually fail the level. I don’t have this problem with other games, so I’m assuming there is a way to fix that and I hope the developers do!

It doesn’t actually have any difficulty or thought required. You just have to sit and click the same thing over and over again to get it to actually play the game. There is no way to just keep the bubbles cycling, and there’s no way to speed up the gameplay either. It doesn’t really help de-stress me like a game like this should at all because it’s so OBNOXIOUSLY slow. You literally have to be so exhausted that all you can do is tap the same little bubble over and over again to enjoy it and even then, it’s mind-numbingly slow. I play a lot of games like this but honestly, this one needs work. And, thats not even considering the fact that you LITERALLY cannot play it offline, and it has forced pop up harassment between EVERY match. It’s really not hard to set up consumables with videos if you want free money from advertisers, but it’s really, by definition, predatory behavior to just harass gamers with ads, regardless of your reasons. If you want ad revenue, get the revenue with respectable tactics like additional power ups, or you’re just another predator. I actually like the style of this game so im genuinely hoping the creators consider the implications and impressions of the predatory choices made for advertising, how it overtly negatively impacts societal interactions, and make changes personally to be BETTER THAN THAT. If they don’t, then they’re just another predatory set of abusers using societal “norms” as an excuse for disrespectful, hateful choices. I won’t be surprised, but i will be disappointed in this game maker if they can’t be bothered to affect change.