Amaze GO!™

(For context, I’m up to level 85 so far & I’ve earned one monthly bonus trophy.) This game has only one mechanic which is beyond easy to understand, but is still fun enough that it keeps me wanting to play a few extra levels longer every time. So much fun that I don’t even mind the unavoidable ads. Of course there are countless games on the App Store for which the same could be said, including MANY with the exact same arrow-maze-puzzle design as this one. But a lot of puzzle games feel overly “gamified” with things like limited energy, currencies, power-up, timers, quests, competitive multiplayer, endless barrages of overlapping limited-time/seasonal events… things to add challenge but also make a player feel like they HAVE TO play constantly in order to succeed (does no one remember when “addiction” was recognized as a BAD thing?!?) I’ve been trying to find a new game that ISN’T highly-gamified, so I can play it on a casual basis, and Arrows GO! is just what I needed.

I like this game a lot, it’s great for passing the time. My issues are with the ads and popups. A game needs to run ads to be a free product, I get that, but when I (inevitably) fail a level and it offers to either allow me to continue the level by watching an ad or retry the level, I feel like picking retry shouldn’t force me to watch an ad. My options are to either watch an ad or watch an ad AND restart the level. My other gripe is with the little statistics popups. “99% of users fail this level!1!1!” loses all meaning when it’s placed before every single level. It makes me feel like an old person, even if the statistics are real. Also, it bothers me when it says “Eagle eye!” for the simple plays. Not that it should be removed, it’s a pretty standard feature for mobile games to have. A possible solution would be to either refine how the random praise works, or to add a setting to turn it off. Could also add a setting for the statistics? Speaking of settings, I was a little disappointed that it was just three toggles to control the separate volumes and haptics. I want to listen to my own music while playing, but the sound effects would be too loud, so I have to turn them off entirely. Perhaps a slider would be better.

at first, it’s one ad every time you’ve made three mistakes which is not really a mistake. It’s just that they pretend like you clicked a different arrow than the one you clicked because they’re very close together and after it happens three times you get a really long ad then it does it after two and then it’s every single time that you miss click you get an ad and the ads get longer and longer their ads that take minutes, not seconds and they are broken and just replay over and over again, the same ad right now I’m playing the game and the same ad. There’s some word game has just sat there and done it. It’s Little looks like a word Scrabble and First it wants to do letters that start with a P then letters that start with an L and then letters that start with an A doesn’t let me play. It just plays itself over and over again, and I only have about five pieces left on the board so I either quit the game and do a restart or I just waited out and hope that at some point something happens that that adds stops because there’s no way to do anything to make it stop. I feel like I’m in prison and being tortured in a hell and meanwhile while I’m trying to relax, I feel my cortisol level just spiking through the roof which means pretty soon I’m gonna be wide awake and angry thanks the stupid game that I’m playing to relax.