Hexa Away 12+

HexaAway has so much going for it! I enjoy figuring out my strategy, looking for the moves and trying to make no mistakes. Strange as it sounds, I love the sound effects and I particularly love the puzzles with the arrows that exit the hexes in directions sometimes all over the board. HOWEVER, the “love” side is balanced by my dislike of the over abundance of ads. Even if I should choose to pay the exorbitant “no ads” fee, I’m sure ads would still have to be endured if you needed more moves to win your game. Sometimes even if you play the game perfectly there aren’t enough moves given to win and you HAVE to watch a lengthy ad. Not fair in my opinion! But, I’m not quite to the point of deleting the app because of ads; but the day may come. 4 stars for when I’m just having fun “hexing away!”

I was really enjoying this game. It’s challenging enough to be interesting, but not something that I have to focus on. So I finally won one of the leagues and continued playing, and I noticed something very interesting. I reached the top slot and took a break to get something to drink and when I came back, there were suddenly two people ahead of me by 120 and 240 points exactly and there was someone behind me with my exact same score. As I continued to play, those three players stayed exactly in the same spots. The two in front were 120 and 240 points ahead and the one behind had my exact same score seconds after I earned it. So I stopped playing for several hours and went back and the same thing happened.

This is now happened three times where I get to the top of the list and I’m 2500 to 3500 points ahead of everybody else on the list and between one game and the next suddenly there’s two players ahead of me and one right behind me with my exact same score. No matter how much I play they stay exactly in the same positions and I’ve got third place.

At this point, it is blatantly obvious that these are not real players, but computer generated players that the system has created to prevent me from winning the league. If you guys are gonna lie to me about what’s going on in the game, the least you can do is not insult my intelligence at the same time!

The game takes seconds to complete, then the price of the next simplistic game is one minutes of very loud advertising of bad games. One can’t listed to music or a book, as this will blast your eardrums out and run over the sounds running. One can’t play in a waiting room, as if one forgets to put their phone volume down the LOUD ads will be obnoxious. The game isn’t at all calming or relaxing, as play as interrupted with very LOUD ADS.

The game is already supported by advertising on the screen of the actual game, but ads take up the majority of game time. As I said, a 10 second game or more advanced 30 second game costs one a minute of an ad one has 20 times prior to that. A poorly developed game that didn’t entice me the first five times just makes me rage at it the next five. So now I download them and give them all bad reviews. The motion doesn’t work, their systems don’t work, overall play is bad… So they deserve a negative review. Just as this game deserves a negative review, as it isn’t game, it is all Ads.

And I’m not paying $10 a month for the ad free version when the actual game is at a preschool level.