I have been playing this game for over a year strait. I had played it before, but this past year has been the most consistent. This has been the only game to really last the longest of all the ones I played. I liked the sleek aesthetic. I liked that I could avoid ads unless I wanted to and that helped my love for it. I watched plenty of them to get little boosts and boxes, but I liked that they weren’t necessary. Recently they started playing ads after games. I didn’t mind this so much, as I am fine to help a game I like, and I understand that the way to make money with these games is to get people to pay to get the ads removed or shove them in people’s faces (something I had liked that they didn’t do). Now, I’ve hit a point that really makes me not want to play the game as much with the addition of an ad banner at the top of the game screen. It’s incredibly distracting and ruins the game that I enjoy playing for the peaceful aesthetic. This is the reason it’s getting a 3 star review. Before that it was a 4 or 5. This has really made the game hard to stomach. It would also be nice to have a comment sections for players to use that way we don’t have to leave reviews like this. I hate to have a public thread of something that could be changed and thus, my review would change. Other than that I’ve enjoyed the game.

Jan 2024 edit: What was once my favorite game has become all but unplayable. Ads are now constant and intrusive instead of chosen for boosters, and higher levels on the map are impossible to beat without spending money or grinding for weeks for enough power ups. Really sad to see this game go this way. 2022 review: The puzzles are deceptively simple to learn but become more complex and challenging—the design is clean and stylish. There are frequent events and all kinds of exciting levels and boards. All this swiftly made Two Dots one of my favorite games—but, and this is kind of a big deal—the game crashes frequently. If I play for about two hours a day, it will usually crash three or four times in that time. This means you might finally win a challenge you’ve been trying to beat for days, and right before it records your win the game freezes and crashes. When you reopen, you’ve lost the resources you used on that level, but it’s not recorded as won. The first few times this happened I shrugged it off. Then it happened when I finally won a timed level that was about to end, and I wrote to tech support. Their fix was so convoluted I never tried it. I just decided to be less attached to winning, and to never spend actual money on boosts I might lose anyway. So now, having just lost another hard-earned win to the game crashing, I’m coming here to warn y’all and see if the developers can solve this problem in what is otherwise a perfect game.

Update: they fixed the glitches a few weeks after I wrote my last review and kept on playing nearly daily. I’m currently on level 5519 and the last 100 levels or so have become too difficult. If I can’t pass one after a couple days and numerous cheats, then it’s just feeling like it’s time to let it go again. They need to figure out when challenging loses its fun and thrill and just becomes frustration. I will pay less money or watch fewer adds if I know the cheats will be useless. If I earn or collect cheats I expect they will work. I just wasted 5 cheats after being too frustrated and the level simply wouldn’t drop enough of the item I was after to even win in the amount of moves. Not dropping an anchor or an egg after three moves is ridiculous. I currently don’t recommend again unless they return their algorithm. Why change what worked. Old review: I give it 5 stars for the fun I have normally playing it but 2 stars currently. I’ve played Two Dots for several years. Just broached level 5000. The last 2 weeks the app keeps shutting down after finishing a level—and seems to always be after a particularly hard one I spent a lot of time on and used cheats on. When I go back in it doesn’t show I passed the level and I have to start again. I’ve seen a few odd adds pop up, which it didn’t used to have, that I think is causing the glitches. If it keeps going I will have to give it up. Too annoying. Trying another update to see if that fixes it.