I don’t know what the other reviewer is talking about saying there’s no tutorial. That’s literally what happens the *moment* you first open the game. And it’s a very well-done and helpful tutorial!
The game itself is AWESOME! I love it! There is only 1 thing that’s keeping me from giving it that final star:
My phone gets *very* warm while playing, and it’s definitely not a game that should be processor-heavy. I have an iPhone 12 Pro, so not new, but not all that old, either, and it handles much more graphics-heavy games just fine.
Just a suggestion of 2 possible new features (one for endless mode):
First, have more of a variety of tasks to complete to earn more tiles than just “submit a word with X number of letters”. Nothing too complicated, and not too frequently, but maybe something like “submit a word with the letter Y” or something along those lines.
Second, I wish there was an undo button, so you can backtrack just *one* move. Sometimes I think I’ve dropped a letter in the slot I wanted and realize too late that I went a little too fast and dropped it in the wrong place. Or my fat thumbs screw me up.
If you can optimize the game so it doesn’t overheat my phone and kill my battery, though: instant 5 stars! The other 2 things are just more of a “this would be nice to have” type of suggestion.
Keep up the good work, guys!
Developer Response
Hi! Thank you for your extensive feedback. We are currently not aware of any systematic overheating / heating issues with devices. Our game is relative low energy consuming (although the word-lookup can get pretty processor intensive), but we will look into this for sure. If you have additional info, please use the Support button in the game to contact us, we'd be happy to look into it (Settings -> Support).
We are also working on a 'merge-delay option' that requires an extra tiny step before a word is permanently merged, so we can prevent players from accidentally merging words. This way we don't need an undo button (as an undo button would kind of spoil the next letter). Hopefully you can appreciate this addition when we roll it out in our next update.
Endless (and other future game modes) are always under review and we hope we can keep improving (and expanding) our game modes. Stay tuned and thank you for playing.I have no idea how to play this game. It's not discoverable and the game encourages you to start out playing against someone else. No tooltips, no guide, not even an instructions page in settings.
Please add a tutorial of some kind. Doesn't have to be guided play, but the gameplay is not intuitive enough to have nothing.
Developer Response
Hi! We have an onboarding tutorial that starts the first time the game is played, we are sorry you missed it. You can always replay the tutorial through the Settings (question mark in the top right), or try a Practice game to freely discover how the game words. We'll take your feedback into account.
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