Zero/Sum User Reviews

Name: Zero/Sum
Rating: 4.3 (26 reviews)

Zero/Sum

Sean Kearney

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🧩 Puzzle

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Equation

Ridiculous equation for example: 8 - - - = 8, and how to solve equations to turn 0 into only 0, 1, 6, and 9. I checked the information, but it doesn't work to solve the problem and check your math dude.

Bennyjms

9 months ago

This game needs to be part of the Middle School Math Curriculum

Yes this is a game you should let your kids play!!!

macfanat1c

5 years ago

Math made fun!

I don’t like math, but I love this game. It looks deceptively simple. The sounds in a game are important to me and the skidding and clunk sounds make me happy. The reward for winning ten founds another chapter of the super corny, funny movie. I do need a faq (I want to know how to get three stars) and please let me buy hints.

Zero Sum would be perfect for teaching kids about negative numbers. Although, they would probably do better than me lol.

Reading other reviews, I appreciate the customer service. Thanks for such a cool game, Squeezebox. I’m really glad you were featured.

03/20/19

MeRorobin

7 years ago

Fun but I missed the part about timed puzzles

Personally I hate timed things. I just want to work through it and get 3 stars. I thought that was this game, then I get to the timed part - which wasn’t in the tutorial. Ugh. Not for me.

Great idea and game but ultimately not for me.

Timle

7 years ago

Annoying

I hate to give a bad review when the game is ok but it’s just really frustrating.
If you make a mistake you can’t replay a puzzle, you have to start the chapter again, watch the movie clips again and do all the puzzles again.
For anyone that likes getting 10/10 this will annoy the hell out of you like it did me.

Coin5546785

8 years ago

Response from developer

Hi! I know this is a little late, but I while back (a few weeks after you posted this review) I fixed all of this!! Thank you for the comments, comments like this helped me realize what I had missed in the initial release!

Enjoyable Math Challenge but...

I really enjoy this game. The premise is so easy: add plus or minus signs to get the equations to equal zero. The equations start out easy but become harder and harder progressively. I love the B-rated movie plot. I like the timed challenges (though I don’t do well under pressure...haha). And I love the daily challenges.
But... I despise having to restart a level, including listening to the B-rated movie video prior to where I left off. It would be awesome if this game had a “Save where you left off” option included. I have found a workaround by just leaving the game running in the background; however, when I power down my iPhone so it’s miniature computer can clear its cache, I am stuck with restarting the level again.
I hope the App developer sees this and works to fix this tiny but highly aggravating issue. If he does, I can then easily rate this game five stars!

NOTE: I would also like to have the option to turn on Daily Challenge notifications (badges,sounds,banners). Currently there is no such option.

P.S. Looking forward to more games like this (with Save & Notification options of course!). 🤩

Nikki~Mae

8 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for playing the game, I'm genuinely overjoyed that you like it so much! As for the notes...yup, message received loud and clear! I'm finishing up an update right now that, among other things, allows you to skip the cutscenes (hopefully you'll only use this once you've watched them at least once!), save your progress automatically on each level, and restart a level from the pause menu if you don't get enough stars! I'm planning on submitting it in the next few days, so it should be live soon!!!!!

Not bad but much too easy and short

The clips are fairly entertaining and the actual game is fun enough but the whole thing is far too simple and short. Completed in around 30 minutes.

M-Jacs

8 years ago

Really?!

Why the hell make it available for $2 for a device like iPad 2 when after the first "conversation," the app crashes. Quite infuriating.

Harrison the gr8

8 years ago

Response from developer

I'm looking into what causes a crash on that device specifically. In the meantime, I'm very sorry, and will gladly refund you for the purchase.

Fun game with an (intentionally) campy story

Fun little math game that puzzles you to push the narrative forward. I hope in the sequel, we get to multiply and decide. If you ever played the card game 24 you’ll probably like this. You have to solve equations with pieces missing. Sometimes the operators and sometimes the numbers. Make everything equal zero, there’s a little bit of sudoku where the equations cross and everything has to line up perfectly.

It’s not a long game, but it’s funny, challenging and never frustrating to the point of throwing your phone or rage quitting.

DJBattery

8 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks DJ! I've never actually played that card game, but I'm looking it up now!

Cute scenes, half-baked gameplay

The vignettes are really the only reason to play this game. They are silly, dumb, and sometimes funny. The game, however, starts with a decent foundation and then just remains content to rest there. It never actually gets clever or fun, just more time-sensitive. The game is incredibly short too, as it has 80 “puzzles”, but each one takes about 20 seconds (at most) to solve.

Diemydarling

8 years ago

Response from developer

Sorry you didn't enjoy it more, I totally understand the note about the length, I tried to expand that out with the random Time Trial sections, as well as the Daily Challenge Mode, which gives you ten new puzzles every day. I'm happy you dug the cutscenes though, and I like your username!

Fun game for math!

I am enjoying the problem solving aspects and challenges in this game.

What I would love for the developers to include is a way to restart the board and a way to skip cut scenes. If you make a mistake but are a perfectionist the only way to fix it is to start at the beginning of a series which means you need to rewatch the cut scenes several times depending on your proficiency.

PCtchr

8 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the note! I'm finalizing an update that will add saving, resetting puzzles, and skipping cutscenes, those were definitely overlooked features that I should have anticipated people wanting, sorry! Look for the update very soon!

Wowowoowowowowow

I've been looking for a math type puzzle game recently and just came across this one. So glad I did. It's a lot of fun and has a ton of character. It's very refreshing to see a game and a developer who knows how to have fun with a narrative.

Alk3ovation