High confidence · Latest 100 of 173 total reviews analyzed · Based on 173 reviews. Signal may be noisy.

Upset

Recent user voice shows a upset sentiment. Users appreciate core gameplay enjoyment, but report excessive and intrusive ads and app stability and crashes.

Rating: 4.6

Reviews: 173

Confidence: high

How did the latest release land?

Overall
4.4/ 5
(1.3M)
Current version
4.6/ 5
+0.2 vs overall
(744.4K)
Main signal post-update: core Gameplay Enjoyment.

Sentiment over time

Weekly average rating and review volume across stores, last 90 days.

Not enough recent reviews to plot a sentiment trend.

Review themes

Praise

What users love

  • Core Gameplay Enjoyment
    • I love the word game and I have been playing it for years
    • This is the game that consumes the greatest majority of my time!
Complaint

Common complaints

  • Excessive and Intrusive Ads
    • launching an advert after EVERY SINGLE WORD PLAYED is just garbage
    • Some ads have to be closed 4 freaking times!!!
  • App Stability and Crashes
    • when some ads come on and I try and get back to the game, it crashes
    • IT KEEPS REBOOTING!! Constantly.
  • Predatory Ad Placement/UX
    • add banners are at the button of the screen blocking the function buttons
    • They placed the Google Play Store button over the Play button on all the ads

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