Color Knitzy in IOS

★★★★★ Starts fun, then becomes a cash grab

This app starts out being very fun, relaxing, no time pressure, and moderately difficult. If you keep playing, though, the levels get too difficult, and it devolves into a typical cash grab game. You don’t earn coins fast enough to buy power ups or to cash in to continue playing a difficult level. And when you fail a level and use a life to try again, your reward level drops back to 1, even though it takes 5 wins to get the max reward level. That’s not fair and it’s mean of the designers to make it so hard to earn rewards but so easy to lose them. Not cool. So I blow through 5 lives trying to solve 1 difficult level in about 2 minutes and then quit playing for the day because I refuse to spend real money to buy more lives or power ups. Finally, when you get to higher levels, in the 200s, the puzzles start recycling so you’re just replaying them over and over. There are so many improvements that would make this a 5-star game, but it’s not there and probably never will be because the developers just want your cash. **Update: lowered the rating and deleted the game. Developers added a holiday challenge to collect pieces to earn big rewards. Pieces were quickly duplicated and puzzles became so difficult that I couldn’t earn pieces anymore. The developers never intended to let me earn the big rewards without paying. Shame on them. Do better.