_-_ – Simple Machine, LLC

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– Puzzle Game Review

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is a Puzzle/Casual game from Simple Machine, LLC, first launched in 15th March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 843+ ratings on the App Store.

What Makes Stand Out

Simple
Obstacles
Puzzling
Determination
Solutions
Ascend
Again

This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.

Player Feedback

As a newer release, is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .

Recent Updates & Development

Latest Update: 21st November 2018

Recent improvements include:
Hey everyone!
Thanks for playing the game and all the reviews :)
In this update we fixed some bugs and you can now remove ads.

Love
Team Simple Machine

Download & Availability

is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.

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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.

Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.

Player Experience Highlights

Community Insight:

We love pretty much everything about this game. The sounds are beautiful, the colors are pleasing to the eyes, and theres enough difficulty to get your brain to think and calm you at the same time. It reminds us of steven universe (one of our favorite cartoons). Beautiful work, development team.


Love it but want point and rewards. Music is fun.


A beautiful game, nearly perfect. But it does not advance beyond level 189. You finish it, and it starts over. Like Groundhog Day.


This is the most relaxing game ever no complaints we havent gotten any adds so no complaints there either! It helps with our anxiety so much! Thank you so much for making this.


This game is calming and soothes anxiety.


That is it not anything to it just get the game and play. There is literally nothing to think about when playing.


This game is absolutely fantastic and has beautiful harmonized music for every level passed. Every time we pass, the biggest smile grows on our face and it makes us feel so happy and at peace. Great job devs.


Im only on level 25 and Im seeing there may be issues later, but its a calming and gorgeous puzzle game that isnt going to make you pull your hair out. Definitely exactly what we needed.


So it is one our favorite games we have on our iPad we dislike the ad pop ups otherwise it the best game we have! LOVE IT SO MUCH.


Now we dont often say much about games on the App Store, however, this game deserves far more attention than it gets. Its a very simple matching-puzzle game that requires that you experiment to get an answer. Gameplay wise, it is a bit simple, but we dont believe every game has to have in depth mechanics. Coupled with different instruments that play note when you move the lines, you get a simple line match game that can definitely be expanded on with just keeping it simple.Love this game, deserve to of a good rating.


This actually relieves our stresses.


Helps improve our ear for music. Comes in very handy.


We downloaded the game yesterday and played it for all of today in our free time. Im at level 189 and dont think there are any more levels. Please update!! Its a calming game that you can play mindlessly.


Very calming and zen, just what we want.


Cool game, has a way of pulling you in.


This is interesting. We like it. We downloaded it because we like the other apps from this developer. Keep it up guys.


Thank you for making this game very simple, Ive been looking for such simple and minimal games for so long thank you.


This is great. Its that simple. HOWEVER. This does become tedious eventually. No matter how complicated any one level may seem, moving the bar furthest from the line onto the line over and over works basically every time. It becomes too easy and simple after a while.


So, we love this game! It is super simple, yet complex. The sounds and visuals are simply impeccable. We love the concept of a zen puzzle for when you get stressed. Although this game is great, we have a few bones to pick. First off, we dont love how there are ads every few levels. The ads mess up your focus and stress you out from how often they interrupt your game. Also, some levels are infuriatingly hard. You cant slide seven bars and get them all on the same line. And, to add to the stress, there is no hint or skip button to bypass the level. Overall, this game is great, but it could use some tweaking.


This app is so fun but it got us very annoyed.


So, we personally like this game. Its very basic and not chaotic. Keep it like this.


This game isnt too complex or complicated. Theres enough unexpectedness and transition to keep you interested, but overall, its super calming. Sound on for this one.


We absolutely love it! Its fun and relaxing. But we cant be the only one who hears the U.S. National anthem whenever we move the notes. We hear it every time haha! We have made it up to level 128, but we cant seem to pass that level no matter what! Can someone help.


No new mechanics are introduced, so all the puzzles are the same, and it kinda gets old.


Cool concept, but the levels are too easy and too similar for too long, so we lost interest. According to another review, it gets very challenging, which would be nice if we didnt have to play through boring levels. We dont have a problem with lots of ads if we feel like Im making progress, but since the levels did not vary enough by level 16 and 2 ads already showed, we deleted the app. Developer can feel free to contact us to entice us to return if they retune the difficulty in such a way that we wouldnt mind the ads popping up.


Its kinda boring because its so random, and every time theres an add, it crashes.


We love the game and its a great way to use up free time. Our only thing is we absolutely cannot get past level 128.


Fun game but tired of getting an Ad every six seconds.


This game looks really nice, and we were looking for a puzzle game that could at least be a challenge. But you dont even need to us smart to do this. After paying some levels, we realized a really easy way to line them up. All you need to do it mess with lines a bit and youll get them to line up. Its not hard. We didnt give it one star because it looks nice, but to people who what a challenge, dont download this.


Am we missing something here, or is this just supposed to be meditative? No strategy needed, cool chords though.


Sixty levels into this game and its the same as it was after 10. Theres really no progression or increased demand for strategy or skill. Its really just about fidgeting with the lines. If thats what you want, you found it. We would not consider this a puzzle game. Just a very pretty fidget toy.


This game wasnt even that hard we got pretty far into it and then just uninstalled because it got to a point where it wasnt hard just extremely tedious.


Just letting you know we felt great after deleting this game.


The ads that pop up in this game are adult-oriented and feature games that are sexual in nature. Offensive.


This game seemed quite interested at first though once you download it you soon find it takes no skill what so ever. You just have to keep moving the bars into the line until they are all in the zone.


We just absolutely love this game.


Awesome game with an awesome soundtrack.


This game is great!! The game helps with problem solving skills and so much more. We love it because it has a challenge. Most games are just really easy, but this one makes you think. We became addicted! The only problem was that it only had a minimum amount of levels. We would definitely recommend it.


This game is amazing we think its better than any other game.


Level 189 is broken!!! Im passing the level, but it keeps restarting. Other than that the app is absolutely beautiful and great to pass time.


Very good and skillful game. Not too many ads but not the right amount.


Theres no stress to this game. Lovely sounds and it doesnt keep track of score or anything like that so its simply nice and relaxing.


We love the sounds most of all. We feel as if Im a composer when we play and its very relaxing. The adds ruined our relaxation so much we had to turn them off. :( too frequent.


The ease of the game is not an issue for us. The calming simplicity, relaxed color scheme, and shifting tones make this a great relaxer. However, the frequency of the ads can be annoying. They would be much easier to ignore if they were muted when they pop up.


This was a very nice game to simply play when we were trying to relax. It makes you think but there really is not anything to distract you from simply winding down.


We like playing this game on our iPads side and we dont mind the adds but every time after one it just locks the screen upright.


This game is simple and pleasing, at first. Just align the bars and they fade away with a nice chime. Very nice and basic. The problems come later when you face a puzzle that is seemingly impassible where you simply cannot get all 6 or 7 bars to align no matter what approach you try. You either spend an hour trying or you give up and move onto another game. The game offers no hints or any way to skip past a frustrating level, so the impasse you will invariably reach reduces any fun or relaxation you had to that point. We dont know how many total levels there are in this game, but we made it to level 183 on our iPhone, and there we are stuck. We simply cannot beat the level, and we have spent hours trying. This has tempted us to uninstall the game, and we hate to do that with games we enjoy but have not completed. is a good puzzle game, but the . The other gripe in our review is that there isnt a way to remove the long-playing ads that roll between levels, which greatly remove you from the tranquility of the game. Id gladly play $0.99 to get rid of them.


After the 4th level, it felt like every level was the same. Im on level 30 now and Im just bored. Pretty visuals, but it just became repetitive.


It doesnt really escalate in difficulty fast enough, but otherwise its fine.


We love this game, but level 183 is making us hate it. If there is a bug on the level or a problem with it, please fix it.
User feedback from Apple App Store


App Details

  • Version: 1.2
  • Size: 89.79 MB
  • iOS: 8.0 or later
  • Languages: EN
  • Content Advisory:
  • Developer: Simple Machine, LLC

Last updated: 21st November 2018 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: Simple Machine, LLC

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