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Smove – Puzzle Game Review
Smove is a Puzzle/Casual game from Simple Machine, LLC, first launched in 9th April 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,246+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Smove Stand Out
Simple. Fast. Gorgeous.
How fast can you Smove?
Trying to stay alive has never been this fun.
Swipe up, down, left, and right to dodge your way through 10 simple yet challenging levels all while vying for the top spot by collecting the most points.
Think you have what it takes?
Then show us your Smoves!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Smove is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 29th April 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Over 1 million downloads. Wow. That's crazy for a small studio bouncing around New York City. We greatly appreciate everyone who is playing Smove. You've made it our biggest hit yet and you've helped to support a growing company that has big dreams.
If you can, please leave us a review, we read ALL of them and a lot of your feedback goes into our next update.
Here's what you said, and here's what we did:
Madiquin185 said:
"Love the game and it is addictive but when I turn the sound off I want it to stay that way. When I accidentally hit one of the game apps and go back to the game I have to reset it every time."
Good point, we missed that. In this update you can turn the sound on and off when your game is over and it will save your settings for the next time you play, even if you leave the game. Thanks for letting us know!
Kik user 24/7 said:
"This game is great. I love the Achievement points. However, for some reason as I get the achievements they're a level behind. I can not get the first level completion one."
The person who handled the achievements has been fired. Just kidding, achievements are registering correctly now, if not, let us know.
Yingyangtwin007 said:
"But is it pronounced smOOve or smOHve?"
It's actually pronounced smOOAAOOEEEOOAAOWWve.
plaintiger said:
"I recognized that the entire model for the gameplay is a scenario I feel like I'm up against some days in my ordinary life: that of the well-meaning person (i.e., the white dot) just trying to get along…just trying to do his thing, get his work done…and being thwarted in his efforts, for no apparent reason, by all kinds of negative forces (i.e., the black dots). that's not a pleasant experience (it's feeling victimized, is what it is), and it's certainly not one I need to spend my leisure time re-creating in a game."
… moving right along …
TKEON said:
"Pop up ads come up immediately after the game ends. You don't intend to touch the ad, but it takes out of the game and into the AppStore. I can't play it anymore because of this. Too frustrating."
Yeah, maybe they come in a bit too fast. This is only the second game we've made with ads and we take it pretty serio. We want to make a great game but make sure we have the financial support to compete in this crazy industry. We added a delay before the ad shows up, hope that fixes it. If you feel up for reading check out http://www.simplemachine.co/2015/01/adding-ads/
Joe Bobble said:
"This game is the best for field trips on a school bus"
… I feel so old right now.
IvKtaiwan said:
"Awesome!!but a little bit too hard!!!!"
We've been hearing it's a bit too fast/hard, especially the first few levels. We recommend purchasing additional fingers, but since that can get expensive we slowed it down for you a bit. And for more seasoned players, we have the points popping up right after you collect them so you can burn through the earlier stages faster. We call that a win win!
schnappsidea said:
"Funny game, <3 music"
Thanks! We posted it up @ https://soundcloud.com/simplemachine-1 so you can listen to it ALL. DAY. LONG.
Ok, a few additional things. We added a notification before buying "No Ads" that will tell you the price before you buy. Very sorry for the inconvenience there. We also added banner ads to the main game. They'll show up while you're playing. These help us to continue development on Smove, create new jobs, and support our other games. You can always remove them by purchasing "No Ads"
Alright, that's about it. Thanks again for all your love and feedback! Don't forget to leave us a review to let us know how we're doing.
To keep up with Simple Machine and Smove check out our website at SimpleMachine.co or follow us on Twitter @simplemgames or Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/simplemachinegames
Thanks for making Smove a huge hit!!!
Love,
Team Simple Machine
Download & Availability
Smove is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
Plz remove sound. We wanna like chill and listen to music but the little background noise be really annoyin meiluvethegametho.
Still playing, this could totally or should have totally gone viral. After years we keep breaking our own records. We wish the most points rank could be cleaned since all of the top ones are clearly cheaters.
We love this game but 1 suggestion is that maybe have a thing saying a daily high score like if we got 50 one day it would say 50 but if we got 49 the next it would say 49 because then it would be easier to say we want to get past 70 every day and you wouldnt have to try to remember did we get 70 today.
You are the best we like it how do you can move anywhere.
This is literally our favorite game ever. Thank you guys for making this awesome game. We do feel that the 4th level (the blue one) is really hard compared to the 5th level (the red one). We feel like they should be switched around because its supposed to increase in difficulty. Maybe Im just too good at the diagonals and its hard for other people. We dont know. Either way, we love your game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also we want to know what your guys best score is because ours is 70 and we think thats pretty good. (Also you guys should add some kind of stats thing that includes total number of attempts, total number of points, total time played, maybe even a ranking of how high your score is compared to other players).
We really love the game. We dont have any big issues except the music. We sometimes play the game when we have our headphones on and we cant turn off the music so the music from the game disrupts the music Im actually trying to listen to.
Been playing this game for year, holds to be the only game we keep on our phone. Hope you guys make another one of these, its amazing.
Once in a blue moon an iPhone game comes out that spreads like wildfire via word of mouth between friends. Theyre games with the perfect blend of simplicity and challenge. The ones that have everyone asking yo whats ur high score. The ones so easy yet addicting you play mindlessly through the work day occasionally abandoning all job duties devoting your full attention to the attempts reaching the brink of your highscoredom. So far ive played this game for maybe 7 minutes total…we only stopped to write this and have been fiending since we started.
We love this game! It is very fun, challenging, and it keep us wanting to try and try again to score higher.
You can never stop playing it is very additive we think that this game os really good we recommend it highly.
Normally we delete simple games after a few months at most. We've had this game for years. It's great in every way. The only things we would change are very small: Change the music, or at least have a choice of a few background songs while playing. Change the color of level 1. The game crashes occasionally upon launch.
Very fun and difficult, but might be better with a timer incorporated and the option to skip levels. Perhaps you could play more to earn that or pay to start higher.
This is an excellent game to play with friends or by yourself.
We got this app a while ago and we're in love! We keep it on our phone and we love that we can easily play it with not so many ads. It's the same thing over and over again, but somehow it's so addicting!! We totally recommend getting this app.
We love smove it is not a frustrating game and it it's so addicting.
It's a fun game. But our fat thumb is always getting in the way! Haha! Trying to beat 72.
We love this game and we've only just started playing it. Devilishly simple yet hard to master and delightfully enjoyable.
In our opinion, we think this app is pretty amazing. It's very fun and it's very addicting. We would recommend this to everyone.
We love this game it's so fun and challenging.
We can't stop playing until we beat our friends hi score.
This game saved our marriage, our finances and even our life! Words cannot express how awesome this game. We once had a nasty fight with our wife at a public setting. She walked away angry, we stayed playing this game because we were over level 47 which that was such a accomplishment for us. Our wife came back thinking we never left because we were waiting for her. But in reality, we just finished passing level 55!:) Boom! Saved our marriage.
Smove is a very simple yet challenging game, which we personally love. It's quite hard in the later levels but not too hard that you want to stop playing Although it sometimes glitches when you try to move the ball, it is an awesome game overall.
This game is very nice and addictive. Although it is not update recently, we play it about 30 times a day and our best record is 135, we suggest you to update this game, for example you can add online multiplayer feature that a player can play everyone in the world. This game is the best game in our ipad.
We love this game! Really fun and smooth. Although the game is amazing, we think it would be cool if there was like a timer system where it counted how long it takes to get to each level. This would allow the player to try and race themselves. Also, it would be AWESOME if there was a way you could start on a higher level instead of having to waste time on the first couple of levels. But you couldn't just unlock it by getting to a certain level once. For example, if you were to clear the first level 100 straight games then you would be able to begin on level 2 from then on and so on. So let's say you're able to get to level 4 every time off the bat and you're able to prove it by repeatable results, then you shouldn't have to waste time on the easy levels. However, it should require a high number of games in a row in order to prove it wasn't just a fluke. THESE UPDATES WOULD BE AMAZING.
The passenger next to us was playing this game! Both our husband and we were like.."we have got to figure out what the name of that game was" …so we searched (instead of just asking-duh) and found it! It is absolutely addicting. We tell ourselves "okay, just one more time and then you have to go do something productive" -which turns into five more times. Anyway, it's perfect in its entirety. Challenging, simplistic, and keeps you eager for what's next. You just want to see what the next level has in store. Really happy we discovered it.
Awesome game! The only thing is the dot sometimes doesn't move when you tell it to. If it wasn't for this glitch, we'd have a way better high score. But still, great game.
Really enjoy playing this game. It gets hard though and sometimes we get frustrated but it's all good. Great game overall.
This is our new addiction we love this game.
So much fun !!!! This game is like life to us.
Our friends and we absolutely love this game. It has super fun and addictive. However, it gets a little frustrating when you lose and have to start from the very beginning. Please make two options available: Start from beginning and Start from highest level achieved by specific gamer. Thanks!! :).
Sooooo adddiiiicccttiiinnngggg! We can never put it down.
We like this game guys we recommend it for everyone.
Cant put it down but seems how-many people play play it, you should put a scoreboard in . If not its ok but please do.
Ustedes son Los animales en esta talla. Se acabo el abuso y empeso la pallasa en este juego.son lo maximoo de verdad.tengo record de 91 .kimba pa k sueneee.
First off this game is awesome, we wanna challenge your best snobs player at the headquarters there. We believe we can beat all of your scores, but we will see ;).
We love smoove!we can never put the phone down.
Ive played all 3 of free games im decided this is the best little squad we love ur games and ur little squad.
Nice & cute game, keeps you busy.
Our son introduced us to this game on his phone, so we wanted to see if they had it for our IPad. Well they had it and we haven't stopped playing since. Although we are not very good at it yet.
We spend to much time playing this game. Super fun to challenge friends and family. So far our high is 54. See if you can beat that.
We seriously cannot put it down. We play it almost anytime we have down time and when our friends give it a try, they cannot put it down either.
Very cool and fun. The game can be irritating but great idea.
We can't put it down it's just so fun!There is nothing that need to be fixed at all,great job on making this.5 stars,easily.
On level five it has trouble registering our movement. It's not that difficult of a level for us. But we always die because our circle doesn't move. It won't register. So idk if it's a bug. Or that it's overloaded with too much data on the new level.
We got this games and we really liked it right of the bat. The keep the menu simple, and the levels difficulty and great. We totally recommend this game to anyone who wants to have fun a little sometimes.
Game is really good just gets nerve racking at the end of the second level wow that was fast.
We think the games great, ive been playing for months, we're about number 20 on the world leaderboards, and every level takes time to learn and master, but level 8 (70-80) is just soooooo crap. You either get lucky or just get crushed, over and over, it's a level that takes no skill to actually beat and we really believe it should be replaced. Most levels give us time to learn and can become easy, but 70-80 can literally put you in situations where you just can't survive, and that's not even fair. The worst part of it all is that it's so far up, so we usually just play until 70 and get screwed over by unfair black dots, over and over. For like the past 3 months. We've only made it past that level like 10 times and (judging by how much we play) that isn't a lot. At all. We don't know if it's possible and this is our first review ever, so we're just saying guys. Do something about that level. Great game nonetheless. 5 stars.
Great game can't put it down!! 10/10 recommend.
We love this game so much we don't even care about losing we just wanna play it nonstop. There's this one thing that bothers us tho; you know how when you eat the blue thingies the little squirts are blue? Well when you eat the 10th yellow thing, the squirts are blue. Why isn't the squirt yellow.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3
- Size: 14.93 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Simple Machine, LLC
Last updated: 29th April 2015 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: Simple Machine, LLC