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Dot Pop! – Casual Game Review
Dot Pop! is a Casual/Simulation game from Clement Germanicus, first launched in 8th March 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,800+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dot Pop! Stand Out
Pop as many dots as possible with just one tap! Level up as much as you can, unlock exclusive skins and enjoy mesmerizing chain reactions!
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dot Pop! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd August 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Dot Pop! 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:
We dont care for the pop up CLAIM interruption in the game. But the popping sounds are a still satisfying.
We get that prestige typically takes the same time kinda like call of duty how it resets. But this game would get a good 4/5 stars if the prestige wasnt a lie of sorts. It claims you earn +10% more each prestige…but the prices of each tier also increase that much each time. The prestige should be labeled as unlocks a special skin and leave the money part out because the way it is worded would technically mean we could fly through each prestige faster than the other. Just food for thought otherwise we love this game.
We used to play this game all the time. Really enjoyed the relaxing benefits. Just reloaded it and immediately deleted it due to pop up ads. Every time we play, a box pops up telling us Ill need to pay a certain amount for more dots, etc. We dont see any way to dismiss the ad to continue playing. The entire bottom 1/3 of the screen is an ad. Terrible. They should be ashamed.
A lot of ads. We hit the collect box and Im Still on level 1 after 5 rounds. How do you move up.
Soooooo many ads. Its unplayable.
We have been playing this game so often that we now need 1.64 billion to get more dots on the screen. We were enjoying playing it as a break from all the games where you have to wait for things to load. BUT, there was a recent update where our current score disappears every time we close out the game. It makes it frustrating because we have to restart every single time from zero but still with the 1.64 billion price tag to get enough dots to pop. We are going to have to delete the app because it is no longer relaxing since the update.
We loved this game and paid the $2.99 so we didnt have to see the ads. Then we did the update and it restarted our game and is trying to make us pay again to remove the ads.
We literally had over 200million and after closing the app out and going back in, we suddenly have 0 dollars? This occurred right after the update today.
We paid for ad removal and am getting them again after updating DO NOT UPGRADE IF YOU PAID.
The game is super fun, but we have gotten to the point where Im such a high level our game crashes when we try to play it lol.
Kinda addicting, but also seems pointless after a while.
Just want to say, we love dot pop, and we wasnt to sure if the developers are familiar with the time glitch. But by changing the time, it will give you instant money. How much? It really depends on how much you make offline per minute.
Heres a good idea that we think is good, so when you get up to about 1000 does it starts lagging and now that Im at 20000 twenty thousand we cant do anything so our idea was make the dots have numbers in how much dots are in that one dot or something to reduce the lag by a lot also the games are awesome.
We love the new design, a LOT! But whether intentionally on accident, their initial update made prices to upgrade almost unobtainable. With this update, they fixed that! And we can resume our simple toy without that annoyance. Love this game.
Reminds us of Chain Reaction that was on the web a long while back. Wish the iPhone version did more than popcorn theme though :(.
Try putting ads every like 6 or so turns not every 3 turns.
We love the game. However we dont like this and its with all games, ads.
Ive really enjoyed the game until now. Im on level 499 and the game stopped functioned properly probably about 10 levels ago. Now, we basically cant play it, which is sad as we just paid $2.99 to keep the ads off a day or so ago. The leaderboards also dont function. How can we get our $2.99 back.
After you get to about 2K dots on screen the app can no longer handle that and it lags so much and just closes a lot of the time and we know its not our phone cuz we have a brand new iPhone 8.
Then once we reached 2000+ balls it starts to lag severely. We turned off vibrating and was able to get it to smooth out for another 1000 balls. But now its unplayable. Stopped getting rewards after awhile too. Maybe if the game stayed stable and maintained a rewarding system Id be able to play. But ATM its not.
This game was great! We started playing it and had so much fun. We were always eager to beat our previous score. But Im getting an ad every 30seconds! We get about 2 ads in one minute. Never have we seen a app that gives this amount of ads! We could have rated the app 5 stars, if you didnt give so many ads.
Stops getting fun after we reached 2600 dots and $5.17 BT << thats like 100x a quadrillion dollars.
Once you get to around 1200 dots, the game gets very glitchy and jumpy.
Tons of Ads! We get them constantly! Ended up deleting the game because it turned into aggravation instead of fun. Game was really fun and addictive but just too many ads. Not paying $2.99 just to play a game on our phone.
We dont like the popcorn and idk how to change it.
The game is super fun to play and level up but Im at level 801 and we have 4040 dots on screen and the game lags so bad we get about 1 frame per second. We rarely ever pop any dots now because of the lag. When we do pop some dots it clears the screen and we get the 20x multiplier. Devs if you read this pleas do something about the lag issue. PLEASE.
Ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, actual playing time, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads, ads.
Honestly the app has gotten way less interesting. The new we guess you can say Dots? Aren't newfor example, it used to have colorful dots, peace signs, trees, stars, but now it pretty much downgraded to only popcorn. Its like Im earning all this money to level up for nothing.
Its a fun game. We play it everyday. Our only problem with the game is that the ads on Facebook & on the app store show colorful dots being popped. Our game shows popcorn kernels being popped into pop corn. We though that maybe in the beginning stages it was pop corn & then become colorful dots. As far as we know that doesnt happen. Again this is a great game to kill time but it isnt whats advertised. Id give the game 5 stars if it was actual colorful dots.
This game might be fun, but its hard to tell when every other tap starts an advertisement. Deleting it.
Enjoy the game so we figure why not pay for no ads. Well you STILL have ads if you want the plus 10x. Fix that and Id give it a higher rating.
There is an ad after every three (3) plays. Just close the app and restart. It is much faster that way. The ads are why it got two (2) stars. If they take out the per play ads (they have ads to watch for everything else) the rating could go to five (5). If the make the intro longer we will lower the rating and delete the game. Since we have about ten (10) games by this maker we might do the same on them.
Game was fun, until recent update. Offline earnings were decreased made it extremely hard to get more money and playing the game it self was also difficult to earn money and progress in the game.
If there wasnt so many ads itd be more fun, played for 2 minutes so far, and gotten 2 ads.
We downloaded the app only to find out that the game doesn't load! Please make some updates or something.
There is an unplayable glitch once you get decently far in game. We have contacted the developer about it but no response. We enjoyed the game so we payed for the no ads. We dont recommend that as the game is eventually unplayable.
We updated the game and went from having 3400 dots to 20.
When each round of the game only lasts like 10 seconds and theres an ad every three rounds… It makes us want to throw our tablet. If you received rewards for watching ads and you got to choose when to watch ads it would be tolerable. You might as well always select the extra pop button because youre going to be forced to watch a 30 second ad regardless. As it is right now its infuriating because we really want to play the game. Please fix.
Reminds us of a relaxing game we used to play but theres an ad after almost every turn and each turn doesnt last longer than 30 seconds. Watching an ad every 30 seconds is not our idea of relaxing.
Games is just filled with ads and half of the time you have to exit out of the app to get rid of the ad horrible.
Constantly being bombarded by ads while only being able to play the game for a couple seconds at a time makes this simple and somewhat addicting game atrocious and unplayable. Great idea; executed horribly.
What is with all the ads? Why do you need to show an ad every 3rd round.
Be ready to get bombarded by ads. Too many.
The app has a fun concept but with an ad every 3 clicks game play isnt even worth it. Im literally trying to occupy our time on a game and spending more time watching ads. NEEDS TO BE FIXED.
New update is terrible. We had so much money that it had letters in it. Then it updated and sent us back to the beginning. Which isnt bad because we got to restart, but everything is way more expensive. We can only get one upgrade every three or four pops.
Cute game. WAY too many ads. Will probably delete.
Every once and a while, Ill see an ad for a time waster game like this that looks potentially fun, and then Ill see this developer on the tag and just sigh. Admittedly? We love watching the sprawling bloom effect that fills the screen up with various colors. What we dont like is that in each attempt if you fail to get all the dots you needed, itll try to tempt you with an ad. Of course, you can say no to the ad that gives you the multiplier, but wait three or four rounds and youll have to see an ad anyway. Each round takes maybe 5 or 6 seconds, so youll be spending more time waiting to X out of an ad than playing. Voodoo makes these cute timewaster games, and while we can understand that every developer wants to make cash off their work, there is nothing special or unique worth the ad revenue about this game, let alone the microtransactions they want to make. The game itself is so basic and lackluster that it might as well be a programmers first app.
Now this game is very simple but we get some enjoyment from it.. We would be totally fine with watching a couple ads if they didnt pop up every 3-4 dot pop attempts. We deleted the app because it just got too annoying.
The games by voodoo are okay. But if you like ads every 30 seconds then you will like this game. They always do live.us ads and some are inappropriate and not child friendly. The game would be fun with no ads but they are to money hungry that they dont know how to evenly space the ads. It would be fine if it was like every 5 minutes but no this company is stupid.
A simple mind distraction game could be fun but way too many ads. Two or three 10 second plays results in an advert.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.3
- Size: 78.56 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: Clement Germanicus
Last updated: 3rd August 2018 | Genre: Casual, Simulation | Developer: Clement Germanicus