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ZenDots – Family Game Review
ZenDots is a Family/Casual/Entertainment game from Little White Bear Studios, LLC, first launched in 16th April 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 179+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes ZenDots Stand Out
ZenDots is a delightfully playful mashup of old school pinball, and classic brick breakers! Take a few minutes to drop some dots!
Use the flippers to whack the white dot into the color dots. Let the color dots fall off the screen, without losing your white dot. When all the color dots are gone, the level is cleared!
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, ZenDots is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st May 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
As always, please update your review/rating for this new update to the game, as they will reset. Positive feedback, and your support, makes it possible for us to update the game. You don’t want Fred living on the street, do you? Do you?!!!
Just a quick little update this time, to address some of the biggest requests we’ve had for the game. According to our crack research team (Fred), many of you want two things, and you want them NOW:
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A pause button! While you’ve always been able to pause by exiting the game, we’ve added another way to pause. Just tap the ZenDots title at the top of the screen. Not only will it bring up the handy game menu, but it will now also pause the game. While you’re on the menu, admire the fine craftsmanship of the layout. Brings a tear to the eye, it does. It’s like a game unto itself. A really really slow game. When you leave the menu, your game will still be paused. When you’re ready to play again, just tap anywhere on the screen, and your game will resume. Magic and science, in perfect harmony.
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More access to free dots! We get a fair number of emails from players who watch a lot of video ads for free dots. But often, the video ad company doesn’t always have enough videos to show. We’ve now added a second video ad company to the mix! That’s right, two sources of free dots, instead of one! That’s like twice as many as before!* Hopefully that will satisfy your thirst for dots, dots, dots! And remember, it sometimes may take a minute or two for a video ad to be ready, once you’ve launched the game. If an ad isn’t ready yet, try again in a couple minutes.
Thanks to everyone for their support! And please update your ratings/reviews, or Fred will cry. An ugly, ugly cry. Nobody wants that.
- Math is cool.
Download & Availability
ZenDots 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:
This is an easy game to play and helps us to relax. Its a cross between the old Atari game Breakout and pinball.
This is one game l never get tired of. No ads EVER!!! Thank you so much for that. Ive been through the levels at least once and its always as good as the first time. L love that such a simple concept – pinball style – never gets old in this game. Pure genius, thanks.
Easy and not too boring. We play when we have to reset our WiFi router. By the time we play a couple of levels, it is usually working again.
We highly recommend this game. It's straightforward, easy to play, and challenging enough to keep us engaged.
Simple, fun, relaxing, great after a long to day to chill with.
Whenever we got our new phone we immediately downloaded ZenDots because we had it on our last phone. The only thing Id like is for you to feature FREE dots we know you already added that but every time we try to get a free dot it says, theres no new videos. PLEASE fix it.
We find the music soothing and very pleasant to listen to. We could just let the music play sometimes even when we can't play the game! The gameplay is very relaxing. It's like a combination of brickout/arkanoid and pinball.
An issue we have with many pinball games is that theyre too flashy or ask for some heavy precision with increasing difficulty. Zen Pinball is not like that. Zen Pinball is also not like your average game of pinball. Instead, its more of a breakout game. Hitting an object with your ball will cause it to fall and bounce around when hit by your paddles, and while your goal is to make every ball fall out before you lose three of your balls, its fun and sometimes useful to knock the balls around or to let them pool between the paddles. This is the kind of game for a nice bit of relaxation or catharsis, and its free.
When you just need some mindless fun.
The music is very chill. And the game never frustrated us.
It's a good game for someone who doesn't have what to do.
-Calming -Fun -Ad-free -Great Music -Extremely rare minor glitches -Always fun to read your app updates -Love it.
The best dotted thing since dippin' dots. Truly one of the best games we've ever played. Frustrating sometimes yet still relaxing. You've created works of art with dots. One of our absolute favorite things about this game is that there are no ads. Nothing annoys us more when we're trying to play a game and a billion ads pop up. Thank you for this wonderful game, we will continue to play for as long as it is available.
Awesome combo of our two favorite games: Breakout and pinball. A landscape mode would be nice, though. Update settings to make things smoother.
Addictive. Pinball without the wait time. Can you remove all the dots with just one ball.
Great game, no glitches, addicting, simple but challenging.
The name zen is suitable for this game, you should have concentration and be calm to focus on the game, we enjoy it because we get also no stress playing this game.
This has to be one of our favorite games and we have an idea for it. You know the ball count at the bottom, you should be able to click it and it would scroll down and there be a vat of all the colored balls you have knocked down.
Yas, a great game to play while chillin in the bath after a blue day :))).
YES! This is one of the very few game apps that we have nothing to criticize. Everything is first quality. Basically it's a pinball type game setup with the traditional two flippers that are both controlled independently by your left and right thumb .. The response time is quick and perfect .. Just like you want it with no lag. It's a tasteful app .. There are no circus colors or carnival gizmo themes .. It's understated and cool .. In a league of its own. There are different levels and subsequent versions after you win your first game. Gameplay is in upright screen mode. Highly recommended if you already enjoy the pinball machine type genre but you prefer laid back style.
We've had this game two times, the first time we had it we got so frustrated because we played it too much so we got rid of it and then we got it again and now we're addicted to it again. This is that one game where you can play at anytime and be satisfied with it. Great game, perfect for people who don't like overly complicated games.
THIS GAME IS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!! Love it so much! If your bored and have nothing to do for 15-20 minutes…PLAY ZEN DOTS.
We don't know why they call this game Zen Dots, because it's actually not "zen" at all, lol! It really keeps us tense trying to get to each next level, but in a good way. It's quite entertaining. The graphics are appealingly simple, and the music is catchy.
Great game to not get to involved in great way to kill time.
We've picked up this game a year ago and haven't put it down since.
This is one of the best games we have downloaded. Seriously a great game, haven't had any problems with it at all and it's the best time killer.
Love this game, it is lots of fun. Thanks.
A very fun way to pass the time :-).
What more do you want? Great game.
The music is so awesome too omg.
A really sweet and simple game by a couple dev team. Hours of relaxation and fun- have yet to find an app as lovely.
This is one of the best games we've ever put on our phone! Thank you for the stress relief. :) One suggestion: there is an option to reset the game. Can we get an option to go back to a certain level we've already played? That would be awesome.
This game is great to pass the time and it's very calming and we enjoy it a lot.
The designers must be Sherlockians. See level 114. We love this game. A nice stress free distraction.
Like games of old, this one is fun and challenging. It is a nice diversion from the stresses of the day although we find our legs moving at times when there a close shot or save.
This is a really fun game. If you like to play games and have fun then you would like this game. We play this game and we have a lot of fun! We would recommend this game to everyone if we could manage to make contact with everyone.
Game has a great concept, and is well executed. Lots of Fun.
This game is super chill and easy to play. It can get kinda boring after prolonged playing, but that probably means you need to stop playing anyways. Beautiful and simple game design that very relaxing on the eyes. Definitely recommend.
This game is very relaxing, we have no problems with it, it's the best working app we've ever had. We like the option to watch a video for a free extra dot if you lose the other 3, but you can also restart or buy more dots if you want more than one extra dot at a time. This music is also very nice, we enjoy it as we play. All around this game is great.
What more to say, it's a Really fun and addicting game hehe.
Great little game for killing a few minutes or hours. Undemanding. Forgiving. Relaxing.
ZenDots is our favorite game. It is more additicting then Candy Crush itself. We can play this game for hours and still not get bored of it. We are on level 226 and we are happily going to play on. Thank you for this ad-free game.
3 months and still not tired of it – great on flights, while waiting a long time at Doc office/appts. Keeps us from getting Aggro.
This is a fun app. At first it seems hard to move on to the next level, but it's easy to get the hang of.
Love this game! We wish it did say that so many dots accomplished or something. Other than that great game.
Good game. Reminds us of the original pong games. Nice time filler.
Great for a quick stress reliever, simple and free. We love it.
Love! Simple and fun. Level list or something that lets you go back to certain levels would be a great addition.
This game has really been great not only if we are bored but also when we feel anxious or mad. Puts you in a good mood after anything.
OMG we LOVE ZENDOTS! It's our favorite game on our phone and it's the first one we click on when we're bored. Please keep adding levels so we can beat them.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3
- Size: 16.81 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Little White Bear Studios, LLC]()
Last updated: 21st May 2015 | Genre: Family, Casual | Developer: Little White Bear Studios, LLC