Clockwork Brain Training | Memory & Attention Game Reviews

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Mom of eight blessings

I don't feel like I'm wasting my time. Good mind exercises.

Brain Works

Horsethief361

I've been playing and enjoying for sometime now. The improvements are excellent.

This version is better than I first thought

Angrybirdfan18

I did the survey monkey for the upgraded version of Clockwork Brain after not having opened the app in quite a while. I admit that I was rather hard on the poor developers, accusing them of unnecessarily over-complicating what had once been a fun and stimulating set of brain games. On that point, I've changed my mind after a month of play with the Petbots and the crystals and the Dementors (oh, wait, they're from Harry Potter). I guess some of the additions are cute and fun, even if they're "cheats," and I like the improved data tracking, even the part where your score can go down after a bad round or two or three. That apology said, I do have some suggestions/comments for the developers to consider for improving the game: 1. In its original iteration, CB allowed users to buy games using earned tokens. Right now I have over 130,000 tokens that are useless because I had already bought everything in the store using tokens prior to the upgrade (minus relaxed mode, which I purchased). Only 3 premium games I don't own remain. I never seem to need energy, apparently b/c of some energy capsule installed in my games (holdover from previous version? Not sure). Right now, those remaining games are on sale for a 52% discount (including the unneeded free energy). On sale, that's $4.00 per premium game, more than I think I paid for the whole CB in the first place. Not on sale, that would be $8.00 a premium game--all for games we can't even sample before buying. Bottom line question: what happened to the option to buy individual games with tokens? Nice if that came back or, in lieu of tokens, an option to buy individual premium games at a reasonable price. I think CB would make more money that way. 2. I'm sure I wrote about this a couple years ago, but it still frustrates me when it happens. Sometimes things are mislabeled or labeled one way in one game and another way in a second. One example that really annoys me is the hawk that's sometimes labeled a hawk and sometimes a vulture. Maybe there's a difference between British and American diction, but here in the NE USA, a hawk is a bird of prey, while a vulture dines on the already deceased (the clean-up crew). There are other similar examples. Related to the above, but limited to the "label it" game. Sometimes the choices are poorly thought out. If there's a statuette of something that looks like a small horse, and the first choice a player sees under time pressure is "horse," it's confusing to see that's wrong because another choice was "pony," seen only after "horse" was marked wrong. It's not as if players were looking at a color photo of a Shetland Pony...and besides, "pony" is defined as "a small horse"..... Similar issues have occurred with "bird/canary" (seeing the canary only in silhouette, the player has to remember it's a yellow canary if he sees "bird" first, then stop and find "canary." I've had that issue with anemone /flower, daisies/flower, iris/flower. If I see an anemone and say it's a flower, how is that wrong unless as a player I'm aware the developers also stuck the more precise noun in the list of labels. To an extent, a rose by any other name will smell as sweet (at least the name flower). ? 3. Last, it's likely young eyes have worked on these beautifully drawn and painted Victorian tiles. They are gorgeous! But a few are very difficult for older folks or for those of us with specific vision issues to handle. The glass tile, the doily, the cotton plant, and the white daisies are the hardest for me to see in the Speed Match game, especially at the expert level. I know programmers can't create a level playing field for everyone and that we need to play against our own scores, but dang it would be nice to see those particular items darkened a bit... Bottom line: this is a fun set of games, challenging to a variety of "brain parts" and likely quite playable for pre-teens on up.Suggestions here are my own constructive criticism, offered to make a good set of games even better.