One Button Travel Reviews – Page 3
4/5 rating based on 50 reviews. Read all reviews for One Button Travel for iPhone.
One Button Travel is paid iOS app published by TheCodingMonkeys
the biggest app disappointment ever
A disappointingly likely story
As many reviews have stated, this app is a good idea, extremely poorly executed. In theory, the idea of an interactive fic text message story seemed interesting, but the reality of the stilted, stop-and-go story was a complete disappointment. I forced myself to go all the way to the end because I paid for the app, and the ending was a disappointment too. Before you buy this app, realize it is a bland story that is totally average and non-innovative for its genre, the choices you make have little to no influence, and it is annoyingly spoon fed to you in tiny bites at inconvenient real life time intervals. I think the graphic design in the screenshots drew me in too - you've already seen it all because the app contains the intro button, the text message screen, the one "puzzle" screen (not really a puzzle), and the menu/credits. This app seems like it is designed for people who enjoy clever and unique experiences, you know, something more interesting than yet another button masher or bird flinger or match 3 game. Unfortunately, the actual experience falls completely flat. I recommend you save your money and take a chance on the next thing that catches your interest instead, because One Button Travel is a complete dud.
Any 14-year-old's dream app
lostproductivity
Two days in, it's a fun and slowly unfolding mystery. A little hard to swallow at first, but it's interesting to see how a younger developer's incorporated religion, the surreal and personal technology. Avoid if you are a details troll, get if you have an open mind and a hankering for a new school Choose Your Own Adventure in real time. Update: OBT is an interactive, bite-sized experience that spreads itself out over days. The protagonist is a younger, bubbly type who still manages to spout the occasional profound concept. No hard sci-fi here, and expect the story to alternate from charming and inane to sublime and creative. Just one thing: the way the app reopens, with your past dialogue underneath, and then a new pop-up of a full-screen alert, looks awkward. I would just make do with the navigation screen instead of an alert screen. That, or close existing messages when the app exits.
Not bad
bender_unit
The story has some plot holes, and the writing definitely a bit awkward sometimes, but overall I'm having a fairly good time.
Unique but flawed
Lala121289
It's not meant to be fast paced fun. It is meant to simulate text interaction and there are some pauses for hours at a time. There are a lot of typos which is annoying. Started off interesting and got a lil dull. I don't know how it ends bc my phone died last night and when I charged it and opened the app, it reset. I'm not sure if I'm gonna bother.
One of my favorite text adventures
BreezySchlag
I've bought all of these recent "text adventure" apps, and this was one of my favorites. I found the story engrossing and I actually played through twice and was pleasantly surprised at how differently the story proceeded when I selected different options the second time through. I even got a different ending. The pacing was a little weird but that's fine. I think it was just to make it a more playable pace, not too fast or too slow. Overall I really enjoyed it!
Doesn't compare to the lifeline series
RahulAergv
Spelling errors, an absence of the feeling of a conversation, and poor pacing make this a regrettable purchase
Caught my attention.
mycomicromance fan
while usually I don't waste time reviewing things, I came to care about this story progression enough to write one. This app caught my attention because of mentions of clever humor and an interactive story. It delivered. But, sadly, as I progressed through the story, it's been a couple weeks now, I got bored. I always get back to the story as soon as I get a notification, save for when I'm sleeping, and I just think it needs to be sped up. Once the character you're chatting with gets a hold of the terms of service, i lost a lot of interest. I feel like it should be done now. There was a fake-out, and maybe that would have been too easy of a way to finish it, but after that really seemed to be when you needed a conclusion. That was the climax, there needs to be a much smaller falling action and then perhaps a complex resolution. How it is now, it's just boring. This app is still worth buying, I don't regret it at all. I just wish it was a bit better at this point.
Bad Execution
Scott_Connor
The story would have been entertaining if the user actually decided the story. There are no real choices it is a) drink coffee b) drink hot beverage. When the ending came I purposefully did not enter the cancellation code hoping there was more... I was disappointed. Download Lifeline or The Martian.