Tiny Bubbles Reviews – Page 9
5/5 rating based on 133 reviews. Read all reviews for Tiny Bubbles for iPhone.
Tiny Bubbles is paid iOS app published by Pine Street Codeworks LLC
excellent new idea for a puzzle game!
flo-ing
love this game! it was quick to learn and hard to put down. the game play, colors and sounds, and cute little fish are all extremely enjoyable. my only complaint and suggestion is that the endless mode be turned into something that is actually endless. i really like playing it, but find myself getting super frustrated by always having to wait for more moves and come back later. please make the endless mode something you could truly sit down and play endlessly!
Not relaxing! It told me to move faster!
Loopy2005
I hate games that make me move fast! This game was supposed to be relaxing and like Zen. It is not!!! I just started it and it already told me I had to move faster! I like 1010 because it doesn’t require me to move fast. I am exhausted at the end of the day and do not want a game that makes me move fast! I am going to ask for my money back as soon as it shows up in Apple because this is not a relaxing game and the game has no right to tell me to move faster if I am supposed to be relaxing!
Beautiful, Organic & Clever
Momo926
Beautifully designed game with just the perfect amount of complexity. Gets progressively more challenging as the levels progress. If you’re after a lightweight distraction, this is a must have. I didn’t really get stumped until the second to last puzzle, but there were many that took an embarrassing amount of tries to accomplish. Nevertheless, I felt like I could accomplish without having to buy a power up of some sort, and I appreciated that.
Beautiful, intuitive and accessible
CHeidner
This is a beautiful game both visually and in design. When a color-based game has colorblind accessibility built seamlessly into the tutorial in a no-nonsense way, I’m sold. But beyond the accessibility, it’s a visually pretty game; the colors are cheerful, but soothing and fit with the relaxing, water-based design really well. The fish (Bloop) is cute and adds to gameplay. Finally, the game itself has hints and help, but is intuitive enough for a regular puzzler to solve without using them. So far, I’ve finished the first world in about 30 minutes of playing and am looking forward to the remaining worlds. Each world has plenty of levels so I anticipate enjoying this one for a while. :) All in all- definitely worth the $4.99 for supporting this well-developed, well-designed game.
Pretty, nice music, engaging, but...
Reviewer number 10001
The "puzzles" where it's constantly about racing the clock to fit a bunch of bubbles in a zone is boring, boring, boring. It's the same game over and over, and not a puzzle. There are WAY too many of those. I stopped playing because of them. Also, too many puzzles resolve without my knowing why exactly.
Phenomenal Graphics
naturaln0va
The way the bubbles interact with each other is just the best. The game is challenging and rewarding! Best game I’ve played in a while!!
Not quite as described
App aficianado
This game is ok enough, but where it is described as leisurely and no time element - uh, sometimes. Some puzzles you do have to hurry before you are squeezed out. You only get a few hints and while I gratefully applaud them that you do not get bombarded with “12 hints for 99¢” or such - I refuse to pay to play a game - often one move requires more than one hint. Beautiful graphics, cute concept.
Superlative
DeBellM
I’ve purchased, maybe 100 games in the iTunes Store over the past 10 years. I’ve downloaded even more for free. I play games on my phone, both casually, and obsessively at times. Bottom line: this is Top 3 for me. Puzzle/Zen Arcade games-wise, this is #1. I hesitate to compare this to other all-time favorites outside its genre like Star Realms, Age of Rivals, Steredenn, Onirim, or many of the numerous RPG ports I frequent, because it’s its own style. That said, there are puzzle games that this reminds me of, like Kami, Blek, or even Two Dots. This surpasses those in style and gameplay. The mix of puzzle and arcade-style games hits a high point with this game that you can download on your phone. And it’s under $5. I just now beat my final level, and although I feel that there are things that could be better, I can’t help but feel that I truly enjoyed myself every moment that I played. I haven’t gotten all the achievements, but I actually feel like I might redo all the levels, which is crazy for me to do, as my process is: I download a game, I beat it once, I delete it. Idk. You may not care about my dumb process, but that’s a big deal to me. Time-wise, I probably spent about 6 hours playing on my first play-through. That’s just a ballpark estimate; could be a few hours more. Aesthetically, it’s as gorgeous as an iPhone game should be. Smooth as The Fonz and the difficulty spike is welcome for someone who wants to be casually obsessive about it. My issues. There’s a mode called infinity mode that lets you basically play about 15 turns in a separate, unending play area, in order to earn tickets. Earn enough tickets and you can unlock hints on how to beat puzzles, or buy power-ups to defeat an arcade level. Your 20 turns regenerate completely in 3 hours. There are also achievements to unlock that are attainable only in infinity mode. Other than that, infinity mode is pointless, a little boring, and takes away from the flow of the bulk of the game (it’s not “zen-mode,” so don’t even try to sell me that [speaking of which, why the heck isn’t there zen-mode?!]) On top of all that, I remember being stuck on a puzzle level, and 5 tickets would show you just the first of literally over 15 moves that would help you successfully beat the level. I’ll tell you right now: you’re not going to play infinity mode long enough to get enough hints for it to actually be helpful. But I digress. Infinity mode is basically avoidable, and not a necessary part of the gaming experience that is Tiny Bubbles. They don’t get psycho about making the game extraordinarily difficult for the obsessive 100% gamers out there, but the achievements I’m missing after the first play-through seem like they could take at least a few more hours to find without internet help. If you’ve ever bought a single phone game in your life, or say to your friends, “I really just like figuring things out,” or even said that you like puzzle games once, you’d bring great shame unto your family if you don’t buy this right now. It should belong in the all-time greats. If you read this far, thanks. Love each other.