Nothing But Greedy. – UNICORN: Low Poly Puzzle Game Review

I downloaded the app after seeing an Instagram app claiming “98% can’t finish this puzzle” (the tiger one). When I first opened the app and did a few puzzles, one thing stuck out to me ASAP: almost NONE of the drawings were free, and you couldn’t just watch an ad to get access to one (with some exceptions on the top of the app). They want you to try their unlimited three day free trial before sucking you into their WEEKLY $10 subscription. Me, having used the app for less than half an hour, refused as I don’t pay for anything with apps and shoving it into my face so early within getting the app seemed sketchy, to say the least. There are many categories of drawings, but only 3-7 are free out of a total of 10-25 objects. It gets worse. Every time you either enter the app, start a drawing, or finish a drawing and return to the main page you’re given a non-optional pop-up from the app about a “short app session”. EVERY TIME. Seeing as these puzzles take about 3-15 minutes to complete, this is far too frequent. If I was lucky, I’d get no advertisements but that only lasted for 1-3 puzzles. The adverts can be exited out of after five seconds, but since the background music of the app is so quiet, your ears get blasted with the app’s music (which can only be muted once you’re in the advert). A lot of the times, the apps were glitchy and took me to the app store instead of exiting to the app. Gameplay (i.e., putting the pieces of the puzzles together) isn’t too bad but gets boring and annoying quickly as the placement of numbers is either sporadic (10 and 13 being on the opposite sides of the object) or lazy (15 numbers being next to each other before continuing in a completely different spot). To make matters worse, at random times the app lags so badly it won’t register your pressure on the piece you’re grabbing, everything slows down, and instead of grabbing the piece you want to grab, the app assumes you’re trying to scroll to the left (least to greatest numbers) and uselessly pulls to the background the pieces are on. To actually get a piece, you have to press for at least 2 seconds on the piece before moving to see if the lag even allows you to grab it before slowly hovering over the piece’s correct place and letting go. If you’re lucky, the part won’t lag its placement (and the aura around it signifying it’s placed right). The first time I lagged, it was so bad my phone crashed mid-placement (music was playing so i didn’t see it until it crashed) and when I went back into the app, half of my progress was ERASED. My goal was to do every free puzzle in the main page, but the app has proven to be so insufferable that I’m done trying to navigate it for my sake and my phone’s sake. I should mention now that lagging makes your phone feel just like a meteorite (SUPER HOT) if your phone isn’t covered. In conclusion, DO NOT GET THIS APP unless your phone has super ultra mega anti-lag and you want to spent $480 A YEAR ($40 a month for 12 months as a week is $10) to make laggy, lackadaisically made puzzles whose only redeeming qualities are the calming, ethereal music playing constantly in the app (along with its sound effects) and its lineless aesthetic appearance which quickly wears off thanks to lag and incessant advertisements.
Review by redwolftrash on UNICORN: Low Poly Puzzle Game.