This is 100% a 5-star app—ignore the downers – Snakebird Review

No ads, all levels present, awesome preview and worth the money. I’ve never seen such a clearly 5 star game with such a low average rating. Ignore the low ratings. I’ll explain. First—there are no ads, even if you don’t pay money for in app purchases. That right there puts this puzzle game in a super minority. For free, you get a nice preview of the game with no ads and about ten levels. I say “about” because I bought it before playing all available free levels, since I was so impressed with the quality and difficulty of the puzzles. Yes, the tutorial is somewhat lacking. But it doesn’t matter the tiniest bit. For one, this is not a timed game, and for two, ALL levels, even in the free version, have UNLIMITED undo. Even when you “die” by hitting the spikes, the level does not reset—it just resets to the position immediately before you hit the spikes. This puts the focus where it should be, on solving the puzzles, not on trying to avoid making dumb mistakes. Mistakes don’t matter because it is so easy to back up. This game mechanic (unlimited undo and no forced resets) is extremely rare because most games would be trivial if they had it. Not this one. The puzzles are TRICKY and gameplay is top notch. As for levels being “missing”—no, they’re not. The thing is that each time you solve a level, a few other levels unlock, not just the next levels numerically. Beat level 12 and levels 20, 41 and 22 show up—you get the idea. The level selector is a cute animated map of an island, and the sequence of levels meanders around the island. I would suggest to the developers that they change the unlock order for the free levels since some people get confused and think some levels are missing, but since the levels are in fact all there I don’t really care. The full version was $3.99, which is a bit more than I usually like to pay for a puzzle, but still worth it. It showed me the price before I paid, but that might be because I have my App Store account set to always require password for purchases. The only comparable games in terms of respect for the user, puzzle trickiness, and delightfulness of UI, are Go To Gold and Go To Gold 2. Well, actually Hook, Transmission, and also every puzzle from Pyrosphere, are all FREE and ad-free delightful minimalist puzzles with beautiful UIs. You’re welcome. :)
Review by MWildcard on Snakebird.