Great app but glitches are hellish – splix.io Review

The mechanics of the game are great, and it’s a great adaptation of a great concept, but glitches drag you through hell. The worst glitch for me is that when I exit out of the app after a round and then go back in for another, the screen stays green when i tap “normal” and nothing happens, and 15 minutes later it finally comes back. There are also glitches where you claim land but only the line you traced is claimed, not the land inside, and then you need to spend a whole minute getting all that land you just claimed. It’s common for the player’s sprite to kill itself when it approaches the edge even if it doesn’t hit the edge, and less common but still possible, you’re playing normally and the lines skew and create strange shapes even if you just claimed a simple rectangle, and if you hit the land you claimed, you die. You can also hit another player’s line and they won’t die, and then they hit yours and you die, which is also fairly common. You could also encounter players’ sprites not even moving for a few seconds, just staying completely stationary (this is more common on teams mode but still happens on normal) There are a few more. This app definitely needs a lot of bug fixes, and then I will up this to 4 or 5 stars.
Review by swisscakerollgirl on splix.io.