Good tables; slowly improving UI – Pinball Arcade Plus Review

I started my table collection with this game many years ago. There is no doubt that this is an incredible collection of simulated, actual historic pinball machines. The main problem with this app has always been its front end user interface. It got so bad at one point I deleted a hundred dollars worth of iap’s and quit playing this game all together. I just decided after a year or so now to check back and give it another try. I’m very happy to see that the UI has been given enough improvement that at least the actual game has become playable again. (Thank you so much for finally allowing us to mute the main menu theme music!!) It’s a real shame they lost their Williams license. Thank god I had purchased all the Williams tables before they removed them from the store. And thank you so much, developers, for keeping them available to re-download for those of us that purchased them! (If only that ownership could be transferred to other platforms, like the PS4!) It is nice to see that they have recreated some really good tables from the companies that they still have licenses with. And that there are some newer, very modern tables being brought into the collection. Just sank nearly another $80 into iaps, rounding out all the new table packs I had missed the last couple years, and upgraded to several “Pro” tables. (I wish there had been a price to “complete the packs”, as opposed to paying full price for all the packs which already contained tables I already owned.) All that said, the UI could still really use some improvement. It still has a 1990’s PC, low budget clunkiness to it. On my 12.9 inch 2nd gen iPad Pro, there are times when the text on the menu buttons and on the leaderboards is clearly not formatted correctly, and is unreadable. (My screen zoom in iOS settings is at the normal default, btw.) Also, the organization of the tables, HoF boards and Table Goals could be better. Like, maybe add the stars for table goals on each actual table icon so we don’t have to open each table to see how many goals we have done. And add a way to sort HoF by score. And maybe add a search field on the main table page (for those of us with 80 tables!) Just some ideas. Thanks, devs, for continuing to improve and develop this outstanding game!
Review by SevenDog on Pinball Arcade Plus.