The Cube - What's Inside ‪?‬ 12+

This game has a really amazing concept and is super fun to play, however the ads are overwhelming. Every couple of boxes you destroy (which doesn’t take that long) another ad pops up. You end up spending more time watching ads then actually playing the game. I’m aware that there is a no-ads option but I’m also not about to spend $3 just so that I can play a game. Again this game was an awesome idea and I think that it could be an amazing game as long as people could actually play it. I enjoy playing the game and leveling up my tools it’s just frustrating when every 45 seconds or so another ad plays forcing me to stop playing and watch the ad. All I’m saying is that I think more people would download, continuously play, and recommend this game if there were less ads. I hope you consider this review and try to improve your game. I’m not opposed to some ads, but the amount right now is too many. Thank you.

This game is lots of fun in the beginning, and I think a lot of people most likely play it for a few days and delete it. I am not that kind of consumer. I try to beat or max out even silly games like this one. One of the currencies in game are called “diamonds”. And they are very rare to get without paying money for them. There is an item in the shop that costs 20 diamonds to permanently double income. I excruciatingly saved up my diamonds (spending no real-life money whatsoever) until I had 20. I thumbed over to the 2x permanent increase and it was green as in “you can buy me!” So I tap it. And I tap it again. It isn’t working? I close the game and reopen it, hoping it was just some random glitch. Nope. Still wasn’t working. So I got to thinking, and I realize that the games developers don’t let you buy anything with diamonds if you haven’t spent real money on them. This is a kick to the face to people like me who like to play not buy through a game. Really great game, but in the long term it gets worse and worse, forcing the long term players to spend money on things they don’t want to. Disappointing.

If you’re not willing to drop 3 bucks to play this game, get ready to do almost as much as watching as playing the game. I took a stop watch and timed the amount of actually game time before you had to watch an ad again, and it was 13 seconds with a mandatory 7 second ad time so essentially if we’re going by ratio of time alone, you spend about a third of your time “playing” this game watching ads. So the way it works is it’s set to play an ad every time you break down three cubes, if you are manually breaking them down it takes no time at all to break them but feels like forever to make any progress cause every three cubes you break down you have to watch ANOTHER AD! This game takes the whole ad thing to a scummy level that just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. All of the progress I made wasn’t done in game. It was done by letting my tools collect money for me over time so that I could upgrade stuff when I came back and not have to sit through constant ads. Do yourself a favor, don’t even attempt to play this game unless you’re gonna buy the premium version. It’s a worthless experience otherwise.