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Crossword Challenge

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71%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:optimization
Most mentioned negative aspects:monetization, gameplay
71% User Score Based on 655 reviews

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About Crossword Challenge

Crossword Challenge is a single player action game. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Train your brain with fun, relaxing crosswords!

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71%Audience ScoreBased on 655 reviews
optimization1 positive mentions
monetization225 negative mentions
  • The game is fun, challenging, and mentally stimulating, combining crossword and word puzzle elements that help improve vocabulary and cognitive skills.
  • Solo play without time limits or opponents allows players to enjoy at their own pace, making the experience relaxing and less stressful.
  • The game has a good mix of difficulty that progresses well, with useful hints and visual clues that enhance the overall gameplay experience.
  • Excessive and intrusive ads, including frequent ads during gameplay, which disrupts the player's concentration and enjoyment; many users wish for a reasonably priced, permanent ad-free option.
  • The game has performance issues including freezing, crashing, and bugs that cause loss of progress or force restarts, negatively impacting user experience.
  • Inconsistent and sometimes incorrect spelling, obscure or culturally biased clues, and occasional glitches in gameplay mechanics reduce the game's quality and cause frustration.

  • monetization

    235 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    4% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 96% negative mentions

    The game is heavily criticized for its excessive and intrusive ads, including frequent interruptions during gameplay that disrupt user experience and cause frustration. Many users express a desire for an option to remove ads via a purchase, which is currently lacking, and report issues like ads causing crashes or redirecting to suspicious websites. While the game itself is enjoyed, the overwhelming and poorly managed monetization through ads significantly detracts from overall satisfaction.

    • “Please take my money for the option of no ads!”
    • “Please add a choice to purchase no ads and maybe a daily login deal or monthly subscription; this game is better than most of its kind.”
    • “No option to pay for no ads, so I will be deleting which is a shame as I love the game.”
    • “It's absolutely ridiculous the amount of ads that play almost non-stop in this game.”
    • “Ads in the middle of a puzzle are inexcusable, especially when there's going to be an ad after the puzzle as well.”
    • “Can't make it through a level without 2-3 ads in a row (game says ads are 5-15 secs which is a big fat lie) and then you get 5 random letters to attempt to place based on hints... think scrabble meets crossword but really poorly done.”

  • gameplay

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally enjoyable and well-received, though frequent ads during gameplay detract from the overall experience for some users.

    • “I really enjoy the gameplay!”
    • “The gameplay itself is nice.”
    • “More ads than gameplay.”
    • “I would have given a 5 star, but ads during gameplay is not okay.”

  • stability

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from frequent freezing and crashing issues, often causing loss of progress and disrupting gameplay. These stability problems, combined with excessive ads, lead to a frustrating and annoying experience for users.

    • “The game constantly freezes and crashes. If I'm lucky, I can place more than two letters on the board before it freezes. After watching ads, I get a message saying something went wrong, then the game closes. When I restart, I lose my streak. It took me 15 days to reach level 100. The constant freezing and crashing is ridiculous. Please fix the problem.”
    • “Way too many ads and it freezes up constantly, making it super boring and annoying.”
    • “I like the game, but there are too many ads and it frequently freezes and closes down.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users note the absence of music and sound effects, which some find positive, but many express a desire for added sounds or music to enhance the experience.

    • “Also, if I have the gate sounds and music off, that should also apply to the ads.”
    • “Please add sounds, whether it's sound effects or music!”
    • “No music either, but that one is a plus for me.”

  • grinding

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is considered tedious and slow, with users expressing frustration over waiting for points to accumulate without a skip option. The lack of engaging elements like sound effects contributes to the impatience during this process.

    • “I also agree that waiting for the points to add up gets tedious; it'd be nice if there was a skip option.”
    • “Maybe it would be less tedious if there were sound effects, but currently it makes me impatient.”

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game demonstrates consistently excellent optimization, maintaining a stable and high performance percentile throughout extended play.

    • “How has my performance percentile remained unwavering at 99.4 since game 40?”
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Crossword Challenge is a action game. Common tags for Crossword Challenge include free to play.

Crossword Challenge is available on Phone, Tablet, Android and Mobile Platform.

Crossword Challenge was developed by NOCTURNAL.

Crossword Challenge has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Crossword Challenge for its optimization but disliked it for its monetization.

Crossword Challenge is a single player game.