Magic Sort!

About Magic Sort!

Magic Sort! is a single player puzzle game. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Water Sorting Puzzle

Genres & Tags

Puzzle

Play Modes

Single-Player

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Reviews

62%Audience ScoreBased on 4,820 reviews

graphics36 positive mentions

monetization1.5k negative mentions

monetization
1,608 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
6% positive mentions, 1% neutral mentions, 93% negative mentions
The monetization heavily relies on intrusive, frequent, and often unskippable ads that significantly disrupt gameplay, with many users reporting ads after nearly every level, some lasting 1-3 minutes and causing crashes or forced exits to app stores. Although a paid no-ads option exists, it often fails to remove all ads, and the game increasingly pressures players into watching ads or making in-app purchases, especially at higher levels. Many players find this aggressive advertising and microtransaction model frustrating, detracting from the overall enjoyment and often making the game unplayable.
- “The game is fun, cute, and has basically no ads which is a huge plus.”
- “Great design and fair monetization.”
- “Relaxing, fun, no ads, no extra money.”
- “The developer subjects players to the longest most repetitive ads, some of which occasionally self-install.”
- “Ads are a constant, and they force the store open every time.”
- “The game is great but the ads never give you an exit or skip button once they're finished, forcing you to close and restart the whole game to keep playing.”
graphics
56 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
64% positive mentions, 31% neutral mentions, 5% negative mentions
The graphics are widely praised for being clean, smooth, colorful, and visually appealing with a cute and relaxing aesthetic. Some users find the art style charming and well-executed, while a few feel it may be simplistic or repetitive, and occasional critiques mention excessive ads and loading issues detracting from the experience. Overall, the visual quality is considered a strong point of the game.
- “The graphics and animations are excellent.”
- “The graphics are clean and vibrant, and the animations are smooth.”
- “Beautiful graphics.”
- “The play is fine, but the graphics and animation look like they're designed for 6-year olds.”
- “Too many graphics take too long to load.”
- “Not as advertised, deceiving graphics and layout on ads.”
gameplay
45 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
40% positive mentions, 53% neutral mentions, 7% negative mentions
The gameplay is generally smooth, fun, and well-designed with appealing mechanics and graphics, but it is heavily marred by excessive, intrusive ads and aggressive monetization that disrupt the experience and hinder progression. Many users found the repetitive levels and pay-to-win elements frustrating, though the core mechanics remain engaging for those who can tolerate the interruptions.
- “The game has a strong foundation — engaging gameplay, appealing design, and early levels that feel balanced.”
- “The core gameplay revolves around hidden information that you have to make choices about before seeing.”
- “Cute graphics with smooth mechanics but otherwise a decent sorting game of coloured inks into bottles.”
- “I'm pretty close to uninstalling as I dread having to sit through 2 minutes of ads for every 10 minutes of gameplay.”
- “If you are looking for an app where you get to see mindless adverts after advert, with the sound on even though you turned off music and sound within the app, where gameplay is less than 50% of the experience (the remainder being the adverts, and tapping all over the screen in different places to get to the next bit of the advert, to jump into Google Play store, to jump back out, to close the advert and then confirm you want to close the advert), then you have lucked in!”
- “Gameplay is randomized, which makes some levels impossible to finish without paying.”
music
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
23% positive mentions, 54% neutral mentions, 23% negative mentions
The music in the game is generally described as cozy but bland and uninspired, with some players finding it more enjoyable when played alongside their own external music. However, intrusive ads often override the app's sound settings, disrupting both the in-game music and external audio, which frustrates users. Overall, while the music is appreciated, lack of customization and ad interference negatively impact the auditory experience.
- “It's very fun and the micro transactions are reasonable, music is cozy.”
- “The music is much more enjoyable to listen to.”
- “I give it 2 stars though because I loved the graphics and music.”
- “The ads in this game ignore your sound settings and blast voice overs and music at you, which is particularly egregious.”
- “The art style and music are bland, uninspired, and have an AI-generated feel.”
- “The ads keep hijacking my speakers and turning my music off, which is very frustrating.”
stability
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
8% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 92% negative mentions
The game suffers from frequent glitches and crashes, especially related to ads, causing frustration as progress or rewards are lost. Many users report freezing, black screens after ads, and an excessive number of ads disrupting gameplay. While some find the core game enjoyable, the stability issues and intrusive ads significantly detract from the experience.
- “No glitches”
- “What is extremely frustrating is often when watching an ad to get more points, the game restarts so you watch an ad and get only the basic amounts because it glitches!”
- “Glitches to black screen after every ad, and there is an ad after every board.”
- “Secondly, you have to watch three ads to get a free life because the app glitches.”
grinding
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
Grinding in the game is widely described as tedious and repetitive, especially at higher levels, with frequent and repetitive ads disrupting gameplay. This combination leads to frustration and detracts from the overall fun, making the experience feel more like ad farming than enjoyable progression.
- “Grinding becomes tedious and frustrating as you hit the higher levels.”
- “The gameplay is fun at first but quickly becomes inundated with repetitive ads, making grinding tedious.”
- “The grinding feels repetitive and tedious, especially with too many advertisements between levels promoting the same games.”
humor
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
88% positive mentions, -1% neutral mentions, 13% negative mentions
The humor is widely praised as creative, entertaining, and genuinely funny, often enhancing the gameplay experience. While most find it amusing and enjoyable, a few users express frustration that some humorous elements, like color-based challenges, can be more annoying than funny. Overall, the humor adds significant charm and engagement to the game.
- “Funny and interesting, an invitation to work with your brain and logic.”
- “It's very creative and funny, hard thinking.”
- “Enormously funny and big entertaining.”
story
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions
The game's story aspect is widely viewed as lacking originality and depth, with no meaningful main storyline present. Players find the side missions and daily quests somewhat engaging but feel the content is repetitive and limited, especially given restrictions on gameplay features outside daily tasks.
- “The game itself is what you would imagine, and with all the extra little side missions it can get you hooked.”
- “The daily quest is the only area that allows different designs to do with the liquid, which bites because it should be allowed in the leveling up paths outside of the daily quests.”
- “The best part of the game is the daily missions.”
- “Nothing original, no storyline.”
- “There is no actual game story.”
- “And then they have the nerve to have a side quest to watch ads for more coins.”
replayability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions
The game's replayability is hindered by frequent, intrusive playable ads that interrupt the experience, making it feel less like the actual game and reducing the desire to continue playing.
- “You'll play more playable ads instead of the real game.”
emotional
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
Users express frustration with unintended in-game purchases, which disrupt the emotional experience by causing annoyance and diminishing immersion.
character development
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions
Character development received mixed feedback, with some users feeling that the character designs, particularly the depiction of cats, lacked authenticity and did not capture their distinctive features effectively.