Stone Grass: Lawn Mower Game 12+

Really great concept. Fun game loop while you’re in the level. Really satisfying to watch the grass get cut. However everything else about this game is lacking. There are only 30 short levels and they are all roughly the same. This is a problem as a max 3-star rating can yield you 5 diamonds which is the only way to level your vehicle. The game on completion gives you the ability to upgrade once and 40 diamonds left over with the next vehicle set at 1200 diamonds. So your only way forward is micro transactions. There are power ups throughout the level so I had to use those to progress which each come with a 30 second ad. Before each level (30 times this happens) you’re hit with the same micro transaction advertisement. Which I finally did pay the $9.99 on top of the $3 to turn off ads.

All in all, this is a half baked game with frequent enough crashes and poor user interface design. There is a severe lack of content the whole game can be played in about 2 hours once you are not gated by your gear progression.

I would probably skip this unless there is new content and updates coming but… I’m not holding my breath.

I realize that for us to play free game apps that developers have to run ads but it’s bad enough on game apps where you have to watch a 30 second ad after completing each stage which is when I delete the game app BUT my gosh guys, you interrupt the middle of my game not just once but multiple times during just one level or stage which most gamers would agree just messes up your whole game and throws you off track usually especially on the harder levels. ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS you have this many ads and have your game interrupted multiple times in the middle of a level. The sad part is that this could be such a fun game and I enjoy playing it and would probably give it 5 stars even if I had to watch an ad after every level like most game apps but you all have over done it with the ads but I’m still gonna give it 2 stars instead of just 1 star like I do on the very few times I find a game app that interrupts your game in the middle to run an ad and this is the most ads I’ve ever encountered in a game app. And maybe you do that intentionally so it’s harder for us to pass levels but I was only on level 1 and I’ll bet most players are like me who instantly delete an app that has too many ads which is why I bet you only have about 5%-10% of the players playing this game regularly of what potentially you could have if you just ran ads between each level like most games and I seldom if ever take time to write a review but I had to in this

This game is actually a lot of fun and can help ease time when bored. There are two problems that come with this game.
1. Way, way, way too many ads. Not short ads, but long ads. They have this trick in the first level where they ease you into the game and make it seems like an easy play, but level 2, it’s an ad every 30 seconds. Usually you can turn cellular data off for the game and avoid ads, just not get any power ups or multipliers. Unfortunately in this game, if you do this, the game will not work. A pop up comes us and prevents you from playing until you turn cell data back on or connect to a wifi network. This is cheap and a ridiculous ploy to get you to either pay them money to remove ads, or force you to play with them so they can get money for each ad. It’s frustrating and a nuisance.
2. Each level will introduce a new feature to the game that makes the game more enjoyable, but what they don’t tell you is that’s the only time it will be free. As soon as you progress to the next level, that new feature, it can only unlocked by watching yet another ad, or using gems.
It’s a fun game, but a lot of frustrating nuisances that prevents it from being a complete game.