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HM Games Pty Ltd · Games

Review signals only — 3 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.

Review signals only — 3 user-reported signalsConfidence: Medium226 reviews scannedas of 2026-10-06

Reported by users

Recurring themes across scanned reviews — a signal, not a finding. User reports
Aggressive ad load11 reviews · 4.9% of scanned
Misleading advertising11 reviews · 4.9% of scanned
Pay to progress5 reviews · 2.2% of scanned

What reviewers said

Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.

Aggressive ad load

This game exposed my hidden anger — Very challenging puzzle game. It’s tested and expanded my puzzle solving skills. Some levels are chill but some can seem ridiculous, just slow down and believe you can solve it and watch the answers…

3★ · App Store · 2026-05-04

I play this nonstop — I love this game, I pass through the levels very quick as I got the hang of hard levels. But I just wish there was not as much ads. Maybe an ad every two or three games.

5★ · App Store · 2026-01-24

Fun but ads ads ads ads and more ads — Just another developer trying to get rich in ads. Too many ads , like more ads than game play. Too expensive to buy out of them. Fun and challenging game though.

1★ · App Store · 2026-01-16

Misleading advertising

False advertising — So, I downloaded this game based on an ad that I saw where it CLEARLY stated that the game had no timer. That’s a lie. The ad was accurate to the game in every other way, but I was expecting a calm experience with no…

1★ · App Store · 2026-09-02

Bait and switch — Ads say ‘NO TIMER’… There’s a timer… Time to delete…

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-17

advertisement lied — false advertising. the ad stated there was no time limit. that was a lie

2★ · App Store · 2026-07-16

Pay to progress

Too expensive — Love the game but many levels are so impossible that you have to spend money to win.

2★ · App Store · 2026-03-29

Forced to buy things if you want to beat a level — Not sure why people are leaving this game 4 or more stars when they write a complaint. Timer is awful and in order to beat levels, you need help. It’s rigged to where you’re forced to…

1★ · App Store · 2026-01-08

pay to win — There are levels (346) that require multiple powerups. The timer isn’t a problem because it extends with each try, but even without using powerups until that level, its impossible without paying.

1★ · App Store · 2025-12-20

What this app sells

Every purchase the store discloses. Store listing
 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

One-off packs4
Small bundlePack$4.99
Standard bundlePack$9.99
Welcome bundlePack$4.99
Life boost bundlePack$1.99
Show 6 more purchases we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

Gold 1Term not stated$1.99
End game offerTerm not stated$4.99
Gold 2Term not stated$7.99
End game offer 2Term not stated$7.99
Premium PassTerm not stated$9.99
End game offer 3Term not stated$14.99
This list is cut off. Apple shows at most 10 in-app purchases, and this app is at the limit — so it very likely sells more than we can see.

How a review signal works

Automated, review-derived, and always superseded by a human review.

A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.

A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.

It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.

 Not yet human-reviewed

A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.

Hands-on inspections are not yet open.