The core game is great! But god help you if you want to play multiplayer. Finding your buddies is a random crapshoot with no way to search for people. And connecting for concurrent play is guaranteed to crash the game. Clean up the bugs and you'd get a 5 star rating!

I play this game A LOT, which is why I gave it the 3-star rating. I would have given more stars except the app almost always crashes when I have a really high-scoring round in Linker. If the score goes over 1 million and there are still a bunch of words left to find, you can pretty much guarantee the app will crash. I play for points, so this is particularly vexing. If the developer ever fixes this issue, it'd be a 5-star game. I'm not holding my breath though, 'cause his reddit thread for this game indicated he knew of this issue over 4 months ago and still hasn't fixed it. 😐 One other issue--There should also be a way to decide which board you want to play in Linker. I end up resetting the game over and over again until I can get a 5-by-5 board with no holes or ridiculous shapes. This isn't a game killer, but it would really be nice.

This has potential but doesn't quite make it. It's slow to open and eats up battery. There is no way to "learn" built in. I always turn it off after one game because of the ads and machinations.

I really like this game but the BIG problem - game doesn't keep my progress when I increase Mastery Level. I had maxed out at five stars in every game yesterday. This morning, only one showed 5 stars the rest had fallen back to 3 overnight. It keeps the score increase, though. It doesn't give me a new mastery rank for every round played so I'm REALLY frustrated when ranks just get taken away after I worked quite a while playing every combination to make it happen. Second - I wish the game unscrambled words I choose to pass on. How will I know for next time? I don't want to be that person who plays with an anagrammer program running. That's not playing; that's cheating. Otherwise it's quite fun, you randomize so you don't make me wait an hour after I play five times. (Please never do that.) Lots of ads (even for a free game) and I'd like to see more hint tickets in the spinner. None since day 1. Some of those 10 letter words are rough and I prefer to use hints rather than quit a round. (See previous opinion on cheating.)

Wordlings was exactly what I was looking for, particularly the Linker game, where I can just find words and rack up points. But 2 big issues keep me from really loving it. First, the battery usage is through the roof. This will absolutely kill my charge, for no obvious reason. Really needs to be looked at and reined in. A word game shouldn't take out 10% of your battery in a matter of a few minutes. Second, the game loses track of you very easily. Sometimes it takes me a while to find 150 words in a puzzle. (Crazy, no?) I'll find a bunch, take a break, and when I come back the app has reset and I lost my game. Very annoying. This isn't an hour later, sometimes it's 5-10 minutes. We need a save progress so I can keep playing even if I need to put my phone down for a bit. Constructive criticism, I hope. Really one of my favorite iOS games, and I have no intention of deleting it. Those 2 flaws are the only major ones for me. Fix those and we are golden.

Amazing game, however it misses a huge opportunity by not telling the answers after you lose a level. If I didn't know the word to win the round, I'll never learn it. Without that, it's all memory and no learning. Add the answers of missed words at the end (bonus points for a definition, too) and I'd easily change my rating to a 5