Estiman: Game of Estimation

Beautiful game. Very soothing. There are only two rules to it and the rest explains itself. I can see myself playing this for a while to calm down and relax.

I bought this game mostly due to the positive reviews, after playing the game almost all these reviews seem fake or out-right lies. However, almost every review I've seen is from many years ago, so the likelihood is that the developer updated their game within the past few years. What irritated me the most about this game is that a lot of the positive reviews don't make sense (again, they were commented years ago) such as saying the game being easy. Once I reach the 20 - 25 combo, no matter what I do I cannot get any higher as the combo drops down faster the higher you go, and getting it up slows down the higher you are, such as getting it to 3 after the one round, but it remaining the same after two once you reach the 20s, I imagine once you're in the high 30s it will remain the same for half a dozen rounds, if not more. I am aware of the two power-ups, one that stops the timer for a short period of time and the other that destroys the highest shapes. However once you click off the game the time power-up immediately disappears, so you have to be careful or if you're cheesing the game, as I'll mention later, it's entirely pointless, a waste of credits. The other power-up as far as I'm aware at least has merit. As mentioned earlier, you can cheese this game by clicking off the game, which will pause it. After over an hour, I decided to try this method just to see how it'll affect the gameplay. With this method, I no longer lose, however getting above a combo of 25 is just a little bit impossible. I have to wait until all the shapes are on the screen, which takes half a second to a second, and by waiting this time any combo above 25 will be almost entirely be reduced by a whole point, and since it'll take at least two rounds to increase that number, I don't think it's possible without literally randomly guessing while they're popping up. This does not feel like a quick-thinking game, taking time, even for a second will prevent you from getting the 40 combo achievement, so instead this is basically a click first and pray. It's a RNG game, there's nothing fun or entertaining about that. This game is £3.39 at full price. After what I experienced I would've been less sad if I had just set fire to the money I used to pay for this game, at least then it would've provided me with warm and not Frustration. I want to like this game, being able to customize the shapes and background, relaxing music and a sense of peace, but very quickly that feeling went away. I did reach the 25 combo, but did not get the achievement, someone mentioned in the Community Hub that they also had issues with the achievements, so it's possible, however unlikely, that they may be bugged.