PBS KIDS Games Negative Reviews

PBS KIDS Games App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

PBS KIDS Games app received 18 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using PBS KIDS Games? Can you share your negative thoughts about pbs kids games?

PBS KIDS Games for Negative User Reviews

✓ Please read thisThis game has 2 problems: 1: freezing 2: Donkey’s Froyo Stand I’ll start with freezing first. So, I got this game for my 3 year old brother. He was playing Arthur’s Top 20 when all of a sudden the app froze. Of course, it went back to normal after a few seconds, but I’d still like it to not freeze at all. It also froze when we were exiting a game, I had to close the tab and go back to the app. Please fix this freezing thing. Ok, and my second problem is Donkey’s Froyo Stand. My brother was playing it, and it was the same order every time! That’ll definitely get plain and boring. Overall, this app is good. It’s very educational and fun. My brother actually laughs when he loses a game. You know why? Because when you lose a game on this app, they don’t make it sad and boring, they make it funny and enjoyable. Of course, it can get a bit annoying when he loses purposefully 😂 but hey who cares? I love PBS, I love their TV, and their contests and their apps. I actually joined the PBS kids Nebraska writing competition. Anywho, please fix this freezing problem. And please make it so that every froyo order is different while playing Donkey’s Froyo stand. Thank you for taking the time to read this review! 😊.Bow bow siwa 200Version: 3.0.0

✓ Good but needs a few changesIt needs a few changes it’s been hard so I suppose you make it so it will have like the app downloads with games and apps and I suppose you make it download faster like taking 4 minutes or less and I suppose that you like make the games easier for little kids and a button where it says easy, hard and medium then all of the bad reports will turn into good reports I have one more change please make it so people will not have bad reports it makes me sad that the bad reports are kind of slowing down your business so if you make those changes people are going to love this app so much they would like to play it all the time so do those changes then no bad reports will send to you so do these few changes so everyone will love this app and wish that they never sent those bad reports so those will turn to good reports.Kennedy F.Version: 1.14.1

✓ This app is great, but…So this app allows you to play games. I love the Arthur games that I can play on this app, but there used to be an app titled Arthur’s Big App, and basically, you would play mini games to unlock characters from the show. If you won a mini game, you would earn a star. If you lost a mini game, you would lose a lucky pencil. Lucky pencils were basically your lives in the game, and players could keep playing the game until they lost all five of their lucky pencils. Once you earned five stars, you would unlock a new character. The only problem is that the game got removed from the App Store a few years ago, and I would really appreciate it if someone would bring it back to the App Store so that people who never did get a chance to play it, but still wanted to play it can finally play the game..LovechessandponysVersion: 4.3.5

✓ Great games but very buggy and freezes constantlyMy daughter loves the games. I just wish some of the games didn’t constantly freeze up or slow down. The Odd Squad Sector 21 game is her favorite, but it starts to get buggy pretty soon after playing it. It’s painstakingly slow to move the character through the terrains to find creatures, or the markers (like rocks or trees) you’re supposed to get to aren't even there (but you can still search in that spot and the animal can still be found - you just can’t see the animal either. It’s disappoint because the app has such great content. We’ve deleted and reinstalled the app several times. Our iPad and iPhones that have the app on them have plenty of space and we run the most current iOS..MarmottefaceVersion: 1.20.0

✓ Disappointed with continually having to re-download gamesIt seems that the frustrations I have with this app are the same ones that parents were reviewing about a year ago - losing downloaded games at random and having to re-download. I have set the space allowance high on purpose to supposedly not have this happen, and yet whenever I have updated the app we lose games, which is super frustrating for my five year old and me as well, especially as we live in a remote place and don’t have the best internet access all the time. On top of this issue, the interface is such that when scrolling through the games my child often accidentally clicks them which begins the downloading process, which can not be stopped! We currently have over thirty games attempting to load which have been going nowhere for weeks. If I was able to at least pause some of the open downloads we might have some success but I have not found any way of doing this. My daughter and I loved this app at the start but it has become so frustrating she barely chooses to play on it now. If these issues were fixed, this app would be very highly rate in my opinion, but with the current issues, it’s only mediocre. If I’m missing something that fixes these problems, please let me know..AdonutgirlVersion: 1.20.0

✓ TECHNICAL ISSUE- Kart racing erases your progressHUGE TECHNICAL ISSUE WITH RACING GAME. In the last several months, THREE TIMES my kid has had her progress in the racing game completely erased. All of the tough and hard races she had unlocked and the new racers, all gone. It took her so long to work for it and finally on the third time she ended up in tears that she had worked so hard over and over to get there, only to have it erased and her start at the beginning. And there doesn’t seem to be any way to report it. It seems to have happened with one of the recent updates. The other games are great for the most part and I highly recommend them. But this glitch needs to be fixed immediately..Vivienne KensingtonVersion: 4.3.5

✓ I hate this buggy app with the fire of a thousand sunsOn some of our iOS devices, this app has no sound, and on some, it crashes frequently. It works (usually) on my wife’s iPhone, and (sometimes, crashing often) on my iPad, and (sometimes, crashing a lot) on my old iPhone; but not at all on my brand-new, fully-updated iPhone. Reboots, toggles, settings, reinstalls — nothing fixes it if it doesn’t work: Take it from a programmer that this app is just *buggy*. The sound issues are widely reported online and have been for *years*; I wouldn’t expect them to be fixed soon. If I could rate this app zero stars for all the screaming fits it’s produced in my household from preschoolers who don’t understand why their games won’t work, I absolutely would. Don’t install this; you’ll be glad you didn’t..SeanofwVersion: 2.6.2

✓ Poorly designed game queueMy kids love the PBS apps but this one (Games) has one huge frustration. Maybe older kids can pace themselves on loading games but my littles don't understand that the one they chose last will have to wait for the 15 (or however many) others they clicked first to load. It either needs to not let them choose a new one until the last one gets done OR allows the user to pause or end a game from loading. That way when they see one they'd rather play, they aren't stuck waiting on games they no longer want. It'd also help if you knew which game was next to load. I've even closed the app and reopened hoping we could start the "load queue" over but it remembers and resumes with the long line of games. Once the games load it's a great app! My two just rarely wait around for it..OandOmamaSCVersion: 2.3.0

✓ I love this app butYour newest game for Arthur Cinderella I didn’t really like it all that much at first I liked being surprised at the choices but then it went to bad so I was thinking maybe add some more fairytales inside like Little red riding hood and the three little pigs and maybe you should add more characters from Arthur that would really make the actors easier so i’m just asking please add some stories to your brand new game it’s amazing but there aren’t enough stories in it so maybe just call it the fairytale Arthur game like once upon a restaurant and please add more stories that’s all I’m asking otherwise this app is fantastic.Penny897Version: 2.3.3

✓ FIX!!1: When I was little I played one of the odd squad games called Cases. But I went somewhere (I forgot most of what I thought of saying) and all the tubes were filled up I and something came up and freaked me out so badly that i turned off my tablet and never played cases, 2:a another game I played called The Monster At The End Of This Game had a glitch (this problem wasn’t as bad as the odd squad Cases one.) and the glitch was after you wait a while, you cannot tap any of the buttons(except the exit game one). 3: the kart kingdom racing game was fun but had many problems one problem is that a level called lively bones is so spooky and still scares me EVEN THOUGH IM 9!!!!!! Another problem for the kart kingdom racing is that the levels are so advanced or even HARDCORE! One level took me 60 DAYS TO COMPLETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So please fix.WeekshoppingVersion: 3.5.4

✓ Good idea, poor execution.For an app meant for small children, this needs a lot of work. Some of the games are super cute but my toddler can't understand what is downloaded and what isn't, and many aren't appropriate for his age so I don't want him downloading games that are too difficult and wasting data. There should be a setting where little guys can only click games that moms and dads downloaded for them. The other issue is, at first I couldn't even figure out how to get the games. If I accidentally click on one I can't turn off he download. It won't let me delete one app at a time either. Now I can click on them but it just sits there and won't load (months have gone by and no new games load)..Mom2BearVersion: 1.11.0

✓ Pretty good, but needs a little fixWhenever I get a bunch of games on it before I’m going to trips it always justs Makes the beeping noise and then later when I look at the games to see if I like them I always just make some like deleted and then after press the thing again, so I think that needs to be a change. But this app is super good and I think it’s super fun stuff. I just think that some of the things need to change. The things I said, and I think that this is a great app for kids and stuff and even grown-ups like it😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯I think that this app is a great way to use the Internet and please get back to me as soon as possible. Thanks bye. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍💔💞💕❣️❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥💓💗💖💘💝.Bibbidi bop'sVersion: 4.2.7

✓ OKWell for starters it’s not the best game but for young children it’s amazing I loaded this game for all my children and well and really all the young ones with crazy over it 😂😂 I don’t not recommend this game for older children probably past the age of 7 The games are the best either some of them are fun. But mostly all the games are boring😴👎🏻 I mean I do you consider loading it if you have young children past the age of seven but mostly it’s not the best game I love all of the games well most of them😒 some of them can be very annoying and drive me crazy😡 it also freezes a lot which is very annoying😤😤 I mean overtime your kids will most likely get bored of it my kids only lasted about two months before they all deleted the app soooooo Great game find for a little kids but Meh fine I guess 🙄🙄.Creepy wormsVersion: 2.3.0

✓ Okay but some problemsSo, I had this game on my IPad but it never really worked so I got it on my IPhone. It was great at first but then it started freezing up as I was playing and the screen would turn from pink to white to black and then it would go back to the page where you click start after clicking on a game. This one game called Cooking School from Ready Jet Go! Is constantly freezing and it will only let me make the first thing! After I make it, it always says “Here is someone biiiig book of recipes. Let’s make this first!” But thing it tells me to make is the thing I just made!!!.AdwlineVersion: 3.4.0

✓ MehI got this for myself when I was little (like maybe 4 years old) and 6 years later I still have it! It’s usually because I get bored and have nothing else to do, so it takes care of my boredom, but there are issues! I downloaded a game and when it looked like it downloaded, it actually wasn’t downloaded! I had to download it again! Another issue is when I played a game, like Agent Checkup, form Odd Squad, it would freeze! I am still a kid and really enjoy this app, but I think you need to fix this! Maybe I’ll even have this when I’m older! I enjoy the game and it’s very fun! My little brother likes it to! I’ll probably have this game for a long time! I also watch the pbs kids videos! I also learned a lot when I was young with this game! That’s pretty much it and thanks for reading! 👋👍🙂.JejjadhehdhjshdVersion: 1.20.1

✓ 14,000,000 kids are awaiting for a reboot.I am 11 years old and need to tell you guys a little something. Back when I was 3, I found the game that would forever change my life. The best games out of all games, Kart Kingdom! I was a goddess at the game, with my user being Mcqueen321 who inspired a kart! A few years later, on a school day I came home from school to go on the kart kingdom website when I saw the horror! It said "Kart Kingdom shut down October 1,2020. Thank you for five great years!". I was so sad to the point where I wouldn't go outside and stay up for weeks at a time and I was even failing all my classes due to the shutdown of kart kingdom! My parents tried continuously to cheer me up but it never worked. And another year later I was a really bad person until my teacher told me to check pbs kids games. I saw a new kart kingdom! I was really excited until I saw it was only racing and got sad again. I gave it a try and felt a true taste of nostalgia with 3 main characters, but I was sad it wasn't full version where you got to customize your own character, decorate your own clanky caverns, comment on the blog, and so much more! Please reply I've spent hours making this review and please bring it back for the sake of 14,000,000 other kids and me..FllghcgmgdhfeuVersion: 4.2.7

✓ Could be so much betterThis app is so close to being awesome, so I’m sad to give it such a low score. The app has a lot of really great individual games. But there are so many silly things holding back the app as a whole. 1. I can’t figure how to access adult settings. Other reviewers have mentioned some kind of menu for adults, but I can’t find it on iPhone or on iPad 2. I should be able to download every game if I want to. My iPad has plenty of unused storage space. Even if I can’t have or don’t need every game available from this app, I should at least be able to choose which one gets deleted to make more space. Right now the app automatically removes the one that was downloaded the longest time ago. There are some I want to keep available at all times! 3. The app should have the games sorted by age level. Some are for toddlers, some are for preschoolers, some for kindergarten, etc. I shouldn’t have to test every game so extensively to know if it’s appropriate.YourfucjingmotherVersion: 1.18.0

✓ Getting better but still frustrating.The last update seemed to have fixed the problem with the games deleting, but now the thumbnail picture for each game won’t show up unless we’re connected to WiFi. Which would be fine except for the fact that we don’t have WiFi in our home. Even if we did I wouldn’t hand my toddlers an iPad that was connected anyway. It makes them frustrated not to be able to see which games they want to choose. Usually after a minute or two they just close the app and play something else. Sad, this was their favorite app for so long..Tyler stoutVersion: 2.2.2

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