A Short Tale Negative Reviews

A Short Tale App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

A Short Tale app received 22 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using A Short Tale? Can you share your negative thoughts about a short tale?

A Short Tale for Negative User Reviews

✓ Probably best to binge-playMy app-playing time usually comes in small patches - 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there, maybe a half hour before bed. This is not the game for that sort of game play- if it's been a couple of days, you forget subtle hints and cues that might guide you. In addition, these are some really sadistic puzzles. It's not "the poster says 'wear a hat to get the answer' so you have to find a hat and put it on"... It's more like "after solving two puzzles, you find a scrap of paper that says 'opin the door'. It's not a typo. You have to find a key for the cover over a sign pinned to the wall. Once you open the cover, the sign says "Jason is great". Remove the pin under the letter "O", and stick it in the door... To get a piece of another puzzle" If chasing down that sort of maddening detail is your cuppa, then you'll love this game. It was a bit tedious for me..FrinkLemurVersion: 1.0.2

✓ Too hard without a hint featureSorry but I wasted my money on this. I’m not stupid and don’t expect everything in a puzzle game to be obvious or what would the point be? But there’s no logic behind most of the “clues” ...it’s so random you just wander around in a room with little atmosphere collecting things and photographing them with little understanding of what they might be useful for..Crowsb4dawnVersion: 1.0.2

✓ Could be betterMost of the puzzles were quite decent, the camera feature is helpful (as in Forever Lost, a better title), and I wanted to like this one a bit better than I ended up doing.... but the super laggy navigation and laggy/clunky interactions are off-putting. This lagginess makes it harder to solve puzzles (eg if I navigated out of the conversation too early with the vacuum, it wouldn’t move like it was supposed to, which was annoying to figure out). It makes talking with the toys frustrating because I would click to go to the next bit of dialogue (I read very fast) and then it would accidentally skip stuff, or it would just plain take too long and make the interaction confusing (eg 8 ball). The laggy movement made me double or triple tap sometimes and it would jump me to an unexpected part of the room. For the price, the game length (short as advertised) plus laggy game play are unacceptable. (I’m running iPhone 6s+ and iOS 12.) Some of the puzzles were a bit fussy as well, although not quite so badly it was a deal breaker, but I wouldn’t have been as quick to consult a walkthrough if the navigation / interactions were smoother..SilvarwyrmVersion: 1.0.2

✓ Obscure and disappointingI like puzzles but this one is just too obscure and non-intuitive. Some of it is just plain daft. Like the dental floss bit of the game. Forever Lost 1 and 2 were great and they lost it on 3 with similarly daft clues and sparking soap everywhere. I'm sorry to any this one is much the same. I found a walkthrough, finished the puzzle by cheating to see how daft it got and then deleted it from my iPad.CheekiferVersion: 1.0

✓ Game is in an unfinishable stateI finished all the puzzles and all the toys are willing to help but when I try to open the door, none of the do. The 8 ball still says it lost its train of thought but all the tracks are added for the train so there must be a bug somewhere. Probably because I was able to get one of the track pieces before I was supposed to or something. Now the game can’t be finished and I can’t see the ending..SurrealNYCVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Sadly disappointingSome puzzles were good, but many illogical. This was frustrating without the interest of the excellent Forever Lost series. Hope Glitch will be back on form with their next release..So ycleptVersion: 1.0.1

✓ The worst bugIt kept glitching out on the crossword puzzle. Whenever I would play it and even just lock my phone or switch apps, the game would glitch and get stuck on that screen without any buttons around it or any option to do anything. Even closing the app and re-opening it wouldn’t work. So eventually I had to just delete it and re-download which meant to completely restart my progress. Not worth it..Bellerella100Version: 1.0.3

✓ Some kind of bug or issue with sequencingDue to an error in the game, I managed to finish this game without doing a bunch of the puzzles or tasks. When I returned the second alien child to the alien, it suddenly played the end of game sequence even though I had not done many of the tasks (which I have since read about online) or found the third child. Very disappointing as despite reaching the end I have a feeling of lack of satisfaction and fulfilment. Plenty of puzzles I could see still to be solved (coded box on the stairs, soda stain, flower box with turners etc) that I didn’t get to figure out. It was a fun game until then but this error really spoiled it for me. I don’t want to try it again as I have no idea how the error came about and how to prevent it from occurring again..WgtnnzVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Illogical and ultimately frustrating.I read a lot of the reviews posted here and was looking forward to solving some logic puzzles. Unfortunately, you are presented with a series of illogical, obscure puzzles with totally unrelated, incomprehensible 'clues' that left me completely baffled most of the time. Having said that, some of the puzzles were fun and rewarding. I got to within a few puzzles of the end but I didn't bother completing the game because I had to watch the solution on a YouTube walk through, and by that time I'd had enough. Probably worth the money but ultimately frustrating and not rewarding - I have deleted it....GregorcraigVersion: 1.0.2

✓ Unable to finishThe puzzles were great, but even though I got both track pieces and finished everything else, the 8 ball wouldn't help me because it "lost its train of thought". I can't believe finishing the train before something else would make the game unwinnable, but I actually spent an hour watching a walkthrough and found out that I had solved all the puzzles and that the 8 ball was supposed to help me, now, but won't..CydferVersion: 1.0.2

✓ RidiculousDon't bother with this game.....I've played many many escape games that were very challenging and fun but these challenges were too far fetched!!! Also, poor connection between puzzles and storyline.....save your money and time!.EdcinedcinVersion: 1.0.2

✓ DisappointingNot great at all and certainly not worth paying for. Puzzles were too random and i found it quite boring. If it had been free i would have abandoned it..KazmassonVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Disappointed in “a glitch has occurred”In gameAfter I set my options, it won’t let me get back to my game. Tried everything. Wish it worked cause there are great graphics and music. Please fix the game!!.Used to love birdsVersion: 1.0.4

✓ So-soThis game is okay. I had difficulty with it because I’m used to more intuitive puzzles & escape rooms. The puzzles from this didn’t really connect for me. For example using the clip for the remote & the keyboard for the TV puzzle did mot connect for me at all. I hope others find it more enjoyable..JayaiTaVersion: 1.0.7

✓ 2 known glitches/can’t complete gameThis is the first of all the Glitch Games I’ve purchased and binged the past week that I’ve run into glitches that won’t allow me to continue and complete the game. I’m so frustrated because I’m close to the end. My game is missing the triangle piece next to the empty Balls of Light box and I am unable to sew the 2 button eyes onto the bear because the thread disappears from my suitcase. The missing triangle piece stops me from doing what I’ve been waiting to do this whole game: play the generic NES console in the game. I’ve loaded my game so hopefully someone can fix this for me. 😕.JustniinaVersion: 1.0.3

✓ Screens take too long to loadTakes too long to load each screen switching between various parts of the room. Would be great to have a universal room map where you could tap the part of the room you want to interact with instead of having to move through multiple screens to get where you want to go. Tends to freeze temporarily when a puzzle is solved (especially if a photo is on screen). Good puzzles as usual. Too short (but I guess that's in the title). Miss Forever Lost..Ceruleanblue31Version: 1.0.2

✓ Poorly designed puzzles but passed the time.Started well and had promise, but I struggled with puzzles. Normally I'm pretty good with these but they just weren't well thought through it designed, were overly obscure and basically not fun. Also the music is awful. No thought on melody 'mood' music with basic chords that hop in and out of key with a random 'where will it go next' orchestration. Sounds like a spa from hell! Overall kept me busy but I had to cheat twice. Eventually got bored of the same screens. Not worth the 3.99 I paid by any means. Same price as The Room series. Come on!!!!!.WouldyoushouldyouVersion: 1.0.2

✓ BuggyOther glitch games have been amazing. This one was... for lack of a better word, glitchy. The books on the shelf puzzle glitched, there was a clue for the six settings on the vent that never displayed, and at the end, the train clue never triggered. I had to rely on Appt Unwrapper to understand what was, in theory, supposed to happen. When a puzzle game like this glitches, it’s deflating because you can’t tell the difference between a bug and when you’re actually, truly stuck on a puzzle and just need to think outside the box. You can spend 40 minutes thinking creatively only to find out it’s actually a bug! Iteration needed but could be a great game if these issues are fixed..MlecbVersion: 1.0.5

✓ Too hard!I play a lot of games like this & love them but this one is just too hard! Takes the fun out of it when you're relying on a walk through. Hints or clues would be more helpful. One or two puzzles are just not at all logical. Shame as potential to be great..Pboro-redVersion: 1.0.2

✓ Nonsensical RidiculousnessGlitch games are indescribable, and not in a good way. From obscure and ludicrous “logic” to absolutely foolish and inarticulate tasks... there’s NO way this side of Hell that anyone can figure out many of these egregious puzzles without a walkthrough. Don’t misunderstand me; it’s not that the puzzles are intellectually challenging, it’s that they are so beyond ridiculous that you’d have to be in the mind of the developer to even get. Like most Glitch games, I’ve fallen into the darkest depths of creative void... terrible graphics, atrocious fonts... a snoring 8 ball? The environment and “score” has a very uncomfortable vibe, like... you just want to finish it to get it over with. But I shall not finish. Get me outta here....HosewivesVersion: 1.0.5

✓ Too many issuesI really wanted to love this game but the hint button does not appear anywhere (I made sure I enabled the hint option). Also the microphone won’t work so I can turn the tv on. It’s not responding when I speak into it..JthegiantpeachVersion: 1.0.5

✓ Nice idea but poor executionI liked this game for what it was but it could have been so much better. Generally speaking I think the children’s bedroom theme could have done with the dead brother element being a bit more sinister - or at least with more details included beyond guilt and forgiveness. Who? What? Where? Why? The navigation was clunky and orientation frustrating and I HATED how you could accidentally move with your inventory/ photos open but not interact. Puzzles were ok although most of the time I felt like I was walking around with a solution with no idea which puzzle to apply it to. Other times it was blatantly obvious..Lou191Version: 1.0.2

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