I don’t usually take the time to write these, I’ll rate a game and if it’s bad I move on or if it’s good I quickly rate and get back to it. This game is so relaxing and keeps me busy. It’s well made and very satisfying. It can be easy and sometimes it can be a little challenging but that’s usually due to me over thinking a solution lol. So I’ll sit there for 3 or 4 minutes stumped. I play it on breaks at work, at the bus stop with my kid or even sometimes randomly at home. It helps pass the time. I rarely play with the volume on but the one time I did the other day the music made me a bit sleepy, which could be good for some people. There are leaderboards and point multipliers, an example is finishing one of the puzzles without using hints. There’s daily puzzles and I believe weekly ones. They’re called “hoops” not puzzles, but I still say puzzles. You can start small with the easy ones or jump in to the XL puzzles that are more challenging and take a lot more time to finish, and if you have to you can exit the game and jump right back in to wherever you left off even if you completely close the game. It loads relatively fast too. I can’t think of anything bad about this game other than perhaps other people would find the game too easy or maybe even repetitive as far as some solutions go. Overall it’s a great game to play to pass the time because it’s not demanding of your attention and you’re not timed. Give it a shot! You may be surprised, I don’t usually play games like this. I’m more of an RPG and Action gamer but I usually save those for the consoles I own. Happy gaming!

I find this puzzle game very relaxing -- the vibrant colors, the (simulated) textures, the varying cell shapes, the focus on one small section at a time, and the lack of timer all help! The puzzles are repetitive (every puzzle has the same basic concept) but with enough variation each time to not be boring. It has pretty good replayability, which is nice since I'm almost all of the way through the available puzzle hoops. One thing I would love to see added would be free stitching with different textures of yarn. (There seems to be a bug in free stitching, by the way, where rapidly switching between color sections causes the colors to stop loading. Exiting and re-entering the free stitch for that hoop fixes it.) Question: did you mean to unlock all of the *future* weekly puzzles for the year once I finished the regular levels? I don't remember what the message said exactly when they unlocked, but I thought it was unlocking past ones only (I know there aren't very many of those yet!). It was a little disappointing this week when the new weekly puzzle was supposed to appear and I realized that I'd already had it.

PERFECT. I don't get frustrated with this game because it's almost impossible to lose (yay no annoying "game over you lost you died" end screen), its both calming and exciting (i can never wait to see the end product), and it's fun for literally everyone. I'm also glad yall made the quick and easy section for when you're on the go and need something to get your brain going, lol. Also, the graphics and the attention to detail???? I sometimes find myself just looking at the background behind the hoop and the different stitch patterns to go with different colors and being like "woah" lol. The only thing is that I end up moving too fast, not focusing on the number of spaces I've filled, and accidentally filling too many or not enough (but that might be my fault lol). And another thing... WE NEED A SEARCH BAR PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU. Keep up the AMAZING workkk-rjEDIT: ok! u ask i deliver lol:what if it's organized by category/hoop title? Like if u want to look up a category instead of scrolling for ages u just search it up, and same for individual hoops, like instead of scrolling through category after category (when some hoops are in multiple) you just use the search bar?(Oh and I thought of something- can u plz make it so after free stitch we can play the levels with the new colors?)Kbai ❤️❤️❤️-rj

Absolutely adorable. I’ve been hyper-fixating on cross stitch irl and just found it so fitting that this game came out right now. The only reasons I didn’t give 5 stars is that 1) it’s a smidge buggy—3 times in 10 minutes, once I completed a section of the stitching, the whole screen froze while it was loading my percent completed. It’s a new game, so I’m not really too concerned with that and I’m happy to share that info with the devs (hi guys) so they can adjust accordingly! 2) The UX doesn’t quite make it feel as high quality or accessible as other Apple Arcade games. I can’t quite put my finger on it. I kept expecting an ad to pop up, but maybe that’s just because I’ve been conditioned by every game voodoo has ever made lol.Nevertheless, excited to see the direction this game goes in! Would love to see a “free play” mode where you can pick any of the patterns and stitch them. Not just a standard coloring game, but like, one where you have to go through the motion of actually stitching. Like a cross stitch sim 😂