iAssociate 3 12+

The timers and lives are really pointless. All you have to do is switch your device’s time to a day forward, go back in and the lives are replenished and the level timer is done, then just switch it back to the correct time. The game has so many gamebreaking bugs, like being able to spam the check answer button on shadow words to get tons of free gems. I’m sure theres other things to cheese, but this is what I’ve found. Unlike iAssociate2, there are tons of levels to play if you get stuck on a level, where in 2 you couldnt unlock anything really without paying for it. 2 was a great game which I played all the time as a kid, but I just think this one is better, especially when the timers can just be easily skipped by changing the time on your device lol

iAssociate2 was one of the stand out games back when the iPhone was getting its footing. It was an extremely challenging game at times even! I needed to use the hints from time to time. To this day I can still download that app from my purchased screen in the App Store however I can’t get new levels nor can I restore my old purchased levels. That’s fine, it’s a very old app and I’m glad I can still mess around with it if I want to.

This new version, iAssociate 3 is the same concept but made SUPER easy so that anyone can get the answers with little effort. Instead of having the entire range of 26 letters, they’ve chosen here to give you a random pick of a handful of letters that you can choose from. Not all the letters will be used of course, but even then, it’s a terribly simplistic game now. I can rip through these levels so easily and they retire very little thinking, unlike the old version. It’s like playing you’re trying to play chess and they say just use the Checkers rules to play. It’s too easy.

I ask the developers to return this game to its former glory and stop dumbing it down.

I had to reset my phone and I’m so sad it means I’m unable to redownload iAssociate 2! That game was great! I have found memories playing it with friends when I first downloaded it. This version has been bastardized for people with the attention and intelligence of a goldfish. It has every new gimmick to keep the player getting a steady stream of dopamine and keep them playing, and purchasing. I sent hours playing iAssociate 2 and had it for years, on multiple phones, and that was without any of the flashy new gimmicks found here. I spent a minute of this game and it’s already been deleted. So disappointed in the direction this franchise has gone. I really hope they go back to their roots, or at least see the value of producing a version for people in their original fan base, people who play word games to have their brain challenged, not for quick hits of dopamine for “solving” puzzles a monkey could do.