Bus Escape: Traffic Jam

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From 141,629 ratings.

1. ★★★☆☆ Fun, addicting, scammy, Pay to win Mstee17 · 18 Sep 2026
   Lowered my score and I’m editing again. Level 374. I used the last of my PAID booster already on this level. It isn’t the first I’ve run across that is literally impossible to get past without boosters. Am I your only customer? I ask because I’ve just spent $15 on this game! How many of us end up deleting these games because it’s nothing but a money grab? I’m redoing my review because first, the game is well put together, good sounds and graphics, fun and addicting. Second, twice now I’ve paid money only to have boosters that I paid for vanish as soon as I put it down. Boosters vanish

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   if you click and don’t use too. Busses are iced over and an impossible to de-ice is created so you’re forced to use boosters to get free. I understand that developers want to make money. But scamming to create issues where they don’t exist don’t work. You lose loyal players who have multiple other options. Besides, you all also have ads to make money. Be real.
   Developer reply · 22 Sep 2026

   Thank you for taking the time to share such detailed feedback. We’re sorry to hear about your frustration with level 374 and the boosters. You can also find walkthrough videos on YouTube that may help you get through the level without using boosters. We hope you’ll give it another try!
2. ★☆☆☆☆ Ads malfunction & lose game Dysbrat · 17 Feb 2026
   Current issue: no longer receive option to watch ads to continue play. Have to use coins. What changed? Is it the app or something changed on my end? Past issues: Several times recently ads have ruined a game. The ads stop and don’t continue. Have to restart. Have lost many of the special plays I’ve used to continue the game because ads glitch and/or freeze. Used several coins and several special features in a game recently and lost them and the game because it froze at the end of an ad. Just a black screen and an x to close the game. Continually tried, waited, tried again. Nothing. Again had

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   to reopen the app. Had to restart the round. Only had three busses left to win and would’ve if the ad didn’t kill the app again. Update: About 1/15 ads viewed to receive bonus items to continue play when stuck freezes up or goes completely dark. Have to shut game off and restart. Or have to restart the device cause the game gets slow and funky after using a bonus feature. It Causes loss of winning streak, the game and anything I used to help win the game. Doesn’t return item used and lost with the game freeze because of the ads.
   Developer reply · 20 Oct 2025

   We appreciate your feedback and will look into the issue you mentioned. Our team is always working to improve the game, and we’ll do our best to make it a better experience. Stay tuned for updates, and thanks for playing!
3. ★☆☆☆☆ Too many ridiculously long ads/Wont allow you to earn boosts DolphinKate · 23 Aug 2025
   This app used to be OK. You can’t get past most levels without at least one ‘boost’. in order to get a boost, you have to watch a ridiculously long ad once you’ve done that it takes multiple steps to close out of the ad, including additional timers before another X will pop up, take you to another portion of the ad with another timer that you have to close out of. Put that on repeat 5+ times. It’s exhausting! Sometimes you play 20 seconds of game and have to work your way through five minutes of ads. Definitely not worth it. In the past few weeks, the ‘watch ad’ buttons are not working. Occas

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   ionally, it will say ‘ads not available.’ This was happening for days at a time until they would work again for a day or so. Now it seems to be permanent? It’s been most of the week with no way to complete a level nor watch an ad to earn a boost. If we’re forced to watch ads, keep them minimal and decent. If we’re forced to earn boosts, let us access the ads in order to watch them. Ugh!
   Developer reply · 26 Aug 2025

   We apologize that the game did not meet your expectations. Your feedback is important to us, and we will consider it as we work to improve the game. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
4. ★★☆☆☆ Not skill based, have to watch the ads or it is an unplayable game. kyruuuuuu · 5 Aug 2025
   Bus Escape: Traffic Jam is a perfect example of a good concept ruined by a greedy developer. The core idea of solving traffic puzzles is fun, but the execution is a blatant cash grab that punishes players for not watching a constant stream of ads. The game is unplayable without watching ads. It's not a matter of skill; it's a matter of endurance. The levels are clearly designed to be impossible to complete on your own, forcing you to watch a 90-second ad just to get the "items" needed to progress. This isn't a challenge; it's a shakedown. The developers didn't design these levels for players t

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   o clear them; they designed them to corner you into watching advertisements. If you don't want to watch the endless, intrusive ads, your only other option is to spend real money. This creates a miserable choice: waste your time or waste your money. A good puzzle game rewards your cleverness, but this one simply rewards your patience for sitting through forced commercials. Don't be fooled by the decent graphics or the promising premise. "Bus Escape: Traffic Jam" is not a game—it's an ad delivery system disguised as one. Avoid this unless you enjoy being held hostage by a developer who cares more about their ad revenue than the player's experience.
   Developer reply · 8 Aug 2025

   We’re really sorry to hear that the game didn’t meet your expectations. We strive to create the best experience for all players, and your feedback is important to us. We’ll take your comments into consideration as we continue to improve the game. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us
5. ★★☆☆☆ Money Grab C2123 · 20 Jul 2025
   I used to really enjoy Bus Escape: Traffic Jam. It was fun, relaxing, and I didn’t mind watching ads to access extra content or bonuses. I actually appreciated the flexibility — you could watch ads if you wanted to unlock more, or save up your tickets for when you really needed them. But now the game has completely changed. You’re forced to use your tickets, even if you’d rather just watch an ad. You don’t get the option anymore. I can go into a game with over 1,200 tickets and come out with only 400 or 500 — just from having to spend tickets nonstop to keep playing or accessing features. It’

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   s frustrating, especially because I’ve been saving those tickets for when I want to use them, not because I have no other choice. It feels like the developers took away the freedom players used to have and replaced it with pressure to spend (or worse, pay). I’m honestly really disappointed, and unless this changes back, I’ll probably be deleting the app. It’s just not fun anymore when you feel forced into spending.
   Developer reply · 8 Aug 2025

   We apologize that the game did not meet your expectations. We are committed to making improvements based on your feedback. Please stay tuned with us!
6. ★★★★☆ Great company Chem major · 23 Jun 2025
   I love that you don’t need to wait a certain time or pay coins to play each level. You also don’t have to watch ads at all to play or you have the option to pay to remove ads. Incredible and I would happily pay for this game even if its a paid game. You have the option to watch ads for second chances and such but all the levels so far are winnable without. I took off one star because at some point in the 200s all the “hard” levels are basically just guessing game and its luck not skill. I am happy with the 200+ levels I got to enjoy and will uninstall now, as there’s really very little skill e

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   lement and planning when every bus is a ?. I find the planning part to be the most fun and do not enjoy the later levels at all. I do appreciate this dev team a lot for how they decided to monetize this game. Very reasonable. The game itself is also fun and addicting when the whole map isn’t ?.
   Developer reply · 13 Aug 2025

   Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We’re thrilled to hear that you’re enjoying the game. Your support means a lot to us!
7. ★★☆☆☆ Rebooting the app is faster then watching the adds. Show Pro · 9 May 2025
   This game is my kind of game in regard to logic and puzzling to the best outcome. However, i have deleted it for two main reasons. The first is the adds are intrusive and extensive. I shouldn’t have to completely mute my phone to avoid noise from the banner adds. I do understand that annoyance may promote some to spend the $10 to go add free and i do understand the need for adds to be able to provide the app to those wanting to just enjoy a game for a bit. However, the annoyance level did not make me jump for joy to spend $10 nor did it leave a good impression on me for the game as a whole. Wh

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   en waiting for the game to cycle after failure, adds came up that were in no way in alignment with the style of game and as it were- more annoying. Then if i chose to wait for the cycle to conclude, i could probably clean a room of my house. It was more efficient to reboot the app then to wait for all the adds to cycle through. The second issue I have with this is the level of chance is way to high to the point of not being able to compleat a level on tactics and foresight alone. Having to use the cheat several times in order to finish a level is not good gaming theory. It’s the balance of challenge verse achievable, and it would be easy to chalk it up to user error, but when ya have three cars left and you have to hope the one in the garage is the color you need, and its not- thats not achievable. Make it better and maybe it would be worth purchasing but as of now it is not.
   Developer reply · 4 Sep 2025

   Thank you for your review! We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts with us. Your feedback is important, and we’ll make sure to note it down and pass it along to our dev team for their review and improvement in future updates.
8. ★★☆☆☆ WAY TOO MANY ADS!!!!! Much LOVE from Texas · 27 Apr 2025
   This game is fun. But, you can hardly enjoy without becoming extremely frustrated because there are too many ads and what’s worse is the ads are loud and annoying, without an option to mute the sound. Also, if you have your screen split to watch a move while playing the game, the minute the ad starts it immediate pauses your movie and you have no choice but to wait in frustration while really long ads play. The game is addictive. But, I find I quit in frustration because all of the ads. I typically play games to relieve stress and tension or out of boredom. But, all of the ads defeat the purpo

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   se of me playing the game in the first place. So, I automatically know when I play this game, I have to brace myself for the upcoming frustration. There is an option in the game to pay for no ads. But, paying for that is ridiculous. There are so many high quality games with much less ads and less annoying ads that it seems unfair for this app to ask for me to pay. I don’t mind short ads here and there. But, long and annoying ads every few moves I make in the game makes me frustrated with this game and the apps being advertised in the ads. It’s absolutely ridiculous!
   Developer reply · 9 Sep 2025

   We apologize that the game did not meet your expectations. We are committed to making improvements based on your feedback. Please stay tuned with us!
9. ★★★☆☆ Needs colorblind mode and undo button I a n a . · 5 Feb 2025
   From someone at level 500: One of the better ones out of all of these types of bus jam games, however some levels cannot be won without watching ads or using one of the extras. I like to challenge myself and try to win without using the extras or the 200 ticket or ad parking spot, but some levels are set up in the way that you HAVE to use these extras in order to win it. That’s kind of annoying since it’s supposed to be a puzzle game. Why make the puzzle unsolvable without watching an ad, spending a ticket, or using an extra? For this I’ve lowered my rating since my last review. Also- a few

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   changes I’d like to suggest to the developers. Primarily, the red and the pink colours are too similar, same with green and teal, it’s too hard to tell the difference between them when you’re playing at night and don’t want the screen up full brightness, or have on the night shift mode. It would be nice to have them obviously different values (ex. dark red, light pink) or add a colorblind mode such as stripes etc. which would be easier to tell apart. Secondly, it really really REALLY needs an undo button! Something like pay 10 coins for first undo, 20 coins for second undo, and so on. I like to try to challenge myself to win without using the extra abilities but having to reset the whole level to try again for a minor mistake or a misclick is very frustrating. If you add these two features this game will be great.
   Developer reply · 15 Oct 2025

   Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We’ll do our best to improve the game experience. Please stay with us and look forward to the upcoming improvements!
10. ★★★★☆ OMG the ads! Smfplayer1 · 2 Jan 2025
    I discovered this type of game platform recently and got hooked, but every app I tried was ridiculously hard, downright impossible, after 2-3 levels. This is the first one I tried where that wasn’t the case. It’s a good balance of moderate to difficult in rotating levels. However, OMG the ads are ridiculous. Yes, you can buy your way out of forced ads, but the price is too steep. I refuse to pay more than $5.00 to remove ads unless the app is of extremely high quality. This game is good but not that good, and all of them are a knock off of the other. However, everything else in this game is ad

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    -fueled. Some levels literally have no solution without using a “power up” and once you run out, you have to pay coins or deal with ads. There’s no getting around it. What’s worse is some of the ads are disrespectful, ignoring your silent-mode on your phone and playing audio anyway, ridiculously long (90+ seconds), and an “X” to close out that is so hard to hit precisely that you end up in a loop of App Store, game, App Store, game. The other issue is some of the colors begin to look too much alike in higher levels, especially the blues. Overall I like the app but the ads are just too much.
    Developer reply · 21 Oct 2025

    We're glad to hear you like the gameplay. We will try our best to improve the gaming experience for players. Hope you have a great day!

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