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So my issue is I have Google Play pass and it's supposed to be no in-game purchases and things like that so the problem I'm running into is you can't really get gems normally they have a buying option and it is free through the pass but not here and my other issue is you can't use half of the items.. I guess I wish there was just a better and easier way to get gems it's very easy to get coins especially with the play pass but the best items require gems
noname271769, the 31/03/2025
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This used to be a really fun stress relieving game, but not anymore. You cannot play it offline anymore, or it will bombard you with pop-ups telling you to reconnect. It also bombards you with ads, which is the really big turn off for me. They ruined a really good game with non-optional ads, and I have spent more time watching ads than playing the game. I really hate saying these things about a game that used to be my favorite, but it's been ruined.
noname659285, the 31/03/2025
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I love this game so much, Literal childhood right here. A little sad it got modernized Yes, but however I do have one issue. Buddy and/or the controls will just randomly break where the KO bar disappears after a kill – leaving this awkward scilence, and I would nitpick on the ads but it's very clear that they're not there by choice Aside from the random crashes in the game, This game is still playable (Not like how it used to be back in 2017-2018) still. Overall still a great game ????
noname809816, the 31/03/2025
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I love the game, but I think you should get the option to use your skip it's or not, cause one accidental tap and there goes your hard earned skip it's! Also the game has been freezing up recently it's only happened when using the slots and I have to restart the game, but just now it's glitched after kicking my buddy so to speak, and he never respawned, just hoping its resolved soon. I'm still going to try to play unless it gets worse ????????
noname674247, the 31/03/2025
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The number of ads and the prices for things that are purely cosmetic is disgusting. I literally opened the game, and within 3 seconds, I got an ad. I do not recommend this game. It used to be good , but it's just a cash grab now, with ads ever 5 seconds and prices for stuff that would make a theme park blush.
noname610646, the 31/03/2025
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Enjoyable game, keep experiencing freeze frames and its asking me to buy a pass on it even though I have already purchased it, it tells me to click on it but I can't because it says I own it. It needs more bug fixes it's unplayable for me right now.
noname506659, the 31/03/2025
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This game used to be really fun but now it's soulless, it has a gift box every time buddy dies, multiple popups and bright things on screen and a lot of the great weapons in earlier versions are "coming soon" but never do come.
noname541725, the 31/03/2025
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Whenever I play this game with a ad blocker for no ads and use wifi When i knockout the buddy once the buddy doesn't reset with another KO bar and its just annoying bug and i have to restart the game again to fix it and when the bug/glitch happens!the other buttons stop working or the game freezes but we can use the buddy's notepad and use other weapons. Other than that the game is very well..
noname37024, the 31/03/2025
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I'm mad because there's like a lot of items that is under construction please add those back to the game also just way too much ads popping up so please fix all that also please fix the add thing where it always pops up so much quickly so if you're the the so if you make this game please fix it and I will enjoy if you're to make it please fix everything that I'm saying because people hate it when there's too much ads or those things so please make everything coming soon or under constructioncome
noname728243, the 31/03/2025
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Use to be my favorite game, now has too many ads. There is a option to pay but its 4 DOLLARS! When you say no to the reward ad, There is still an ad. Understand ads after the game, but during is just so lame. Other than that it's a okay game
noname376656, the 31/03/2025
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Fun game WAY WAY to many ads. Ads after ever round, forced after watched ads, ads to get things, to skip things, to get rewards after waiting to get 100% to unlock them. Good game, just unplayable with all that
noname885450, the 31/03/2025
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Fake online. Also play pass of this game is scammy. It removes almost all of the buying parts in the game, and not in a good way. It just removes it, and it doesn't allow you to buy it. The buying options disappear fully, except like one or two things. Fix it dumbass playgendary.
noname415440, the 31/03/2025
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Used to be really fun. All these updates have ruined it completely. Had to reinstall and now it won't restore my purchases when I tell it to. They just want more money from you now. (Update) Decided to give it another chance 2 years later. They have added so much trash, and you can't push a a button without getting an ad. The screen is now filled with event, season, ad, and store icons. This game has gone from a fun stress reliever to a cluttered money grab.
noname538802, the 31/03/2025
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It's just ads. Ad after ad and it locks all of the items and says "under construction" then why put them there to begin with. A few years ago this game was good but now it's another mobile to to throw in the dump
noname420661, the 31/03/2025
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Man this game went downhill compared to when it first came out. Can't do a single thing without being hit with an ad. Look at the leaderboard for a recent event and click out of the window... Ad. Click on the menu to look at the different weapons and decide to close it after not purchasing anything... Ad. Unlike other games where they give you the option to purchase no ads, this game feels like it punishes you for not purchasing the no ads mtx. You get an ad every time you take out the buddy...
noname59721, the 31/03/2025
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The reason why i put 2 stars is because when youre not getting a ad it's really fun. But when you click a single button to get a new weapon theres...... get what..... a ad:( This used to be my favorite game growing up, but now all it is, is a game with to many ads to be playable. Instead of calling it a stress reliever game... it should be called a game of ads.
noname231027, the 31/03/2025
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Rating Title: "Major Issue Still Unresolved – Urgent Fix Needed. Message: I’ve been playing Kick The Buddy for quite a while, but I’ve noticed a major issue that has been ongoing for years. Many players, including myself, are facing the ‘Under Construction’ problem with items that were previously unlocked. This issue started a long time ago, and despite updates, it hasn’t been fixed
noname984416, the 31/03/2025
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There's this weird bug. I don't know if y'all have noticed, but there's a game in your ads. It's really distracting me from the constant popups and 'buy-me!' prompts. I get that you can pay to remove ads, but the sheer volume of guff you throw the way of the player makes me want to throw my phone, rather than my buddy, through the window. Color me disappointed if I'm wrong, but maybe you'd get a few more sales if it wasn't so difficult to click through the ads y'all have stuffed into every menu.
noname813055, the 31/03/2025
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Love this games until recently as now can't load game up keep pop term box i click accept and laoding screen stuck half way but in background I here buddy talking and if shake my phone sound like he taking damage but I'm still on loading screen. Please fix it Update i have delete game and reinstall to fix it but now lost all progress ????
noname181368, the 31/03/2025
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Not even 30 seconds through the app there was already an ad which I'm not here to watch. all because they wanna use micro transaction strategies to have you spend your good earn money to be wasted.
noname85860, the 31/03/2025
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sound settings automatically turn themselves back on without even changing the switch, withing minutes I will have to click it on get another sound to run and click it off again while the sound is running to stop it. which only works for seconds till it starts again. and if you don't purchase the ad block or play offline or with other ad blockers good luck as it's more ads than gameplay. I'm willing to change the review if and when these get improved. at least the sound but I mean cmon
noname638366, the 03/10/2025
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It was a decent game, but the bugs made it unable to open on my device. So I had to uninstall it and reinstall it, which made my account start over from scratch. I had already purchased everything there was to purchase as well as acquired a lot of event items that I now have to try to get again. I tried waiting for a new update, but that didn't fix the issue of it not loading entirely upon opening. I had no other options at that point other than wiping my progress if I wanted to play again.
noname400815, the 03/10/2025
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its fun to play with. but it has a LOT of pop ups (on the ad free version), and i have yet to close this app. every single time i left the app its because it crashed. i wish we could disable pop ups like after KO boxes and being forced to equip weapons we earn. its quite annoying. i'd rather just mess around at my own pace
noname905528, the 03/10/2025
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you ruined this game. i can't even use a different version, because it forces me to update it! all games are just becoming big cashgrabs. and because you stuff your games full of ads, less and less people play, destroying the reason for the ads entirely! my opinion? go back to an older version. maybe lable it as 'Kick the Buddy: Classic' or something.
noname829274, the 03/10/2025
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I used to like this game, but I think it's been ruined. There's too much stuff on the screen, way too many ads (like one for every 30 seconds of gameplay), and even without internet, it asks you to turn it back on QUITE LITERALLY every FIVE SECONDS! Super frickin annoying! also, every time I accidentally click on an ad, the whole damn game restarts. This does not deserve 4 stars. 2 at best.
noname411271, the 03/10/2025
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okay, so I decided to download this game again for fun, but the problem is (I have to agree with that one review) there's too many ads, but not only that, but while in the middle of the game it freezes and crashes often becoming unplayable and annoying, so I hope if you're reading this I hope you can fix it, oh and also, can you please make the app play with wifi off that would be very pleasant! ? anyways, thx you!
noname971772, the 03/10/2025
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I don't usually rate apps, but I hope my review can help someone in future. This game has to be the worst ad-bait apps of all time?, I spent less than 10 minutes on the game and I've already seen more ads than I can count. Every time you finish a game you get an ad. You know if you actually prioritized the player's experience rather than ad revenue, people might actually be interested in buying other features rather than making the experience so horrible.
noname500318, the 03/10/2025
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Oh my God, it's so fun to play and whoever has not downloaded this is missing out. It's so fun to just blow the buddy up and set him on fire, and just throw him around. So fun. it also has no ads, but be careful. it can scam you when you don't have Internet. so when you buy something with your coins, it sometimes will not give you the item and it won't give you your coins back. I still love this game way more than the og kick the buddy.
noname403365, the 03/10/2025
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used to be fun but now it's greedy and shows me an ad every time I click on a button and when I pick a weapon it shows me ANOTHER ad and the whole thing is just ads ads and ads and it's super annoying and greedy now. I can't even play for a few seconds because there's always a ad or pop up to watch a ad for an item every time you kill the buddy and most of the items that used to be free are for money now or say "soon" even though they were their before. The new vip and level things is stupid.
noname549066, the 03/10/2025
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the amount of ads is so just bad. D:u003c but overall it's enjoyable at most. the amount of ads it's like every like two seconds there's a pop-up for and somehow even when I don't have internet still ads pop up till the end of time like this is just the most greedy game I've ever seen and it used to be great what happened to this???
noname726443, the 03/10/2025
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seriously what happened to this game,I remember playing this four or five years ago and all the categories of the items were full of different weapons to destroy buddy with,now most of these items are gone,the ads are to much that it disrupts the fun when playing,anytime you kill buddy,you get an ad, anytime you do,Ads pop up.then the games features like blood are locked , Do Better
noname125750, the 03/10/2025
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Every single time you knock out buddy you get a gift or a pop up, its annoying and also you will get an add every single 45 seconds. the worst part is that you can't play offline, so you'll have to endure the pain of clicking the x button every single time when an add or a pop up shows up. I don't remember this game being so greedy! you have to pay like 25 dollars to get rid of the FORCED ads but you'll still have the optional adds! last time i played this game I remembered it being more fun.
noname205497, the 03/10/2025
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this game used to be super fun and easy to understand, but I downloaded it again after 4 years for nostalgia and it is laid out completely differently, most of the fun items are gone, there used to be a reasonable amount of ads, but now it's showing me ads every minute or so, some of my fondest memories are from taking turns playing this on my phone with my best and only friend who I'm no longer in Co tact with, and now almost any bit of nostalgia I had for this game is gone and it kinda sucks
noname551554, the 03/10/2025
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TOO MANY ADDS this used to be some fun game to play, but it seems like you can't enjoy this game without an ad popping up every couple of seconds. Really ruins the experience. also, the devs are so greedy that they made it so you can't play offline on a game that doesn't require internet just so they can milk more ad revenue and make the players suffer. My conclusion is to avoid this game like the plague and play better games.
noname464402, the 03/10/2025
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it's a fun game, but the ads, the moment you open the game, ad, the moment you try to switch weapons, ad, I tried clicking on settings and before I even got to settings I was met with an ad, and you can pay 10 dollars to remove them, but the only people that actually pay for ad removers on mobile games are YouTubers and people who are really really into the game, I honestly wonder why I even play it anymore when I can probably find a bootleg version with half the ads at that, and it's a bootleg
noname25834, the 03/10/2025
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I used to really love kick the Buddy, I always played it and there was occasional ads but if you turned off Wi-Fi you didn't have to worry, unfortunately it's not the same anymore, I have an ad every 5 seconds or at least every time I open one of the options or after I kill him which is annoying as hell, excuse my language but I don't know what happened to this game and it got rid of some of my favorite tools
noname659084, the 03/10/2025
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It is impossible to play because of the ads. Every single time you knock buddy out you get an option to get a weapon if you watch an ad, but if you press x it shows an ad anyway. I would not recommend playing this since half of the stuff on the game requires internet.
noname782848, the 03/10/2025
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nowhere near it's former glory. they removed a lot of the old items as well as certain things that could be done, and there's more than 10 times the amount of ads, even if you choose not to watch one you're still forced to watch an ad. and there's popups constantly. it feels lazy now.
noname57409, the 03/10/2025
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Too many ads, like can't I just beat up the guy in peace? not to mention all the random pop ups of the game trying to get you to gamble and watch ads to equip other items. i think I'llplay offline from now on.
noname400441, the 03/10/2025
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i downloaded this yesterday for nostalgia, but today i uninstalled it. it was more fun and easy to understand, but now, every time a random pop up is coming from the game, and every time i have to click decline. then i get hit with an ad that repeats every 30 secs. it feels like there is more ads than game. these creators sre absolutely money hungry
noname586115, the 03/10/2025
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