 In the spring of 2019 I changed from Shitrizen (Verizon) to Cricket and one of the perks of changing to this particular cell provider was this thing called "aditup", which they were pushing very, very hard. So I'm here to talk all about this. It's mostly gaming, hence being here, but I might talk about some of the other stuff.
AdItUp is basically another one of those goofey offerwall things I would normally just avoid and ignore, like that ever-annoying "Mistplay" thing that they advertise in most of the games on the service. The only reason I use them is because they are a legitimate service and not not something "scammy".
That said, the only thing I use them for - is saving on my phone bill. I have ZERO interest in gift cards (plus being an I.T. Guy, giftcards are kinda' on my shit-list if you're not someone in my immediate social circle giving me one). 25,000 points gets you $5 off 40,000 points gets $10 off, 90,000 points is $25 off, and 200,000 points is $50 off.
The reality is, as much as you'll play these games on your phone, you most likely will get only up to maybe $25 off if you are careful and judicious about the games you pick to make points off of if you are a regular, 9-to-5 working stiff. I got $50 off once, and the time I got that off my bill, I was literally playing games so much my wife has ever since said I'm "Addicted to my phone" any time I pick it up - not fun. The one lady who said she paid her WHOLE bill with points, was able to do it because she was on the dole, and therefore, could literally sit all day wherever she was and be racking up points on games and surveys on AdItNow when most of us working stiffs are at work. Plus she was by herself without a spouse, so her bill was only around $50-60 a month.
You also have to find some games you actually SOMEWHAT enjoy, so here's my opinions on all the games (I can remember at least) that I have played on AdItUp - with links to my google reviews of them.
THE GAMES
Here's a list of as many of the games as I can list. Some of these are not available for play anymore (gee, and everyone wonders why I prefer physical media!?!?). Some of my favorites are the ones tha tdissappeared unfortunatley.
I started off using Fyber, which gave you a set amount of points for completing the game up to a certain point. Now I use "playtime" which pays out points every time you play the game incrimentally up to a certain amount.
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Angry Birds 2
| Playtime - I played the original Angry Birds on my first smartphone (Droid 2 Global), and quite liked that game, so when this turned up as an opportunity to win some points in AdItUp of course I took the jump to it. However, IMHO, this one was not as good as the original Angry Birds.
For starters, the Performance was crap on my LG Stylo 6 - which was a plenty fast phone for the job. I remember having long wait times for assets to load, and it would eat into the time I'd end up spending trying to play the game and earn points.
I think the second problem I had WAS earning points, it seems most of these games hit a paywall of some kind where you can't progress further without either a lot of luck (ie the kind of luck that gets rock bands signed to major labels, the kind of luck that wins the lottery, the kind of luck that finds out you have a lost relative you inherit millions of dollars from). This particular one hit one HARD. I can't remember what level it was, but it was driving me nuts enough to give up on it.
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Best Fiends - Match 3 Games
| - I remember playing this one and quite well enjoying it, but just like above, I started to hit a paywall. IIRC, this was one of the first games on the "Playtime" service I used. Prior to that, I was taking the offers of "make it to level blah blah blah and win 92,000 points or whatever. However, it took a LONG time to hit that paywall, nights upon nights of slowly less and less time playing the game.
The thing is, like all of these mobile puzzle games, the early puzzles are stupid easy to drag you in, so that you feel some kind of strange obligation to continue playing it after a certain point. However, the levels will get progressively harder, until you're in the high double-digits or hundreds of levels, and then it will become a nightmare after awhile, of playing the same seemingly impossible level over and over again. Maybe even a level that is specially RIGGED to make you spend money on more moves to win the level. See, this is why I'm not a casino-person/gambling man, but I'll bet one thing for sure, I'll bet that these things are indeed rigged in such as way that if you show enough interest for a long enough time, they made it so you have no choice but to spend money.
So this was kind of where I figured out the pattern on these games. Basically, you have a set amoutn of time to meet the points requirements, and then, if you meet those requirements, or run out of time......delete the game and move on.
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Bingo Blitz
| Playtime - This was the game that harassed the hell out of everyone for awhile (a lot like Coin Master further down this page). Every damn day I'd see that blue cat on screen. But when it was added to "playtime" with a nice sized payout, I decided to give it a chance.
This game kinda' felt like sitting on a cruise ship in the 1970's at a bingo table, with some fat-voiced announcer who probably has a second job as a narrator for superhero cartoons announcing the coordiantes for the bingo sheets, LOL. I think there were some additions to make actual cash in this game, but I had zero interest in that because of my stances on gambling and other activities like that.
To be honest, Bingo Blits was a pretty high payout on points, with me managing to go for about 4-5 months without hitting the dreaded "paywall syndrome" again. It degenerated slowly though, to the point, that I was losing games almost every time, and had hardly enough "energy" left to get the cat to do anything other than one or two laps around some kind of mini-game boardgame thing before calling it quits.
I have some treasured memories of playing this one but I found the paywall effect was quite damning after awhile because I just could not proceed any further in the game as a result. The most annoying thing about just about every single game on this page,
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Blackjack 21
| I don't really entirely remember when or how I played this one. I think I picked it because i tend to do fairly well at blackjack video games. I've played 2600 Blackjack, Leisure Suit Larry Blackjack, and I have Ultimate 21 for DOS that I play every once in awhile on my PC/XT class machines. So I'm pretty sure those were an influence in me trying this one out.
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Board Kings Board Dice Games
| This was one of those goofey board game games where you build up properties - kind of like Monopoly - after you win a bunch of energy and "in-game-finances" to build out those properties. Another one similar to this is Dice Kings - which I get confused with this one on the frequent.
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Cash Empire
| Stupid Coin-Pusher thing like you find at the arcade, except it sorta' tuggs at your primal strings by making the graphics far more noisy, crazy, and dramatic than a regular arcade coin pusher machine (which is kind of boring by comparison).
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Coin Dozer: Sweepstakes
| Another dumb Coin Pusher. I remember playing this one for awhile because it was easy to play while watching TV (pretty much just taping the screen in the same spot, or just letting it do it's thing on it's own).
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Coin Master
| Playtime - Now here's another one I ignored until I figured out how many points it would give me in AdItUp - Coin Master. Basically, for almost half a year, I was harassed by this app to download it at almost every damn turn. Everywhere, there was that robber-bandit-eye-thingy equipped piggy looking me in the face saying
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Color Water Sort Puzzle Games
| Now this.....THIS Is the kind of game I can get behind. I love this stuff, not sure why, I just do. Somethign about this water puzzle game is just really addicting. I honestly wish there was a NES port of it!
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Cookie Jelly Match
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Dice Dreams
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Dragon City Mobile
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EverMerge: Match 3 Puzzle Game
| Here's another favorite of mine. One of my favorite genres of mobile, which I would probably even play if I was not on AdItUp, would be these match games, and EverMerge was one of the best. It wasn't annoying, the pop-ups were not annoying, the payouts in points were more than good enough to use it TWICE! If I could make points on it on another platform I would!
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Family Island - Farming Game
| So I got this when I got my new Samsung Galaxy A14 1/2024. Since I had a new phone, maybe games would not be so sluggish and I could save more on my bill. AFter all, I just spent $348.88 on new phones for the both of us - might as well recoup some of the cost through AdItUp and see if they fixed it.
Family Island is a bit like Homestead or Klondike Adventures. Basically, chop down things and find resources to perform various homsteading tasks. Basically chopping grass for roots, trees for logs, rubble for stone to make things from, etc. You also have a goat and chickens to get food/pelts/other stuff from. You have a limited amount of energy to expend, and when that's used up you have to sign off and wait for it to replenish or find various energy power-ups by thrashing greenery or playing "Wheres Waldo" with the in-game assets for mushrooms, berries, and gift boxes.
I kinda' liked this one since it's a bit like Township and Homestead, but also just like those two games, it SUCKS because once you get past about Level 15 or so, you hit what I call a "soft paywall" or "pay-governor" that makes sure your experience is slowed down drastically without paying money for additional energy or resources to grow the game. By that point I'd almost gotten the 22,000 points out of it, making it almost time ot uninstall the game.
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Fishdom
| One of those generic puzzle games where you match items to make them dissappear. I remmeber making it fairly far into the game before uninstalling it, and I can't remember if this was on Fyber or Playtime, or the other service whose name escapes me.
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Gold and Goblins: Idle Merger
| Now this was one fun and kind of funny. Basically, you'd spawn a team of goblins with various pickaxes, jackhammers, and other tools of mining, and then they'd go to town on a bunch of rocks. It also lasted me a really long time. One of my faves right up there with Merge Kingdom and the Township games. I basically gathered all the points I could from this one, and then uninstalled it.
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Happy Glass
| I think this was one of the first games I ever played on the platform, and I remember liking it a lot, and playing it for quite awhile. It was basically a game where you guided water dumped out of somewhere on
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Homestead
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Homescapes
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Idle Light City
| Aka, the "Lightbulb People" game, lol. Honestly, this was one of the ones I most fondly remember because it was bloody hilarious. I dunno why, but I just think of the idea of walking lightbulbs as something HILARIOUS.
Basically, the whole game takes place in this town at night time, and you need to light up the homes of residents by directing the "lightbulb people" to the house to light it up - LOL! I played it on MUTE, so much to the point I made my own BANDLAB tune for the game - sort of a wacky jazz tune.
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Jumbline 2 - word game puzzle
| Another game I milked the absolute crap out of - Jumline got me a ton of points through playtime for quite awhile. And I got really good at this one because I'm actually pretty good at word games (apparently because of genetics, another thing my mysterious father was was a "Poet Lauriet" - so apparently, I have a fine grasp on English because of him). I finally uninstalled it because I ran out of points to earn from it TBH. I ran this sucker DRY! If It comes up again in the future, I might give it another shot.
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Klondike Adventures
| This was the first "Big" app I snatched up to play, and I remember it quite fondly. It's a lot like Family Island and Homestead. Basically, cut down trees for firewood, cut down foiliage for other resources. The whole thing takes place in the Klondike obviously. I think I installed it - TBH - because I thought it was a Solitaire game.
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Match Masters
| I started off liking this and grew to hate it after awhile, because I kept getting put up against opponents who were far better than me at this game. But hey, what do you expect from a guy who can't even find his car keys on an empty desk in the morning!
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Matchington Mansion
| Another one of those games where you play as the hopeful pretty girl who inhereted/bought/somehow got her hands on someones aging McMansion, and seeks to rennovate it.
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Monopoly Go!
| I installed this with the new phone in 2024, and it's an example of a game I don't really like as much. Compared to Board Kings or others like it, the points accruement on it is REALLY FUCKING SLOW!!!! on Playtime.
Basically, I'm not sure who to blame for this, Monopoly Go! itself that has me right now running out of energy really quick, so I only get about 30 mins of playtime a day at most - if I'm REALLY lucky - but they don't reward you with points for just playing it, you have to hit certain "milestones" - ie get to certain "cities" to run in the game in order to accrue the points. So the next is the "old West" - and I'm crawling through this game, and no way in hell am I bothering everyone on Fakebook with my incessant panel-beating games just so I can get like 4 units of energy.
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