Reviews for EndeavorOTC®: Outplay ADHD

I am going to be plain: if you offer me a trial requesting data I do not wish to share before I get to simply try out the app, then your app is insta uninstalled. I refuse to have to bother to cancel anything that I don't even wish to subscribe to in the first place since I haven't had a chance to try at least a lvl or have a glimpse at how the app is designed.

I would have given this game 3 or 4 stars, but gave it 1 due to how poorly executed the trial period is. There is no apparent option to cancel the subscription before the trial is over. I emailed the team prior to the end of the trial, but it appears I will be charged anyway due to the 2 business days they need to process my request. One week is not a sufficient trial period for how expensive this is. I did consider giving it a longer chance but this predatory trial period warns otherwise.

It doesn't tell you there's a paywall right after the first time you try and get your assessment. I was expecting it to be a paid app at least to some degree, but to go through the entire thing only to find out you have to pay to find out anything - not even a taster, or a free trial?? Just poor user experience for a first impression - I'm sure this app would do a lot better if they gave more upfront before the giant paywall slaps you in the face

I bought a month but im not sure I'll keep subscribed. The game seems good as a treatment but it fails to respond to the commands and it end up affecting the progress.

i have just completed "2 weeks of treatment"..i already feel better in my ability to recall things, and there is less 'noise' in my head...however, it may be the placebo effect.. I'm going to continue playing the game and see if these effects persist or indeed get better.

I've only been using this app for 3 days so I can't validate if it's been effective, but you can go read the research paper that shows it works. I feel like the majority of people leaving negative comments don't get the underlying principle. ADHD causes your brain to want to give up or tune out when things get difficult or boring. This game is designed to keep you right on the edge of difficult and boring in order to get your brain used to this state. If it's frustrating you it's working!

Have to sign up for a yearly plan that costs $130.00 USD to get a 7 day trial. That info would have been nice before I wasted my time downloading / installing. Knowing that the key demographic for this program has problems with focussing, seems like a pretty blatant attempt at making money off of people forgetting to cancel before the trial ends. Seems like a pretty scammy business tactic.

Spent 30 to 45 minutes within the first two days of the trial period, then I was charged $139.41 (at no time was the app even opened after the first two days). A request to Google Play was denied a few days later on issuing a refund. I'm now very skeptical about making any purchases revolving subscriptions and or trial periods. Please correct this situation.

Kept having connectivity issues once I signed up.. When I first downloaded the app, I was able to open it and click on either the "get started" or "log in" buttons and would be directed to an outside website to sign up or log in respectively. However as soon as I created my account the app consistently has connectivity issues and refuses to stay connected..

The app is what it needs to be. But the customer service is useless. The app doesn't give you heads up when your subscription is due so I ended up paying for 2 months the monthly fee. C'mon, I have ADHD. The support refused my request for a refund even though I contacted them the same day I was charged and requested a yearly subscription. Their app is frustrating and it needs to be but support service could provide support. I will go through my card company to claim refund.

FYI - you can just cancel the trial immediately and you'll still have access until the end of it. The difference between the monthly and yearly pricing is insane though. Otherwise, I didn't think it likely the game would help me. It felt like more a test of reaction speed and mechanical skill than focus. I have other complaints too, but no space. There also isn't compelling evidence it works. Their study didn't have a control group (possible placebo), and the TOVA is too similar to the game.

It definitely requires clear focus to play the game, and is, at least initially, fun. However, despite my phone meeting the performance requirements, the game glitches when the game speed increases, just when you are achieving peak focus, making it incredibly frustrating to play and ultimately counter productive.

Like other reviewers have mentioned, the game play gets glitchy once you get to higher levels. The first two weeks were great. I noticed significant improvements in my concentration. Once the game started slowing/skipping though, it made navigation very difficult, and screen taps were frequently delayed (resulting in the wrong target being hit). My focus score stagnated before dropping back down in the fourth week. Holding the device flat for gameplay also causes neck pain after awhile.

I paid for a year of this game. I tried to push myself to play it, but every time I almost got the last tick to move forward only to miss it because I didn't hit the button good enough became was too frustrating. I don't need it to be the best video game, but I do need it to make me feel good. The game was too hard, I wasn't making progress, and generally I just ended up pissed off at the game and myself. It needs to be rebalanced so that it is more reward and less punishment.

It's a good concept and I think I could see myself paying money for it. But I agree with the other reviews that the game mechanics are awful. First, having to hold my phone horizontal is quite unnatural and I don't know of any other mobile game that requires that play style. That leads into the navigation part of the game which is very hard to do because I have to be so hunched over to properly tilt it. Also, I would fully expect to be able to click almost anywhere on screen to catch the aliens.

Gets too hard, too fast, the game seems to be aiming for a difficulty where you never win, which really just makes playing frustrating, it doesn't make me want to try harder when I don't even come close to winning a single game in 30 mins of playing. The concept makes sense for the game, but it seems like it needs to be rebalanced a little to make playing it tolerable, if the hard levels are needed, maybe have speed fluctuate from doable to not.

1. Mechanics of gameplay are clunky and feel bad. Also, hitboxes for the purple objs. are weirdly narrow. 2. UX is rough - you can't change settings or go to the menu from the pause menu? 3. You have to email them to delete your account 4. There's no narrative or structure to the game, it seems - maybe there's more if you play for longer, but I just couldn't get myself interested for long enough. 5. Very expensive. Treatment gamification is an awesome idea, but this needs a lot of work.

I haven't played long enough, yet, to know if Endeavor will help with focus, the one ADHD symptom that it addresses. It will be nice if it does. These are my impressions as of week 2: The game often exhorts players to "GO FAST!" I find the constant emphasis on speed, which is only one aspect of focus, to be a bit nerve-wracking. The game also scolds players for missing a day of training by sending judgmental-sounding notifications like, "You missed your training sessions yesterday."

The buttons sometimes don't press. Targets sometimes don't trigger even when you're on them, but the game will tell you how much better you're doing that once in a while when the controls actually work. Training my attention? Like hell it is. It's training my submissiveness and ability to endure arbitrary negative feedback not based in reality. 🙄 Really REALLY not impressed. Which is too bad. I do think there should be the capacity for games to change the way our brains work. This is not it.

Manage your subscription outside of the app in the Google Play Store to cancel it. Very short 7 day trial with a big price tag at the end. Would be less scummy to have the smaller but still expensive monthly rate waiting at the end. The game was okay. Very fast paced. I don't think I'll continue to try using the rest of the trial. The fast paced tilting navigation seemed to cause me some motion sickness.