Candy Crush Saga

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1. ★★☆☆☆ Better have $$$ Don Coyote -><- · 31 Aug 2026
   I’ve been playing this for years, and gotten very far. So many of the levels for a while now are just about impossible to beat, now, without buying the extra powers or enough “coins” to continue a level after you’ve used up all the moves. Just to advance in this game, you need to spend a LOT, or have infinite patience and keep playing a level over and over until the layout randomly changes to a very lucky one. Almost everything the game used to provide you with to help with (overly) difficult levels gets modified to make it less useful. Like, they used to give you more and more turns to play e

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   ach time you lost a level - you’d still have to use coins (which are rarely attainable unless you pay real money) to use all the extra moves - but now, instead, is a “random” wheel after each lost that gives you only a few extra moves, and they do not accumulate. As for the “random” gifts still in the game, I could be wrong, but they seem to be calibrated to give lousy gifts way more often - the “random” layouts at the start of the each level likewise seem to form more difficult patterns than easier ones. I’m tired of having to pay to play this game after all this time. I’ve quit for a while before, but I am truly thinking of erasing this from my phone for good. The impossible levels are not so fun after a few dozen tries, and I don’t want to keep throwing away three to five dollars just to get thru each one.
2. ★★★☆☆ Love the game, but not on days where my temper is short THROW SCOOTER AT BIRD HARD · 10 Nov 2025
   This game is fun, but can also be annoying at times. The difficulty pacing is really weird. It gives you several normal levels, then throws a really hard one at you every now and then. I’m not really a fan, but it’s ok. My main issue however is the constant pop ups whenever I’m just trying to play the game. And I’m not talking about ads. You can play this game for hours without watching a single ad, I haven’t since install since they’re a choice, but whenever I open the game and go to play a level I have to go through several windows of what’s essentially a repackaged Fortnite battle pass or

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   some event I don’t care about. I really don’t care to buy the Cool version or race random people, so I just skip over it. Overall, it’s mildly annoying at worst, pretty fun at best. It beats other free mobile games, in my opinion, because the only time you’d watch an ad is for rewards. You don’t get forced to in between levels, it’s just that you could watch one to get a boost to the start of your level or extra moves if you fail. I really do hate that the bar is that low that it makes this seem good. Some levels feel like they’re begging you to watch ads/spend money because they’re borderline impossible without it, but maybe that’s just me. I usually give it a couple days then come back to it and see if I can do it then.
3. ★☆☆☆☆ AI DRnLA · 21 Apr 2024
   Pretty sure AI is now the culprit behind not letting users get past certain levels. At which point there are no balloons that pass to watch ads for boosters and there are also no boosters available to get when you watch ads at the end of a unbeaten level when events like the All Stars comes around. I am quite certain that not all the “users” are real, especially in the tournaments, they are there just to make it look like you’re behind someone sporadically throughout the game play so that you will buy more gold bars, boosters and etc just to get ahead. If you pay once for gold bars the option

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   to get boosters by watching ads never come up again, also the random ballon that would cross on the main part of the app, non existent after paying for boosters. Also the Candy Royale should not even automatically start if don’t have any lives left, what’s the point. Speaking of which, boosters that have a timer should only count down when you are actually playing, and stop when navigating around in the app. Any game that you are forced to buy boosters just to pass to the next level is a money grab. They make you wait 30 minutes after you have used the 5 lives just to get one hoping that you will buy more to continue. If anything it should be another full set of five lives after 30 minutes at least. Don’t buy into it! Don’t feed their greed. This game has become a total scam. They only use the “events” to get people to spend that seldom if ever do, just to have the game itself not playable. This has AI written all over it.
4. ★★★☆☆ Fav but also frustrating Rulzbrakr · 29 Feb 2024
   I've been playing for at least a decade so this is my favorite game. I got up to over 11k levels without paying one cent but also watched a heck of alot of commercials. I decide to splurge one day and paid 99 cents and it's been downhill ever since. Why give folks the option to watch ads to get stuff and then stifle progress? I've paid with my time. Also, who wants an update when they'll lose all the lives they've saved up? I've logged in to Facebook so if it saves progress then why can't it save my lives? It needs to get better. I find myself playing more of other games and trying new ones be

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   cause this one gets frustrating. Keeping me on the same level for a month or longer with WAY less opportunities to earn coins and boosters. I used to have a chance to win weekly competitions but that's been reduced to zero. There was a time when I used to wait for new levels to be developed. Now I can't get past one level. This game was a great stress reliever but now it's becoming a source of stress and frustration. I could deal with the cheating glitches because I wasn't paying cash but I was paying with my time watching a whole bunch of commercials. There's a limit on lives you cam use in a day that are given to you by your friends. There's a monthly limit. I barely have lives, no boosters, not winning any levels or competitions, so what's fun about that? It's almost like I was penalized for actually spending money. I'm basically a founding fan / early adopter and this is how you treat me (and others I've read about)? You're about to lose me too so please fix it.
5. ★★★★☆ I finally give up! I won’t make it to 13,000 Giometta Castadiva · 25 Jan 2024
   I’ve been playing this game since the beginning. I openly admit to my addiction (and you know that King). I noticed that the game has changed as others have, I now have to spend more $1.99 to finish a level. It seems that you’re calculating the number of attempts and shortening them so that only a player who has stockpiled tools or randomly receives some advantage can finish the level without resorting to paying money. I began noticing this after level 10,000. I really love this game but I think I can put it down now and walk away. I know Candy Crush will stay around for a long time because it

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   ’s an endearing game, but knowing that King has been sold to a big company where revenue is King, I’m going to step away now so I don’t feel like a fool for continuing to pay money. The aspect of addiction represented by this game is not healthy and is akin to the slot machines in a casino. Inconsistent rewards together with color, lights, and random cute things, are a powerful and seductive trap. As I let go of candy crush I noticed around me in the United States the pervasive Incursion of casinos, in fact I expect there to be at least one casino in every state if not more. I believe they’re going to replace malls, and as all of us are conditioned to the type of addiction that game like candy crush breed, yeah, Will all flock to those. And it won’t surprise me if the company that owns Candy crush now makes casino games… and so on and so on and so on.
6. ★★★★★ Candy Crush Very Frustrating Goldenmom12 · 7 May 2023
   I do not get why a game is made to be no fun. This game is fun at first BUT it gets to where it is more frustration. Challenging is one thing but playing a level for days or weeks to beat it is absurd and no fun. The levels shouldn't be so hard to pass and from what I read in the reviews, a lot of people feel the same way. All these games are just alike. Start out fun but become impossible. Games are supposed to be fun and relaxing but I guess you never got that memo! I wind up deleting them. Think about easing up a bit please. And it still has the same glitch problems I wrote about before. Yo

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   u pass a level and it doesnt recognize it and you're sent right back. Or even better, I have paid for extra moves because one or two moves and I would finally be done with a level, something happens, money is taken and you're sent right back to start that same level again. Ridiculous! FIX THE GLITCH PLEASE!!! Finally bet a level I had played for several days, saw the sugar crush and thought yes this level is finally over only to have a glitch in the game and it didn't show i'd beat it and took me right back to the level I'd just beat and several days later- stuck again!!!!! This game is fun but losing its appeal because some of the levels are so hard and take to many tries and to much time to beat that it just takes the fun out of it and gets boring and frustrating. I know you are in it to make money and maybe everyone's comments don't matter. But this is a money pit. The wait time is to long between lives and you need to add more lives because you will be still ok in the money department. Make it more fun and ease up on some of the levels.
7. ★★★★☆ Unfair Lynnm12 · 3 Jun 2022
   I’ve been playing Candy Crush for many years and in the 6000’s level-wise. I’m also a member of the King Royalty program. I am not connected through Facebook. I am connected with my email. I’ve invested quite a bit of money over the years. Any time I’ve contacted King, they’ve always been fair in reimbursing me when the game malfunctions. 3 days ago, I logged into King. I was informed I had 2 gifts to claim. I claimed gold. A lot of it. Literally right after, my game will not load. My computer generated picture is gone. Events are gone. All my boosters and gold are still available. The problem

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   is, I cannot use the gold. In order to “play on” it prompts to use 10 gold bars. I get a “connecting” ring, and nothing ever happens. I’ve also received a “it’s not you, it’s us” or “no connection. Please try back later.” I’ve contacted King in reference to this problem. I’ve done every generic step. I have free space. I have restarted my phone. I have made sure the game is updated. King informed me that I would have to uninstall Candy Crush, and reinstall it. In doing so, I would lose anything I received for free. *cough cough* the gold bars I just claimed, and any boosters I’ve won. The only thing that would remain is what I’ve paid for. Uhhhh, no thanks, Vin (customer service rep). I will continue to complain and review this until my game is functioning correctly. It’s quite obvious to me what’s going on here. Guess being a LOYAL customer and paying into this game really has no real payout. What a joke.
8. ★★★☆☆ Confused on the games objective fiendhead · 26 Apr 2022
   Is the game to relax the mind or to cheat its way into people buying more lives & other things to keep playing. If soo nothing is replacing about that. I’ve been playing this game for years (since it first came out) but I deleted it for about 5 yrs because I noticed it was making it more and more difficult to pass levels but it’s always reminding me to relax and play the game. I relax and play the game but I notice that it gives you two or three good moves during a very hard level then it’s hard to pass the level. Once your out of moves you have to pay for everything. It extra little games to

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   play to get more moves or boosters are trash. For a week straight I’ve been getting the fish for everything I’ve played. Am I suppose to be relaxing orContemplating my whole life trying to win a level. I be soo into a game that my last move or so can determine if I win and the game cheats to wear I keep having to use all my gold bars before in all out and have to pay. It’s no where near relaxing to have to spend money after spending over 50 gold bars to win a single game. I’ve spend some money on trying to win. The game has crashed several times during those times and I can not get my money or those boosters/lives back I’ve bought. This game has to do better than it does. I’ve complained about this before but nothing had been done about it. I want to relax and forget about my problems for an hour or 3 not spend money to keep playing a game that suppose to help me relax and forget about spending money.
9. ★★★★★ 🌺Lori’s Thought 🐾 sargent lex · 5 Dec 2020
   I totally think candy crush is awesome love playing the game but!!!! I totally hate the pig bank thing when I very first started playing this game/app ?, you had to bye it to even use it but I had a miss happen with my phone that made me have to use a temporary phone for awhile so I put the candy crush app on the phone and tried downloading my game I have been playing for years now and was not successful with the download so I just started over from the beginning which was not the most awesome thing at all but I also thought it’s been years sent I started playing the game and wanted to see the

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   new update’s where add to it and they where very good like how now they give. you the pig bank with lots of gold bars for a bonus thing one receives while playing, I thought awesome they got enough people to complain about it or just got smarter but then you keep playing and it’s still a money taking piece of crap game that I ask myself why I let myself keep playing it and why I bought it so many times before in the past all i did was waste a lot of money my husband called it to my attention after we started the Apple share app that apple offers there consumers when they purchase their products and it’s called Apple share family plan that me and my husband set up for our family’s phone. Now that I have went on for ever trying to give you guys some insight to what made this question come about and why it was not sooner?? because I didn’t think I was actually spending that much but that is a totally not true!! I love candy crush but not that much and, I will continue to play and hope you guys that change the piggy bank and gold bar thing thing will keep making it better for the true lovers of candy crush 👍
10. ★★★★★ Candy Crush Scam _slicknick2xx · 27 Aug 2020
    Candy crush among many other games generate only whatever it wants to. If you don’t give the game money, it doesn’t let you win. If u got candy stripes or a candy bomb, if the game wants to, it’ll generate specific candies to use your specials at will. It’s a waste of time because in the end, at some point you will rage quit. The theme of the game and stuff is nice, but you get my point. One example of unfairness in this game is when I was on a level, I needed to get one ingredient. The striped candies were all in sap so I needed to get them out. There were two different sections that you coul

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    d make moves in. One had the majority of the candy, and the other had two striped candies, some peppermint barriers, and the one ingredient. So I proceeded to get rid of the barriers from the other side by using horizontal striped candies. When I was down to my last 10 moves, I only needed one horizontal striped candy to break the last barrier on the other side to get the ingredient. Yet the game proceeded to give me useless moves and candies. When I finally got the striped candy that I needed, then game generated sequences of candies to drop the striped candy all the way to the bottom, where it was then useless. I then only had two lives left which did not help me at all because the game didn’t give me the specific candies and sequences that I needed. I then proceeded to do this level over 20 times with no avail. By the time I started typing this review, I had just deleted the game after trying time and time again to beat the level. Sure you could download this game. You may even beat the level that I had so much trouble with. But at some time, sooner or later the game will rig you after all of your hard work.

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