Pirate Drops 2 4+

I’m so glad I stumbled upon this game and developer! For the very fair price of just a latte, you get an excellent match game with lots of variety, with no ads or IAP. It runs really smoothly on my XS Max on iOS 13.2. I’m happy to support a developer who designs a good game for a fair price without IAPs or subscriptions and who has a great privacy policy (which says he doesn’t track data). Way to go! I’m so happy to find this!

Considering that there are 60 games on each of the 6 levels of increasing difficulty, and that it is possible to replay those levels over & over again, this game is really worth the money. Each of the six levels start out very easy (even the Impossible level) but get increasingly harder as you go along. There is a slight display problem on the IPhone 5 or the instructions may need some work. The jewels with water do not display on an iPhone 5 as shown in the instructions. Instead of waves with a fish, they look like smoke but I think are supposed to be steam or water vapor? As it is, the way to put out a fire square is to match one of the steamy(?) jewels on the same row as the fire jewel(s) On the smaller iPhones it is a bit difficult to tell which are the steam/water jewels and which are fire. It gets easier to tell with practice. Other than that, it is another great game from one of my favorite developers and worth the money. This is my new match 3 favorite, with my previous favorite being the earlier Pirate Drop game by the same developer. The one star I detracted was for the minor display issue. There is also an issue with it (very rarely freezing) but such problems are uncommon. Not having ads or constant requests to buy something is a huge plus for me. Love this game!

Games are always fun. A couple of bucks up front is nothing —there are never any ads, no “lives” to run out of, nothing extra to purchase in order to progress in the game.