Royal Match 12+

This game started out fun, I joined a team, progressed through the levels, and then after about level 2300 the game turned into pay to win. I spent DAYS trying to beat a level— so much that it got boring and I stopped playing. I downloaded another app, and you know what was so strange? The ads for Royal Match came up and it showed a completely different game. Eventually after not logging in for a while I got in and beat the level, and then got stuck 2 levels later. That’s been happening again and again now.

Another thing that just started happening is when I slide a piece to the right, it moves left or down? I reached out to support to ask why this happens so often in my game (probably 1 in 5?) and they said this has been brought up by other users but the game is “over developed” and “our developers say that most of the time it’s related to a screen protector, one that might be cracked”. Well who doesn’t have a protector on their screen? And mine is not cracked but I decided I will reach out to support every time it happens. They want me to send a screen recording to see it happen but I’m not sure how you can see which way I am trying to slide a piece from a screen recording?

I probably won’t play this for much longer. The deception and play to win is just annoying.

The game isn’t a 4.7 reviewed game. It’s been hard locked at that exact number for years despite the drop in player count and mass amount of negative reviews. Easy to see the fake reviews created to keep the number at 4.7 for ads. This game is your bog standard Candy Crush ripoff but they learned how to attract more players through false advertisement! The ads you see of the King’s Dream are not in the game. You do get a King’s Dream after decorating each level. However, the gameplay is just the same thing you have been playing in normal rounds! No cool 3D puzzles with intricate path to create. In fact, the Dreams have very little variety. It’s either he’s trying to get out a door before something squishes him or he’s stuck in a room with a time limit. No water to figure out how to drain before he drowns. No rocks the king is holding up while you figure out how to displace the weight. Nothing like that. Otherwise, it has its entertainment value for a few weeks. Then it’s super repetitive and has you bog standard 3 piece match cheating. You will not get the pieces you need to even complete the levels. As in, they require 6 flowers to make it to the bottom but will never spawn the 5th flower let alone the sixth one. This is attempt to get you to buy their boosts. However, no need to spend money! They give you free boasts every day and you will max out every boast before the game is impossible to finish.

Ok, the 1st reason why I downloaded this game was because the graphics, they seemed movie-worthy! But I was disappointed to see the crappy animation that this game actually is, 2nd of all, the plot, I thought this would be a cool game, like saving the king from plunging into acid, and to help him build a path to escape a monstrous snake, but I was also SO disappointed to see this was just another knock-off candy crush with occasional “king’s nightmares”, where you have to kind of save the king, but it’s NOTHING like the ads. Then the groups, anyone can join any group, and for all you know, a little kid can join a group of sketchy people, one time, I accidentally joined a group of other people talking about rather inappropriate stuff, the app editors should THINK ABOUT THIS, there should be age requirements to join specific groups, then the profile pictures, I hate that you have only an ugly duck, a fat pig and a weird polar bear as your only options if you don’t have facebook! Another thing I don’t like is that if you run out of lives, you can’t play unless you play or you ask your teammates, who most likely will ignore you. Otherwise, this is a pretty good app for being free, no ads, and not needing internet.
But if the game was to be what is shown in the ads, I would gladly play it.