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.

This game is very clearly pay to win. I would do just fine on levels, get through okay. Some levels labeled “Hard” or “Super Hard” felt appropriately difficult. I’m through all the regular levels now and into what they call “Royal League.” The difficulty of these levels is not consistent. I’ll get through a Hard, Super Hard level with minimal lives used. However, currently I’m on a random level that is not marked as being difficult. My first try, I had TWO sets of two SUPER light balls. That’s one set of two super light balls, I combined for a double wave. Then another set of two showed up that I combined for a second wave. I had two other super light ball + power up combos as well. And I’ll tell you, even with that I wasn’t even close to justifying using the 900 coins for a dismal 5 moves. I was more than 5 moves from a win even with those combos. The piece patterns were falling noticeably different/made no power ups. I think it’s because I hit level 85 on the Balloon Rise meter. Pay attention to your levels and how often you win. Like a casino, you’ll see the game start to genuinely tilt away from letting you have an advantage so that you’ll get frustrated and put up money to win. I just play until I’m out of lives and then come back later. It’s not worth anything more than that.