Royal Match 4+

Once upon a time I really liked Bejewled. It was vibrant, quick moving, and a great way to take out frustrations. This is not why I downloaded Royal Match, but once I did I realized it was Bejeweled cubed. So, I love this game, though I do agree with some other reviewers that the regular levels versus the hard levels and super hard levels is strange; some times it takes me days to pass a regular level and only one try to pass a super hard or hard level. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Now, if I had reviewed this before now I would have removed a star for the reason I downloaded this game, and that is the mini games called King’s Nightmare. Boy was I disappointed when I payed one for the first time. Booorrring!!! Not only that, but you get coins, and not many, for playing and nothing else. They were not as advertised, and at first I felt a bit cheated, but I do so enjoy Royal Match, so I learned to live with the lie. Today, however, I reached a King’s Nightmare and I so loved it! It was the reason I downloaded this game. It was there, in front of me, finally! Thank you, thank you, thank you to the developers for making this change. I love it! More please! And more often! I could play them all day. 😁

This game is a slight variation of C Crush. The nightmares (what the ads about this game show) are levels that pop up VERY rarely and are never like the videos they show in these ads or screenshots. I’m in the 2,000 levels and have had the “kitchen on fire” nightmare almost every time. There was two other times it was a different nightmare, but nothing like they appear in their gameplay videos.

And I’ve noticed level rankings are way off, or they’re fixed to prevent a player from doing too well. I unlock bonuses and start going on runs and hit a regular level (not a varying level of hard) and the easy level will be almost impossible, losing the bonuses that I had unlocked (as they disappear after the 1st level fail). Then retries of the easy level fail over and over, as if to force people to spend money to advance using gems. I’ve gone days before finally passing the level playing for free. And it’s a pattern of this happening, so no way it’s coincidence.

If you have patience to advance about 5 to 10 levels a day and then be stuck on a level for days, no matter how hard or easy it is, with intentions to play for free, and not expect anything like the cool videos of gameplay they show you, then you might be okay with playing this game to kill free time or whatever.

Just like almost every other game available here the fix is in with this one as well. First of all the advertisements for it whilst playing other games and having to watch endless ads shows levels “saving the king” which only very rarely appear during actual game play. Secondly it’s all about the money. I’m on level 374 and over and over and over and over again I cannot beat the level. It’s not because I don’t know HOW to beat it, it’s just that the game never gives you what you need. For instance if the goal is to collect a certain number of a pink gem it makes sure you get fewer than that number before you run out of moves. Then you have the option to spend coins that are exceeding difficult to earn unless you are gifted with a rare bonus level. NINE HUNDRED COINS to get an additional THREE moves! And you still don’t get what you need, then to get three more moves it’s 1900 coins. But once you give in and spend the coins you’re done, it will only rarely let you win on the first try because now its in their algorithm that you are stupid enough to buy something from them. These developers should be ashamed of themselves because it really is just about robbing people. They figured that out during the pandemic. Do some research to see how much money they raked in while people were quarantined.