Temple Run: Puzzle Adventure

Pros: - engaging levels and gameplay - a variety of power ups that are easy to acquire - unlimited tries (thank you Apple Arcade) However, there are still some things holding this game back: - game bugs - phantom pieces that impede progress going forward, and create softlocks - sometimes unable to play the river mini game with no explanation as to why - probably the worst golden beetle AI I’ve ever seen in a video game The last point I’m going to go on a rant: the golden beetle mechanics are just awful, unless you merge it with something that give you multiple beetles. Sometimes they help you with level objectives, and most other times it literally just does anything else. It applies game logic the way a two-year old tries to hammer a square peg into a round hole - for instance, it thinks “I will take out this normal blue gem sitting underneath a monkey head so that the monkey head will drop down” but ignore the fact that there are wooden crates, frozen gems, and lava that are sitting above said blue gem, but underneath the monkey head. It comes to a point where it feels more like a liability than it does a buff, and I feel that the programming as far as the priority of the beetles needs to be desperately fixed. Overall, the game functions well, but I had to rant about this one thing, because it needs to be spoken about until it is repaired.

Great game but I WON game 1149 and after showing 3 stars it froze. And when I rebooted it, I was back to the beginning of 1149. Please fix it. Very frustrating to spend all the power up to win and it doesn’t register. This isn’t the first time it happened, but I paid attention to the game number if that helps. Thanks! I don’t follow the story; I just want a good match 3 game that is rewarding. And you delivered! No fees or ads, and best of all, when I got stuck on a level you added an option to skip forward. Another perk is, if I didn’t solve a puzzle after a couple tries, your algorithm changes to give me better matches and win. There’s another match game (not in Arcade) that I won’t play anymore because they are just the opposite of your game. I can play that game 50 times with upgrades and still not win. I’m here to relax, win, and feel good. That’s what YOUR game provides. And, because of this, I’ll continue my subscription with Apple Arcade. Thank you! Update- it WAS 5 stars yesterday, until I hit the latest level. Now it’s 2 stars Impossible to play tiles, constantly refreshing, used all the power ups for THREE separate attempts, and in the final attempt I had one piece left and the power up didn’t kill it. One more try tomorrow and I quit. I’m good, not desperate, and I play for enjoyment, not aggravation. Apple Arcade isn’t worth it if the games cause stress instead of reducing it.

I really really loved this game when I first downloaded it, and I still play it often. However, I get more and more angry at the lack of support. there’s no place to submit a support ticket or report a bug and the game doesn’t give you rewards that you’ve honestly earned. Here’s an overview of the gameplay: The character goes through a landscape and there’s a story and you play matching games in between two advance, the story. All that’s fun, but in no time at all less than a week, I’d say you reach the end of the adventure and the character is stuck in the same hall forever after that. Forever? Yes, literally forever instead of having the character let’s say, for example circle around and go through the same landscape again (now that it’s been restored…) she just stands there and tells a story as if I wanted to read a book and not play video games?) the game freezes all the time and I lose tools and bonuses. I’ve allocated to that level. The game doesn’t give you the progress or points or gems or whatever that you’ve collected. It’s not honest, not fair and and there’s no support. There’s a Support LINK, but all it does is send you to FAQ articles and tutorials that say absolutely nothing. There’s not even a place to report a bug. it seems like Apple paid somebody to develop the game and then fired them. They left. There’s nobody at the helm. There’s nobody monitoring the game at all. Apple obviously doesn’t care.

Update : I receive a notification reminding me about the tournament and continue playing. But I can’t! I’ve played all of the levels. You should be able to replay levels to compete in the tournament to collect more stores. Needs more levels and a way to go back and replay some levels. I have finished all of the levels available and cannot complete all of the ‘quests’. Wish there was a way to go back and replay some of the levels. Also, some of the new ‘obstacles’ introduced during game play do not have instructions on how to overcome them. It is fairly easily to figure out, but would be nice to have instructions the first time you encounter them like the obstacles closer to the beginning of the game. Game play is fun since you don’t have to pay to overcome more difficult levels nor worry about how many lives you have left. Hopefully more levels are added soon before I forget about and give up on this game. If I can’t continue to play it regularly by going back to previous levels, I’ll forget about it and/or delete it off my iPhone. Another thing I do like about this game is that it is played vertically instead of horizontally.

UPDATE: The latest update is pretty buggy. Almost every time I use an idol I end up with a bunch of overlapping gems sharing the same spots. The river raft mini-game is a nice way to gather more boosters, but the achievement counter never increments so I'm stuck at 0/50. But since the game is still in landscape it is pretty awkward to play as i have to hold my iPad by the edges and stretch to reach the arrow buttons. You made the UI square... why doesn't the game auto-rotate with my iPad? ----------- The latest update just changed the game UI from portrait to landscape. It is now letterboxed on the sides and the actual game elements got smaller. It isn't a very good use of screen space and actually makes it harder to play. I'm not sure why the developers chose to do this, but please switch it back—or at least make it a setting. I've had a lot of fun playing this game, but now I'm just annoyed by the new UI. Please let me use all of my pixels instead of this nonsense. Also, this was a pretty major change that I would have expected to see mentioned in the release notes. People do read them.

I like the game, and I really like having the Apple Arcade package so I can play games without constantly having to funnel money into them. The only negative that I'm finding is that for whatever reason, I don't have that much skill for the river race, and that is the only opportunity really except for the occasional bonuses to collect power ups, which are needed. I could probably do better with a joystick, but I'm playing on my phone. It is frustrating to not only not be able to get power ups that way, but to have over 10,000 gems, none of which I'm allowed to use to get power ups or to force a river race so that I can try to get more. Also, I tried to work the river race using a stylus, because I don't think my thumbs have very much talent, and that didn't work either. I have to try one more time to see if it just didn't work for me. In short, I would love it if they could function in some kind of way that works better when you're on a phone. Please, let me use my gems to get more power ups.

I really like this game and play every day. I have been having problems with gems piling up on top of each other in the same space or the app just freezing altogether. When using bonus items this is especially apt to happen which means the bonus items are lost and the level has to be replayed. I like the River run but the new trophy tasks have disappeared on my phone. I can still see them on the iPad so I’m not sure what I need t do to get them back. Also on iPad the app only plays in landscape mode which s fine but the arrows to control the raft are not close enough to the edges of the iPad so I end up having to put tie iPad on a flat surface and holding my hands above the screen. If the arrows were farther apart or if the game could be played in portrait mode like on the phone it would be easier.

EDIT: Looks like level 641 is unwinnable. There are blue fruits in the baskets, but those fruits can’t be destroyed by anything (at least not that I’ve found). EDIT 2: Same issue with level 710. Very solid match-3 gameplay. The mechanical aspects of the game are nicely polished and fluid. However, the game runs out of content quickly, leaving your character stuck at a “Cursed Waterfall” (which isn’t a waterfall…but I digress). You’re still able to play new puzzles, earning more gems. Which brings up another issue: gems are mostly useless. You can buy additional power-ups with them for 300 gems, but having almost 50k of them makes it pretty silly. Finally, there’s a really bad bug—often, when getting a large, often level-beating, cascade, the game hard locks. No choice but to close and re-open. All in all, nicely constructed and mechanically sound. Just needs more time put in to shore up some weak spots.

Let me start by saying, I think the game is fun and I’m enjoying the concept. However, I’ve got some feedback for the dev team. I’ve played many games similar in nature to this game, but this one is hard and it ramps up quickly. I’m not necessarily complaining about the difficulty, however, I’d love to see an “extra moves” option in addition to or to replace the “skip level” option when you don’t pass a level. The worst feeling is when you’ve gotten right there and just need one more move! I’m not a quitter so it pains me to hit skip. I’d also like to see smarter power-ups, specifically scarabs. Sometimes it picks tiles that wouldn’t change the outcome either way instead of eliminating a tile that actually needs to be eliminated. Like I said, overall good, but sometimes I feel like this game desperately wants to be a game with micro-transactions and it can’t be because it’s bound to the terms of Apple Arcade. Just my two cents!

I was so happy to find this game a few years ago--no losing lives, no timers to wait for, no ads every level. Fun game, some challenging levels, and a great story. It was perfect. I played it all the time. Then I finished the last part. I am now endlessly stuck in the treasure room. Forever. The story was the special part of this game. You knew the characters and helped them along. Then it disappeared abruptly leaving just level after level with nothing new and no hint of what happened to the story. It's so disappointing. This was a 5+ star game and now it's just repetitive with no real incentive to keep playing. I keep seeing updates for a "new mirror story" and get them, but I'm still in the same old treasure room. How do you get to the new stories you say are available? The treasure room is too repetitive to keep playing without any goal other than collecting more and more items .🙁 Please continue the story and bring back the fun!

I’ve played this game a LOT. Decent difficulty that makes you want to keep playing while not being too easy and boring. As long as there’s more levels, I’ll keep playing. Currently on level 1731 and would love to keep playing. Unfortunately, there’s a glitch where it’ll start showing you a random level instead of the correct one (i.e. instead of 1731 they’ll show me level 250). Usually it works for a while after an update, but it’s annoying and I hope it gets addressed permanently. There’s some issue where my Achievements weren’t saved in the Game Center despite finishing them all. If these are addressed, I have nothing bad to say about the game. Hoping the devs can incentivize power up use by providing more gems too, because that’s where the game really shines.

First, the game is a good relaxing time waster. It looks great and generally works well. The biggest issue is moving the gens or powerups. About 10% of the time, swiping them results in an opposite move. This could be prevented by always selecting and never dragging but that would take too much time. The problem is with powerups because those will move the wrong direction. I’ve had this stop a powerful combination at least 10 times now. I’m not sure what the fix for this is other than not swiping but again, that would add significantly to the time it takes to play a level. Some levels are not winnable without boosters. That’s okay but know that going in. It’s not always the “very hard” levels either. Some of those are quite easy.

Fun game, and I really want to finally hear the end of Guy’s story and figure out who the Shadow runner is! Unfortunately, I seem to be stuck in a room with all the collectibles from the game and a door with an eight or infinity symbol on it, locked by crystals. There seems to be no way out; No star counter on the door. I won probably 200 stars or more, but the only thing it lets me do is compete in the star leaderboards or whatever. And it says everything on the map is complete. I went to the developer website and started a chat, but no response at all in 24hrs. There have also been buggy levels that would completely crash, especially if I had a timer running on my phone and the notification banner popped up to say times up, and I’ve had Scarabs not hit anything relevant to finishing the level. Definitely needs some bug updates.

UPDATE: i'm very impressed with the rapid response on here..i didnt expect it..thank you! ..i updated my rating for that..i am now back to where i was (yes i play it a lot..lol) and see that the door opened and there seems to be more to do..thanks again after getting as far as i could and finishing all the trophy challenges i stopped playing for a while..when i came back on to check for new levels most of my progress was gone..i went to contact support and the only option is a chat..after waiting for who knows how long i gave up..i would give it more stars if it was so frustrating..not just from having lost all my stuff but from no response to the developers..it was a fav of mine till that..

Really solid matching puzzle game. I like the variety of powers from the different match shapes and the interesting interactions when you merge them. The story is tedious and the raft mini game is awful, but those are easy to ignore. Unfortunately, sometime in the late 400 puzzles it’s increasingly common for maps to seem only winnable with very powerful combinations, and replaying those until that combination comes together becomes tedious. Worse, after 505 they introduce a component that simply negates the cheapest combo. You can skip maps or use the (plentiful!) gems to just buy your way out of a level, it that’s not actually very satisfying. Still, I certainly got more than my Arcade subscription’s value for the month.

I love this game and play for hours - but, I am about ready to delete it forever. It seems that at least once a week, and sometimes more, it freezes and I have to delete and reinstall the app, almost always losing “points”. Now today, twice, I clearly completed the same puzzle, but it did not recognize it and did not award the win or the points or the special pieces I had won - and this is after using multiple gems to win! I pay for arcade so I can enjoy these games with out ads or additional payment, but may need to give this one up forever due to the months of frustration with these glitches. Today I was #12 on one of the contests, should have received like 10 boosters, but once again the game did not award them. Really frustrated with failures to provide promised rewards for HOURS of play to meet a goal, thendenied!

When I signed up for Apple Arcade, this was the first game I downloaded because it reminded me of Jewel Quest - one of the first really good Match-3 games. I also came from playing Sir Match a Lot for the past 5 years. The best Match-3 game out there. Unfortunately the level design here is not as great. Few things to mention: 1. Difficulty There are levels where you get 100+ tasks and you have for example 16 moves. You know this game is not designed well when you finish all your moves and you still have half the board to clear. Replaying the failed level doesn’t make it easier. In fact, it can sometimes be even harder, depending on your first moves. 2. No way to buy extra moves. If you are down to needing one extra move, you’ll have to replay the level. 3. If you fail 3 times, you get an option to skip the level. However there is a cooldown from when you used it last time. If you close the game, you have to fail the level again 3 times. If you keep it open, cooldown can be over 30 min. 4. Can’t replay levels you already beat. 5. Bonus tools that you make or buy with gems - sometime they work and sometime they don’t. This can be very frustrating. 6. Game is designed for micro transactions. You are just being given more gems.

It’s a fun lighthearted puzzle game but I have 3 huge criticisms: 1. On the harder levels the difficulty is often less about your cleverness, and more about your opening “hand”. On the hardest levels you basically have to be making solid progress right from the beginning of your turns. Pass about 8 turns without getting any good potential bonus matches and you’re out of luck. 2. You can’t backtrack and replay a level to try and 3-star it! Why are you arbitrarily keeping people from trying to do better on a puzzle? You can’t even scroll back through the level to look at the path you’ve tread. You have a play button and literally nothing else interactive. 3. This one is baffling. You earn gems but can’t buy anything with them OTHER than a booster on each level. All of those one-use special moves you can collect—can’t buy ‘em. There’s no “store” where you can use all your gems. I’ve got thousands of gems and no interesting way to use them. All of these things are just quality of life details that make a game like this more fun, and fully-baked. Feeling progress and enjoyment in a game isn’t just about “next level, next level, next level”.

Let me say this game reminds me of candy crush the bonuses and a little bit of bejeweled. I wish they made another on screen runner with new characters but this is just as fun…almost got stuck on some of the levels but still working on it and is really enjoyable. I wish though once you use your bonuses for that specific level that it comes back if you redo the level which it doesn’t do so something to keep in mind when using everything. Other than that great game. Also it’s odd not seeing the monsters that were in it..idk kinda weird that they just magically disappeared. But it doesn’t matter still fun! Ty for making the game! ☺️

I’ve been playing for some time and I’ve found some room for improvement: I lost count of what level I was on - it was in the 1000s, but the next level I advanced to took me back to level 700-something, and from then on all levels are previously played levels in random order. I am no longer advancing. Why is the main character stuck in the same doorway for eternity? Was someone too lazy to move her around? Having her take two steps forward and back forever looks ridiculous. Others have also noticed that no matter how carefully you swipe, the gems have a tendency to match the other way. There’s nothing more frustrating than being one move away from winning and not being able to “purchase” extra moves. While a good challenge can be enjoyable, there are way too many levels that are impossible to beat and frustrate more than entertain. I’ve noticed in some levels that some targets can’t be eliminated - not with matches or gems, which adds to the impossibility to complete the level. Overall, it gets repetitive the longer you play - more so when it takes you back to previously played levels for no reason.

I was going to say Thank You until I realized after being in that room for over two months you still want me to get a 100 Stars to Get Out of that Room?? I Truly Loved this game before they made it about tournaments. It was Fun and interactive while making your way through the Temple. The challenges always let you know how many Stars you needed to beat the challenge. Now I am going on three weeks being Stuck in this one room. So disappointing! Thank you for your responding! I took you back to 5 Stars to inspire you to finish the game. Just keep reusing the scenery you already have. That is better than being in that room!

UPDATE: Not two days after I submitted this review, they finally added another portion to the story that seems to add a new goal to work toward. Hopefully they will eventually add a “conclusion” so the game doesn’t feel like you’re on a journey that can never be completed. ——- Game goes through the effort of taking you on this journey and when you get to a certain point, the story just… dies. It’s been this way for months. There’s no ending to the story. You can still play puzzles forever, but don’t get attached to the storyline because you’ll be sorely disappointed if you do.

This game was fun until I got stuck at a wall that has a bunch of artifacts on pedestals. The wall looks like it has an infinity sign with a bunch of jagged purple crystals. Also, I will be in the middle of a game and just about to finish the level and the game freezes this losing gems I spent on the level. I have been stuck here for three weeks and nothing happens. In addition, Level 710 fruit baskets don’t remove fruit with the pickax, rocket, cannon or arrow or any of the power ups created within game. The corresponding colors don’t appear so you never clear the fruit abs this are stuck on the level after having wasted gems to buy power-ups to try to free the fruit from the basket. I have sent several emails requesting assistance and even started a chat on the app support but nothing. Please advise.

This is a typical match 3 game. Nothing really new as far as mechanics. The story design seems unfinished. I am currently in the “Treasure Trove” where the progress bar is inaccurate. It appears any story remaining is going to be the main character taking two steps over and over again in the same spot. The loading screen shows four characters. We only meet three. Even the title screen has a character that isn’t featured in the game. As others have mentioned, there is sensitivity issues where combos don’t work. I slide a bomb to the right and it moves left. Honestly, this feels like an unfinished game, capitalizing on an old franchise, that was basically dumped on Apple Arcade. If this were released as a normal game rather than through Apple Arcade, I would recommend avoiding.

Okay, so I’ve made it well over 700 levels, but I’ve noticed that the further along standing at the cursed waterfall, trying to complete levels, and watching the occasional chain reactions, that obvious and clearly stacked color combos that should have been producing colored skulls or other prized pieces, instead just broke up into far less desireable components. That I could accept, grudgingly of course, but the final straw was watching the final play on level 721, produce the final pieces to complete the level and then immediately forcing me to have to retry after it clearly had been completed. Assuming there was something buggy I uninstalled and reinstalled the game… lost it all!. Oh well, maybe I’ll revisit it again in a year or so.

Overall, this is a good puzzle game with a fun storyline. It’s a great time passer. I’ve been playing it for a while now, and I’ve enjoyed it a lot. But recently, the game has been buggy and glitchy. On some of the levels, when you have completed all of the required tasks for that puzzle, the game indicates that you still need to get one additional item to complete the puzzle and finish the level. So you are stuck in an endless loop of finishing the puzzle, with the game indicating you still need to complete one more thing. You cannot move on until you are given the option to spend 50 points and skip the level. It is FRUSTRATING.

Still no update and game is not giving daily bonuses!!! PLEASE FIX THIS!! Update-Game hasn’t given daily rewards in well over a week. I log in at least once a day and ever since I’ve been playing, there were daily gift boxes. Haven’t seen them in over a week. No point in me trying to report it as you have to do so via social media. Do not have Facebook…I wish developers would stop tying their games to fb. They are a corrupt company that suppressed voices and stole peoples data to sell ads. I do not like how difficult it is to report an issue. If you have no social media- you are screwed! Original review- I am currently trying to collect in achievements- create 15 scarabs in one puzzle. I created maybe 40 in one puzzle and it still didn’t give me the points or diamonds. Very disappointed.

Let’s be honest guys. You ran out of material after the infinity door and have not added yet. Asking for screen shots and such is really getting disappointing. You made a great game that is a lot of fun but we do need some new story material or you are going to lose all your fans. Can we get a real estimate of when to expect you to add more to the story or say if you are just going to leave it this way? People will appreciate it more than you playing stupid. At least we would play a bit more still if we knew what was happening with the game development at this point.

I’ve spent way more time on this game that I’d like to admit. I’m currently at puzzle 328 and I haven’t had to use any gems or power ups. I like the variety of blocks and that new variations appear even after playing a few hundred levels. The issue with inconsistent swiping mentioned by a different comment is real and frustrating when I have a combo lined up. Maybe have the game prioritize swipe towards a combo so this doesn’t happen so frequently? Another concern is that this game has used 100mb of data. Why does a puzzle game with no ads needs access to internet? Sketchy

Here is another classic example of a game that was clearly designed for in-app purchases which makes it very tedious to play at higher levels. Many of the levels (even ones not labeled as 'hard' or 'super hard') are WAY too difficult without powerups. You start out with a decent enough amount of stars, but they quickly disappear. You do get a paltry 10 stars just for trying a level, but most powerups are 300 stars to buy. Even skipping a level (a decent enough feature) costs 50 stars *after* you've attemped it several times and the cooldown has elapsed. Overall, it's a fun game but the lack of in-app purchases makes it frustrating.

The bugs have the worst AI ever. I hate combining them with anything because I know it’s going to make the worst move possible. All they do is make me want to avoid them. It’s like, combined with a bomb to destroy 4 things that need to go away, but it will head to the 1 thing instead. Also, the clear 5 things to pass is an instant skip. And, items that need to clear but are every other turns are really dumb. Hit the clam and you have one turn left to clear it and it’s closed? That’s so stupid. But when I skip these stages, I enjoy it.

Good game had fun playing it until the latest update. Puzzle 1572 has a game breaking bug. It asks to break 29 gold doughnuts, but there are only 28 so no way to win or complete the level. Also no way to skip it as the option does not present itself after playing the level many times like other puzzles. Please fix this in the next update so I may continue to waste time on this app. Update. I was finally able to skip the level and advance. Fun game and best part no ads.

The initial game when I downloaded it was interesting. Once the first three levels were complete and the main character was simply standing at the portal it became less interesting. At some point the games started repeating, so one was playing levels already played. Then came then came the addition of gems to the game play. When enough gems were collected the main character would simply describe what was happening to some other unseen character and there was no reward. BORING!! The levels where the characters are moving through the temple is worth playing but the ensuing gameplay is tedious.

This game is normally very fun. I play on my iPhone with a few problems not enough to complain about. But my iPad is a completely different matter. Every other level it freezes and you have to log out and log back in again just play that level. Even when you have the 30 minute bonus booster then it freezes like every level, every single level. It is beyond frustrating to deal with this so if you have an iPad do not download this game only play it on your iPhone. Update. Now on level 1569 and stuck. You clear the board but it is showing there is still one coin left to get. BUT THERE IS NOTHING THERE! Very disappointing. I have spent numerous gems going line by line and nothing. WTH!

I really enjoy this game and the way it uniquely uses the match-3 mechanics. I find that most levels take me a few tries but not too many, which is nice because the game is challenging without being frustrating. However, I do agree with the criticisms regarding the use of gems and the Cursed Waterfall (I’m dying for some story progression), as well as the feeling that this was originally a game with micro-transactions before it was put on Arcade. I look forward to seeing the team work out these issues.

I like it and been playing for years…but, 1) it’s skips during the river rescue on my iPad and iPhone, especially the further you get and it’s way too slow in the beginning. You almost don’t want to stop puzzle solving momentum to get through the first two very slow runs. 2) On the “board” there’s double colors and shapes on one piece. Is it a green diamond? Is it a blue circle? Happening less? What’s annoying is I thought the game’s glitches were because my iPad mini 5 was old and got very hot. I bought an IPad mini 6 it does the same thing. Please update this game more often.

Fun game that I play more than any. Story mode doesn’t matter to me, but it’s there if that’s your thing. I’ve been experiencing more bugs within the last few months. I’ve got tons of screen shots where multiple items are occupying the same space on a game board. I’ve also finished puzzle 1572 no fewer than 4 times, yet it continues to show there’s a coin left to retain, despite there being nothing but gems left on the game board. This puzzle cannot be completed because of this error/bug. 1572. Look at it. I’m done playing it until an update fixes these things.

A fun swap-style match 3 with a good variety of mechanics, but if you play this for the story you are going to be disappointed. The story basically ends after the jungle levels when you are presented with a door and no way of progressing. I guess this is a known issue, but it’s been known for a couple months with no solution provided, so that pretty much makes this a feature rather than a bug. If you are looking for a colorful way to pass a little time, you won’t regret picking this up. If you are looking for something with definite progress and completion, steer clear.

I’ve played this for a long time and beaten all the levels, but I still get a lot of enjoyment out of it. One issue, though, is that it causes my phone to run hot and runs my battery down super quick. I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, but after just a few levels, the left side of my phone gets noticeably hot to the touch. If I’m trying to charge it while playing, I get the notification that charging has stopped until the phone cools down. Not sure what to make of this, since I haven’t encountered this issue in any other phone games.

I was enjoying the game despite the many bugs I encountered with each sitting until I reached level 710 not to mention that there’s nothing further than the waterfall unlock. In level 710, there are no yellow and no green tiles and none of the special moves will destroy the yellow and green items in the baskets. To top it off, there is no skip feature button present like other levels I’ve encountered same issues with. Unfortunately, this game is now going to be a delete for me. Hopefully the developers can work it out for others.

I’m also stuck at the Sunken Temple trophy room. Apparently a lot of people are. How many months is it going to take for you developers to fix this? I’m sure I’m not the only person who has reached supreme boredom level. It’s illogical to keep playing UPDATE: I came back after being away for months to see if there was any progress as far as storyline. At first I thought there was because the room looked different and the big door was now open. I began to play only to realize nothing had changed, I’m still stuck in this room and no new storyline. I would like to know how freakin long does it take you guys to make any progress in this game. I swear I’ve been waiting almost a year.

Probably the best match 3 game I’ve played in a long time. Ample opportunity to earn power ups and gems, I’m on level 450 and have accumulated over 55k gems and have only needed to use 50 to skip a level one time. So many power ups I won’t ever use them all. Lots of interesting things happening in each level that don’t ever make it seem like you’re playing the same level over and over again. I love the river raft rescue as well.

Loved finding a puzzle game like this that didn’t have in app purchases looming around every corner, but what I got in replacement for that was tons of bugs and glitches. I’ve tried on two different files to try and get past the treasure room since I’ve seen people saying they’re on level 600+, but even on both I’m still stuck at a locked door. If that’s the end of the currently implemented maps, there really should be some sort of warning telling you it is. If it weren’t for all of the bugs, it would be such a great game.

I’m on level 645, and 641 was completely unbeatable, I had to skip the level. Now on 645 the balls glitch into the baskets, or the balls won’t move no matter how many times I make a match next to them. Being stuck at the waterfall is no fun either. Probably going to put this down for a few days again and hope you guys release an update soon that fixes all the glitched levels. The beginning levels of the game are a ton of fun, but it’s getting kind of frustrating right now.

Level 1658 has a bug. Even when you clear the board, the game says you have 1 block left. I’ve tried scarabs, skulls with bombs and other combos and nothing works. Still have 5 to 11 moves left. I have plenty of screenshots that show the board is complete. I thought this would be fixed in the last update. Please fix because this is one of my favorite games. I would normally score it 4.5 stars.

There’s a similar match 3 game that is designed to sell better chances to win thru special powers and more turns. That game is often so impossible and luck based that I will get stuck for days at a time on a single board. This game is challenging but not impossible. I can generally clear a board without any bonus powers in 3-5 tries. Sometimes you simply want something challenging without being impossible.

This game is incredibly frustrating. Most time, “very hard” puzzle doesn’t mean that you need skill, but rather that you need incredible luck and/or use all your resources to clear the “puzzle.” On top of this, the game will constantly hang or bug out. You’ll waste resource, time, get lucky, etc and then have the puzzle just hang or have it not do something, like clear a genie bottle block or row of compasses, etc. You’ll also get many times where you have one goal left and one turn and are happy because you saved a scarab, but instead of the scarab hitting the goal, it will fly off and just take a random gem. So frustrating and annoying.

I’m really confused about something. There was a good story line going and it was really disappointing to find out that after the 3 episodes in the lost jungle, there’s no more storyline or maps to go through. Will there be more episodes added? The story just abruptly ended without explaining what happened to Barry and what the whole deal with the shadow runner and the curse was and the whole backstory of what happened to Guy. It went into a bit of detail but not completely. But there was no answer to what happened to Barry.

This was a great game until I completed the first three storylines. Now I'm endlessly stuck in a room which only manifests treasures, with apparently no way to get out - no supporting characters - no storyline - and the only way to keep going with any real sense of advancement is to get 100 stars - which is a minimum of 34 (!!!) games if you do them all perfectly. So - why do you stick people in this no-story loop which is truly no fun and removes the narrative we've all been working towards? This is the oddest and most disappointing turn in a fun game I've ever had. Really frustrating and unnecessary.

This is a great game. Graphics are great. Puzzles are solid and the Story is great until you get stuck in the trophy room in front of this wall with an infinity symbol. And that's it. No end to the story, no nothing. I can still play puzzles but what happened? I've seen reviews from 3 months ago or before where the developers acknowledged the issue and said they were working on it. And there's been an update in the past month but this wall is still impassable. If that gets fixed, I'd update my rating that's for sure.