Bejeweled Classic Reviews

I've had this game on my iPhone for years and never had a problem. Had to reinstall last week and it is littered with 30 second ads that pop up so frequently I don't even enjoy playing it any longer. Went ahead and paid $2.99 for ad removal but this did nothing for those insane in-game ads about other games I would NEVER play.
Don't know what EA is thinking other than to ruin the one game that provided distraction from the long wait times I have to deal with daily. And to actually take $2.99 from customers and NOT providing an altogether ad-free game- well, welcome to honesty in today's world.
Update- this was fixed finally a few weeks later.
As of this week, another new update and I'm dealing with the same crap- game ads that pop up that I have to stare at for 30 seconds before I can play a new game.
How is it so hard for BejeweledClassic developer to figure out I paid for ad removal???? Fix this crap. There's no need to trick people into paying an additional $ amount, if you're going to do that, just make it a monthly subscription!!! Sick of this.

Look, I get it, they gotta get their revenue from somewhere. But the amount of ads I run into is absolutely ridiculous. I get an ad as soon as the game opens. Fine. But then I get another ad as soon as I click which type of game I want to play. Pretty annoying to get a double ad when I haven’t even played yet. But it gets worse. If I lose/time runs out/no more moves, it offers to let me watch an ad to keep going. That on it’s own isn’t so bad. Where it gets bad is when if I click no, it makes me watch an ad anyways for no reward, and then makes me watch ANOTHER ad after I get back to the home screen and click on another game option. Not to mention that every time I think I close an ad, it forces me to wait another 5 second to click another x to close it, and each ad will do this multiple times. It makes me click 3 or more separate arrows/x’s to close one ad. I understand they need revenue, but this is too much.

Oh and the sounds and music glitch often. Sometimes the sounds and voice will stop playing, or the music will play when it’s not supposed to. What I’ve mainly encountered is sounds and voice not playing if I pause and in zen mode I’ll have the ambient sounds on, pause, and then the music will overlap the ambient sounds.

I would really love BejeweledClassic if it weren’t for the highly intrusive ads. There are more user-friendly ways to get revenue.

I opened the game, ad. Once the ad was over, I clicked one button to start a game… ad. I deleted BejeweledClassic immediately, before playing a game, before the 2nd ad in 1 1/2 minutes even ended, I deleted BejeweledClassic & came to write a review.

2 ads before I even touched a lick of gameplay, I don’t think that’s ever happened even on the cheap low quality ad ridden games. I enjoyed this game back in the day & was excited to find it on BejeweledClassic Store, just such a shame that it’s been souled out for in app purchases to remove ads. (I’m assuming, I couldn’t spend long enough in the main menu between ads to see if removing ads for money was an option) However, I see the game is 4 1/2 stars with 100k+ downloads, so unfortunately I know my thoughts won’t mean much. But in hopes that maybe someone will read this before wasting time to install, here I am to tell you, unless you’ve got extreme patience or money to throw at a free mobile game to be able to enjoy it, stay away.

I've have had this game since 2012. I've enjoyed it to pass time between classes in school and my breaks at work. The game has gone through many questionable updates these past few years with how adds are presented to you. For example, an add will display while you play (nothing wrong with that). What is wrong and a poor marketing decision on EA's part, is to to FREEZE the game while you play. While your game is frozen the add is the only moving part on the top part of your screen. You can wait 10 seconds or click the add and still spend about 10 seconds for you to get back into your game. This annoyance effects game play. The icing on the cake in late 2014, EA offer you to pay 2.99$ to disable all your adds, and they took that away regardless you purchased it or not.

I will never trust EA, or any company they own for providing in game services. They want your money. Wether it be micro transactions, or riddle if your screen with adds that freezes your game.

Simply put. They do not care, give them money.

Possibly one with less yellow gems??? There are a lot more yellow than any other color. It's not exactly my favorite but I have no choice but for it to be since it's all that falls down. And also I can't restore previous purchases. It’s been 5 years and for some reason, this game does absolutely everything possible to force my favorite gem to be yellow, which is by far my least favorite. Kinda ruins the game when it’s 99% yellow gems except when they could possibly be blown up by another color. Then it just doesn’t give any yellow gems. It’s so weird. Just remove that feature I guess. It would be more relaxing with more variety instead of forcing one color on you constantly through years and updates and different phones. I don’t want to play any new versions as I’m not too keen on having an unstoppable ad play after every move. That seems to be all these mobile games are.

* So now I come back to the game after a day and aaaaaaaallllllll my progress has been wiped again. This is a terrible game that needs to be removed from BejeweledClassic store, and I will be reporting it. No update in like a year, and I’m sure it was just a “bug fix” that didn’t actually fix any bugs. This game is a broken down shell of what it was around 2004.

Terrible, terrible, terrible game, with the extreme amount of yellow gems and all.

BejeweledClassic must have updated because I opened it to play and it asked me for my name and to pick a profile picture. I put in the name that I’ve used for six years and the same picture and hit Continue. But when the game opened up, it was back to Level 1!! The last time I played this game, I was Level 62 in Diamond Mine. Now I have to start all over again??!?? Whats up with that?? I’m trying to find the link to Restore Purchase to get back where I was, but its nowhere to be found. I’ve spent a lot if time getting to where I was and now its all for nothing. Please get me back to where I was or I may as well just delete the game. 😡😡😡

Update: now my Poker game wont open. The button is darkened and it says that the next Poker game is 00:00, which, in the normal world, means that I should be able to play my one game for today. When I click on it, Apple Store opens up with an option to purchase the unlimited version for $2.99. Really??!? What happened to being able to play one game a day for free?

When you launch a game, you don’t even get the title page with the name of BejeweledClassic all you get is an advertisement for another app that can’t be skipped If you accidentally go the BejeweledClassic Store thinking it would allow you to skip the ad, when you return to this game it restarts the ad. the ad lasts for literally 40 seconds before before it reveals a mostly obscured little x that is almost indistinguishable from the play again button. Then you get the title page where you can pick a game type. Then it loads another ad. Sometimes the same ad. This is not a game. It’s an ad generator and I’m filing a complaint with Apple to have this SPAM removed.

If I could give it negative stars for greed I would.

This is a terrible port of the classic flash games from Popcap from back in the 1900s. Now they are just raking in the ad revenue by forcing you to watch ads. And not just any ads, the long 30 second ads with the tricky and hard to find close box. I absolutely loved Popcap and I cannot express my dismay about their latest decisions to place so many ads in their game. I will be deleting this and installing any of the 6 million or so other games like it with less ads and more features.

Got in one round and had to watch three commercials to get there ?!!!! what did you do to my game? You rapped it. put it back to where I can actually play and not watch the freaking commercials and I might reload it again!! give me a choice on whether I want to watch them don’t force them on me!!! Byby!!!! Uninstalling I tried contacting Support and I got the runaround I signed in with Facebook and still they wanted me to sign in jump through all the little hoops just to get to the submit button which will not submit. So here’s what I said to BejeweledClassic support that did not listen. I just wanna know how you could have so many games and no support and just give us nothing but commercials and if you read any of the apps reviews you would do something about making us feel like we’re getting nothing but spam phone calls from your games now I’m deleting it and logging in through Facebook does not work with you people anymore take your commercials and shove it waste of my time can’t even submit

The only redeeming quality of this game is that you can play endlessly without having to wait for "life points" or whatever to refill. You can restart as much as you want without the BS money gimmick of needing some sort of life/points refreshment.
That being said, there are A LOT of issues with this game. The ads - holy crap, I have never seen a game with so many ads. They're in every little space, every "cutscene," every reload. It's extremely irritating. I know there's an option to pay for no ads, but why put money into a game that the developers don't seem to care about?
The butterfly game is good for when you don't want to worry about a clock, but there's this infuriating issue where if your butterfly is snatched and you watch an ad to save it and continue playing, it STILL ends the game. So basically it scams 30 seconds of your time to watch an annoying ad for something you don't need or want. And that's just one of the many bugs that probably will never be fixed.

I've been a big fan of Bejeweled Classic since I found it included in the freeware that came with my flat-screen iMac over 20 years ago. It's been one of two steady go-to games on every iPhone I've had. I've never experienced the kinds of problems I've seen in reviews here, though there have been UI issues on my last two phones.
All that seems to have changed with the latest update. A big problem is that the game board is suddenly half the size it's always been, an inexplicable change, as far as can tell. It's still playable, but barely. Restarting it didn't change anything, so it doesn't appear to be a glitch. A much bigger problem, however, is that the game now quits abruptly after about 10 seconds.
Deleting and re-downloading didn't help. Just erased all my data, of course, but I'm not real concerned about levels. I reached the end of them a long time ago.
However - I did discover something new. I hadn't seen the developer's privacy policy before. It is, in a word, unrestricted. Tracking and data sharing are completely unlimited. This alone might be enough to make me delete the game. I had no idea over all these years that it was so permissive. My fault, for sure, for not checking, but I haven't looked at BejeweledClassic on the store for years.
So, I guess this is (a long) goodbye to an old friend who seems to have gone to seed or something. I'll sure miss the it.

I have no issue with the game normally- I was addicted to it for years. I would give it 4 and a half stars. But I kept running into the same problem. Whenever I got to a far enough point, the entire game would reset and I would lose everything. Levels, achievements, high scores- everything. It got to the point where I refused to open the game because I was so afraid that it might have deleted my progress. And on the leaderboard it will show every single old high score that you have- under the names that you used. And it just makes you start over, like they can’t put you back in where your old score was. You just have to put in a new player name and if you try and put in your old one, it says that that name is already taken, when that former account is no longer accessible. It drives me nuts and I can’t keep playing it like nothing is wrong if they don’t fix this issue. Especially because you can’t link your account to your Facebook or google account, so it’s impossible to save progress. Normally I love this game, but between these issues and the amount of ads you get if you don’t play without Wi-Fi… it’s just not something I can enjoy anymore like I used to. Step up your game PopCap!

I recently discovered this game existed through a port on VRChat, and i eventually started spending a lot of time playing. i thought to look for it on mobile so i could play it at any time and i was pleased to see that there in fact was bejeweled on BejeweledClassic store. i began to play it, and still play today quite often, or at least as often as i can. it keeps me occupied, and is slowly gaining ranks as my favorite game/hobby. though, sometimes there are updates to the game that add certain items to your account like shuffles and other boosts. however, with these updates comes an unfortunate downside. every time they update the game, it seems to clear my profile. it changes my profile picture back to default, removes all of my badges, and resets me to rank one. i love this game with all my heart, but it’s getting somewhat irritating that all my progress is being erased. i’ll keep playing, of course but would very much so appreciate it if my progress wasn’t erased. thank you. 🩵

Bejeweled is a fun time wasting game that quickly made me glued. I do have some issues however, that sometimes when I game over, the screen freezes and i have to exit, loosing all the high scores and badges I may have earned that particular round, but, it’s only happened once or twice in the 5 years I’ve been playing this. I am a fan of the new ice mode, to say the least. And, although some said the adds were distracting, jeez people loosen up! It’s a FREE game with all but one of the modes! The only REAL issue I have is with Poker. It’s not that fact that you only get 3 plays, rather, it’s the fact that between versions, poker has seemed to skyrocket in difficulty. And it’s not me being a noob, either. I’ve seen many reviews complaining about this too. But who can’t go wrong with a game of bejeweled?

**Update: Ads are gone, and I’m thrilled! Bejeweled does a great job of producing new variations alongside classic that are all equally enjoyable! The blend of sounds and graphics/visuals are pleasant satisfying. Still my top favourite app game!

I love Bejeweled. I've been a big fan for many years and used to play it and Peggle on the computer.
I don't usually like paying for game apps, but my love for Bejeweled at a great price made BejeweledClassic purchase totally worth it! All the games are fun and engaging to play. However, I suddenly have ads again after updating my phone. Having been playing for so long without ads, I find them very distracting and irritating. And the price to remove them is more than I paid to buy it initially!
I'm exceptionally disappointed, and I hope it's something Popcap will recognize and fix.

It would be nice if the game did like the old days where you could play one game to the end or timed or continuously earning shuffles and gem deletes to keep going. This one has levels with graphics so flashy and busy I don’t want to watch and frustrating to wait for next level to come up. Watching an ad to continue after reaching a no-more-move point isn’t so bad, they gotta get $ support some where. Also right in the middle of a move BejeweledClassic freezes (funny how ads still stream across top) forcing you to swipe it off and reopen, select which type you were playing, press continue, and play till next time it freezes. There is no timing of the freezing, could be minutes or seconds. I am not one who plays all day long usually just while waiting on an appointment or for someone so the freezing is very frustrating for me. And yes, I do have the latest iOS.

Hi this is Dan here, I like Bejeweled and bejeweled HD BUT! When you guys add new elements to your games YOU HAVE TO STOP RESETTING THE SCORES BACK TO ZERO! I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF IT! LEAVE THE SCORES ALONE! Do not touch the scores! When you add new things to the apps LEAVE THE SCORES WHERE THEY’RE AT! NOW!, for a request. I would like to see POPCAP GAMES create the next time they do an update for both apps a ZEN 2! What I mean buy that is, set it up JUST LIKE REGULAR bejeweled BUT! Here’s the kicker every new round have the point values GO UP! 50 points the first round, 100 points the second round and so on and so forth, BUT! When the player runs out of jewels to match, KEEP ON CREATING new grids of jewels to match so that the player can KEEP ON PLAYING for as long as he or she wants to! HOW’S THAT for an idea! Now please get this message to the people at Popcap games. Thank you.

I have played this game for years my favorite all to go back game. I love the butterflies and the poker it is so I can’t stop playing it and then I have to wait at 5:24 hours. I have it downloaded on multiple phones. This is the best fun I’ve ever had. I’m just recently had to delete BejeweledClassic again because it has bugs in it. It freezes really bad when you wanna play it. I play it so much that it freezes on my phone and I can’t get into it. I have to wait so I have to delete BejeweledClassic for a while and then I can re-download it. I wish they would’ve fixed that because I love this game and I play it so muchthat I freeze BejeweledClassic out you know too bad you guys used to be number one but you gotta make a better game that can be played more

Popcap! I am very much an avid player of this game. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy your game, but I recently got a new iPhone 15 Pro Max phone, and every time I try launching the game, it gives me this weird cropped window like the game is somehow acting up. It was working fine on my older 12 Pro Max, but now that I got this phone, it is somehow acting weird like it might be a compatibility issue. Would you please work with it and try to fix this? I would sure hate to delete a game that I have been playing for so long, much less supporting ya’ll with the purchases that I made into it. For now, I’ll let it hang out, in hopes of seeing some more updates for it put out. I dearly wish to hang on to the game if I can. The relaxing gem matching in Zen mode, the Diamond Mine, Poker Mode or the Ice Storm. Love these especially. Other than that, I sure hope that these issues I’m having can be fixed.

Bejeweled has been with me for a while. My dad had an iPad (that I still have lol) that he gave to me to win him a game. He didn’t actually need help. He was just like my mom, on level 300+ but not on candy crush saga. Couple years later, we just stopped. He deleted BejeweledClassic , (he wanted to delete it, he just got a bit bored and unchallenged) lost all his progress, and passed the iPad to me because he got a MacBook. I reinstalled BejeweledClassic on my phone two weeks ago. Still as I remember, but a bit harder. Zen is my favorite mode. It’s amazing how you can just calm down and match with those soothing noises when the gems clad together or you get a supernova gem. I love Bejeweled, but I wish it wouldn’t crash. The more I use BejeweledClassic , whenever I go into any mode, (Zen, ice storm, diamond mining, ect.) everything freezes. It’s weird, but it’s not too often. Other than that, I’m obsessed. Barely any ads, it’s calming with sound effects (THAT YOU CAN TURN OFF), and so much more. It can be thrilling when your timed, but soothing when you have anxiety. I would rate it 5/5 stars, but for me I don’t like the ever-so-often freezes. Thanks for reading !

This is what I call a REAL Match 3 Puzzle Game, NOT stupid fad scam games like Royal Match which is WORSE than Candy Crush because they get you to waste money on constant purchases and it has ADs that contain RED FLAGS which get you to something foolish.

Your game has ADs which can be removed forever, with a one time purchase and I thank you for this wonderful masterpiece. I recommend this game to those who have the misfortune of playing games like Royal Match & Candy Crush. Those who were in the ADs with Red Flags are nothing more than actors who work for greedy business men who want to distribute "Adware" and ruin your privacy, because I know my NetSmartz.

In short, I love this game so much, I recommend this to people who play Royal Match.