Bubble Shooter - Pop Bubbles Reviews

I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence but it seems the game has gotten much harder after the latest couple of updates. I’m stuck on level 1582, so I decided to update BubbleShooter to see if it was a bug. No luck with 1582 after the update so I tried dozens of older levels and they’re also much more difficult than they used to be. Many of the levels leading up to 1582 (like in the 1570s) were also extremely hard and not very fun. I had to buy several power-ups/extra moves to get through the last 10 or so levels, when normally I could get through the levels in a few tries without much need for power-ups (unless I really wanted to get a level over with).

Also this is a bit nitpicky but it’s annoying that the game asks if you’re sure you want to restart a level because you’ll lose progress. The game used to seem like it ran smoother before it asked that every time. Also almost every time I enter a level, even if it’s one I’ve completed before, the game tells me about the special kinds of bubbles in the level (like ice bubbles or the bubbles that turn to stone). It’s a bit annoying that this info pops up almost every time I play a level.

But mostly it’s a shame that I can’t move forward in the game anymore. This is my favorite Bubble Shooter app and I’ve been looking at other ones since this one has become too difficult to be fun (1582, for example, is so full of stone bubbles that fireballs and bombs aren’t even really effective).

I’ve been playing this game for years. I’m on level 4000 something I believe. I used to love playing this game but the levels have become nearly impossible to complete. Not in a fun challenging way but in a “we want you to spend money for coins” kind of way. For example, I’m playing a level and I have 8 shots left with 2 color choices. One of the colors I need 2 shots to take it out and the rest are the same color. The bubble options give me 8 of the same color instead of both colors. Then to add insult to injury It doesn’t give me the watch ad for more shots option.
Problem 2: when I have a few shots left and an ad will give me the 2 shots I need it says no videos left. Then I replay the level and I’m somewhat close but not as close as the first time I get the option for 2 videos. Make it make sense!
Problem 3: sometimes when you shoot the bubble it doesn’t go where you shot it, it goes a shorter distance and it only happens when it’s going to be a play that gets me an explosion or a fireball.
Problem 4: the new update added in the cards that give you extras, and then you get little packets and if they reveal your card 9 times you get that prize. All of my cards only need one more of that card family and for the last 2 months I don’t get anything from the packets. This game has gotten worse since I first got it. I don’t even recommend it anymore.

I never write reviews for anything but I feel this is important for people who are playing this game to know. This has been my favorite game for a long time and I would have rated it a 5. I was over level 1500 I believe. I love all the levels, challenges, card packs, etc…. Ive always been able to eventually beat the levels, even the extremely hard ones. However, I recently had a new 3-chest challenge pop up. There was a small medium and large chest. You had to beat 5 levels to open each chest for rewards. (Keep in mind, this wasn’t even the regular game levels) I moved fairly easy through the first 2 chests. I was on the last level and had used up most of my boosters and ran out of shots. I was DETERMINED to finish this challenge. I’ve never EVER made any game purchases, but thought what the heck, I will buy a few so I could finish the challenge and it would remove the ads, which I hated anyway. After, that I went back to regular game play and now all the levels are EXTREMELY difficult that they are unbeatable without making additional purchases. I’ve always been able to eventually beat the levels of the regular game but now, even with boosters it’s not achievable. It’s as if the game version immediately changed to a more difficult version once I made the purchase. I will not be playing this game anymore. This is deceptive and gaming platforms should not be allowed to do this.

This game works, and does exactly what I wanted it to do; pop bubbles. However, this game is designed to get you to either spend money or try over and over and over again to get to the next level while it throws endless “challenges” at you that are designed to be gateways to prevent progression. For example, at a certain level they introduce soap bubbles. The soap bubbles spread quickly and prevent combos. So if there’s a soap bubble and you don’t pop it right away (by hitting it with the same color twice), it spreads and covers everything around it. The game also seems to never give you the color ball you need to make that crucial play. If there’s 20 blues and only one red left, and that red is buried under layers of blues, the game will give you a near endless supply of red to fire knowing you cant even get to the one red on the board and when a single blue was all you needed to clear the level. It’s purposely cheaty to get you to buy those coins so you can afford the few power ups available to essentially cheese the level to get past it. And it limits the number of balls you get per level, so if it decides to screw you with colors you can’t use, to bad, better spend some money. Frustrating. It also drains your battery life like no ones business. Play for an hour and your battery is down to 20% from a full charge.

Edit: I reduced the stars since the developers didn’t address my 1st review and just dismissed my questions…… I’ve deleted this game !!

I like this game, but there are definitely some issues, if you’ve gotten all the way to the end and only need a couple bubbles, but all that’s left are colors you do not have. Do you want to talk about frustrating, you get all the way to almost the end, and then boom you don’t have any bubble colors that match what you’re trying to finish. Some of the levels that say they’re hard, are the easiest ones to solve, but then yet other ones that have no marking of hard kind of hard etc. sometimes it takes me days to try and get the three stars. I’ve now get given up on accumulating the stars, to me it means you completed it, beat it… So when you go through a whole game, and you’ve done it the first time, you’ve popped all the bubbles… And you still can’t get all of the stars to move to the next level. Yes I know that you don’t have to have the stars, but to me that’s part of the win in each level. Reading previous reviews, I see that many people have issues with this, I’m only at 1:57, I see people that are in the 1500s, saying that there is now an issue, I sure hope you guys fix it soon.

I never review games but I thought I’d leave an honest one for anyone thinking of trying this one out. Back when I started playing a few years ago it was pretty fun, with all the fun colors and sounds, not to mention the prizes and achievements you can get. But as of the most recent update, the game has been rendered nearly unplayable without coins. Some observations:
-You’ll be playing a level, and the game will give you colors that are unreachable so you can’t even use them, multiple times, wasting your “moves”.
-If you run out of moves, the option to watch an ad for 3+ moves only works 1 out of 10 times and you’ll often find yourself just watching ads for nothing. And weird ads too.
-When you aim to hit a color that’s kind of cornered off, the game will glitch landing it somewhere else, usually in the way of other colors.
Also maybe this is just me but sometimes the light blue and green colors are hard to tell apart when they are high up so sometimes I’ll throw a green and it’s blue. Anyway, the only thing that I guess is good about this game is that you have unlimited lives, but I can only imagine the cost if there weren’t...

All of the innovations added to this classic game are unnecessary, but a couple of them are kind of neat (bi-colored bubbles, black holes, reflective top surface). A few are dumb (chains, locks, slime, the mouth ones, etc). Others, like the "soap" are just awful. It requires you to get two bubbles in a row of the same color in order to remove anything, and levels with this stuff devolve into a pure game of chance. I have now reached a level where it genuinely seems impossible to progress without micropurchasing powerups. In bubble-shooter. I feel the concept of spending actual real-world money to beat a level of friggin bubble-shooter is just mind-bogglingly absurd, so this is the end of the line for me. In addition, for how simple and mindless the game is (and should be) there is WAY too much meta-gameplay. Constant pop-ups about "quests" and "playing cards" and "leagues" and other bs, and like eight different types of currency ch-chinging (you can't use it in-game unless you pay real money though). The net result is just that you have to click through twenty screens in order to begin each level. To add insult to injury, this extra-curricular nonsense is very buggy and BubbleShooter often hangs between levels requiring me to force-close it.

I was very much enjoying the easy play of this game. Something I could play without a lot of thought, and yet addicting. Perfect. Even the “super hard” and “extremely hard” levels were fairly easy. I always ended with many bubbles left over. So I bought the Starter Pack, mainly to eliminate the ads. Again, perfect….for a little while. Then instantly the game got extremely difficult to pass levels. I had a “first try” streak of over 275 levels. I used all my accumulated coins and power ups trying to save my streak. I could not, and then found out EVERY level is that difficult. I’m not sure if it was an update, or just reaching a certain level, but now I can’t hardly pass a level. I might just be done playing.

Update: what a stupid response from the developer! I complain the the game went from super-easy to extremely difficult in ONE level. In most games there is a gradual increase in difficulty. But this game—it was like a light switch was flipped. The response had nothing to do with my main complaint!

I have been playing this game for about a year now. It started out as a time waster for travel, but has become far more frustrating than it is worth to attempt that challenge. Not to mention it’s worth literally nothing to get 3/3 stars on a level. I don’t know if the ball bouncing off the grey line at the top was always around but it make the game much harder. I also feel like some levels it’s near impossible to get three stars even if you max out your power ups. Unless you want to put down some mad cash. I also feel that the game plots against you. I will be around 100 points from 3 stars with 10 bubbles left and a simple red will give me the win but instead it gives you every single color but the one I need. It’s even drawn 5 of the same color in a row which is BS. Also, the levels change each time you reset the level! What is the point of being a level if it changes every time you load it. This game is definitely fun and overly challenging at times. Do yourself a favor and avoid the challenge of getting three stars.

I do like this game. I’m good at it, i’ve been playing it for years and I am always in the diamond league and always get first place. I love it and play it a lot. But, sometimes it’s like the game forces you to purchase more moves. It purposely gives you bubbles that aren’t the right color at the very end of a level you’ve tried to beat 30 times, forcing you to either start over once again or pay $1.99 to buy more moves.

Also, it goes through phases where like 10 levels in a row will either be really easy, no matter what the game has labeled it as (hard, extremely hard, etc.), and then 10 levels in a row where they’re ALL very difficult, regardless of what they are labeled as. I’ve deleted the data and restarted multiple times (got to a level in the 3000s) because it forces you to purchase more moves. I know they do this to make it hard, but it seems scammy to me and I wish the moves were more random.

You always make me wait until the little goal bars fill up then you force to to open a gift than you force me to open a pack of cards than even more stuff has to go into the circles on the side or something and it takes up so much time in between each level and you also often make me open cards at the end of a level two and there’s a panda for some God forsaken reason and all of it is completely unskipable. I don’t wanna spend five minutes watching the achievements or cards or some panda or whatever the frick I just wanna pop some bubbles so please for the love of God just put like an “x” or “skip” button in the corner so I can just go straight to the next level because I like the level version but I hate all the stuff I gotta wait for between each level and it is slowly driving me insane and I am losing it please God just spare me from your Gotdamned cards and achievements and whatever the heck is going on I just wanna pop some bubbles

You will be doing good on any given level, and all of a sudden the game will only provide you with unusable bubble colors until you only have one move left. The game will then provide you with the color you need, but you will still lose. At this point the game will allow you to watch an add for 3 moves, unless it is possible to win in 3 moves. If possible to win in three moves the ability to watch adds disappears and you have to use ten coins to continue to play. This is in hopes that you will run out of coins and be dumb enough to spend real money on a cheating game.

Thank you for responding. Though I don’t think you guys understand the problem with your game, as several other people have had the same complaint. It is fine if a level gets harder, in fact that can make a game fun. What is stupid it when a level becomes impossible, because the only usable bubbles are red, and the game only provides yellow bubbles. That doesn’t make a level hard, it makes the level impossible.

Yes the game is free. Players are free to play the same impossible level over and over.

To keep it short, I’ll keep my complaints in 3 points.
1. this game subtly prompts you to pay to play as the level progresses. I don’t mind the increasing difficulty, but it becomes a problem when the color of the balls is what makes it hard. I have encountered the same situation where either I only had 4 turns left and the game continues to give me the wrong ball color, which in turn FORCES YOU to either use a boost, or restart the game. This essentially hinders progress unless you execute the level perfectly hitting every color, or use a boost.
2. The controls are beyond sensitive, often inaccurately landing from where you wanted it to go as you release. The path often shifts after the release of your finger, which makes it not user-friendly for players who have a harder time keeping a steady hand.
3. The pause menu during gameplay is not optimal. 85% of the time I tried to pause the game, it would rather shoot a ball towards that direction. The pause button needs to either be moved and have its size or sensitivity increased.

I have been playing this game for guile some time. I managed to make it to level 3000+ and there were no more levels to play and waited for more levels to be added, once the new levels cam in there were certain features that were removed. Like for example say you ran out of shots you would get up to 3 additional shots to use after watching 3adds for a total 9 shots. The problem with that would be there would only be one odd color bubble and you would use up your shots and then almost be forced to buy additional bubbles. Now that option has been taken away. Some levels give you the 9 shot availability but you can’t select the 10 more shots like it once had. Now it gives you one ad maybe or gives you a message saying “sorry there are no videos to watch”. Since this update has been applied and additional levels added it’s not worth playing as much as it was in the beginning. However, some of the new features are nice it becomes more aggravating to play. Some of the bubbles change color mid shot. I guess the developers will use whatever tactics they can to spend money on the game.

I’ve been playing this game since I had an iPhone 4 and its fun and I like the challenge with some that are almost impossible to beat. I would like to know why the “win extra shots” doesn’t work. I have played #3855 at least 15 times and get down to needing 2 more balls to shoot and cannot get a free extra shot to win the game without using coins. In the old days, you could win shots 3 times on every game. Sometimes very necessary to have the option but why have you taken it away??? Also the daily bonus time keeping is weird and will reset if there’s too much time past 24 hours.
The game is great, please keep it simple fun and still enjoyable with challenge, but not ridiculously challenging that it can’t be won without using too many bombs/ fireballs.
Thanks for creating this game

I have made it through thousands of levels beforehand and just recently downloaded the game again and all of the levels reset since I deleted the game a few years ago. I haven’t made it very far yet, this is day two and everything was going fine until level 65, I had made it through all of the previous levels with 3 stars beside this one where I got 1 star(I’m a little obsessive when it comes to getting all 3 stars). I replayed level 65 more than the amount of levels I have actually completed, I went through the levels and got past 100 and then I used my boosters to go back to level 65 and I finished it in 2 shots! I STILL only received 1 star for finishing that level in two shots. There is no possible way of finishing this level and getting all 3 stars and that is something that is extremely upsetting to me when it comes to gameplay because I can’t let it go and I become obsessed. I don’t know if I want to keep playing if it is going to continue like with impossible levels.

The game is challenging and fun but there are several things that are definitely misrepresented. If you buy 5 more shots you specifically say “get five shots PLUS a fireball. NOT TRUE!!! If you use the fireball you only have four shots. With your 15 coins you are buying 4 shots plus a fireball or 5 shots and no fireball!! I experience this with all 3 Bubbles games I play.

Another thing I think is wrong is that if we earn a fireball or bubble drop on the last play, it should be available to us before the game shuts down. It was earned during the game time and should be able to be used within that game time period.

Also, I don’t like getting bubbles over and over and over right behind each other in colors that are not even on the board. I am so frustrated when I’m down to the last ten shots and not one bubble is a color on my board.

Greetings,

I'm reaching out because I have been a faithful bubble shooter player for years and have finally made it to the Royal Hall! Although I was super excited to play that last level and make it to what I thought was the end, I was extremely disappointed to find out that there were even more stages to be played! You have to understand how discouraging discovering this was for me! With that being said, I guess my question is . . . can I actually win Bubble Shooter? If that's even possible, how many more stages is it? I mean, I would like to push through and play, but at this point, I really desire to know what I'm up against and whether or not I can actually play this game to win. Please, please, please get back with me and let me know something - I'm desperate.

Thanks!

I really enjoyed this game when I first started playing it, but after several updates I’m noticing that it’s getting worse through the additions and subtractions of certain features.

For example, at one time when you aimed a bubble, you’d be able to see exactly where it would land because there was a white bubble at the end of the aim line mapping out the path for you. You guys got rid of it, brought it back, then got rid of it again. What gives? I’m so sick of barely missing my target because there was no assisted aim.

Secondly, and I just recently noticed this today, why am I getting colors to shoot that are no longer left in the level? For example, Let’s say I have six green bubbles left and a few red and blue ones left. But the next two bubbles lined up for me to shoot are both yellow? Why? It’s a waste of moves and I end up having to restart the level. If there’s no yellow bubbles left, stop giving me yellow bubbles to shoot? Should be a no brainer.

While sitting in my car today waiting for a pickup order to be ready for takeout, I opened the game to play a couple rounds. But as soon as I opened BubbleShooter , the cars Bluetooth suddenly picked up as though I was on a call. I minimized the game, but the call stayed connected. I closed BubbleShooter (killed) and the call disconnected. I repeated this many times with my car picking up the call each time. Later, I tried it at home and not connected to the cars Bluetooth. Instead I was listening to music via AirPods but when I opened BubbleShooter , the music stopped playing and would only restart when I manually press play in Apple Music. BubbleShooter is clearly listening to conversations to help with targeted ads.... which makes sense since those ads are clearly targeted, but is really not okay since I never consented to this. To test this, just open the game and say something random like “adult diapers” many times over... the ads will show you adult diapers. This is just creepy and unfair and I’ll be deleting BubbleShooter for this reason.

This game is fun to play. I’m a fan. I love the weekend bonuses to gain more coins. I’ve completed level 2740 (no update so I can’t go any father) and it seems I’ve always have to wait another month for more levels to come out. I’ll try to be patient. The reason I’m only giving 3 stars is because when using the option to watch a video to get a few more bubbles to complete a level, either the video won’t play or it freezes up and I have to close BubbleShooter and lose my chance at completing the level. I also think that some games are ridiculously impossible to complete with so few bubbles to use, especially when the “watch this video to get more shots” doesn’t work half the time anyway. If these issues can be resolved, I will change my rating to 5 stars and update my review. Thank you.

This game started off as fun and addictive, but the levels have gotten much harder to a torturous degree. Let me clear: I think microtransactions are not fair; that’s what I grew up believing. You don’t always give a reasonable number of turns in a level, and most of the time we can’t complete them unless we watch ads and make microtransactions. I don’t mind the ads, but we shouldn’t have to resort to them in every level. The number of ads was reduced, making it even more difficult to finish a level. I don’t like how you didn’t provide additional turns via ads when you are ALMOST done and when you run out of marbles. You even took away the option of adding 10 extra bubbles away. However, with the most recent update, I am thankful that the developers have mitigated problems by offering more ads at the end of a level, but it is up to them to keep that steadfast.

Will you please stop removing the multiple 3-turn ads? I can’t complete certain levels without them!

Great game to play on go or quite day at home. Grandkids, ages 5 &6 love to play it also. Only bad comment is once you’ve played a couple of years, you run out of levels & need better way of earning extra shots besides watching ads or paying way too much for extras. Looking forward to new levels.
Update- use to love to play this game, but now it cost way too much because the rewards are smaller & they took away the 10 shots for 13 coins. The pkg deals are more also. If you want to play long at all it’ll cost you big time!!! I’m not the best player out there by no means, but I’m not bad. I’m about to delete BubbleShooter that I have had for yrs. Greed by the developers has ruined the game.

Every few updates or so the developers change the look of the game- the bubbles, the shooter, the graphics when a slime ball explodes. I haven’t noticed it slowing down gameplay or making things difficult. Between levels there’s usually an ad to watch; it was miserable during 2018 because every other ad was some political alt-right man sitting in his car yelling at his dash cam and holding up the bubble popping but 2019 is an off year for US politics and it’s not an issue.

Overall the game is fun but there’s been a recent update that I can’t stand- the leaderboard. I have plenty of games with leaderboards and queues and group play and this isn’t one I wanted to be one of them. I don’t care how fast Karen and Ahmad are advancing levels or finding beach balls, I just want to play.

The mini-challenges are another feature I don’t care for. One every now and then is fine and interesting but I seem to be trapped in some Royal Race of non-stop mini games about finding beach balls or baseballs or treasure maps. The graphics are distracting and going through the ranking after every level is time consuming. I enjoy the personal challenges (a prize every 20 stars or 80 fireballs).

If you enjoy microtransactions in game and want your bubble blaster to be a communal activity then this had evolved into a great app for that!! If you just want to pop bubbles with no other frills or fuss, this is going to annoy you.

This used to be my favorite game. My game got stuck after I had won all the levels and had just gotten new ones added about a month ago. I deleted BubbleShooter and reinstalled. The new version doesn’t have the same “rules” as before. Bouncing bubbles off the top now takes away from bubble count and you can no longer strategically use lasers to effect surrounding bubbles, a significant strategy prior to the update. Now the laser beam just incinerates your same color bubble with a puff of smoke. Very frustrating indeed.
Update: bouncing from the sides no longer effects the count
Lasers beams are still terrible and cannot be used as strategy
Way more ads than before and stars seem to be arbitrarily assigned
A level completed with over 20 shots remaining should not score only 2 stars but some of them do. Other levels give three stars with the first shot with many remaining it seems too random and illogical.

I really enjoy this game when pretty much all the time, but as someone who prides themselves on getting all 3 stars, this game can be a nightmare. Some levels require a specific order of colors to even get all three stars, and with the next color being random it becomes a game of tedium and patience. I think the random colors can be fun for some levels, but for others that you can’t improvise your way out of it is just a matter of luck. I really do want to try and get 3 stars on as many levels as possible but it just seems impossible without saving up for a bunch of extra stuff to brute force your way to 3 stars. If you just want to play some bubble shooter, classic or modern this is definitely one of the best games for it. If you don’t like waiting to get lucky enough for the game to allow you to win, then this might not be for you.

This game is super fun. And I love how it has continual levels that essentially never end. However there are some issues... one issue I have really is that you can log on every day and the most coins I ever received is 6. That’s it. You never get anymore than that. Extra coins cost 15 and bombs cost 29 coins. It’s pretty stupid. Another thing that is annoying is because there are a million ads. I understand you have to have them BUT sometimes it’ll completely reset the level, sometimes it won’t even finish the ad and I have to force close BubbleShooter . Also curious as to why if I use a bomb or a fireball it counts against my balls. Lastly when you run out of coins you have the option to watch a level for more balls or buy more balls sometimes it won’t even let you click that option ...

Please fix and this game will be AMAZING