Tile Busters Reviews

I was trying to decide why this game is so addicting for me. I think it’s because it occupies my mind just enough to be a distraction - but also doesn’t require toooo much thought. Great for a mental break. I paid for no ads. Look forward to the card trading that is coming. Sometimes it’s the little things - the little contests etc - that give me just the small break from real life that I am looking for. I really enjoy this game!

This is a fun game, and it’s right up my alley. I even paid to turn off the ads. However, as the levels progress it starts to get to a point where you have levels with tiles all stacked up on top of each other. In order to win these levels you have to rely on luck, or spending lives or power ups because if you guess wrong, your done for. I like logical puzzles, but when it turn to luck, I’m turned off quite a bit. If you can fix these levels to remove the “luck of the draw” mechanics, you will have a VERY good game on your hands!

This is a very addicting game! I never spend money on games, but I decided to purchase a few extra coins and shuffle options, etc. for this one. I immediately regretted it because as soon as I tried to shuffle, the tiles stopped moving, so the only way to beat the level was by using all the moves I had just purchased. They should’ve lasted a long time but there was some glitch where spending money seemed to break the game. No response from developers when I opened a ticket. So, this game will be great as long as you don’t spend any money on it!

They are constantly trying to get you to buy coins, but you can “X” off all of them. Sometimes it’s like “JUST LET ME PLAY! DANG!!!” They don’t make you watch ads for other games unless you want free lives. I do recommend this game/app. Highly addictive. I have it on my iPad and iPhone (2 different accounts) so I can keep playing on another device while lives are re-generating. A++++

It’s refreshing to be able to play a game all the way to the end without loud advertising popping in and interrupting your thought process. There is still advertising, which I don’t mind, it’s when they barge in on you in the middle of the game that I don’t like. I am enjoying this. Thank you

Advertisement shows screen full of dice to match which was not in the game. Starts off matching like is shows in the screens for the game in App store. I wanted to play the screen full of dice. Played 20+ rounds hoping I would get to this level. I don’t know if it is a much higher level or in the game at all but THAT is what I downloaded to play so I was really disappointed. Ended up deleting because it’s not the game I thought it was. Please advertise the short play so people don’t get disappointed looking for the screen of dice immediately or change to game to the advertised dice play. Just my opinion.

Update: REMOVE THE STUPID FROGS!!!! All they do is block moves until you fill up the blocks with other tiles until you lose. This doesn’t make it challenging in a fun way AT ALL!!! It’s the absolute worst addition to the game. Reducing stars for this for sure.

I really enjoy playing but wish there was a way to bypass or stop timed levels. It turns an enjoyable game for me into a stressor and I hate them. Also as some others have stated, way too many extremely long ads. If this is what keeps the game free, I can deal with them but they shouldn’t have to last forever.

I’m not paying to take the ads off, so I’m going to stick with the game Royal Match, no ads and you build points and extra time really fast. My other few games have no ads either. I’ll keep this one up only to see if they get rid of all the ads but won’t be playing till they do or I’ll just delete it. I’ve told others about the game because I do like it but also told them about all the ads and they won’t even open it now.

I appreciate the need for advertising. Everyone needs to get seen. This game is very similar to the ads that brought me here and similar to other games I have played but I don’t think advertising and bait and switch should be synonymous. As such tactics go, this is one of the least offensive, it still qualifies though. I am enjoying it but it would be better if it was properly labeled.

I loved playing this game but unfortunately can’t really play anymore because it crashes constantly. It specifically crashes when I open it and the pop up for the Bronze event comes up. I emailed seeking support but didn’t get a reply. Even when it worked, the amount of ads and pop ups when you open it was obnoxious, but I understand it’s to support the free version and it seemed worth it. But now I’m just frustrated and downloaded a similar game instead.

While the game and its concept are fun (I’ve played the type before) I downloaded it through an ad that showed a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT tile game. Where you matched them as the tiles MOVED and had a risk of not doing so fast enough before they reached a certain line. Deleted after 4 levels since it wasn’t what I was lead to believe it was. Severely disappointed, not because it’s a bad game, but because they lied to me about what it was even about. Why not just show an accurate advertisement??

Unfortunately the developers of TileBusters were thinking more about making money than gaining followers and positive reviews. You can only get so far in this game without dumping dollar after dollar into it to only be stuck on the same level. It’s impossible to pass certain levels without additional cheats, which cost money, or more lives, which also cost money. Great money maker for you but frustrating for us average folks.

I love this game. I hate match 3 games. This is a match 3 game that’s done in such a way that it doesn’t feel like one. Well done. Seems to be plenty of room for more content, but fun as it is without having to pay.

Pro: Tile play is fun and different. If you purchase the game, it says it will get rid of ads.

Con: 1) If you accidentally trigger an ad, you can’t get out of it. In the timed races, that’s bad. 2) The activities between games encourages purchasing card packs to collect stuff, just to have it (or trade it). But winning cards is hard. 3) Winning levels gets you “hammers”, that let you hammer at town locations to reveal them. That isn’t gameplay any more than when (as a kid) you hammed pegs through holes. At a certain age, you expect more. 4) I passed level 100 and there was no game story to connect the cards to the hammered towns , or even to the player.

All the extra stuff between tile levels made the game unenjoyable.

I will be deleting.

This is such a great game. The only problem is the ads and how they don’t give out enough free game time or barely any gifts. That’s what compels me to spend money is if they are giving something too. But if all you want is money for every single thing without giving something substantial back then you are like a thief. I never stay long with apps that operate like this but for the time being it is a really nice game.

I really enjoyed this game and basically played it most of the day and had fun. Now I have reached a point that you have to play fast before the bombs go off. That has completely taken the fun out of the game. Adds a level of stress and failure that no longer is relaxing. Please take those bombs out and let us keep enjoying this game!!

Just discovered and love it! Then the silly car race started crashing at he app and I can’t make it stop. Have deleted and reinstalled so many times. I’m already at level 145 and there is no way to reach support. When I click on support, it takes me directly to their career page. So frustrated with TileBusters. Have looked everywhere online for support. What I have discovered is this seems to be a VERY REGULAR OCCURRENCE. Save yourself the frustration I am experiencing and move on past this garbage app that nobody is watching.
Screw Spyke!

I was lured in by an actress on FB stating that TileBusters was ad free unless you wanted to watch to get more points. That is a blatant lie!!! Just like so many other apps once you hit a certain level there is a lengthy add stream that you HAVE to watch to keep playing. So disappointed because I am hooked on this game and I didn’t see any ads unless I requested to watch them. Don’t believe everything you see on FB! 🤬

Like lots of others, I downloaded this game based on social media postings on the part of the developer advertising a completely different game. The game shown on both Instagram and Facebook is NOT the game linked in their posts. It’s a bait & switch and one that I’m sure they’re well aware of. It gets people talking & the algorithms keep bringing you back to it. They’re banking on the fact that you’ll download the game and play it hoping you’ll stick with it & forget that they baited & switched. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME IF YOURE LOOKING FOR THE DICE GAME. IT WILL NOT WORK!!!!

I enjoy this puzzle so much. It relaxes my mind, body and soul. But the only thing that I don’t like about this puzzle is the ads which are being shown over and over again. At some levels the puzzles are very challenging. I just love challenges. Try it you will love it. I promise that you will.

I’ve made many in-game purchases because I found it enjoyable. However, I recently purchased the Summer Journey feature that runs for 15 days. I had banked up over 4.3k gold coins (5 coins for each level). However, after the feature ended I should have been able to collect those coins but when the feature finished, it just disappeared and I could not collect the coins.

I’m not sure what caused this. I did do a game update before opening the game and that is when the feature was gone. The timer ran out overnight while I was sleeping. Perhaps the update caused this. In any case, I contacted support and after 2 days was told their developers would look into and restore any coins I lost. That was 3 days ago and they will no longer respond.

I paid for something I did not receive and while it isn’t that much money, it is frustrating. So instead of keeping a customer who would have made many more purchases I guess I’ll have to find a different game.

There is a lot I really like about this game and a few annoying things too. I did pay for ad free and it was completely worth it. I also buy a few things here and there. The puzzles themselves are great. I do feel as I get to higher levels sometimes it’s easy to get stuck (oh those frogs!!!) and that’s OK, just enough though to make me frustrated to stop playing for a bit. My new favorite thing is the Puzzle Calendar and if I could find that as a game by itself that I could pay for NO ads on it I totally would!!! Please consider that. I love those puzzles in the calendar but the ads to play back days is quite annoying. Wished I could get rid of those. All in all it’s a very good game and I don’t even mind all the “shop” things as I know the developers just want to get paid for their creation. I never mind paying for quality.

I have now FINALLY passed the level I was stuck on for so long. I had run myself out of coins and tools so could not even play the calendar games to finish July. Now that I’ve moved on and have coins again, I can not access July calendar to finish it. Oh well. I would still like to see awards given in sets of 2 or 3, or 5 like some other games. Or, the ability to earn more coins somehow. 10 coins for passing each game isn’t a lot when you look at the price of the better tools are 240 coins and up!

UPDATE: support finally responded and said they had added the coins I was owed. the coins STILL have not been added, which I wrote back to inform them days ago…

this game, while fun, is definitely out to SCAM you! there is a game within the game called Gold Pass. if a player pays $8 of *actual money*, the Gold Pass game keeps track of how many coins are earned during the promotional period, at the end of which the player is supposed to open a chest and receive the earned coins. THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN. the promotional period ends, the Gold Pass game disappears, and the player has been scammed out of $8. any attempts to get help from the game creators using the Support tab go unanswered. I sure wish this wasn’t the case because I have given the game creators HUNDREDS of actual dollars. so I guess the scam is working well enough that they don’t need to do right by their players. just be smarter than I was and DO NOT FALL FOR IT!

While I like the concept of the game, I’m a little frustrated by the Daily Puzzle calendar. It used to only make you play the day once to get credit for it, and now I have to play it 5 times before I get a check mark? Also, when it was already September 1st, in the game it still had the August calendar, but still let me do the first day of the challenge, yet they fixed they calendar the next day, and I then had to watch an ad to play the first level again. Small annoyances, but still annoyances nonetheless.

I’m really enjoying this game and as it turns out, if you can count to 3, there’s not too much strategy involved. I play it at night before I go to sleep sometimes, instead of coloring or watching pimple popping videos. I find the repetition very soothing and I fall asleep usually after 2-3 games.
If your just looking for something that’s easy and doesn’t require too much thought, this isn’t the perfect game for you. Like I said before, you just have to count to 3!

This quickly became my favorite game, until it froze a couple weeks ago. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times and have yet to get it to work again. I thought maybe it was just me, but then my girlfriend also started playing the game and got to about the same amount of progress before it froze hers too. I paid to not have any ads (I know, silly purchases, but this game genuinely was worth it) and now I can’t even play. I’m hoping a future update will fix it or that someone from their team will see this and help me out!! I keep wanting to play but it just won’t load!!

I absolutely adore the game itself. Could play the levels endlessly for hours. But my problem is that I HAVE done that, and now the levels are in the 2000s, and there’s no way to reset the game to the beginning, which is what I’d really like. At this point it takes like 50 levels to make any progress on building the towns, and the level of rewarding feelings from the game greatly diminishes, when it’s this tedious to make any progress, measured in the game by completing these towns.

One other major thing I wish was different was that as much as I love building the towns, there’s no way to view towns you’ve already built once you’ve moved to the next. I’d love to look back on them.

If these issues were fixed, this game would be absolutely perfect in my eyes.

I am loving this game soo much! My only complaint is that it takes FOREVER to get new lives and there’s no option to watch free ads or anything to obtain more. I rarely get the unlimited free lives booster but when I do, I can play as long as it lets me without losing interest. I wish there was more opportunities for free lives, option to not pay real money for more lives but instead watch an ad or something and that the time between getting a refill lives went quicker. I also feel like it’s hard to save enough money to buy the better boosters.

Love the game. Became instantly obsessed after my daughter had me play a level on her phone. I downloaded and was playing constantly in my free time. I even Paid for no ads. Then yesterday for seemingly no reason the game won’t let me play. It would load the main screen with none of the events on the sides. Wouldn’t let me click on the level or anything. Just like it was frozen. I uninstalled and reinstalled TileBusters . Now it won’t even load. Just sits on the title screen saying “Loading” the entire time I have TileBusters open. Would be 5 stars but I can’t play anymore now.

This became my new favorite game and I even paid to remove the ads. I was able to win the streaks and it was so much fun to play. Now it’s almost impossible to complete certain levels. I’ve almost depleted my coins and it takes 2-3 boosters to complete levels. The tiles are the same if I try again on a level. It would be nice if they changed a bit. I’m going back to playing Royal Match because it’s fun to play, has no ads and the tiles change so I’m not stuck with nothing to play.

I’ve spent too much money on this game. We are rewarded 10 coins for ALL games no matter the level of difficulty. It cost 250 coins to continue a failed game. The math ain’t mathing. We earn stars that we can’t use. What good are they. Stars should be able to be used to continue games or to purchase life lines. It cost more coins to continue a game than it cost if you actually win a game. You are forced to spend real money when you are progressing in the beanstalk then they hit you with a really hard game or timed game and you loose all progress you made.

This game is really fun and has brilliant pvp mini games that I really enjoy. I would give TileBusters 5 stars but, if it weren’t for only giving you 5 lives and having to wait 20 min to get another I would enjoy the game more.

At least put the time down you have to wait to get lives or give us more. I should be able to solve a puzzle without having to wait constantly to try again.

This is a very addicting game. I played this everyday to sharpen my mind. The annoying part is (sometimes i even want to delete the game)… you need to spend more than triple the amount of coins than what you win just to be able to proceed with the next level or at least finish a daily game. Why can’t you give more coins for players to win and spend them just the right amount on how we can proceed to the next level?? Like for the daily games, i have to spend like 50 or 100 coins just to finish the level and then you only get 10 coins if you win??
Come on developers, don’t be too cheap on giving away more coins or at least make the next level cheaper!! So i can invite my friends to play this.

I enjoy this game, but it’s near impossible to play without spending money. Either they don’t give you enough time so you have to use coins to extend the time, or they is no way to beat a level without using an item. This would be fine if they gave you more than 10 coins for beating a level. I’m okay with a game being hard, but it shouldn’t be impossible without spending money. I did pay to remove ads, which helps but only getting 10 coins is making the game less fun. Also, the cards are pointless because it’s incredibly hard to complete a set. Once you complete a set, the reward isn’t ready worth it.

I would play this game on the daily if I could. First of all, Elijah Wood advertising it was reason enough. My childhood crush telling me how it would make me smarter was a bonus by that point! 😂. I was traveling on a cruise ship when I first played and while all my other mobile games wouldn't work because they need Internet while this game allowed me to play 100 levels before it made me do an update! This feature was a life saver during all the hurry up and wait that is traveling these days.

While I had no internet, I don't remember BBTbeing shown any ads. I saw a couple ads before leaving for my trip and then that was it... Once I no longer connection, I think the game tried to show me a blank screen once? It was wonderful!!! Unfortunately, now when I play... Ads happen immediately and between almost every round. The rounds get progressively harder, but some rounds are completely based on luck of the draw cards which I think is unfair because then you're forces to use your bonus items - some of which I’m still confused on what they do LoL.

Over all 4/5 - it should be a 5/5 but I'm not paying $6 to make it ad free. And also... Some of the game art makes me feel slightly uncomfortable. Hard to explain. 😂

Fun game that challenges your mind.

I’m rather taken with the game. I feel challenged and with my health that’s a good thing for me to need to think. So overall I love the game! Drawbacks…not much but for the month of October I only had to clear one challenge a day to receive that days ✔️ but so far for this month there’s five for each day and they get harder each one. That’s a little excessive just to push us towards not completing the month and winning the big prize. Too on the card collections. I’ve gotten every card in more than one category EXCEPT one! Therefore keeping that collection prize just out of reach. Yes it says you can trade but mine says it’s not available. Therefore I didn’t feel it deserved 5 stars.

I absolutely loved this game played at two or three times a day while I was recuperating from surgery. Then all of a sudden I got stuck on level 150 I’ve tried eight or nine different times to get past that level and I can’t. So right now I’m ready to just remove TileBusters from my phone. Since I can’t get any further, I’ve lost interest, so I’m ready to just remove TileBusters .

Extremely fun game but I wish the tiles would change themes every now n then. Also wish the amounts of money you won for each thing was just a little bigger. N lastly I wish customer service was more helpful in getting things fixed when accidents happen but they literally told me oh well we don’t know what to tell you n never reached out again after that.

I’m addicted to this game…play it every day. There are a couple things I’d love to see changed though…the stars…are they actually useful???
The trading cards…can’t actually trade them…
Friends, can only invite friends, can’t add or make friends who actually play the game already.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could so you could trade cards & in situations like the current BINGO event, which I’m enjoying, could actually finish by making/adding friends somehow other than inviting people who have zero interest in playing this game?

I enjoy TileBusters and usually play this game before bed. The game itself is pretty fun, but I do not like that TileBusters does not allow my phone to auto lock. I have fallen asleep a few times playing the game only to wake up in the morning with my phone unlocked to the game. This is concerning to say the least. If I happen to forget my phone somewhere and TileBusters is open, all of my personal info is left vulnerable. I have the auto lock setting set to 1 minute and I have verified that is works with every other app on my phone. It’s only this one app. I also tested it on my iPad and TileBusters had the same behavior on my iPad where it would not let the iPad auto lock. I’ll be deleting TileBusters from my devices for this reason.

update: now with halloween there are new tiles as the developers hinted at in their original response to me. now i’m happy. to everyone saying they don’t like them, you can toggle them on and off in the menu. personally i’m super excited. thanks!!!

I wish there were different packs you could unlock that had different designs for the tiles. I’m like 500 levels in and sick of looking at these ones. There could be a flower pack, a halloween pack, etc. that you could unlock with coins like the avatars.

I really like the basis of this game. The thing I liked about it the most is the games are challenging enough but not timed. I just don’t do as well with timed challenges. I don’t mind the timed challenges in the calendar because you have options to watch a video instead of lose coins if you are not successful. I would not mind the timed challenges in the levels except if I am not successful I lose 250 coins the first time and 500 coins if I don’t complete the puzzle with the added time. A little too much in my opinion and causes me to be frustrated. Like the game but have quit playing it due to this fact.

Absolute waste of money purchasing the no ads feature. You don’t see any “ads” but you are bombarded with “events” every time you log into the game. Otherwise it would be pretty good. The coins are too expensive for not enough feature. The cards are completely stupid and should be removed asap! I won’t spend another penny on this game as long as they continue theses stupid events! Customer service is completely worthless as well. Literally took them a week to explain how they see ads and events differently.

This is the standard tile, match 3 game but with the added benefit of having a glitch that ends the game early, regardless of how many open spots you have on your tray. You can waste the few coins you can earn to “undo” moves (and repeat the loss again and again) or actual money purchasing “undo moves”, shuffle tiles (again spending coons or actual money), or waste lives and live your own version of this match 3 version of the movie Groundhog Day. This occurs on numerous levels, and getting ahold of support is next to impossible. After contacting support and them misconstruing the issues and glitches to the game (even with screenshots), I see their response is just more of the same misconstruing of issues. The game actually fails when you select certain tiles - regardless if your tray is completely empty or not. I uninstalled the game because of the ridiculous interaction with support (after sending them each item they requested) in addition to encountering these glitches repeatedly after over 1100 levels.

I really enjoyed this game, and I got a good amount of play time in without having to watch too many ads. But then the levels started to get more “difficult”/luck-dependent (eg, the next tile I needed was completely hidden in the draw pile, which has the tiles stacked in a way you can’t see what any of them are). Suddenly watching ads became a strategy I felt compelled to use in order to earn coins to buy power-ups to help me. But sometime after level 7000, the levels became impossible to beat without using at least one power-up, and eventually I ran out of coins and I was going to have to resort to watching ads to slowly collect coins and buy those power-ups to have any chance of beating levels. Not cool. It was lots of fun while it was actually playable, but I’m not gonna let unfair level design extort me into paying to win.

In response to dev message:
I gave the game a second chance, and..I stand corrected, it is possible to win higher levels without using power-ups.

As long as I can accurately predict the next tile in the facedown stack, or finish a complex timed level within the increasingly ridiculous short time limits.

For the average player like me who’s incapable of seeing through the top tile in a stack and has to play (fail) a timed level multiple times to memorize and beat it without using power-ups, it’s impossible to maintain a streak.

I play these games for the puzzle aspect to relax. Every time one of the timed puzzles come up, the relaxation of the game is blown to bits. Then it brings the tension back. I don’t want to compete, I want to relax. If I could buy my way out of the timed puzzles forever, I would. Just like paying to have the ads go away. So I deleted TileBusters when I got to a timed level and will try to find my relaxation somewhere else. I would have gladly paid up to $10 to get rid of the stinking tension causing timers. I left my tension behind when I retired. I don’t want a game to bring it back. My fingers are no longer fast but I want to keep my brain working. Sorry because otherwise it is a really fun and challenging game.

I enjoy playing this game. I do purchase packs of coins and helps occasionally. However, I am annoyed at the card pack aspect of the game. Part of the prize when you clear a level is often a pack of cards. Then, there are preset groupings of 9 cards that once you collect all the cards in a pack, you get coins etc. When you win a card pack, they are random, but almost never are cards you need. I have been playing this game for months and months, and out of 36 card groups, I have only completed 4. I have several groups that only need one card to be completed, and somehow I NEVER GET THE CARDS NEEDED. When I win and get a pack of cards, often I get duplicates of cards I already have. There are groups where I need just one card to complete a group, yet i keep getting duplicates of cards I already have in that group over and over. And they keep adding more groups, making it more unlikely to complete a group. There is an option to trade cards that is “coming soon” and has been for months. No development has occurred here. It is a wasted part of the game and is frustrating.

I really appreciate the creative challenge and especially not being interrupted by ads:). I will absolutely and happily purchase the occasional coin thingy; as a gesture of gratitude & good faith. Thank you again for a truly enjoyable game without glitches, ads or money traps. Blessings and gratitude.
Ps: I dislike ads and money traps in games for two reasons- 1) they remind me of my reality that I am temporarily escaping; & 2) they seriously stress me out (no matter what the content or reward). Thanks again for excluding them from your game:) hugs and love

I really like this game, I’ve been playing it for almost a year and have spent some money on it… but I’ve noticed recently that you don’t get as much for your money? What happened to getting more magic wands? I used to get at least 10 or more now you get maybe 5 tops?? If I’m going to continue to give this game my money I expect the same not less! Also if takes beating a hundred or two hundred levels to complete a town their should be a bigger reward because that means we are spending a lot of hours playing your game! Especially as you level up you should get more rewards not less!