Candy Blast Mania Reviews

by Mistyblue79

Programming a pop up to appear the second your last move has been made so you are put in a position of hitting a button for five additional moves at the cost of 44 gems when we would not have done so otherwise is shady and call it what you want but theft is theft. I contacted them about it and they said they had no record of my as a user at all and therefore would do nothing about it. I’m a graphics designer and design for several app based companies and I’m well versed in apple policies for what is required of apps regarding customers and there is no way you can have users that you have no record of. I deleted CandyBlastMania now and it’s your loss cause I spent an average of about 60$ bucks each month buying various features in your app that I DID want and not cause you decided you wouldn’t address the issue of 2$ being taken without my consent you have lost that customer entirely. Not smart at all but whatever. Hope u figure that out soon

by Cllewis10

Just don’t pick this one. It used to be fun but they changed it and have made the puzzles so complex with not nearly enough moves to clear the board. Most games of this type want you to buy stuff to help you win but I’ve never seen a game do it so aggressively. Like I said they’ve made the puzzles so complex with few moves to clear because they want you to buy extra moves and items. It comes to a point where you will have to buy items and moves or never win again. At least in other match 3 game apps I’ve played each puzzle is eventually winnable and the need for “extra stuff” is rarely needed. Even the hardest puzzles in Candy Crush are eventually winnable without extras. This company must be desperate for money right now because this game is just one giant cash grab and it’s lost all its element of fun. I highly recommend Toy Blast! It’s addicting like this one but waaaay more fun. Very challenging but unlike Candy Mania, the puzzles are winnable with good strategy and a little luck.

by $ewok$

This is my longest standing game. It used to be fun. I have played for over 8 years and beaten all of the levels. The pops ups when opening CandyBlastMania and ads between/during levels has become highly disruptive. Especially during timed unlimited play. Or when trying to get my turns done in a hurry when I need to do something else. Most of the time now I just close the game when ads interrupt my play. Even if it means I lose a turn. It’s very much less desirable to stay competitive in the taffy ticket races. Having played this long, I’ve really lost interest in the repetitive puzzles. Especially when there’s no new levels to play. If you’re trying to compete for taffy ticket race, it’s kind of boring being able to only replay 25 of the last 100 levels that give you tickets. Of course if you re-beat one of those levels a different one unlocks for tickets.

by Bobsrrr

The only reason that I mark this game down is for the constant failure of the video to load or there has been an error to load the video. What is the deal with that? I love the game, but that is an issue. The other issue is that the free time starts before I can clear the board to be able to start, why can't the time start when the player is ready and can even be delayed for a later time? I have since had another issue come up where the hour of free time just went away. I tried to send in a question about this and was told my inquiry was closed because I didn't fill in all of the information. I really think that they make the form so difficult so you will give up and just go on. I went one better, I took the game off of screen. To bad, I enjoyed the game but I can't handle poor customer service

by #developergreed

Horrible. Find any other game but this. 'Game' loads slowly or not at all; game has been frozen for days so without play your game level bottoms out; game play slows at end to force 'choosing' a 44 gem purchase that you don't intend to make; other in-game helps don't do what's shown; ads for earning gems are never monitored-they often don't work or completely shut the game down. Developers make poor changes that increase offers to download more crap, or offer bonuses that don't work but you've watched most of an ad for no gain; they now want you to think you're earning a help by subscribing to stuff that has nothing to do with this game; but none of this stuff works. It is all about GREED for the developers. I've never spent $ on this or buy anything from any of their ads or links & at level 1650+ will be deleting it. BE ASHAMED, STORM8.

by Nrdog

This was one of my favorite games of this type. So much better than Candy Crush. However the developers have decided ads and pop ups are more important than the game they created that so many of us love. Many people have commented about the ads and pop up frequencies and a year later the problem still exists. In order to play I have to see 5 pop ups and then to either get extra turns, prizes, whatever I have to watch an ad. Sometimes the ad just starts up in the middle of the game. It’s just too much - more time is spent on that than playing the game it seems. If the ad/pop up issue was fixed (meaning reduced) this review would change to 5 stars but at this point sadly I have to honestly rate it as a 1 and find something else to enjoy.

by ElkinsRN

Been playing this game for years and now having the same issues as others it seems. Purchase gems that renew daily and now when I redeem it says I’m not connected to the Internet when I very clearly am as everything else is working. Sad this game has deteriorated so far…to the point of taking money from customers. I would submit a message to them through CandyBlastMania but every time I try to do that it tells me the same - that I need to be connected to Internet. Restarted my phone several times, closed app and reopened, and still nothing. Such a waste of money and time. I definitely feel like my money has been stolen too. Time to find a new game I guess - this is the only one I’ve played for 2 or 3 years at least.

by Rcq1

I fell in love with game when I first started playing the game. The unique thing about the game was even when you lost you felt like a winner because of the tickets. But it has been increasingly tough to win tickets and now it is even tougher because you now have cut down the amount of videos to watch to supplement the tickets. Very disappointed with all the changes you've made - also videos seem to be harder to download the closer it gets to the end of the game time.

Well I'm editing my review. I didn't think the game could get worse but alas it did. I guess your game is so unpopular, you lost all your sponsorships for the videos because suddenly they are gone. You would think if you were going to take away those bonus tickets you would lower the amount it took to win prizes / but just like your game - you didn't think that through. You know even though it took me THREE weeks to get past the last level - I could at least take pleasure in trying to achieve the different ticket levels. REALLY DISAPPOINTED

by GailNickname

Storm 8 doesn’t care. They’ve moved on so don’t expect updates, bug fixes, etc. They’re long past this game. If you are willing to play this OLD game, then do so knowing they are profiting at your expense of watching their videos. It’s about $$$, not your enjoyment of this game. They now don’t give you the ‘option’ to watch their videos (which they are getting paid for you to watch), they just throw them in after your game starts and if you choose to not watch, you get dinged a game. You wanna get tickets by watching a video, 🤷‍♀️maybe you get, often not. But they get their $$$ because you spent your time watching their video. If you are willing to help them make lots of money, play play and watch all their videos. If not, then show it by rating them on their app. I’d give them 0 stars if possible.

by Nurse Emily

This used to be one of my favorite games. I rarely play it anymore now bc of the changes over the last few years and the utter lack of rhyme or reason to the levels now. After no less than 6 pop up windows after opening the game- some of which are ads- the levels are interrupted by more ad videos . On top of that, the levels are engineered so that you have to use power ups to win them otherwise you will be stuck on a level for weeks or months. The little goblin thingys sometimes required to kill to beat a level wont be available to actually kill so that even though all other goals are met, you cant win it even if you had a power up to use. Its old and annoying at this point. Bye bye

by Only1Pam

Used to be one of my favorite go to games, for several reasons, but mostly it was the game that kept my focus off the unexpected passing of my mom. I still enjoy the game, but the load time of the video’s to earn gems/spins just takes way too long, and the crashes and flashes of the game is disruptive and annoying. Not too mention, downloading an app shouldn’t stop the game from playing when its mid-round.

It’s a fun puzzle, tetris-like game, great way to keep one’s mind sharp, but the video’s are redundant and repetitive, or they don’t play at all and have to be re-watched, the time it takes for the video’s to load are ridiculously long, and most of the time I have a full battery. Video’s should load quickly when connected to WiFi, but the ones for this game don’t, and the pop-up messages that say a connection was lost and to reconnect to play are false too. Being that I wasn’t connected to WiFi at the time of the pop up message

Sadly, the game’s slowness has caused it to become a frustration, rather than helping. Wish I could rate it higher, but with the recent tech difficulties, its just not possible.

by Sailor_angeles

30 minutes for energy regeneration is too long, the number of gems for items and extra moves is way too expensive, and some levels (especially in the high score event) seem to be so challenging that you can only win by paying money. Also, I’ve noticed that when I earn 30 minutes of unlimited energy, the clock actually starts at ~29:15. The advertisements for home makeover game are very intrusive/annoying. I am also annoyed when I watch a video for a free spin, but then get an error message that it didn’t finish even though it fully played or when CandyBlastMania freezes after a taffy tickets video. Finally, I would prefer that levels that require beating the gummy bear are never consecutive.

by Kaywhyem

How difficult would it be to add an “are you sure?” button that would pop up after the button asking if you’re sure if you want to purchase—anything really. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve accidentally lost 25 to 45 coins, depending on which version pops up, and wasted them bc 5 moves wouldn’t have beat the level. It’s been a problem for years and sometimes it feels like it even waits a second and then forces you to click it when you’re trying to close the level.

It ruins the game play experience and creates resentment with your customers bc every time I’ve emailed about this issue I got the boilerplate “sorry, we’re not sorry” response from customer service. Fix it already!

by JanetJanet6845

Latest update is horrible. I was tricked into spending a lot of my hard earned gems to buy wasteful items. These are the new boxes that come up on the play game screen. I accidentally hit it and my purchase was made without a second “are you sure” step. That stinks!!!!!!!

Also, the latest updates get worse with each one. I am frustrated that loading a video either takes forever or it aborts saying video did not load. All I want to do is watch the video to earn gems so I can play. Also, I am on level 1488 and every time I think I am getting close to reaching the end you add another bunch of levels and then I am 20 levels away from reaching g the end or the goal.

by Can't Even Leave A Nickname

OK so I’ve been playing this along time it’s OK I mean I enjoy it but it’s acting weird every time you play that is every time you swipe everything slows in motion so it’s a blip I’ve contacted the company but they’re not fixing it. They told me what to do. I did it. It worked for about eight seconds and went back to doing the same thing it’s been going on for months. Also, the only other thing is that I don’t mind hard levels if they are truly a challenge but you have to give me something and make a challenging if I don’t get what I need., Then that’s not challenging. That’s just frustrating. I can be stuck on a level. For weeks because I’m not getting what I need. I believe I’m smarter than this game.

by Nancy7232012

I’ve been playing this game for a very long time, I’ve reached level 3350. I like many of the newer features and side games, but you are showing way too many adds. I know when you watch the ads you’re compensated with coins, tickets and extra moves. You also have a choice if you want to watch the adds or skip them. I feel you almost have to watch the ads if you want to get coins and tickets to play. Over the past year many of the levels have gotten extremely difficult. They used to be challenging, now they’re just plain hard, this gets very boring. Even though I watch the ads I find myself spending more and more to buy coins to get through harder levels! The price of coins and extra time have gone up significantly. Please lower prices and make games a little easier. If not, I fear you will lose a long time player.

by KTDeng

This was my favorite game for a long, long time. But it keeps changing in ways I do not like. The main things I don’t like are the prizes/rewards have changed. I don’t like the help tools you select prior to starting a game. You can only choose one of each of 3 types and they have to be used immediately at the start and most of the time are not useful. These are the primary rewards now as you gain more taffy tickets. Not worth it for me to keep playing just to win these. I like the rewards that can be used at my discretion during a game and as many of each one as I choose to help me beat a level.

I am quite sure the games are controlled by the coders. It is not so much skill as luck of the draw in how a game is coded. I enjoy the challenge but get bored if I have to keep playing the same game over and over. I will eventually use the tools/helps inside the game if I cannot beat it in my own, just to move on to the next level.

Needless to say I am playing it less and less.

by Ksidhdinfkdbbsb

I love this game!! Been playing it forever! I love the fact that I can use the help items at the bottom of the screen whenever I am close to winning and need them so i don’t waste them. And I love that I can always get extra and get tickets - makes it even more fun. Plus I feel like the levels r winnable even if it takes a week or so. I quit a game a long time ago cuz I couldn’t ever beat a level and it became frustrating and boring. But now u give those help items that I have to use blind!! I can only use them in the beginning if the game and I don’t know if I need it in the beginning so they very seldom help. And I don’t get as many of the ones I like now. Skip those and go back to just giving them to old way!

by Lady L66

Been playing for years about level 2420. Everyone’s complaints I agree with I don’t spend money either and can still enjoy just wait a bit and it will happen don’t waste your ups till needed.
BUT my biggest peeve that has almost made me quit this game is the fact after he ad plays you can’t get back to the game!! I’ve lost lives because I have to leave the game and come back. Now not all ads do this but it’s still annoying please fix oh and I wish there were less ads in the beginning very irritating

by Anon.321

Great game. Basic but not. Yes, there are ads and they’re kind of annoying, but the developers need to get paid. I’m ok with being forced to watch some ads for a game that doesn’t actually require me to make in-app purchases to succeed.

The big problem is that as of the last few days, it crashes very frequently. Like 2 crashes in 3 rounds. This can mean losing a life, crashing just as a game finishes so that you lose the tickets you accumulated during the round… or crashing just as you win the round. Also eats up time during “unlimited lives” periods. Really hope they fix it soon.

by Skigirlie

Been playing for a few years- I spend no $$ and still have a great time. I am at level 650ish and the best is to do the challenges at the side- earns you tons of extras which can help you beat that level you just can’t get past. Sometimes I think the side challenges are better than the levels. I do hate how some challenges reset to the very beginning of the challenge but you can get extra time often and it is challenging without wanting to quit.

My only suggestion would be to allow players to pause bonus time. Sometimes I have only 5 minutes to play and I get a bonus hour and it will get wasted!

by Sweetpeakelly623

I like love this game it's very addicting. I really hate the fact that you accidentally hit the buy 5 moves and it takes all your coins. Also I've spent the rest of my coins accidentally on more bombs, color gems etc. it's a waste of my money when the game says I want those purchases. The game pauses and I click on something else and the next thing I know I just purchased something. Need to fix that. I love all the new games and challenges that have been added to earn free playtime.

Edit review
Still the same issues. Taking me coins when I don't need to buy any moves.