Bejeweled Stars Reviews

I’ve been very disappointed with this game for a while now. I’ve been playing for over a year and it’s gone from a cute game you can play in your free time to a drag that is mind-numbing. Plus, I can’t play my music while playing it anymore, as it cuts out exterior audio. They also don’t have any real prizes for their “constellation” thing anymore, so there is no incentive to gain stars from the levels anymore. I guarantee you, I did NOT need five more blue gems, thanks. Not do I ever need more “rare” orange gems. More than that, half the time the game decides to... not do the move I did?? It will completely ignore it and just move the waterfall or ice blocks on. AND, during their new challenge where you can get unlimited hearts, the game ignored the hundred of “mittens” I had won twice, then didn’t even give me my prize when I finally did get enough mittens. BejeweledStars is taking up almost a whole GB of space on my phone and it’s just not worth it. I never mind spending money on a game that seems like it’s worth it, but this game has never really seemed worth the value of even a couple dollars and I would play it daily, which says something. The only reason I’ve played so long is I’m an obsessive person and hate quitting at something I’ve put time and effort into. But, I honestly think I might delete BejeweledStars and get a better game or two, especially if the outside music keeps cutting out. It’s just not fun. Very disappointing.

I’ve played for years, I’m level 1,100+. I don’t mind purchases. What I do kind is making those purchases and finding that things aren’t being taken care of in the game by the developers. For example, the constellations have been noted repeatedly and still aren’t updated. Why have this? The timer to reset the hearts doesn’t work correctly in my game anymore. It will say 5 minutes to a new heart and I’ll come back awhile later and it will say 11 minutes and there are no hearts. I’ve been playing again for ages and for the first time in over a year, I got two new emojis. Also, it is beyond frustrating to beat a challenge level and get one stupid orange sunburst gem that’s called rare. They’re not. In addition to fixing these, I’d also suggest changing the unlimited play that can be won from time to time to something that can be redeemed at the player’s convenience. If I jump on for a minute and win 30 minutes of unlimited play, I may not have time to do it right then. I don’t want to quit playing but at this point it seems like the developers are indifferent to what seem like basic, obvious fixes that are needed for the game.

No reason to restate the actual details of the greedy grind at play here since many reviewers have already thoroughly spelled it out. Basically, Electronic Arts (E.A.) took over the Bejewelled franchise from PopCap and spoiled the experience (unless you have money to burn and don't mind throwing it at unworthy developers). Also, note that at the higher game levels (~ in the 90s) E.A. becomes more commercially aggressive by including intrusive mandatory watch video splash screen ads that can't be immediately "x'd" closed!!
I remember playing Pop Cap's classic version of Bejewelled on my Palm TX over a decade ago and after the one time purchase, it was ad-free and without IAPs - but that was before the money grubbers at E.A. took over a beautiful time-waster.
It's still beautiful but now horribly polluted as described...Thanks for reading my rant it's worth the time even if just a few people will heed it.
-Message for E.A. execs: Begin growing a corporate conscience by striking a better balance between out of control manipulative greed and a more reasonable revenue model - your mothers will be prouder of you and the rest of your families won't starve either!!!

Here we go another game that starts off amazingly fun and then once you get to the higher levels then boom virtually impossible to pass unless of course you’re ready to open your wallet. Time and time again these companies continue to rip off kids and people all the time trying to push their narrative that it’s a fun game with all their special graphics and stuff but deep down inside we all know it’s nothing more than another cash grab. I have been talking to the Better Business Bureau about multiple companies like this trying to get them shut down because all their entire existence is revolved around ripping people off. When you coded a game with specific algorithms to make sure you cannot pass levels and in order to pass those levels they force you to buy boosters that just means right there you’re never going to be able to win fairly without them dipping into your wallet.
Kids especially need to be aware of this because they don’t understand and companies thrive off of children like that because they know it’s an easy quick buck, the more people we can get involved to get these companies shut down the better because honestly it’s technically called fraud which is against the law.

This game literally gets -100 stars based on that.

The game was fun and interesting for the first couple of hours, I got to level 50-60 ish before it was becoming obvious to me that I needed the extra skills to win the game, which would be fine but to make the extra skills immediately, you need coins. The only way to get coins is by passing levels otherwise you have to wait sometimes up to 4 hours to make one skill. One round in this game takes 3-5 minutes to win and this game is really making one skill take 4 hours to make and you can only make one skill at a time. The most useful skills take 20-30 minutes to make but you would need a certain recipe of gems to make that skill and if your short a gem you have to go back to previous levels and play the same games you’ve already played sometimes 20-30 times before you get enough of the one gem you need to make that skill. Or you could open your wallet and spend money on fake gems you will never touch or see in a game that you play to waste time.

I have been playing this game since January this year. At the beginning, it was really fun. Different levels provides different types of challenges. Although in general, it gets harder as you progress, the difficulty level varies. You might fail many times at one earlier level, and then ran through the next few levels with little effort. Always expect some surprises!

Now that I am at about level eight-hundred-ish, it becomes clear that the developers just want your money. There are limited steps to clear triple and quadruple stones, crystals, vines, gravels. It is impossible to get through without multiple power-ups. Often you need coins too, especially when you need to collect butterflies - they never give you enough butterflies within the limit. Then, the stars! At first, you only need to earn 182 stars to complete a constellation and get 250 coins. Then you have to collect 210 stars to earn that. Now I am at a point I must collect 325 stars to just get a meager 133 coins. I bet the next step would be no more constellations!

If you can’t earn coins from collecting stars, then you have to buy them at a crazy price. $2 just for 115 coins (5 extra steps in a level would cost you 50 coins!) $20 just for 1400 coins, and they are gone within a week.

Bejeweled didn’t create the match 3 genre, but they certainly popularized it, to the extent that all the match 3 games that have come since feel like imitators. That goes double for the massively popular match 3 game with “candy” in the title. Bejeweled Stars finds the master becoming the student, as this feels the world like a Candy imitation. This is puzzle-based gem swapping, with each level having specific goals and a move limit. And like its sweet-toothed brethren there is a bevy of timers, currencies, and collectables to slog through that dictate how many extra lives and power ups you get. The more you can ignore the fluffy nonsense that swaddles the game—including requests to watch ads for perks—the more fun it is. Of course the free-to-play clamp comes down hard at a certain point, designed to burn your resources at a rapid clip, forcing you to either commit to grinding for extra in-game currency, or open your wallet. Hey, you know the drill with these things. Given that, this is fine. But it also might make you wistful for the good old Bejeweled days when you felt like a consumer, not the thing being consumed.

Have been playing this game for awhile now and am at level 1100. Obviously I enjoy it or I wouldn’t be that far ( thus the 3 star review) but it has been getting more frustrating than fun lately. The problems include the fact that there are no more constellations to make so no more coins available unless you want to spend some of your hard earned $$$. Also, by the time you get to levels where I am playing there is no chance to move on without using powers that you have created over time in order to move to the next level—-or spend $$$ to make them. If you don’t want to spend your $$$ then this makes the game much slower and way more tedious— and frustrating. If the ultimate plan is to just start collecting $$$ from the people who have hung in this far and played to these levels then that is just insulting and feels dishonest. Really, you have a captive audience right now due to the quarantine nightmare and with that in mind you could at least make some sort of attempt to keep the game fair and not just a $$$ making machine. But then who am I kidding that is what this is! Oops....time to start shopping for something less frustrating and more rewarding to do I guess. I’ll be looking for some positive changes—soon—or adios.

I used to play bejeweled classic and blitz all the time but moved on to other games for awhile and forgot about it. Then I discovered this one, and it’s fun!

Update, eh. It’s very pretty and it was fun at first. But really, it’s too complicated. It does seem to be more about the power ups than simply matching gems. I don’t feel like going through all the, use these complicated recipes for power ups with sky gems, wait for a specific amount of time, then use the right ones in the right place at the right time. Then there’s all these other things, a chicken that lays eggs, a llama that asks questions, a chest that opens once a day, challenges that are basically impossible, and emojis you just use in the game, for what I don’t know, except to answer the llama’s questions. It’s ridiculous! I just want to match gems. I don’t want to think. That’s what I do at work. So, I’m bored of this game. Might go back to the classic. Or the blitz if it hasn’t gotten complicated too.

The names of each individual games were removed, just leaving the numbers as labels & its hard to tell which game you’ll be playing until you open it & by that point if it was not the right game you wanted, you will lose a life heart just to close it.
I have around 890 individual games in the levels now & its very hard to go find my favorites, which I used to know the names of.
The levels continue to increase but the level star rewards do not, that ended & never updated as of a few years ago for me….once you reach the end of all the rewards that is.
I do hate that I have to close out each commercial 3 to 5 times before it will actually close & that each time it has a 5 & 15 second countdown to wait to hit close again. But I know that is a frustration I am putting up with to play, it just cuts my play time very short since that started.

I’m a long time Bejeweled fan before EA took over, I like the look of the game and the board designs to keep the player challenged but in some areas for casual players the boards feel too difficult encouraging micro transactions.

It’s possible to beat the levels that feel too difficult if you have patience and luck but with strategy there’s only so much you can do when the board shifts on it’s own. I’ve managed to avoid buying currency in this game but the ads are annoying and what’s more annoying is they don’t give you the option to remove ads like in “Bejeweled 3”.

I only recommend this game if your a long time fan like me who's bored enough to play a phone game and as for the micro transactions, I don’t approve of them but it’s the standard these days so what can ya do? Oh and remember newcomers, Hyper Cubes are your best friends!

My biggest complaint is that there used to be an incentive to try to achieve three stars on each level, because you could use those stars to fill a constellation and receive rewards. They keep making new levels, but they haven’t made a new constellation in years, which takes away some of the incentive within the game. I like that it takes a really long time to get to the point where you can’t solve a level without using special powers, but that does eventually happen. I’m now at a point where I have to use at least one special power in each level, but I am at level 700. They keep coming out with new levels, so you won’t be stuck at the end for months at a time. Now they just need to keep up their end of the bargain and come out with new constellations with coin rewards.

I have downloaded and played a ton of different games and this is the ONLY game (no lie) that I’ve continued to play and haven’t given up on. There are some things I would change such as the riddles. If I know the answer to the riddle, but don’t have the emoji for it, it’s kinda lame that I can’t get the extra win. But that’s nothing major to me and doesn’t stop me from playing. The only other thing I would change is, I would add more special event games where the more special gems you collect the different levels of prizes you get. For example (for those who do play and know what I’m talking about) the back to school back packs and the Halloween bats. This is actually my favorite part of the whole game lol. Other than that I love this game! I love that it’s not boring. There are different objectives to the different levels. It’s challenging but also so far (I’m on lvl 212) it’s not so hard that I can never pass a level which then causes me frustration and to give up on playing it. Definitely recommend playing!

It’s a nice take to compete with the obvious mobile hit game in the market but it feels like this game was stuck in early to mid 2010’s. Needs to change resolution or textures from SD to HD/4k. Sometimes it feels slightly sluggish where it doesn’t feel like your touching the gems. Frames seem to be capped at 30fps which was good for the time but with screens going up to 120 hertz it’s time for an overhaul.
It’s a good game overall especially with the lack of ads like the “Classic” Bejeweled however i’m inclined to say that it can’t possibly be called Bejeweled without the Classic mode! No narrator voice like the original and even their competitor game has voice responses when making a good move!
One of the other things i see with this game is over complication. The UI needs to be reworked and optimized for newer devices.

It may seem im bashing this game but it is fun especially if you’re trying to get your fixed on a Bejeweled game. If you’re new to the Franchise it seems unsurprising why not many stay on this game.

This is a great game, really. Allows you to think, problem solve, yet do it in a really fun way. BUT, I’d rather just pay $4.99 for it to get rid of all the advertisements (what you are subjected to if you run out of hearts but want to keep playing) and the in-app purchases when I’d rather work hard to problem solve for the extras instead of buying them. This game is set up to get people hooked on it, and driven to the point where they can learn addictive casino-type behaviors that are opposite the critical thinking behaviors that got them hooked in the first place. I see it as irresponsible to make money in this way. I’ll keep enjoying the game as long as I can before getting my playing card revoked for this review. But I’m not spending money for the extras and I will play the ads while I do something more entertaining until I get enough hearts to play some more. Or, until you let me buy it for $4.99 so I can play without the apps and in app purchases.

When I tell you, I LOVE THIS GAME. Usually I get bored of games easily because of too many ads or it not being great overall, but this game has kept me hooked and entertained endlessly. Not too bad when it comes to the ads, and seemingly unending levels. Very well made and fun and cute to boot! Highly recommend for something that helps pass the time. (Update: still don’t know how long I’ve had this game, I feel like a really long time at this point 😅 and I still love it. There are some levels that truly are very challenging - maddening sometimes even lol but it’s a game I always go back to. NOTE FOR DEVELOPER - I do wish there was a way to more easily navigate through past maps, instead of the way it is that only allows you to backtrack one map at a time).

Absolutely true. This game is always challenging. I love that the different levels keep me interested and are not to difficult as to where I give up and forget about the game. The amount of time you have to wait for your new lives to be added is right on. The only thing in my opinion that needs changed is the riddle feature. Although you may know the answer you don’t have the emoji so you don’t get the credit for answering. It would be nice if there was access to an emoji stash where you could pick the right one. This is the only game I play and have for quite some time. I even catch myself thinking about it when I’m stuck on completing a challenge. This game is great when you have a few minutes to wait somewhere. Give it a try It will become the only game you play

This is the longest period of time ANY game has ever kept my interest. I love that it’s kinda a brain teaser. I’ve found myself getting so angry if I can’t solve a level for days (my longest losing streak is 6 days). I never write reviews! UNTIL I read a review written by William Stovall, titled My side love, & I too enjoy this game for hours on end. I found his review was so honest & sincere I felt the need to say THEY ARE FLIPPING ADORABLE! If I had all my 6 kids grown & it was just me & my husband, that’s what we would do! I too am a southerner (Alabama) & I think that sweet hard working man & wife deserves a gem special & I wish they would see my review & know...I just think they’re too cute!

On a side note: Please keep making new levels as fast as you can cause I really get sad when I have no new ones to play ☹️😂
-Thanks, Athina D.

I love this game. I’ve never had to pay or buy anything in this game. The first time I played it had about 300 levels and when I finished all levels I deleted and then reloaded. That version had about 700 levels. I finished all of those levels and then deleted and reloaded. This last version that I just completed had almost a thousand levels. I still never had to buy or pay for anything. I think this game has helped exercise my brain. I’ve had to think several moves and their consequences in advance which is especially difficult on some of the more advanced levels. I really enjoy when there is a Holliday and I get a break from my level and go back and collect things and win prizes. I’m getting ready to download the latest version now.

I have played this game for a long time. I’ve always enjoyed it. I still do. However, I do not get the event games until the day the event is ending anymore, if at all...and I finally got the new levels last Saturday (over a month after everyone else got the new levels) and today when I opened BejeweledStars the new levels were gone. It just has too many glitches and is unreliable. I have deleted BejeweledStars and reloaded it. I have logged on and off using Facebook I have tried everything and it just doesn’t work anymore. I’ll keep checking back because I really do love this game and I’ve played it for years. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.