Gem Crush Match-3 Review ★☆☆☆☆

Gem Crush Match-3 Review ★☆☆☆☆

Gem Crush Match-3, I’d rather play Candy Crush again.

Gem Crush Match-3 is a colorful match-3 puzzle game where players match identical gems, create powerful combinations, and complete a variety of levels.

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  • Gameplay: Match-3 gameplay with objectives to get through each level in limited moves
  • Visual presentation: Cartoony

Pros:

  • It’s free

Cons:

  • Clicks don’t register
  • Same Candy Crush icons
  • Objectives not obvious
  • DNFed

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Explanation to Negative Feedback

Clicks don’t register

You have to slide an icon over to where you want it to go in order to match 3 or more, right? That’s how these games work.

With this game, you click and slide and it does nothing. So you do it again. Still nothing. Once more, and you wonder if maybe you can’t move that icon for some reason or another.

Nope!

It’s the game.

It doesn’t register half the clicks you make so you constantly have to try, try, and try again in order to move the icons.

Same Candy Crush icons

Listen, it’s been a good long while since I even touched Candy Crush, but by golly that game made somewhat of an impression on me, and I do recall some of those icons. The main one that I know is a ripoff is the…I don’t know chocolate ball with sprinkles on it.

It’s not the exact same image, but it’s fairly close, being vector art, it looks like?

Still it’s the same concept. Why does it have to be a chocolate ball? Why couldn’t they have made it into something else? It’s Gem Crush, and that thing is clearly some kind of candy.

Then of course we have the striped icons and the packaged icons.

They didn’t even try to make it remotely different, and it gives these match-3 games a bad reputations for being not just spin-offs, but replicas. Yeah, everybody loved Candy Crush when it came out. Doesn’t mean they’re going to like yours unless you give it some kind of unique flavor.

A flavor that isn’t candy.

Objectives not obvious

Honestly, I didn’t know there were objectives.

I was just matching icons because I was aiming for three stars within a set amount of moves. The objectives are actually in the top left of the screen. And all it shows…are icons.

If you want kids to play this at least make the objectives obvious.

DNFed

For anyone that doesn’t know, this means I did not finish, and I feel like the reasons are pretty self-explanatory.

This isn’t a clicker game, so I should have to click constantly just to get an icon to move. And there was absolutely no way I was going to be struggling with that flaw for probably 100 levels, if I were to guess.

Explanation to Positive Feedback

It’s free

Free games are sometimes scarier than horror games, because you really don’t know what you’re getting into until you play them. Are they free because they suck, or because the dev was feeling generous and didn’t feel the need to put a price to it.

Well, this one sucked.

But hey, it was free so that’s a plus.