Simon's Cat - Crunch Time

I play a ton of different match 3 games and this is definitely one of my favorites. The artwork is so detailed, sometimes I scroll through the levels just to see the scenery and fun animations in each section. I haven’t had the trouble a few others mentioned about having to spend money to progress through the levels. I’m currently on level 258 and have yet to spend a cent. My only complaint is the ads. Well, one ad in particular actually. Now, I expect ads in a free game and I don’t mind the ones that are silent. I’ll actually watch those and occasionally click on them. But the ones that unexpectedly blast you with loud, garish music despite the fact that you have all sounds turned off in the game are unacceptable. When that happens I immediately scramble to exit the app as quickly as possible. Lately I’ve been getting the same ad -for the Family Guy game - nonstop after every single level. Seriously, I think I’ve only seen a different ad once or twice in the last month, and I play the game daily. This ad is loud and is driving me crazy! Please get rid of loud ads, and I’ll be one happy camper!

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I love this game and have been playing it since day one. However, the following issues need to be addressed: 1. Every time I try to play the tournaments on my iPad mini, if I win the level and hit the arrow button to go back to the tournament level page, the game stops, I'm back on my dashboard page, and when I reload the game and get back on the tournament it puts me on the same level I just played with a zero score. 2. There is no point in having a help button if it does nothing when you push it. 3. When I play on my laptop it will sometimes not load and I get a message saying that my memory is full and I need to reconfigure the settings, but when I go to check this, I still have more than enough memory left. 4. The prices for coins purchased with actual cash are a bit unreasonable; other games I play have a price level lower than this one-for example, the $1.99 level is good, but then the next level jumps to $9.99? It would be nice to have something in between. The new "starter pack" deal is great, however. 5. There should be an incentive for winning a level, other games I play give a few coins or keys which you can save or trade for the bonus items after every level you win. It doesn't have to be much, even 1 or 2 coins or whatever would be great. If these items were fixed I would happily give this game 5 stars as it is fun. Developers, please pay attention to the players comments for ways to improve the game!

Love the game and been playing it since day 1, too. But, man, what a waste of money when you use your boosters in a tournament and it doesn’t record your score that would put you in first place when you’ve earned it! Just beat the high score and it didn’t record the new score. I suspected it was happening before and I wasn’t playing close attention, but it was pretty obvious this time since my goal was to take first place. No celebration here. It’s either a bad bug or a way for the developer to get you to buy more coins/boosters. Also, when you’re out of lives, you may watch a 30-second advertisement, only to come back and not have the life added. I usually quit the app, go back and watch another ad (*sigh*) and then it will award me the extra life. Good grief— I understand it’s a revenue-generator to have limited lives, but why can’t developers take a tip from Angry Birds and just have unlimited lives? I’d probably play all day, so perhaps it’s a blessing. Either way, super-addictive, fun game, with an endearing theme, but get your bugs out or there’s no incentive to play if the game is going to cheat you of any accomplishments. Might as well throw my money into the lake. I’ve started deleting the app for a month or two and then playing for a week to get caught up. Way better than being at the mercy of limited lives, daily challenges, and frustratingly bad bugs.

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This is basically a match 3 game with cute graphics. I’ve played every level and while I like this game it needs a lot of improvement. Higher Levels freeze and you have to exit the level (losing all bonuses) to get it to work again. This happened a lot to me when I was at the max level of “Hot Streak” bonuses. They advertise a hard level challenge when the game starts up but I have yet to find it (this may be user error). The cost of a bonus is 70 coins which is very high, especially when the daily challenge award is 1 - 5 coins. 3 stars are very hard to achieve which is frustrating. You’ll end up spending a lot of money to buy bonuses. It will say you’ve missed a daily challenge even if you successfully play it daily and it disqualifies you from being eligible for the bigger bonuses at the end. This happens almost every time you spend 25 coins to play the next level on the same day. The developers are spectacularly unhelpful. I’ve submitted several problems to them and the responses have been amazingly unresponsive. It can take weeks to get a response. The most common is that unless you’re signed in with FB, they can’t help you and even when I signed in with FB, I received no help and they don’t fix the issues with the game even when you give them the levels that are problematic. I really can’t recommend this game until the issues are fixed. Play one of the many, many other similar games until they fix this one.

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I got this game because it has Simon Cat in it. I've stuck with it because it is for the most part a well-designed game. I have seen some reviews where they say you cannot progress without spending money and I would have to disagree; i am level 130 or so and have not spent a dime. The game offers plenty of rewards in the form of the boosts that help you win the levels. As well, they offer daily challenges with tournaments and quests with great rewards that keep the game fun and engaging. The problem i have is that you have a three-star system here and the third star is ridiculously difficult to obtain. I have wasted all available boosts to try to attain this third star for progressive levels and I have not managed this beyond level 34. Not having a reasonably attainable perfection score is a kicker for me. In order to support the game i purchased the no-ad pack, but i feel that the boosts items are way overpriced. Once i complete the available levels i will be done with the game. Another small drawback is the CONSTANT demand for notifications and Facebook access. I detest notifications and so have not allowed them, yet this game ask for permission every few levels.