Half-eaten breakfast of a game.

No real point or Substance. Lacks the sheer spectacle of something like the "microsoft jewel" you can play for free in the xbox app for microsoft rewards points.

Music is maddening, all the animations are strangely slow for a game so simple.

The real problem with the game is how it tries to manipulate you.

VERY stingy with combos, quite easy to get rng'd into unwinnable matches in the first few rounds. If you have special jewels on the field, you will get absolutely terrible rng until you have no moves left but to use your stash of special jewels. In fact, the game is so desperate to make you waste your special jewels in the least-useful ways possible, if you do not use them IMMEDIATELY you will often find the game unwinnable just a few turns later due to all new gems being purposely spaced to be unmatchable.

On the other hand, if you hold possible matches on the field to wait for bigger combos, the rng also goes in the tank.

Even worse, if you purposely match small to gave smaller, quicker, less point-rich-but-consistent matches, the rng also goes to crap.

My first match just playing randomly I got to 430,000 points, and it only ended because I was trying to fish for a special match before the game decided I had to lose. The rest of my matches where I purposely tried to play smart to maximize big combos, I barely got 100,000. One match the game ended on the first level just do to terrible starting rng.

If you don't play completely absentmindedly this game will do everything to beat you into compliance until you just mindlessly consume. All the positive reviews talk about how "zen" (aka mindless) it is, so maybe they gave in to what I won't.

Honestly reminds me of an apple arcade game. Like a "live service" scam turned into an unmonetized experience, and so all the manipulative tactics are still in and the difficulty is through the roof because the intended "pay to progress after the game screws you over on purpose" bs is no longer available.

I have zero idea how this game even got in my library (maybe some bundle), but I still feel ripped off even if I'm not sure if I paid for it.

There is zero reason for you to play this, buy this, or even pretend this exists.

Cheaper than therapy and just as rejuvenating.

Save file is gone again