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✓ Mixed feelingsI enjoy this game... the graphics are fun, and for the most part there's an interesting storyline (albeit a bit obvious for an adult player) and fun mechanics. There are a few things that get on my nerves, though: 1. The music is incredibly monotonous, and doesn't change at all when you're low on lives or get a huge combo. In fact, there seems to be just one short track on endless loop. 2. A lot of the later levels come down to straight RNG for the crazy combos you need to finish the objectives in the allotted moves. 3. The game ends in a leaderboard-style challenge that allows you to use the boosts and coins you gathered, but there's *no way to farm more* other than the very small daily bonus. As such, the leaderboard "Midnight Feast" challenge feels almost entirely RNG dependent. There are two achievements linked to scoring very high in it, which makes it frustrating to complete all the achievements..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Would give it a 5 stars but….Game visuals keep disappearing for no reasons… :(.Version: 1.19.0
✓ WhyI love this game I like cleos light lunch I won this by the way what I do not like when you go back to a puzzle in dawn patrol and you are trying to go back and try to get the achievement that all the puzzles are gold ie (golden paw) it takes up back to the end of the path when you finish a puzzle. They sort of fix the above issue but now there is a new one for three weeks they start a sunflower game then start midnight feast so you can never finish the sunflower game because sunflower game ends before the midnight feast game and you can not play the sunflower game while midnight feast is going I am trying to get all the trophy’s in cats room I just need one more full sunflower to get sliver trophy if you suppose to get all the trophy’s it’s not possible they want you to get 1000 birds I have not seen that game in over a mouth.Version: 1.17.0
✓ Difficult to figure out at higher levelsFor instance, have no clue how to obtain yarn balls or tnt and cannot find any information at all to learn how. I’m absolutely stuck, so won’t be playing anymore. Frustrated!.Version: 1.22.1
✓ Sweet but Midnight Feast score gets prematurely wipedIt’s a sweet game, fun for players of all ages, would be 5* but my unsubmitted score in Midnight Feast keeps being wiped as I try to build it up (and not because I select ‘Give up’ because I haven’t). Seems fairly random when it does or doesn’t happen. I’m a grown up and I can live with it, but it must be happening to children too — imagine the disappointment! Any chance of this bug being corrected?.Version: 1.27.0
✓ Beat all levels but cannot finish Garden?I made it to the point where there are no more levels but somehow there were not enough coins to finish the garden? How is this even possible. Must have been a pay to play game converted to arcade by people who could not do math. I don’t understand how to proceed..Version: 1.0.3
✓ A lot of previous enjoyment, but now feels sloggishI was excited to see there was a new update. I finished the main story a few months ago. This time around though it seems to have lost its charm. Dawn Patrol where you follow the cat and build statues was entertaining, for a time. When it approached 100 levels it started to become grating, especially when you don’t earn coins from these levels but often need help to complete them. The main game you are now just building statues, which is pretty boring. The dialogue and animations repeat for each statue build unlike the previous story. The levels also seem a lot more difficult compared to the last time I played. I do agree that this game definitely seems like it was originally a pay for play model. The no ads or micro transactions is the only reason I’ve still been playing, but I’m done for now. Hopefully the next update brings some extra excitement..Version: 1.10.0
✓ ?I only got up to level 16 in the book and it won’t allow me to open more-gardens. Homescapes is way better than this, this is a little boring..Version: 1.16.0
✓ Tedious At BestThis game is extremely tedious. If you enjoy a mind-numbing exercise in futility have at it. After the initial levels you get to a point where the levels are purposely built to be unbeatable on your first playthrough. Literally, give up all hope of completeling a level in one try. You can't take enough boosters with you and the game constantly works against you with the tiles it drops. This results in having to play a level again and again and again and again, upwards of 15 to 20 times before the AI finally starts having pity and produces the booster generating matches necessary to complete the level. And there are hundreds and hundreds of levels. The purpose of each level is to earn a star that can be used to complete a task associated with the story. Mosts tasks require 2 to 3 stars to complete. Meaning you'll play the same 2 to 3 levels upwards of 60 times or more to complete one task. I thought games were supposed to be fun..Version: 1.0.3
✓ It would be an easy five star…I have been playing this game, pretty much daily, for months. I mainly had one niggle, the cost of boosters against the amount won, which has been mentioned. However, when it comes to the find the gnome section there are increasingly often periods of screen freeze. Initially I thought it was just when I held the screen down to skip the scene. So I started letting the scene play out. Today I have had two screen freezes within a five minute period and the frustration is beginning to equal the pleasure..Version: 1.15.0
✓ Good initially, but then the need for boosters takes over.By Level 60, you’re either very lucky, a glutton for punishment in retrying the same level - or you blitz through your in-game earnings in very short order by purchasing boosters. The boosters in this game represents hyperinflation of the worst possible type, probably not seen since Zimbabweans needed a wheelbarrow of bank notes to buy a loaf of bread. Simply put, they are laughably expensive. Require an extra last minute five turn booster? That’s 900 credits. You get on average around 50 or so for finishing a level. The story part is appealing and it’s nice to make progression. However, what should be a relaxed and laid-back puzzler, soon changes into a Hell grind. After Level 60, there’s a noticeable shift. New tiles like weeds that regrow back if left too long are partners for sibling tiles that take a couple of matching tiles to take down. All limited by a number of turns that is criminally small at times. I’m currently on Level 65 and unfortunately, the game has switched from an easy form of relaxation, to a repetitive slog - hoping for a one-in-a-hundred perfect drop - without having to resort to boosters that resemble the GDP of China. There are plenty of brain-testing and patience stretching games out there. The beauty of games like this are their inherent slow pace and easy progression to the finish. A game that your gran could play, with the minimum of fuss. This isn’t one of them..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Too slowAddicting game but drives me insane that certain tasks are worth more stars I’d prefer if each fast was equal.Version: 1.9.0
✓ DisappointedIAm not giving this game one star because of the many game breaking bugs, but because when I wrote to support they were extremely patronizing. They said things like “ Have you tried power cycling your device and trying again?” Which is a fancy way of saying 'shutting it down.'.Version: 1.20.1
✓ Good but not keeping upI loved this app when I first started. However, the last few weeks have been disappointing- new levels are not being added for days at a time. It has some “add ons” built in, for something to do, but these are not the same as the core levels. Now going to delete, as the producers are not updating it fast enough..Version: 1.10.0
✓ Weird mix of chill and frustrationThe game has two opposing traits, which consistently pile into one another. The story is mellow and fun, but the game is mean and unforgiving. It needs a chill mode, where you can play on to the end of the level, and not be frustrated by running out of turns when you are one or two moves away. I’m on level 220 or so, and am running out of love for the mechanics. It has a lot going for it, but it it is just too mean for its own good..Version: 1.0.3
✓ A bit of a slogThe animations are good and the art style is ok, but the game is so heavy handed with tutorials that I just had to give up. Show, don’t tell. If you have to have twenty minutes of tutorials then simplify the game. But a simple puzzler like this does not need the hand holding. People are smarter than this game assumes. I might try to play this again, but it is too hard to get past the needless yammering explaining simple concepts..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Fun at first…I was really into this game in the beginning. The storyline, the cats, the levels, etc. Now I’m in the upper levels (mid 200’s) and the levels are almost unplayable. There are either not enough moves to complete it, the tiles don’t fall in your favor, and I don’t even have any coins to get an extra 5 moves anymore. I eventually give up on the level and quit the game for the day. It’s lost a lot of playability and it’s not worth figuring out the level. I wish there weren’t a limited number of moves, but just a grade system for finishing the levels in a certain number of moves. I can’t even progress through the story these days, and I’m losing interest fast. At least download it and go through the first half of the game. It’s nice..Version: 1.23.0
✓ Fun for a few daysI played this a lot and got up to chapter 9. I like how it gets harder the longer you play but it got too hard and I had to give up. Also it’s unfinished because I searched up how many levels and chapters and there is only 16 chapters and 500 and something levels. They make it hard to cover up how little levels they have..Version: 1.5.1
✓ Great gameI really really love this game and have been really keen on playing it. However, yesterday it wouldn’t load properly once open (ie it opened but then remained on the loading screen), tried it a few times and it still wouldn’t work. Then, today I deleted it and re-downloaded it hoping that would fix it, it doesn’t seem to have done so. My progress seems to have been lost also, when I opened it it asked me to choose a game, the only option was a “new save”. So I don’t know if there’s an issue with my phone, which I doubt, or something up with the app. I’m hoping it’ll sort itself out soon, if it does I’ll write an updated review..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Problème avec la version 1.22.0 et le ios 16.2L’application ne s’ouvre pas correctement avec la version 1.22.0 et le ios 16.2 L’application ouvre, ça écrit "téléchargement 1/1" et après deux ou trois minutes l’application ferme complètement..Version: 1.22.0
✓ Love the storyI really want to love this game but to me there are some major things getting in the way. I understand it is a puzzle game so there are move limits but to me I actually get really annoyed having to play the level over and over again just because RNG didn’t give me the right colors to beat the level. Since this is arcade I was expecting to be able to just pop the colors and eventually when I pop all the stuff boom done. With having move limits I find I have to walk away at certain times because I just miss the goal by one because the object is surrounded by all different colors. I would give this more stars if they had a mode where you could run through the story without having move limits. This could either be for after the game or an option that could be turned on! This seems like they took it from the App Store as a micro purchase and just put it on the arcade, where is the customization to make this an arcade worthy game? Also we should be able to either swipe up or down when forming rockets to pick the direction this random direction thing is nonsense when you have that one rocket left to win and it’s going horizontal when you need it to be parallel! Also why do you get so little coins for beating levels and every costs so much?.Version: 1.0.3
✓ Cute GameI like the game. It’s fun. I would have given 5 stars but if I stop playing for a few hours it will take away the stars I’ve earned and bring me back down a few levels I’ve already beat. Its happened to me 3 times already. It’s really frustrating. I was at LVL 150 with 7 stars and it put me back to LVL 143 with NO STARS! These levels are NOT EASY. So it’s frustrating having to redo them just to get my stars back. So the game is not saving my progress. It also takes my coins I’ve earned. Wish this can be fixed, will probably delete the game if it persists. Not worth playing over and over again and not regaining my progress..Version: 1.0.3
✓ I loved this game for a whileOk it’s your standard matching game, nothing new there. It’s one with a story so you have a “reason” to be doing all of this, again nothing new there. What I loved about this game was no ads due to the arcade subscription and no tying to force me to buy power ups or coins to move the game along. What I didn’t like about the game is I played the top cat mini game by accident and now I can’t collect any prize and the game crashes….I can’t even play the actual levels because as soon as I open the game and go through the title and loading screens it closes out. Closing out my apps and restarting my phone didn’t help. So now I can’t play anymore :(.Version: 1.4.0
✓ Developer is UnresponsiveUPDATE: This game takes longer to complete than War and Peace. After a few hundred levels, it's all tedium. Baffling is how sometimes using an earned feature will clear the level and other times (under the same board conditions), nothing. I just finished 500-plus levels, until the one labeled "The End?" The story at this point ends abruptly. Yet, there seems to be more levels. It's all a frustrating mystery. And my advice is not to bother with the nomes. The reward for finding one is small and on some levels, no matter how hard you look (over every pixel on the screen), there is none. I hope the long, months-long slog to the end of this game is near. ======= As others have reported, the game froze up entirely for days following the update of late last week. The game also entirely froze my computer without any way to exit the game without doing a hard shutdown of the entire computer. The developers ask that we email them at the specific address they request we use. More than a few days after my email (and a follow-up) they have not responded In their communications to others they provide a stock response about downloading the latest version from the App Store. There is no update indicated. Instead you have to uninstall and reinstall the game from scratch. Not a good reflection on this developer in terms of customer care and retention..Version: 1.7.0
✓ Good story but...Good story, but some of the levels are almost impossible to beat. Also, why is there no information on how which direction the rocket will be pointing when a cluster is matched? So frustrating to have to guess all the time..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Fun but you can easily hit a wallEnjoyed this game through the 1st 100 levels but here it belies its FTP roots. The coin cost of may extra moves or boosts is insane (900 for 5 moves) and you only earn 70ush for finishing a level. You can’t replay past levels and so if you spend your coins on trying to get past a tricky level there’s no way to ever earn any back. It feels as if the “buy coins” mechanic has been taken out but without any changes to compensate for it. Some kind of daily challenge / level to earn coins for the campaign mode would make this perfect. I enjoyed the art style and story but hit this insurmountable barrier.Version: 1.0.3
✓ Lovely Game in The beginningI absolutely love this game, And I’ve throughly enjoyed the beginning of the game but as you progress the levels get much harder and it becomes more a chore than a fun time and the harder levels you do still only give you one star, I believe if you added the ability to gain more than one star on the levels it would make for a more enjoyable experience and make it a game you want to finish for fun and not as a chore or a tedious task.I’ve found the levels I play now take at least 10 or more try’s to beat for only one star and it’s not worth going through all that frustration for only one star. it makes me not want to continue playing the game it’s just not worth the effort. You could also just make the more challenging levels optional so you can continue the game with wanting to throw ur device out the window because the game didn’t give you anything to work with. This is by far one of the most frustrating games I play that I love so much, the story is great and it’s a really cute game but the levels are so tedious and frustrating it’s not worth playing the game anymore or finishing the story..Version: 1.1.0
✓ It’s Simon’s CatExtra star for being Simon’s Cat. The game was cute and I love matching/popping games, but seriously, when I saw this game I was expecting more. Some of the mechanics are tedious (having to generate bubbles/dandilions, beat the spreading grass, sometimes at the same time, breaking rocks, etc), and in most cases can’t be beaten without generating the required powerups—which if you run out of moves before that happens, tough luck. I’m glad there wasn’t an energy bar of some kind to have to worry about, but the fact that I’m limited by the number of moves really did take some of the enjoyment out of it. Plus, the fact that there’s over 500 levels just to finish the story… It would have been nice to have some different kinds of mini-games, memory matching or just some old-fashioned bejeweled type levels or something more in keeping with the Simon’s Cat theme. The game also loses a star because I got to the end and am at 22/23 stars and the game insists I’ve done all the levels so I can’t play the last scene. Not sure what to do about that, as it keeps trying to take me to the current event..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Good game, poor tech supportGame has challenging game play that is not impossible to play. The graphics are good and the basic story is entertaining. However, tech support not so great. When I quit the game on 5/15 I had over 30,000 gold coins. When I opened the game on 5/16 I had only 9,000 gold coins with no explanation of what had happened to over 21,000 gold coins I had earned through long game play. I contacted tech support and their answer was “The team has been notified of this issue immediately. Unfortunately I cannot change the amount of coins in your game or restore them.” They were no help with a problem created by their game. In the future, I will be taking occasional screen shots as evidence of the number of coins I have in hopes that that will be sufficient evidence when part of my coins mysteriously disappear from the game again. Be warned..Version: 1.14.1
✓ Got to Level 23/31, game disappearedThis game is good fun. But I will not play this again. Several times have been kicked out. Previously was able to access my previous saved games and continue to follow where I had heft off. This time having reached Level 23/31, I was kicked out and back to Level Zero. Support respond but with brief and largely unhelpful questions to which they do not respond to the answers. Other than tell me they will tell the Developers. Useless! Absolutely fuming and very disappointed..Version: 1.7.0
✓ Great but…I love this game and it’s basically what I’ve wanted for ages, a match 3 without tons of micro transactions. However! It feels like it was originally developed with micro transactions in mind, the reason I say this is starting in the late 100 levels and on, some of the levels get insanely difficult. Like you couldn’t possibly beat them in the first 5-7 tries, and even then sometimes it takes so long that the game starts you with crazy power ups after your 10th attempt in a row. I really hope they rebalance the levels and make them a bit less insane to beat. I find myself being more frustrated with the difficulty than engaged with the game and wanting to keep going. Developers: I’m not sure how easy it would be to rebalance the levels starting in the early mid to late game, but the game would be perfect if you did. Also, I suggest adding the ability to change your design decisions after you’ve made them..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Incredibly frustrating!Completed 32/34 achievments and reached all the levels support advised I needed to, to enter the "Midnight Feast" challenge. This also included additional challendes added recently such as morning patrol, completed! Unable to access midnight feast, cannot locate myself on the leaderboard, impossible to complete, waste of time!!! Don't bother starting this game if you want to finish all achievements!.Version: 1.11.0
✓ Bugs 411A few bug here and there. Great story, fantastic, but very repetitive and quite boring puzzles. Seem like a missed opportunity. Finishing a puzzle quickly should earn you more money. Power ups are often useless. I used them all and could finish a level, straight after I used none anc beat it. Hard levels are often not harder. Some levels could be time attack or just something else. Yawn 🥱..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Was great until…I have been playing the game, enjoying the story and the characters, and looking forward to the new chapters, but suddenly, my game is gone and I’ve been thrown back to the beginning! Why? No clue, and I certainly won’t repeat the chapters I’ve already done. Any suggestions?.Version: 1.3.0
✓ Needs a lot of workLooks great, fun little story, clearly designed to be freemium with an insane difficulty curve to milk for money but as this has been hastily re-skinned to Apple Arcade (as with so many games on here) they have made no effort to adjust the mechanics or difficulty scaling for the new audience and play style. By level 80ish you are entirely reliant on luck and spending 10-30+ attempts at a level to only clear it by chance, with no clear way of grinding money to get boosts apart from the pittance you can get on the daily puzzle. Sadly so many developers are doing this and the arcade is suffering. Laziness. Simple adjustments like having a set number of boosts per level instead of buying them, having some way of grinding out boosts at a reasonable pace or retooling the difficulty curve and you had a decent game..Version: 1.3.0
✓ Needs improvingIt’s a fun game, for the first 3-4 days. It seems like it would be fun for younger kids too. But after that the game levels get WAY too hard! I shouldn’t need to pay for coins in a Apple Arcade game, that’s the whole point of having Apple Arcade, so you don’t have to pay for game upgrades to pay. But you make such a small amount of coins for each level you win, then you have to pay way more than you make to pass the hard levels. It seems rigged. It would be fun, if you earned more coins for passing a level so you could keep playing. And if the levels weren’t so insanely hard. If it’s hard for an adult to play, it definitely wouldn’t be fun for children, even tho it looks like it would be. It would also help to at least give the harder levels about twice as many moves as what they have now so you have any chance of trying to pass them..Version: 1.4.0
✓ If only...I simply adore all thing Simon Cat and enjoy the bubble game and crunch time. The story line here is so intoxicating it’s incredibly frustrating when progressive levels are so hard there isn’t any way to move past and the games inability *algorithm* isn’t intuitive enough to sense the user needs a little push or help. I’ve been stuck on my level now for so long I saying goodbye to this game. Terrible..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Gets hard for no reasonIt’s irritatingly hard, you can tell it was designed to leverage money out of people for a pay to play model. I don’t care about the couple of chuckles I got, chapter two gets hard without warning and stays that way. Can’t be bothered Oh! And in level 41 they bring in colour matching next to different coloured pots to break them. Just superb for a colourblind person to try and do.Version: 1.1.1
✓ Pay to win but it’s freeIt’s like a pay to win game but you can’t pay to win… sometimes the levels get very frustrating and if you don’t have coins it’s difficult to beat. I love the stories very cute..Version: 1.25.0
✓ Latest update has spoiled itI loved this game; completed all the levels then started playing the midnight feasts and Top Cat. Top Cat was my favourite until they change it in this update. You achieve a gold box only to find the goal posts for the bands changing before your eyes. Yet no mention of this in the update. To achieve a gold box you now have to play it far too much to keep on top of the box Banding. Not good and encourages younger players to spend too much time on it. I have 60,000+ coins but won’t be playing it any more..Version: 1.4.0
✓ Great story but extremely tedious puzzle solvingI keep playing (have completed puzzle 325 and chapter 10) because I’m intrigued by and enjoy the story but OMG the puzzles have become ridiculously tedious. Some I can clear in a try or two while others I just keep spamming the screen with my finger until I fail the puzzle enough times that it triggers the game’s mercy clause and I get some onscreen buffs to blow things up. This game was clearly designed as F2P. While I’m glad there are no micro transactions I’m not sure I’ll make it to the story’s end. I assume the devs get reimbursed from Apple based on hours played by subscribers so they’re motivated to keep us playing. It’s a business, right? I just don’t know how long my interest will hold..Version: 1.0.3
✓ Quickly gets too difficultThis is by far the best match-3 type game in terms of quality. The graphics are excellent and the animals are very cute and funny. However, it doesn’t take long before the levels become difficult. It’s so frustrating and boring to be repeating the same level over and over again without success. It’s very similar to the ‘freemium’ model where it’s great to begin with but very soon you need endless boosters, a lot of time, patience and sheer luck to progress any further. The whole reason I subscribed to Apple Arcade was to try and avoid that. When will developers learn that some of us just want to pay for a game and play it?.Version: 1.28.0
✓ It feels unfinished.I played right to the end of 521 levels and there were no more challenges even though the game said I had finished 24 out of 26 challenges in the final chapter. Where are the last 2 challenges? I feels like the developers have not completed the final stages of the app, very disappointing!.Version: 1.0.3
✓ It’s a great game with a big problemIt’s charming, it’s funny, it’s pretty and it’s extremely playable, but it feels like a free-to-play with the pay to win aspect removed. So you’re left with a game where progression later on becomes a slog as levels become extremely difficult to beat without using the support items and you can’t buy those if you’ve run out of coins. But because you can’t replay earlier easy levels you can’t even grind for those. So you just get stuck trying to beat whatever level you’re stuck on until you’re lucky enough to get a decent set of tiles that make it possible. It’s a shame as I’m enjoying it. It just needs some form of new system putting in to allow you to progress past these pinchpoints. If it had that, I’d give it 5 stars..Version: 1.0.3
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