Great game, horrible problems freezing up and crashing. And almost always in the middle of a hard or very hard level. No energy reimbursement when it does either. I have deleted the game, re downloaded it, performed every troubleshooting steps and it continues to crash. If there were an option to stop game animation then it could possibly work but that won't happen I am sure. Save yourself the hassle and try a different game that works.
Reviews for Best Fiends - Match 3 Puzzles
← Back to Best Fiends - Match 3 PuzzlesAlong with below, they apparently decided to change the graphics (at least on Android) and it is ugly as sin. Not playable at this time. It would be a pretty good game of this type if it didn't always try to screw you over or get you to use/ purchase power ups. For example, the paper planes work well until you get to the end of the level, when they decide not to go for any of the squares you want them to. Why you say? Because they are programmed that way
A fun game for sure. Challenging and addictive. I don't even mind the ads. It's the animations and pop-ups that drive me nuts. So many of the levels are challenging that you need boosts. You can often get 2 or 3 minutes of a boost, but then you have to wait for six animations and click through five pop-ups that you've seen 20 times already, and you have barely a minute left. The worst is when you pay for the best boosts but are forced to wait through numerous animations and barely get half time.
Okay, it's a good game but a bit rudimentary, then, all the pop ups and specials and limited time deals keep barfing in your face and ruining the flow of the game, and it gets hard. Not challenging, but hard, for the sake of slowing down your progress. It's a cheap way to attempt to keep you engaged. I don't appreciate the low tactics.
Ive been playing this on and off for a few years and its a perfect match three "mindless" game, which I don't mean in a bad way. But the ads are now predominantly unclosable and all the x and "leave promotion" buttons just either redirect to the play store for the ad app or locks up into a black screen. You then need to kill the app, resulting in no reward for sitting through the ad. Please vet the ads before they go live and make sure that they actually function instead of pushing players away!
Update, 10+ yrs: I'm sad to say BF has gone the way of most mobile games: pop-ups designed to trick you into accidentally making a purchase. Ads are getting longer and more obnoxious, requiring 2-3 clicks to exit. But the last straw was an ad that installs an APK file if you click it by accident. I let BF know and they told me there was nothing they could do. That is not acceptable. Period. Edit: as I wrote, I already contacted support. I did so immediately. I was told nothing could be done.
Really solid game. Enjoyable gameplay and fun little characters. My only wish for this game would be more ways to unlock rare characters. Something RNG potentially to try to win a character you don't have or one you really want/need. It could be an option every month, or something where you save currency (other than hundreds/thousands of gold bars, which takes forever). It doesn't feel like consistent gameplay is rewarded enough, but maybe I haven't played enough.
I have been playing this game for 10 years,and I will tell you this, I will have this game on all my phones for the rest of my life.I love this game, the little bug guys are so cute, and the game play is awesome every level is different which is awesome, they have different events you can earn outfits for your cute bugs. The map is awesome and cute they even have side levels you can play for each of the characters. there is awesome something to do.
There really truly are no ads! A lot of in-game "buy-me" things, and optional side quests to click through (or play), but they're quick. I love when you need to unlock sections that say you need x number of fiends - I dont have friends, but I always have enough fiends! My only wish is that you could use boosters mid-level; you have to preselect them, and they are randomly placed before the first move. Overall
I've had this at 5 stars in the past and still would love to but I am SO tired of this game crashing on me at all the worst times!!!! I spend money on this game and really do Love it but come on. When the game helpers (bombs, arrows, ect.) are timed, it always freezes or completely kicks me off the game. Or when you lose a level and have the option to keep going for 10 bars so that you don't lose a winning streak, get completely kicked off or freezes. Been getting worse!
The higher the levels (over 5,000), are hard to beat, been waiting over 4 years now for the coming soon fiends, what's up, love this game,...seen your response, I know how to play the game, I've been playing since 2015, I'm on level 7500+ oh and the new fiends you said I could get by completing tasks, I have, and most of them there's NOT enough time,. some fiend r not new to me or to others, and the bonuses we get the minutes are mostly used up by all your pop ups, there's been a lot of glitches
cute. love the game but it only gets 4 stars because it is constantly popping up with bundles for you to buy. wish they would just leave shop icons off to the side that I can check at my leisure rather than interrupting between levels almost constantly. and the switch between menus/ rewards is a little slower than I'd like. cuts into the timer you get on bonus tile helpers
pay to play if you want to win any levels w/out having to play the same damn level for hours and hours, you have to purchase in game bs. And the in game ads, omg they are never ending!!!! I stupidly decided to buy the the 'premium pass' and it was an absolute joke! the final 'chest' was only mites for fiend upgrade and zero power ups! complete scam all around! deleting!
Love love this game! Been playing for a couple years now! Still exciting! No ads at all! No game pausing for ads after a couple levels! Of course there's the occasional ads when you need an extra power up, more keys etc, but it always tells you there an ad to watch. This game is my addiction! Even when you finish all 1100 plus levels, there Elite levels to play! I look forward to the weekends even more! lol!
The game is okay, character progression seem fun and levels are okay (through level 20, could get more interesting/complex later) but the stalls every single level (which are pretty short) to force you to use keys and get unlocks is pretty disruptive and pushes me away. Just let me punch through levels as fast as I can and when I hit road blocks I'll upgrade.
Could be great, but isn't. The characters are really cute. The mechanics work great. But this is a games designed to make money. While not spending money, you can earn some fun boosts and costumes, but the timer system sucks. Events eat away at the amount of time useful "infinite" boosts are available and there is nothing you can do except watch those seconds slip away. Hope the game doesn't crash or you accidentally hot the wrong button on your phone, because YouTube win streak is gone.
It does not interrupt game play with ads. There are several optional opportunities to watch ads to gain boosts/help. When you get a boost for 3 minutes, it may take 1.5 before you can actually play with all the pop-ups for game stuff. I have also noticed that if you try a level many times without passing it, then leave the game for a while (hours ro days), somehow, I pass the level right away when I come back. It's a nice, no stress game, as long as it is JUST a game to you.
I absolutely adore this game, it's fun and challenging and pay to win is not the only way to enjoy it, but there is a little thing that's starting to get super annoying for me: The Side Quests. For every level you complete there's like 3-4 side quests that get boosted, and there's nothing wrong with them BUT I do not need to see them all progress the second I open the app or complete a level, it takes a solid 30 seconds before I can just play the game, fix this and I'm golden.
when I first started playing this game I was really suprised how fun this was, and how addicting. After I played it for a while I noticed that the rewards you get after you play a level doesn't come with gold bars, which I find extremely disappointing. It seems the only way to achieve the gold bars is through the season vault or the VIP , either way you have to pay something.
The amount of animations that play, and windows that pop up regularly between levels is excessive. It's especially terrible when you have boosts going that it purposefully wastes time on when it can take upwards of 30-60 seconds to just play the next level when each pop up takes far to long to load and close. I don't know if it's always been like this, but it's a frustrating issue that needs to be addressed and fixed. The game otherwise is still enjoyable.