Charm King™

I love the game but it becomes expensive to play. Unless you have the patience of Job, after becoming stuck on a level for days, you will be enticed to purchase coins or boosts to pass the level when you repeatedly get down to needing only one to two moves to beat the level. I have been playing this game for years and over that time I have spent hundreds of dollars as this scenario occurs over and over again. One to two medium skill levels will be followed by a hard level that is virtually impossible given the number of allotted moves. I understand that game developers need to be paid for their labor and creativity. I am a software developer myself so I support that. But knowing there is no such thing as truly random logic in games, I know that the levels are intentionally set to entice $s to be spent. Just seems like the developers could set a switch once a player has expended a large sum so they can win hard levels after a large number of failed tries, say 50, and let the now impoverished player that loves the game to keep moving through. With purchased games, there is a limit to the expenditures required of the player. Not so with “free” apps. I have forced myself to no longer pay to play this game.

Charm King now has funny little stories you can follow as you complete levels and earn scrolls. However, the actual match 3 game play is the same old nonsense as all the other match 3 games out there. You aren’t given nearly enough moves to complete the tasks you are given because you are expected to spend actual $$ to buy extra moves. Or you can play the same level over and over and over and over and over and over... until you get lucky. I have just about reached my tolerance limit for “pay to win” games masquerading as “free,” and I bypass a lot of games because of it. It’s also annoying to pick the game up at bedtime intending to play for 15 minutes...and immediately get rewarded with 8 hours of free lives. I have no use for 8 hours of free time at bedtime. But it starts immediately, so too bad.

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I love playing this game but it is rigged for you to spend large sums of money playing it. In order to go from one level to the next level you need gold coins which gives you five more moves. These gold coins cost money. The levels usually don’t give you enough moves to advance to the next level so in order to advance to the next level you have to use the gold coins to get extra moves. These gold coins can get expensive because you find yourself needing extra moves on most games. You can accumulate gold coins at a slow pace one gold coin at a time unless you win in a tournament then you can earn more than one gold coin but each game requires ten gold coins for five extra moves. The game doesn’t give you gold coins upfront. Many games gives you gold coins upfront to play the game and after you use them up you have to wait a period of time for them to be replenished not this game any gold coins you get you have to buy them so you are practically paying to play the game. Because the developers of this game is so greedy and don’t give replenishing gold coins I rate this game a one.

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I play quite a few of this style. The premise is better than most, but same disappointment as other match games. The levels are almost impossible to win on first try very early in game. Yes, I get lots of hours of unlimited play. DEVELOPERS: We DON’T CARE about unlimited if we have to keep playing the same levels. Your goal, of course, is to force people to pay for the various hints. People who want to pay for games will. But when you are so obviously trying to push us to pay in order to retain interest, many will just delete. Like me. But those people you lost also likely didn’t leave a review. I recommend that you play far into game before you give them FB permission. They try to hook you early with 24 hours plus of unlimited but boredom from playing same level, then frustration, and finally anger will eventually creep in. Oh, and I WILL and HAVE payed quite a bit on games that deserved it. So haters can’t assume my bad review is because I expect free. I don’t. I just hate the tactics of a game so obviously trying to force me to pay.

This is an addicting game, but I'm at a level with the urns, and there are four urns. One urn needed one charm, one needed four. I made two matches in one play, with a total of nine charms, and because the charms were next to the urns, all of the charms were eaten. Why can't the levels in this game be programmed so that however many charms are needed for the urn to disappear, that's only how many charms are eaten? Seriously. Only five charms were needed to fill the urns, and they would have disappeared, but all nine charms were eaten. It's difficult to get the required amount of charms at this level to pass to the next level when just the required amount of charms are eaten by the urns, but when all the extra charms are eaten, you can be on the same level for months, if you don't spend hours a day playing this game.