Zen Match - Relaxing Puzzle Game Reviews

Needs Some Work. I really liked this game when I started it and even paid to remove the ads. There are several things about it that have driven me away. First of all, you can’t purchase coins at a reasonable price. When I first started there were reasonably priced packages available. Now, the cheapest I can purchase is $7.99. I find it strange that price of the packages go up as you progress in the game. Another thing I really dislike about it is that there’s a short game before each level that, as far as I can tell, is pointless. Also, there are no daily prizes or any incentives really to keep you coming back. There is a daily game, but it’s almost impossible to win. I feel like this game is designed to hook you at first and get you to spend a bit of money, then move on. Some have also mentioned the lives - it takes 30 minutes to regenerate one life! To continue without losing a life, it takes 60 coins. To put this in perspective, the cheapest package is around 360 coins for $7.99. That’s just too much money! Too bad, because if it were reasonably priced, I’d keep playing. I really liked it, but I can’t blow that much money on a game.

Keep me coming back. First off, the word Marvelous is spelled wrong in your app. You might want to fix that. It’s disturbing to see it pop up at the end of a very hard level and see it spelled as “Marvellous”. Second, I too am frustrated at downloading apps based on the ad that then is NOTHING like the ad when you get to the game (I have seen other reviews mention this on this game and other games). I realize that you might have to get through a few levels in some games to get to the part where the game is like the ad that you saw that made you want to download it, but I have been working on this game for several months now and I’m on level 275 and still no where NEAR the ad that I followed to get this game. However, I am still enjoying the game even though I was completely misled into downloading it. No, I have not spent any money. If I can not complete a level without using the ridiculous amount of gold required for a redo or to get another chance, then I lose the life and wait for it to respawn. I’m not that impatient to play the game that I am going to spend money on it. That being said, I do wish lives did not take so long to refresh. It is the developers way of trying to get you to spend money. You only have 5 lives and the levels are incredibly hard to win without using any of the “help” that costs gold. I challenge myself to never use the gold so I’m constantly waiting for my lives to come back as it takes me forever to finish a level. If you offered more than 10 gold pieces to finish a level or even brought back the option to watch an ad to get 30 gold pieces, that would have bumped you up to 5 starts.

Fun game!. I downloaded this game quite a few months ago because I saw the ads. When I first started to play I didn’t even know the daily games were a thing so I only played normal levels. Obviously they slowly got harder and harder as expected. But, it got to the point when they were so hard it look me weeks to pass one level. Maybe some of you do, but I don’t have that kind of patience. I started doing the daily games and I love them! They are timed but most of the time I can get them in one try. Now I only do the daily games and never the levels just because I don’t want to keep doing the same one. If you like a challenge maybe the levels are for you! They are definitely not for me.😂 One other thing is that my phone is pretty slow but I’ve found that this game crashes regularly. If you have a newer phone with more space you may not have that problem. I’m getting a new phone soon so I’ll see if it’s better. But ya! Overall, I love the daily games but the levels are ridiculously hard. I would recommend to try it out and see what you think!

Great Game- Stop pop ups. Hi, this game is great and I am on level 197 but mainly play for the daily challenges and puzzles. However, while I have been playing this game and seeing it change over several updates, the pop-ups have gotten out of hand. Although the game has almost become easier to the point where it is helpful the pop-ups have not. Meaning that whenever you click on the game to enter it, there are several pop-ups from the game festivities going on during that time. The pop-ups, you can normally leave out of however they have gotten out of hand. Every pop-up has another one directly following it, and sometimes there are up to eight of them after one another. On the other hand, I do truly love this game. It has great graphics and has continued to update itself to have new tiles every time I go onto it. I like the overall idea and theme as you are building a house throughout the game and have continued to love to see it be updated. However, the pop-ups have made this update not as useful as the pop-ups are becoming overwhelming. I hope this can be fixed and the continued game can grow.

Cash Cow Game. I actually enjoy playing this game. However, I got caught up in purchasing the coins. It takes 30 minutes for the game to give a new life and is full at 5 lives (so 2.5 hours to have all the lives restored for free). If you are into the game, you have to pay for coins to continue. It takes 200 coins to replenish. Second money dump, if you get stuck in the game and want to scramble the towels or any of the other two ways of extending the life to continue playing will cost. Now, there are free ways to get these bonuses but they are few and far in between and are teasers to pay for them. I have been stuck at level 145 for a really long time. I think I advanced to this level only because I had been paying for these coins to continue the play so I could advance. Now at level 145, I decided just to pay for coins. I wanted to see how difficult it would be and how long it would take for me to advance. I have not been able to move to level 146. I REFUSE to give it another dollar now that the game is set up to take advantage of its consumers. As long as you pay, great. When you don’t pay, you can play but you won’t move. Cash Cow. Beware.

Irritating. I’m gonna be honest, this game is actually enjoyable and addicting-half the time. There are many, many flaws. There was another review that hit almost all the nails but missed a few. Firstly, the game is loaded with ads, which you have an option to pay $5.99 to get rid of for 6 months, not even permanently. Then with the coins; everything is dependent on coins. You want to go back a step? 20 coins. You want to keep playing a game you lost? 60 coins the first time, 90 coins the second, and so on. You only get 10 coins per game, and there’s an option to watch an ad to get an additional 20 coins, which eventually goes away after a certain level, I believe level 100. Then with the lives, and this is the flaw that irritates me the most: you have 5 lives when you start the game. If you want to start a level you automatically lose a life. Then if you lose that level you can either pay 60 coins and take a chance at losing the level again, or you can lose a life. It’s very easy to lose all your lives within the span of 1 hr (that’s how long it takes for them to refill to 5) because the game is randomly generated, so there are some levels that are simply impossible to beat. If the creators got rid of the lives concept this game would be 100% better. Also, theres an option to refill your lives with 200 coins before the 1 hr is up; that means 20 levels worth of coins would be washed down the drain simply because the levels were unsolvable. Just make the game better by tenfold by removing the stupid lives. Or make it so you can watch an ad to refill them, and bring back the 20 extra coin ad option!

Fun and cheap …if you’re smart about it. I’m on level 300-something I’ve only paid $6 to shut off ads. If you lose a life it takes 30 minutes to get it back. I like this feature Bc I either do well and get longer game play or I do poorly and it forces me to put my phone down and be more productive. I like it in the morning specifically or before an exam Bc it calms me down while helping me helps me clear my mind and think strategically, wards off that groggy feeling. It does seem like some puzzles are impossible. My favorite part of the app is the daily time based puzzles however there are a few w the time set to 1 minute and there’s absolutely no possible way to clear the amount of tiles given in a minute. Those ones feel like coin traps. Also another complaint is if you’ve been saving coins you’ll only receive 20 coins when you reach your level bonus. However if I have no coins i receive 100 at level bonuses. I understand why they do it but I feel like some bits are a little scammy hence the 4 stars instead of 5.

Fantastic game, literally no problems !!✨. I LOVE this game so much !! It’s so relaxing to play when I’m worried or nervous or just can’t sleep. I love to play it when I’m bored, or in my free time. I LOVE the lack of ads !! It has a reasonable amount of ads which is admirable too. I also love how you get to decorate and color rooms along with the satisfaction of matching the tiles. Such a fun and satisfying idea. ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS GAME!! I definitely recommend it !! I’m so glad I downloaded it! I wasn’t sure if it was going to be like the ads for it but it was and it was even BETTER than the ads! Love the whole idea and everything !! I also absolutely LOVE how it doesn’t need internet !! So I am able to play it when I have no internet including on a plane, in the middle of nowhere on a car trip, or just in general to help not use data or hope you the internet bill !! This game is great, really helps me. Hope others feel the same way !! Thanks to the developers for creating such a lovely and calming game. Best regards !! ☺️💕❤️

Recent Updates/glitches ruined the game. Title says it all. I don’t know if it’s an update or a glitch, but the game has lost all of its fun for me. A few days ago my whole game glitched me forward about 10 levels, which isn’t a terrible thing, but gameplay since then has been pretty bad. It started recycling the same four layouts, which makes it incredibly boring. The daily puzzle has become completely pointless because it no longer gives you two decor points, only a few coins. It marks your progress with the potted plants, but for what? You get nothing for completing an entire months daily puzzles. It will no longer enter me into the golden piece tournament. I could collect 200 pieces, but when the tournament it over is says I’ve collected 0. It’s also changed so the first 20 pieces now only give you 5 measly coins instead of decor points. I’ve also started having issues where every ad (and there are many) that plays freezes my game or slows it down. This game used to be so much fun, I looked forward to playing it in the morning with my tea and breakfast. But now, there really isn’t anything that would keep me coming back. Very sad and frustrating

Used to be great - Latest update killed it for me (after 2500 levels). I had a good time playing all the way to level 2571 (Zen Masters a few times too) and found it satisfying and enjoyable. Originally there was a good balance between sophistication of play/challenge and the ability to move up the levels with minimal investment. Some reviewers indicate that as you get closer to the second thousand levels the degree of difficulty outpace your ability to enjoy playing to the degree that many of the goals are next to impossible without spending pretty serious money on buying coins for cheats/assists. But it kind of levels off around 2,000 and I was feeling ok about the amount of money I was spending until this recent update when coin inflation went into turbo drive. Every thing increased by at least a factor of ten in “cost” except for the ways you used to have to earn coins for free by playing well over multiple levels. They give you 2500 coins for “free” with this update but that goes pretty fast with the new prices and the old ways to earn were left pretty much the same so your only choice is to spend real money — and lots of it to keep playing. Time to bail IMHO. Back to Two Dots for me. They get their $$ out of me too but they are fair and keep it to a consistent level.

Fun but irritating. When I have full lives and a lot of coins, this game is fun. But then I run out of lives and realize I need to wait a whole 30 minutes just to get one life. And then I finally get one life, and attempt the level, only to realize that the way the tiles are organized it’s almost impossible to beat the level, so I try one of the tools on the bottom of the screen. Each of these costs more coins than what you get for completing a level. So most of the time, you don’t have enough coins to use a tool and just constantly use your lives to try to complete a level that you basically can’t finish. And all of the things they have for you to do where you can “win” extra tools require you to pay to get good enough tools to actually help you. They just want money, past a certain level this game is just irritating and not any fun. Many times I have completed enough levels to win a chest, and I see that the line showing my progress is filled all the way to the chest…and then it proceeds to not let me open the chest. Another time it told me I had earned unlimited lives for 15 minutes, I finally filled up the bar and then again, it proceeds to not give me the 15 minutes of unlimited lives. Overall fun until you reach a little over the 100th level.

Well, it was fun for a while.. Not that I feel the developers will see or care, but… Okay, I get it, you create a game to make money. I don’t mind supporting that at all. I paid to have the ads removed. So far so good. I purchased coins and would purchase the bank as well on occasion. Again, fine. I enjoy the graphics. I didn’t suffer some of the crashes others experienced. The levels could be very hard at times but most were doable with maybe shuffling once, twice. Some levels required more. It was fine because the Fortune Path would increase every 3 levels and so by the time i got to level 12 on the Fortune Path, i was earning 120 coins. All was well until I finally made it to level 1000 and suddenly the Fortune Path is now going no higher than 20 COINS!! What the crap? The levels become more challenging and you answer that by decreasing rewards??? I’m shuffling 3 times a level sometimes, maybe more. My coins are dwindling fast. I’m at level 15 on the path and it hasn’t changed from 20 coins. Instead of increments of 20, 45, 90, 120, it’s 10, 15, and 20 only. I hope this is a glitch because honestly this is a huge dealbreaker. I don’t mind supporting the game, but don’t start screwing over people. I believe the payment to remove ads is yearly and I assure you, I’ve enjoyed the game so far but I will not subscribe to another year or throw another dime into this game if this is how it’s going to be. I will remove it. Frustrating. 5 stars for the graphics and entertainment- minus 2 for money hogging.

Not so Zen!. At first the game was great! Then the advertising started! After I paid $4.99 a month for more lives etc and $2.99 for the gold pack which gives you a very small amount of coins, the game became impossible to find matches! If you pay more, that’s the only way but my God, way too expensive! If you want no ads it’s another $5.99! The adds make you want to throw your phone as the are constant! It’s the same ads over and over. Not so Zen after all!! So I’ve had enough. This is an update. I liked the game as I could play while I had no internet connection. When the ads started I was unable to clear the screen. I’d hit the x button and it would only take me to a screen for the app but it would not close saying no internet. I kept having to restart the game. I’d lose a life, again. It happens all the time. I found I was overly frustrated with this zen game. I found I would get Mad over silly things after playing. Sorry after losing over and over. There is no purpose to this game any longer. It is a fail, try again to pure madness of a waste of time. It’s time for the game to go. Nothing worse than a game to calm you but you just want to throw the phone in a wall because it’s impossible to play. I’ve paid for the monthly one time and additional lives. But no more. What a waste of a good game.

Rewards Just Aren’t Worth My Time!. I liked the art of the tiles to match and enjoyed working out the puzzles, for a while. I actually spent real money to get the boosters that let you pass the hard levels, but all they did was take my money without giving me the boosters I paid for. So you beat the levels and get the tokens to decorate your zen room, but unless your favorite colors are all shades of brown, not much from which to choose. Occasionally there’s a dull blue or green, yippie. (Why the tiles have such pretty colors and the rooms have such ugly ones I’ll never understand . . . ) Then make your selections from those boring browns, spend the tokens, and surprise! Next time you log on, your changes are gone, you’re back where you were, however all the tokens spent are still gone and you have to earn them back again. Oh, by the way, lets say you click the support button for help, right? You get your choice of various articles available to read, none of which have anything to do with the problem. So you’re told to contact them for more help. Guess what? There’s no way to do it on site. I spent over an hour traveling down every rat hole, still nothing. Bet that really cuts down on wasted customer service time if customers can’t find you to complain. Congratulations, I’ll be deleting the game soon.

good game with some issues. The gameplay is very enjoyable and satisfying although pretty luck-based, and there are no ads (I got an ad when i first downloaded the game and never got one again). I also like how you can design rooms and stuff as a side quest. However a few problems cause me to rate it 4 stars instead of 5. First of all, there are so many annoying pop ups when you go to the home screen. A pop up for this event, a pop up for the gold chest thingy, a pop up for the trophy thingy. These pop ups show up every time you go to the home screen which is sooo annoying. Also, when you finish a level and go to the home screen, you have to watch animations for coins, gold thingies and lotus thingies before being able to play the next level which takes really long and I would rather be able to immediately click on the button to play the next level. The game is also very laggy at times, causing my whole phone to lag. When this happens it causes my phone to heat up alot and use alot of battery. Once i stop playing zen match, my phone stops lagging after a bit. It’s not always laggy but sometimes its so laggy it’s unplayable. No other game on my phone lags this bad. Even my sister who has a new and non laggy phone says that zen match is laggy and badly optimised. Another thing, I don’t like how you cant resume a level. If your in the middle of a level and have to stop playing and come back after a while, you cant resume the level and you lose a life. This isnt that annoying because levels arent that long but still. Finally, I dont like how when you click give up it gives you a million pop ups trying to convince you to continue using 60 coins, but when you click continue, you are able to continue without any confirmation. One time I accidentally pressed continue, wasting 60 coins, so I would really like it if it asked “are you sure” for continuing.

Fun and all but . . .. I love this game, and it is fun and relaxing, but I have a few problems. 1. The fact that it is nearly impossible to pass the hard levels. If you are anything like me, you will think “oh those people just aren’t trying” no really it’s hard. You need a gazillion coins to pass the levels. 2. The daily puzzle is how I get gold, but it means I have to watch a gazillion adds to get enough gold to fail a level again 🙄 3. Just today, I went in, got a few coins, 10 to be exact, cause that’s how much a shuffle cost, only to find out that the price on everything had been raised. Shuffles were now 15 coins, and redos 30. Yet it still only gives you 10 coins per level. If you wanna raise the prices, you have to raise the salary! 4. I want to play the thing where you clear the huge board, that doesn’t exist. In all, 3 stars, cause it’s fun and all, but I want those fixed. Actually, nvm, they lowered the prices, but still, it’s hard, and I forgot to mention the thing where you match mystery tiles. It gets as far as a shuffle and a redo, but then you have to pay for the chest, and I’m not allowed to spend money on games even if I wanted to, but if I don’t buy the chest, then I can’t get anything else, so please fix that

Beware!!!!. Rip off!! I have spent so much money on this game and I love it but the makers apparently think if you’re stupid enough to spend your hard-earned money, you will be stupid enough to miss all the ways they rip you off. Where do I even start? They rig this game so you’ll spend money. For starters, 9 times out of 10 , when I earn my reward of infinity lives for so many minutes I am not credited. When you spend 10 coins to reshuffle the board, it takes MANY times to get a match to play. They want you to spend all your coins so you have to buy more! Also, it takes 200 coins to buy 5 lives… the closer you are to 200, the less amount of coins you receive when you “level up” after 10 wins. Again, they don’t want to give you enough to buy more lives because they know that once you’re addicted, you’ll spend the money for them! I expect that… after all, most apps are strictly created with profit in mind. However, this is beyond unfair! I love the game, I really do. But because of the number of times I’ve been ripped off, I’ve deemed it unworthy of my money and will now delete and look for a similar app. Their loss! I was a spending a lot! 💁‍♀️

Would be my favorite game if the money grabbing wasn’t so aggressive. To open the game, you have to click through 3-5 screens advertising bonus passes ($9.99) and competitions that you can’t enter without shelling out a lot of money. You win about 10 coins per level but the power up’s cost anywhere from 10-90 coins and the levels are not guaranteed winnable hands. Sometimes you’ll use hundreds of coins on a single level just to make it playable, especially once you reach higher levels (I’m somewhere over 400). You get 5 lives at a time, it takes 25 minutes for each life to reset. The cheapest coin purchase option is $1.99 for 125 coins. To refill your 5 hearts costs 400 coins which costs about $12-20. To get unlimited play for 6 HOURS costs $40. This isn’t on par with other popular games like Beat Star that costs $4.99 for 1 week of unlimited play, and they have to pay licensing fees. These game makers are just greedy. I wish you could go back and play the daily puzzles, even if you can’t earn coins because those are way more fun than the regular levels. I also had over 2000 lotuses and very few completed rooms, came back to find over a dozen rooms I never completed and barely any lotus flowers. Really shady.

This is not a strategy game. At first, this seems like a strategy game. You try to match up three tiles by uncovering certain tiles before other certain tiles. There’s a strategy to uncovering the correct tiles first and leaving others for later. I like that kind of strategy and working-things-out type of game. But very quickly, this game becomes a “luck” game. They start stacking the tiles in odd ways. You think that you’re going to uncover one tile that you need, but when you click on the tile on top of the one you need, you soon find out that there are three other tiles stacked on top of the tile you thought you could get to easily. That just stinks. Then there are the stacks of tiles at the bottom that you have to uncover. That’s all luck. If you click on the wrong tile and what you need is not underneath it, and there’s nothing to match in the mess up above, you’re out of luck. So I was hoping this was an all strategy game, and it really isn’t. I’m stuck at level 114 because I have no luck! It was fun for a while but it’s really lost its shine to me. Also, how about awarding more than just 10 coins for passing a level? I spent 140 coins just to get past a level and then I earn 10?! The rewards are way off. They aren’t enough to give me the incentive to keep working on this. And for being a Zen game, it gets pretty frustrating pretty fast. Oh well.

Meh. Now I play this game a bunch of times a day, but it’s nothing special. It takes 30 minutes just for one life to refill, with a max of 5 (this takes way too long, especially because the lives while glitch out a lot) The levels aren’t very hard. The vibrations are nice I guess. The room decorating is a total waste, it has like 15 total colors for everything, and they’re all pretty ugly. You can’t pair colors very well without everything being the exact same color. Also there are daily levels which you play to get some sort of plant, the more you play the bigger the plant, but it’s unclear why. I’ve never figured out where the plant goes. It doesn’t become part of the decorations, since you just chose colors for pre chosen furniture. There’s no room for them, they’re just in the calendar as an incentive I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️ Edit: I’m now on level 1940, and I’m fed up. I’ve been stuck for weeks, and I’ve tried getting 30/40 coins for a mix up from the daily calendar, but it’s slow since I have to wait a day for another level. The lives are really annoying, this is supposed to be a chill game but you have to wait so long for more plays. I will not be purchasing coins, they’re a waste of money and might delete

Great Game, But…. This is one of my favorite games, but, my game data inexplicably advanced (and disappeared). One day, I was well below the hundredth level, had only decorated 3 rooms, and had over 200 points to purchase room decorations. The very next day, the game had advanced to over level 570, 53 rooms were decorated, and I had less than 20 points for room purchases. I gained well over 400 levels and lost resources that I didn’t use in a 24 hour timespan. It would have been nice to advance through the levels on my own and to have decorated the 50 rooms with pieces of my choice. I have put in multiple requests for the game to be uninstalled so that I may reinstall it and start from the beginning. It’s been well over a month, and nothing has changed. I still play the game, but will not invest more money to purchase upgrades. Also, beware using (or paying) for the tools that allow you to scramble the tiles. When you scramble the tiles it is mostly to your disadvantage and to encourage you to use more resources so that you end up buying resources just to get through a level.

So it’s good but a few bugs. I like the game but a few bugs and quite a bit of advertisements. So one bug that I noticed that when you go to do the daily puzzles I was wondering why I had such little time or what felt like I would have more time to complete the same daily puzzle but it seems as though when you have to watch an ad to play the daily puzzle it has the timer for the level going in the background while the ad is playing making it near impossible to complete some of the rounds if you only have a minute to finish it without an ad and with lives taking what feels like forever to fill up and only able to bank 5 at a time it’s discouraging. Another thing that’s a bit frustrating is when you can complete a level at the skin of your teeth like the last tiles popped and there is still one second left and it still says you failed the round. I think a time adjustment would be nice as well as fixing the ad taking up the time on the daily puzzles is a huge priority. Overall it’s a nice game that’s challenging in the higher levels.

I love this game I just want one thing. I would really love if they would let me redesign the rooms I’ve done in the collection sections! I have a lot and sometimes I don’t have many blue things and they get higher in the amount you need per item at the level I’m at. HOWEVER I LOVE THIS GAME. I have made it to level 895. I don’t have money to spend on mobile games I spent 5 dollars when I first downloaded it and since the en just save coins when I’m on a winning streak. I see people saying they’re stuck and just quit, but I have been stuck for a few days and just took a break. Come back to it when it feels relaxing again. You’re not meant to play the game forever you’re supposed to chill and play and if you’re losing stop for a while. I wish the no ad’s wasn’t $6 I’d totally buy it if it was less or went on sale but I’ll just watch the ads at that point. It has helped when I’m feeling anxious and need a distraction sometimes. I wish I could design the rooms for less of the flowers it takes I wish it stayed at 2. It’s harder to beat levels this high and I really like the décor part of the game and I definitely have not been able to enjoy it as much as I would like to and was able to when I first played.

Was good while it lasted.. Well, I don’t wanna be like I would give this zero stars if i could lol. Honestly it’s a great game and I’m not gonna lie about it. I tried others similar to this and i don’t know why I keep liking this. I am also very proud to say I played this game and never spent a single cent on it. Now I’m at level 1034. But it’s sad that I have to delete it for now and hope i download it again and some things change. I like the game being hard but u guys be doing too much. The wait time for a heart is crazy (30 mins bruhhhh) which is my main issue. Cuz they just get used up in one level and u can’t even win. Then the cycle continues for days probably even months. The coins for the thingies that help you are also quite high but I kinda survived with that by saving my coins. Please don’t tell me go to our website for tricks cuz u guys say the same thing which I believe everyone already does(technically like a beginner guide to playing the game). I doubt I’ve ever written a review on a game but like I said, maybe in the next months or years to come, I might download it and login again. That is if it doesn’t reset. If it does then I want to thank u developers for this game and keeping me busy.

Where did the option for extra coins go?. New issue: I’m up to level 6000 but the ability to get 20 extra coins by watching ads has disappeared just as I started to buy coins. Almost like there’s an algorithm that deletes the option once someone starts buying coins. Disappearing option, bye. I’ve deleted the game. Changing my rating to one star. Now when plating for extra coins, out of twenty plays the timer only engaged on 17 of them so I was cheated out of the extra 20 coins for the total of 30 coins each time. Normally I would say that your programmers are just terrible and keep forgetting to activate the timer on the majority of the ads; however, since you have so much feedback on that here it’s obvious that you are doing it on purpose. You’re just cheating us out of both the coins we’ve earned and the time we’ve spent watching the ads. Homescapes - I will never download your app. I am tired of seeing your ad and never getting the coins I earned. I know that isn’t your fault, but this games, but you will forever be associated with these scammers. Previous review: Great, relaxing, yet challenging game. The issue I have with it is when I select 3x my 10 winning points and watch the ad, it is increasingly defective and doesn’t provide a timer. Eventually a hollow little box might show up on the upper right hand corner do I can escape. This means that all the time I just spent watching the ad was wasted since It still only get 10 points instead of 30. They fixed the biblical ad, please fix the others. You need to have better quality control or I’ll move on to a different game. If you don’t want to be frustrated by being cheated either don’t go to the 3x or ignore this game.

Was fun, but then got bad.. Game was fun! Even got challenging (the good kind, keeping the mind sharp) after a about 20 levels. But then it went from being a fun slightly challenging game, to being near impossible. Bad model. You want people to buy coins, yes i get it. But making the game frustrating to use makes you lose players! I get you wanting people to spend coins to get more lives, therefore them having to buy the coins. But having to wait HOURS for 5 lives, on impossible levels, is definitely grounds for deleting. People dont want to be overly frustrated trying to play a good game, we understand you have to make money. The ads arent even a problem, its just not enjoyable to play. If youre going to make us wait hours for 5 lives, the least you can do is give us 10 lives and make levels after 100+ be NOT impossible. Ive been stuck on 272 (this isnt the first time im experiencing this) for days because i can never seem to get any card matches. I even spend the coins to continue on, and still matches are so spread apart its impossible! Please fix your app or i predict you will become one of the great games that unfortunately bite the dust and have to run an unskippable ad every round because you dont get the downloads you once did.

Saved my life.. Before I began to play zen match, my life felt meaningless and I had no inner peace. Ever since I started playing this game, I have found it easier to continue with my tedious unhappy life (most days). Once I passed level 3476, both men AND women started to find me lovable, funny, and best of all zen. I cannot thank the developers enough for this game. After roughly 4 years of playing it helped me find my wife and we now have an 8 month old together. I truly cannot think of a world without zen match. If I go even 3 hours without zen match, I will go into a primal fit of rage. But when I’m banging on my chest out of anger, I am able to calm down just by think about zen match. As a 42 year old man, I never thought anything could bring such joy to me until zen match found me. however One downside of the game is that it does tend to make me purchase more lives. As of now I have spent nearly 10k on this game. I also wish there were more naked women. Still a great game 100% recommend.

It’s a no from me. I’ve been playing for a week, at level 317, have “created” 18 completed rooms which is your reward for playing. I’ve spent probably $40 on game play ‘coin’ in order to complete a level so I am allowed to add one more color to my ‘room’. But I’ve just deleted the game. Great concept, really enjoy the more meditative experience of gameplay, but the quantity of ads is simply too much - basically a 10-30 second ad every time you transition from one screen to the next: finish one game and want to go to the Home Screen? Ad. On the Home Screen and want to go update your ‘room’? Ad. Going back into game play? Ad. $5.99 to remove ads which I would be willing to do if the game wasn’t such a blatant pay-to-play setup. There are levels you simply cannot beat unless you use game coins - don’t get me started on the timed challenges of the daily games - some are just impossible without use of MANY game coins. I spend a lot of time and money on app games and this one just isn’t designed well enough to hit the sweet spot of ‘challenging but doable’ and I’m not interested in supporting a developer who clearly just wants to grab ad dollars and make players spend money to play with any real ease or enjoyment. Want to entertain your kids for a minute? This could work - but for anyone with an attention span, I believe this will just be a frustration.

Still has potential. This game is very fun and easy to get hooked on at first. But like many of the other reviews have said, you will eventually reach an impossibly-designed level where you can either take a chance and run through your five lives, or you’ll have to pay for extra coins. I don’t even mind taking the risk, but it does take an unusually long time for lives in this game to replenish, and it doesn’t offer any way to earn extra lives aside from mKing a purchase. Most other games have shorter replenish periods AND offer you the chance to watch ads to get more lives; I don’t get why this one doesn’t. As far as the coins go, I agree with others who think it is clear they want you to spend money. They’ve added several new ways to get boosts and extra coins since I started playing but each is a dead-end for those of us on higher levels. For example, you can now earn coins for decorating a room. Cool! Except A.) we can’t retroactively get all the coins we would have earned from rooms we already decorated, and B.) you have to spend lotuses to decorate each element of the room, but you only earn lotuses when you beat a level. So you start running out of lotuses trying to get more coins to beat an impossible level, then you run out of coins too because the level is impossible. It’s just too difficult for no reason after a point.

Not a fair game.. A really fun game at first. Can’t remember what level I deleted the game on but way over the 100th level. At first I enjoyed playing the game I didn’t make any app purchases at first. I simply waited until the live refilled which would take up to 30 minutes a life. I didn’t want to purchase to remove ads so I would exit app refresh and enter game again so I didn’t have to watch the ads. I noticed that once I completed this move the app would remove one of my life’s. I ignored it however I began to purchase coins for life’s. You need 400 coins to replenish 5 life’s. That’s an absurd amount noting the cheapest bundles only gives you about 175 or 200 coins. Once I started making purchases I noticed that the game became more difficult and with out the advantage of the help at bottom of screen shuffle 10 coins, back move 20 coins and remove 3 cards 60 coins, which you have to pay for in coins. This is expensive in coins. So I decided not to spend money on coins anymore which made it more difficult to pass levels. I had my final straw at losing a game and going to the are you sure you want to give up picture on your screen and seeing I had 15 seconds until my next life. So I exit that game just to get to the Home Screen and the app took my only life after the clock ended in 5 seconds. I don’t know if it was a glitch but I’m done. I deleted the app this game is not fun once you start making money purchases. It’s money trap.

Level 4859 and about to delete the game. I’ve been playing this game for years. I’m writing this after having spent all of my coins (including the bonus coins given to offset the increase in price) clearing level 4858. It earned me TEN whole coins!!! As many recent reviews have noted, the amount of coins needed for boosters has increased significantly. I’m not happy with that, but I’m also peeved about the fact that I still get “rewarded” 10 coins for passing a level. That used to be great, because there were actually boosters that cost 10 coins. Or I could accumulate them and use them on the more expensive boosters (I believe the most expensive one when I started was about 60 coins). As of this week, the lowest level booster has gone up to 65 coins and the highest level booster costs 350 coins. Then there are some boosters you can choose before playing the board for 250, 400 or 500 coins. A response to one of the reviews was trying to justify the increase by saying they’ve added these premium boosters along with the Zen Resort to improve the player experience. Well, my player experience was great before. These recently added features are not worth the money it will cost to continue playing as I have in the past.

Certain boards cannot be beat.. I have played this game once and for some reason it locked up so this is my next time through. The game is overall great but some of these puzzles just cannot be beat without the cheat tools like the ‘shuffle’ for 10 coins or the ‘hold 3 cards’ in the alternate queue. Several times I have got locked in a puzzle and my cards are just not shown anywhere on the game board. The example I am quoting is level 229 and there are only 5 sets to finish the game. I have 2 suns, and 2 violets on my board and 2 other singles. All of the matches for the rest of the game are visible except for the sun and the violet. There is NOWHERE Left to hide the ones I need but still, I shuffle, nope, shuffle, nope, shuffle after 10 shuffles still no sign of either of my cards. That is just impossible but also, there is nowhere to hide them????? All the cards on the board are visible unless you stacked directly on top of the bottom, but the remaining matches make that a statistical impossibility…. I will not be spending and more money on the game as it is just a little too dumb sometime as far a a fair and fun gameplay. I like a challenge but there are still bugs to the game play and that ruins it for me. Long time player and I have had enough. If you like the game, it’s well done, but soon enough you will see it is not working correctly and it drains your coins to force you to buy more.

Fun at start, but impossible at higher levels. TL/DR: Game is fun at lower levels, but the upper ones are in winnable and a waste of time playing. Lazy programming with too many tiles so matching 3 on some tries is impossible in the first moves. Find a game where success is at least possible without help. This game was fun for about the first 2000 levels. At the beginning, it is fairly easy but builds quickly. Then at somewhere between level 2000 to 2109, the puzzles are impossible. There is no combination of times you can choose that will allow to win unless you use one or more bonus “cheat” tiles. It just gets frustrating to go through 5 tries at a level in less than 10 minutes only to have to wait 2.5 hours to try again. Also, the amount to play on goes up from 60 to 90 coins which makes it even harder to keep playing. It’s to the point where it’s not worth the time and ads to play anymore. In addition, the ads for this game are misleading in that the puzzle they show in the ad is never available. The “tournament” and other “competitions” in the game are jokes because they have a time limit, but it takes days of play to get through one level let alone the multiple needed to succeed at the tournament. Too many extras that are just not needed. Make the upper levels challenging but winnable with out needing to use a scramble or the extra tile spaces rather than being lazy at putting random tiles of too many varieties in the puzzle.

Not bad could be a better experience. Too much ads omg. The main complaint is you can play like 10 to maybe 20 levels then after EACH LEVEL YOU GET A AD. Idc if that’s how they make money if you make it to where the gameplay stalls and you have to constantly watch ads just to play one level at at time they probably just made the game for money. I like designing the rooms but I barely can do that if I’m watching ads most the time I’m on the app that’s ridiculous. You could easily make it to where you watch ads to get rewards and the app wouldn’t suffer. Then they randomly raised the prices of everything to where you earned 10 coins still but the abilities costed more. They went back to regular prices but that was definitely the moment I almost uninstalled. What’s worse about the ads is if the app crashes you lose a life. Waiting 2.5 hours for your 5 lives to refill is ridiculous and it costs a lot to refill the lives with coins so that’s also pretty scummy. They choose to go with scummy tactics a lot of mobile games do yo make money instead of making their game playable. The game has potential but I can tell they just want to make money off the game and not make a good game

Good…. This is a decent game but it must be the same developers that made Travel Town Merge because the avatars are the same & now I’ve reached the point in the game where I can collect cards and the cards are identical to the winter cards in Travel Town from Christmas 2023. I distinctly remember that particular album cuz it’s the only one I ever completed playing Travel Town! And there’s even the same side games like the little towns you can set up with tokens. And outrageously priced packages that come with very little coins & boosters you can purchase. It’s like this game gets the leftovers from Travel Town. And not even recent leftovers, years ago stuff. Maybe they thought no one would notice but I did. It’s a good game but some of the levels are nearly impossible to pass without spending money or in game coins. As with any game. And this is not one of those games where it’s ever a cheap package to buy. It’s ALWAYS expensive!! The boosters you can use cost a lot of coins to use! So be prepared to spend money to play! But if you’re looking for a game to just pass the time, it’s a good one.

new game prices ruined game, unhappy loyal customer. i’ve been playing zen match for like 2 years. it’s the only game i’ve EVER spent money on. this is also the first app ive EVER left a review on. so this is clearly important to me 😂 i never had much to complain about until recent updates the new graphics look cheap i like the new look now but i’m missing some of the original look of the app. also the power ups offered during your matches at the bottom have now changed, specifically the mix button being changed to 20 coins instead of 10. the new updates with the coins and their prices have made the game honestly frustrating and not as fun anymore :/ i blow through my coins more now and spending less time on the game. i know it’s probably a trick to get me to spend more money but i promise you it’s not working on this loyal gamer/customer with this app 😂 if i’m not enjoying the game i won’t spend money or time on it 🤷🏻‍♀️ if changes continue to make the app more difficult or i see that the app developers care more about the money they can make vs the quality of their game then i’ll just leave. there’s plenty of other apps like zen match that also want my money too. plus i wouldn’t mind a game that doesn’t reuse levels like zen match does, y’all ain’t slick on reusing levels 😭

Don’t get invested!. I really enjoyed this game until about level 170. At this point, like many other games with the same format of passing levels to accomplish a goal (word villas, project make over, etc.), it becomes impossible to pass levels without many power ups which require some kind of coins which cost real money to obtain (for the most part). They do not have any kind of daily rewards that are given. They have competitions where you can win stuff, but this requires passing levels which brings you back to needing coins and having to spend money. I have been stuck on level 178 for 4 days now and have used roughly 30 or so lives. I had coins and power ups in the beginning but used them all on this level and do not want to spend anymore money on the game to get more. Especially after having paid to remove ads which was $6.99 (higher than I’ve seen for any other game). Heck, I could buy more or less the same game on pc for that price and that would be the FULL game. I’m not sure why you can’t just buy phone games this way. I understand they are often being updated, but many games that you buy full version of still update as well, hints expansion packs. Phone games truly are money traps. I really need to stop hoping differently and finding myself disappointed.

Great game inappropriate ads. I enjoy this game - although like others have stated it takes too long to replenish lives and the only other way to do that is through purchasing coins. That does take some of the joy out of the game. My main issue is with the ads this company has chosen to include in the free version. This is a matching game that children may play yet the ads they are choosing to show are for games like Kings Quest and Matchington Mansion which are PG-14 at best. Examples of the ads show a husband having sex with his mistress in the bathroom stall of a public restroom while his pregnant wife’s water breaks upon witnessing it. A husband showering with his mistress while his pregnant wife witnesses it and has her water break. A young woman showing up to a house asking to come in from the rain and then asking the occupant of the house to bathe her. And most recently , a scantily clad woman climbing a library ladder approached by another scantily clad woman - directing the player to slap the backside of the girl on the ladder. As a grown woman I find these ads offensive and they are completely inappropriate for young players. I am not opposed to watching ads, they often help to suggest new games. I am opposed to marketing smut to young people. For that reason I, sadly, had to delete the game.

Fun at first! But soon falls off…. TLDR; Extremely rigged later on and in no way ‘Zen’ The game was fun at first and at times relaxing, but the more you progress, it’s near impossible to beat a level without spending upwards of 300+ coins (which is hard to get in the first place). I also enjoyed the game because it was ad free. I stopped playing at 1330 because I had about 650 coins, and blew them all on a ‘Hard’ level and still lost, resulting in losing my power-up bonuses. There are times where there are zero matches and no way to go forward without hitting the shuffle button so many times, and even then you can’t get any matches. There is also a ‘bonus’ level you come across called “First try level” (or something like that) where it is timed and if you finish it in time, you get a decent amount of coins, if not, you get about 10-20 coins. This is incredibly rigged because often times you don’t have enough time to finish it unless you’re some all knowing wizard. I thought this game was supposed to be relaxing? This game is extremely rigged even when you buy the coin packages. Uninstalling. You’re better off downloading an actual Mahjong game. Zen Match? More like Aggravating Match.

Not at all like they advertised. Been playing for 4 days. This was a fun game at lower levels like most games. I’ve reached 139 and it’s impossible unless I add money to get coins. No way to add coins unless you buy them and at first they are easy to get when you complete a level, now it’s to hard to finish a level unless you got plenty of money to put into the game. I myself like free game apps, where you can earn what you need to play them. I played all day and never went up a level. The short game before the main game is not needed and don’t know why they put that in there. I finished the a few cute rooms but yet to figure out why I decorate them I get nothing for doing them. Two small match games every 10 hours let’s you win 1 mistake move and 1 switch all the tiles move, third of course wants to to add money. NOT at all anything like they advertise, maybe that’s at some ungodly level you will never be able to get too. Note that you don’t have to loss a life by when you see there is no possible way to win the level, log out of the game and reload and life is not lost.. thing is you can’t win!! Buying coins daily gets expensive. It cost $60 to keep playing, 20 to put tiles back, 10 to switch them around. Coins go super fast in playing this game :( not worth it, will be deleting it. Good luck!

Fun game, but…. I have a few things that I absolutely cannot stand about this game. First, It’s super fun and addicting, BUT everything is so expensive. $6 to take away ads? Absurd. $4 to open a chest? Ridiculous. Another thing, the timer on the daily puzzles starts before the tiles are even laid out completely, which I think is super unfair because some of those levels are pretty hard. It also glitches and freezes when you try to beat it too quickly. I messed up and ran out of room with 25 seconds left on one of them, went to the screen where I bought enough coins to continue the level, only to go back to the level and it said I ran out of time while I was in that screen PAYING FOR THINGS and wanted me to use even MORE coins to continue playing. I almost deleted it after that but chose to stick with it a little while longer. I do wish they would add a “start” button on the timed levels so it’s fair, rethink prices on things like ad removal, and fix the glitch (if it is one) about time running out after it asks you to buy coins to continue the level.

Was loving it. Dear Zen Match. I had been greatly enjoying your game until I reached level 323 “Through My Window”. Raising the amount of games needed to “decorate” each item to 5 each, and doubling the number of items to color per room, seems likely a petty money grab. Not only that, but for some reason, I now have to play around 50 games to win one. You say that each game is winnable without boosters, but it is not true. I downloaded your game to be played offline because I am extremely poor. I cannot afford to buy my “gold” or extra lives, so I must play with the 30 coins I can win for free, and do so at only 5 lives at a time. I used to really enjoy the peaceful music, humming it to myself even when not playing. Now, I have to mute the game because the music is a reminder of the futility and frustration that has replaced my enjoyment. I used to play your game for many hours a day. Now, I play for about 5 minutes a day, as that is how long it takes to use up all 5 lives. I am so disappointed. Is there a way you might correct these issues, so that your lovely game can return to its former Zen pleasantness? I’m sure I can’t be the only one who is experiencing this same disappointment. Thank you.

Ended up deleting. I think I progressed too far in the game. I was doing the puzzles for the sake of the puzzles and got to the point where there was no more “coloring scenes” to change. I still had plenty of blue flowers (though, I stopped earning those per level too) for when future scenes came out so I kept going just focused on the matching gameplay. I kept running out of coins which the game kept offering me in exchange for actual money (which I did once). I needed the coins because the levels were more challenging at this point. I waited until I passed the level by sheer luck and watched the ad to triple my sparse 10 coins earned to 30. The button wouldn’t always work but I figured it was my phone being weird. Except now the button is gone. If I can’t get coins efficiently without regularly spending money, I’m not going to continue playing. I just beat the game and now I’m done. 🤷🏾‍♀️ It gets two stars for the actual gameplay. It was challenging at times but not terrible until I passed the “expected threshold”. I do think if coins are spent for at most 60 for the most expensive assist, the award should be 20 or the multiplyer should be 6. Some of the harder puzzles use at least 2 of these.

Best match game!. EDIT: once you hit level 400 it is impossible to play without constantly buying extra lives. I understand making the levels more challenging, but it sometimes feels like random levels that aren’t even labeled as hard/super hard are actually impossible. I’m not convinced that they don’t randomly generate un-playable levels just for you to lose lives and then spend money on more. I had a feeling there would be a catch, the game seemed too good to be true. ORIGINAL REVIEW: This is such a good game. The matching is just challenging enough where it feels like an accomplishment but isn’t impossible. It doesn’t get harder with each level, sometimes it’s easier and sometimes it’s difficult which I enjoy. I love love love that there are no ads! And I don’t feel the need to spend money, although it is an option if you want. The only thing I find annoying is after each Completed level the animated pop ups showing your points and rewards can be really slow. I love the game so much I just want to keep going! It would be nice to be able to tap through the animations as an option for those of us who are impatient 😅 I finally found a game that I think I’ll be playing for a long time!

Great game, but needs some tweaks. This game starts as all puzzle games do—way too easy. But it does start to get harder, and by level 150 or so, it can take days to get past a level, and that will go for a few levels before they become easier again. My biggest complaints are two: 1) The daily games require an internet connection, especially for previous days, so they can show an ad about every other game. Trouble is, the daily games are timed, and the ad time counts toward total time for that game, which sometimes makes the games almost impossible (especially those that I finish with seconds to spare). The timer should not start until the last piece is in place. That’s just basic logic and fairness to the players. I lost 2 lives playing two previous days because I ran out of time thanks to the ads, but won the games the second try when there wasn’t an ad. 2) There is no way to contact support. The Support button takes you to an FAQ with no obvious “if you can’t find the answer, click here” link. Which is why I’m writing here, hoping some developer would see it.

Fun but hard to recommend. I have been enjoying this game, but I can’t really recommend it for three reasons: broken ads, overpriced store, & zero updates. BROKEN ADS: There are a lot of ad breaks, but this is expected. However, the ad server they use is broken. Half the time the ads either freeze up or get stuck in a loop, requiring a hard close to get out of them. This is made worse by the game deciding that this counts as losing a life. So you get penalized for the broken ads. OVERPRICED STORE: The cheapest & lowest amount coin pack (375 coins) is $8 USD. Given that this game does the usual free-to-play thing of trying to get you to buy stuff to continue, but the prices are too high. It’s a really blatant cash grab even for a mobile game. ZERO UPDATES: Finally, there have been no updates to this game aside from “here’s a new room”, which is the least needed update. There are inactive power-ups supposedly for a future update that is probably never going to happen that greet you every time you start a level. And of course, there are the broken ads that should be patched. In short, it’s broken, greedy, & neglected. The play itself is fun, but this isn’t the best way to experience it. Find whatever game from a reputable publisher this is copying and play that instead.

Immaculate Vibes. You know how you download like gardenscapes or something and it gives you an ad for an even dumber app and youre like “yeah i think im at a point in my life now where i Will download Fashion Run Hospital Burger Tycoon Lite” and then in 2 weeks youre like “what in gods name is this doing on my phone” well. Such was my situation some months ago and such were my expectations upon downloading this app but as god is my witness i will be playing Zen Match as my casket is lowered into the ground eighty years hence. This app was forged by the gods and delivered unto us as fire from prometheus himself if you are the type of person who routinely finds themselves shackled to a solitaire addiction as a means of escape then be prepared because you are never getting clean from this game every time you start it up it says something reminiscent of “i am good enough i am smart enough and doggone it people like me” and then the plinky plunky music starts up and from that point on there are no thoughts. All the universe is head empty. There is only the plinky plunky music and little sets of three ladybugs. And when you finish a puzzle it gives you these lotus things that you use to decorate these rooms and here is the genius of it: decorating the rooms is only like sorta fun, so you never get frustrated at your lack of lotus currency, but you still get excited when earning it. Honestly the apocalypse could happen and i would not even notice if i were playing zen match. I have never felt less. I celebrate zen match and sing zen match, and what it assumes you shall assume, for every atom belonging to it as good belongs to you

Fun but…. I enjoy it, but it seems the higher I go, the more impossible the levels are. I’m on level 549 and I have been trying to beat it for days. It doesn’t help that each time I try again, the tiles have completely randomized so I can’t even use a strategy to try and win it but instead it’s chance all over again. I also wish there was a “watch an ad” feature to earn a life. 25 minutes for one life is insane. I do wish to play endlessly and get my zen on but I can’t do that when it takes 5 lives to one level. I also earned all of the rooms and stopped earning blue things which is fine but if the game updates and has more levels, I could have earned A LOT of blue things if I would have just waited for the update. If it wasn’t for that I am still unlocking backgrounds, I’d have deleted it. I also wish I could use my coins on other things like lives. And if not, to at least earn coins more quickly… or to earn more coins per level but keep the helpers the same price. They’re costly, and for no reason. Having a “watch an ad” feature for these would also be great, especially for the helper that costs 60 coins. Overall, it’s a good game, but the cons have me wanting to delete it more every day.

God created this game. if i could give this game 100 stars you bet your zen match booty i would 😍. this game has brought me so much zen it is unreal, really brings out the zen in zen match. the design is beautiful and i love getting new tiles. there is almost nothing wrong with this game and i will continue to play it until my very last dying breath. i will give all my money to this app if you asked. i am definitely your number one player as i am close to beating all the current levels. send me zen match merch or put me on the pr list i will support you and advertise you till i’m dead. honestly anyone complaining about this app just honestly isn’t that good! simple as that! 5 lives is plenty and waiting really isn’t that bad sometimes. people just need to learn a simple kindergarten rearm known as patience 😍. please never change what you do or how you do it because you have me reeled in so far there’s no going back. i could write about you for days baby but i gotta get back to my level 😍. sponsor me you won’t regret it i swear. give me brand deal ❤️

Worst Customer Service and Tech Support!!. This game is not relaxing! It offers promotions, such as referring a friend, but then does not honor the reward. When I first started the game, I referred four friends,. The reward didn’t load. I emailed customer service and they did not want to give me the hundred coins I earned per new player. They grudgingly said that they would offer me 300 coins as a courtesy. What courtesy? I recruited four new players to your stupid game! I was dumb enough to try it again, referred another four players, and two of them signed up to play. I told the friend that Zen Match has a practice of cheating its players out of finders bonuses, so to please let me know when they load the game and start playing. Once confirmed with them, I asked for my bonus, and once again Zen Match, denied me. They said that “tech support” (in quote marks because it’s clearly a joke) doesn’t show me referring anyone to the game using my link. I sent back proof, both the invitation screenshots and screenshots of players at level 30 and level 100 of the game, respectively. They are not responding to my emails. I’ve emailed six or seven times with proof, no response. They are cheaters with hideous customer service who do not honor their agreements. This is not relaxing! What it is is pathetic. 100 coins is barely enough to get through a level, but at this point: it’s on! I want what I earned. Don’t spend your time recruiting new players!

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Annoying features. Tried to find an app support to contact but couldn’t so I’ll post this here. I love playing this game but only really for the daily puzzle. My problem with it is, the timer starts before you can even start hitting the tiles which means you lose time. Then as well, you might also get an advertisement, which also eats up the time. It’s very annoying to lose lives because you had a 30 second ad before you could even start playing. Please fix these issues.

Don’t bother downloading. This game was great for the first dozen levels and then all of a suddenly it becomes impossible to pass a level. I have been stuck on the same level for over a month and I try to pass it everyday. You can’t pass half of the levels without buying coins and even with coins, you still can’t pass them. I’ve saved up enough coins from the daily levels to try and pass the hard ones and apparently 200 coins still isn’t enough. The game is completely rigged and not worth the frustration. There are plenty of other matching games that aren’t made just to steal your money, try a different one instead of this.

Where do I start. The game itself is fun, but you are constantly having to pay to get coins to increase your levels. Whilst increasing levels you don’t get enough coins after winning each level. After a while the algorithm makes the levels get harder and you waste coins like it’s going out of fashion. Also, “attaining and losing lives” as well as coins makes the game annoying to play. Once you’ve lost ALL the lives you have to pay for them. I (and probably many others) just want to play a matching game without having to constantly pay coins, lives to increase levels.

heaps of changes.. i used to really love this game as it was relaxing and i loved the music and sound effects and even the positive affirmations! however once you get to a certain point of the game, the tiles become random and sometimes there’s no way to get through the level without failing and it turns into a game of luck. Also i wish there was an option to watch ads for coins because a lot of the levels are impossible without being able to shuffle the cards around without coins. and for an app that’s meant to be ‘zen’ and ‘relaxing’ you cant play for long until all your 5 lives are gone and then you have to wait hours for them to all return who h is just infuriating. Seriously do better. The reason i stop playing this game for months is because i become fed up with the levels that i will get stuck on for days and no matter what i do, i cant get counts to get through the level and then i keep running out of lives. and then its 600 coins to refill your 5 lives which amounts to completing 60 levels without spending any coins. ALSO it used to not have many ads and now ads play every second level!!! AND ITS $9.99 TO DISABLE ADS! i would have bought it if it was $3 not 10!

Love it but the lives???. Don’t get me wrong, I love this game and it’s pretty enjoyable but the lives are a whole other story. There’s a maximum of 5 lives which personally I think that isn’t too bad but it takes 30 minutes for one life. 30 MINUTES???? They go pretty quickly (the lives) and it’s just not that fun to play, especially when you barely even get the chance to play the actual game. The concept is really cool as well and I feel like it’s just kind of potential down the drain. Despite this, I’d still recommend it - if you’re patient enough.

Fun but annoying. A very fun and addictive game, however some ads freeze so you have to exit the game and watch another ad again in order to play. There are too many ads too often and sometimes you’re shown and ad but the game won’t actually start when it finishes, again, causing you to watch another ad in order to play, which gets annoying. Most games are totally randomised, with the exception of daily puzzles so you need to have a lot of coins if you want to have any chance at completing the more difficult levels which is really frustrating. There also seems to be a bug with the daily puzzles. When you go to play a date, the “play” button often doesn’t even work. You have to tap it a lot to get the game to start a majority of the time and it becomes really frustrating.

Adds are the worst. Yeah sure, the game on this app, spectacular. But what about the adds? Hahaha, trust me you’ll hate every second of it. Every time I play a round either at the beginning or after the round when you click home or continue, an add will pop up. Now these can be easily skipped, but there a few problems. Sometimes in adds if I click to finish the add, the screen will freeze. Causing me to refresh the game, thus if you clicked continue or retry, your life will get stolen. I don’t know if it’s just me but this is just a reason why it’s not a favorite among my other games. As a result, I always clicked home if my internet is on and don’t mind it if it’s on airplane mode. Though if it is on airplane mode, you won’t be able to do challenges which is annoying in my opinion (unless you don’t mind missing out on challenges with free rewards). Ad yes my Internet is 100% fully functional and has had no problem ever. In conclusion, I would recommend lowering down the amount of adds and make sure they aren’t laggy or glitchy in any way. Thank you for your time.😅

absolutely great. There’s nothing I can say about this app everything isn’t good enough to describe it because it’s just to good. There is one thing you could add though, adding lives and teams. That means during events your team could win some coins and stuff and your team can give you lives. (I am addicted to your game)

Great game but greedy developers. It’s a good game, but wait there’s more. Users pay for it by watching advertising for mind numbing games. Unless they choose to pay $10 to remove them. Then after reaching about level 100 it is all but impossible to complete a puzzle with having bought boosters. So it’s not a game of skill it’s a game where you pay to win nothing but progress to the next level. And so it goes. Not relaxing at all if you can’t win without paying.

Fun but glitches and takes lives??. I really enjoy this game, and the added room design stuff is really cool. However, there’s a lot of times where I’ll have 2 or 3 lives left, and suddenly after completing a level I’ll have 0? It’s pretty annoying, but other than that the game is p good. Also idk what others are saying abt it being impossible. I’m on lvl 590 and I don’t really use coins that much.

lives. waiting 30 mins for ONE life can be frustrating especially when most of the levels take around 3-4 tries to complete. And there is no way to get lives except waiting. also the coins are hard to get especially when you cant complete 1 level and need to use the coin “power ups” you have no coins because you have been stuck on the same level therefore no coins income. these are the only 2 flaws i can see

It’s a good game just annoying things. I like the game itself but what’s annoying is it says you start with 5 lives but you don’t it’s only 4 for some reason? I thought it may have been when ads came I would quit the app and then go back in but it’s the same without doing that. It takes 30 minutes for one life which takes forever and just makes you not want to play it when it takes so long.

Good until it’s not. Have played for ages, have bought coin packs several times bc I find the puzzles relaxing but the latest coin hike of boosters just makes it too hard to get success now. Too many of the levels cannot be won without boosters or a lucky (and rare) initial arrangement of tiles. It takes ages to (freely) build up enough coins to try and beat an impossible level. So that’s it, time to delete bc it’s now just frustration rather than relaxation. And it’s just gotten too greedy for money that doesn’t actually help game progress anyway

Love and hate all at the same time. Totally agree with other reviews that there needs to be more rewards or better awards for achievements Finish a room Coins or free time instead of a plant. Get the plant at the end perhaps What’s with the plant? I thought that maybe the plants in the rooms might grow but it doesn’t seem to change. The achievement is pointless. This game holds potential to take on candy crush with a few tweaks

hooked but $$$ 🥲. i used to love how inexpensive this was now the price keeps going up & up🥲🥲 … sad to be leaving but the reward verses costs is not worth it anymore i’m cleaning hooked as have played for a few years. Surprisingly relaxing till it’s not and great to define from a day at work in train ride home especially if your on a roll but i’ve noticed with each update comes a coin cost hike to use boosters or other in game items. So it costs more to use but you don’t win more coins in levels!!! Effectively forcing you to spend if you want to get anywhere. general this would make me leave a game…& many i have but i hooked so it just means i stop spending on this game out of principle till i find another. what with similar theme that costs less. oh and there is no easy access to support when something goes wrong… they clearly have players worked out… sad to be leaving but the reward verses costs is not worth it anymore

Satisfying, but, no zen? It glitches?. Zen Match is a perfect game to sit back an chill, and its extremely satisfying to match the tiles. But, there are TOO MANY ads! I understand that the game needs to throw some in but theres too much! I lost 20 seconds of my time in a daily challenge because of an ad. Seriously. The amount of lives we get isn’t fair, honestly we shouldn’t have lives at all. They chop through too quick, considering how hard levels can get. AND we have to wait forever for 1 life to come back. Its also a really glitchy game. The screen freezes every 15 seconds.

To many ads. I love this game but the amount of ads during the game is ridiculous, you have to watch an ad before you play and another one when you finish a level and it’s incredibly annoying. I haven’t been playing as much because of the amount of ads as it gets quite frustrating and it’s the same ones over and over again so you don’t even get variety with the amount of ads you have to watch 🙄

Good game but so frustrating. The game itself is great, but the levels are so hard to pass without coins. It’s so hard to earn coins and the coin packages are expensive to buy, especially when compared to other games. When the safe is full and it gives the ‘special price’ of $2.99 - don’t be fooled - they still charge the full price which is incredibly sneaky and dishonest. It makes me NEVER spend a cent on this game because of its dishonesty

Glitchy.. I enjoy this app as I usually only play the daily challenge, just keeping my reflexes sharp and waking my brain in the morning. However, the game is quite glitchy and freezes often, thus losing time or losing a life. Just recently though, it sometimes won’t open at all. It either drops out before it opens or drops out after the home Screen opens. Very frustrating and not worth the effort as there are plenty more games similar that work properly.

Too many ads, lives don’t refresh. Game itself is fun, but I give this 1 star because there are way too many ads and the ads last forever! Like half a minute or more sometimes… it’s so frustrating… Then, lives don’t reset as you’d expect them to. 30 minutes to get a new life is already a long time, but I watch it sometimes, and it doesn’t even reset after 30 minutes. I once was on 0 lives and watched the timer count down to 0:00 (so I should have 1 life after that right?) then it went back to 30:00 countdown but still 0 lives. I once went and watched a movie for 2hours, came back to the game and only 1 life… even though it’s meant to only take 30 minutes for each life. Other than these issues, the gameplay itself is pretty fun, but the ads and the way the lives don’t reset properly takes away A LOT of the fun.

Costs, ads and hidden reviews. A lovely game that I have played for a while now but intend to delete for the following reasons : 1. It is almost impossible to play without buying tokens 2. Only 4 lives unless you buy tokens to carry on - or wait the allotted time for the next life/lives 3. The ads! OMG some of these are over 2 minutes long. They appear after ever second game and you have to wait that long until you can move on. I really love the game but enough is definitely ENOUGH.

Used to like this game but not anymore. Few months ago I enjoyed playing this game but not now. After a few so called “updates” the game has gone backwards. Nothing zen about it at all. Can’t win the daily puzzle - why do you need a ticket to play it?? Can’t win levels without boosters - why is it 900 coins to play on?? It’s a rip off. There used to be daily zen phrases released every day too - why have they gone?? Go back to the way it was please. And to the developers, take on board feedback from the ppl who actually play the game!!

Very Zen but for one ad :(. Playing Zen Match is so relaxing - but the ad for “Merge County” is NOT. Please remove this ad from your game. I completely understand your need for ad revenue but when the blaring horns and sirens on this PARTICULAR app start out of nowhere, I’m pulled right out of any ZEN I may have been experiencing. I actually feel my blood pressure go up. It makes me wary of completing any levels when there’s a possibility this horrible ad will pop up at the end. Please, please get rid of it so I can get my Zen back! Yours is the only app of its kind, truly worthy of 5 stars, and I don’t mind any of the other ads but this one is horrible!!

Glitchy???. I love this game, I wouldn’t exactly call it “zen” but I enjoy it. I like that I only get ads after or before a level and not in the middle but I have noticed that it’s been quite glitchy recently, I’m not sure if that’s just my phone model (iPhone 6s) or if there are bugs that need to be fixed in the app. I also noticed that you guys increased the price of shuffles, undo, and deck splits… not cool :/ especially since each level only gives you 10 coins. I have no problem watching an ad to play a level but when it comes to daily challenges sometimes an ad will pop up and it will take time off the timer leaving me with less time to solve the puzzle and losing a life. Please consider fixing these things but otherwise, great app I’ve had it since October, haven’t had too many issues up until recently.

STOP STEALING LIVES. I absolutely love the game play it many times a day but it’s very frustrating because it seems to steal lives I never get the full 5 lives everytime and it really grinds my gears because I think I have more lives than I thought and it tells me I’ve run out Some of the levels are to head to beat because my lives get taken away there has to be a better way to get coins also because I refuse to pay for them anymore because they just take my lives anyway Other than that it’s a addictive game and I can’t stop playing it STOP TAKING MY LIVES I also haven’t even seen the full screen play where the heck is it how do I get to play it I’m up to level 350 or so and haven’t even found where it is I what to give it a shot but no chance when it’s not available for me to play GRR 😠

Added stress. I like playing the game but have some cons. I got the game because it was advertised to help calm the mind, very quickly the puzzles became too hard to pass without coins etc... I enjoy the daily timed challenges but again its become difficult to the point i find my anxiety gets worse, it actually adds to my stress. Daily challenges are the only ones i play now because its impossible to play the other one without coins and I am not paying for coins. On top of that, there are too many adds that come on and it goes for sooo long. I am about to delete the game if adds continue to be this frequent... not calming at all but has increased my anxiety and stress

Paid for no Ads and feel ripped off !. Beautiful art, concept and game that initially prompted me to happily pay the fee for no ads. However there is nothing "Zen" about this game. As others have mentioned, there is no rhyme or reason as to why you get stuck on a level with no way out other than to buy tokens for actions, so you can shuffle the deck in the hope you find the match you are look for. {Usually not) Though the imagery and room concept is lovely. There are better matching games out there.

Amazing!!!🤩🤩🤩. I would like to say that it is a great way for me to calm down after a big day and just to relax and let loose and it is helping you with your mind because you have to find three of the exact same tiles and it gets your brain working and thinking. But it takes a while to load and if you don’t complete the level or daily challenge then it gets a bit frustrating. But overall, I absolutely love 😍 this game. It is challenging and is healthy for your mind and brain. Love the game guys, amazing creation!😘😍😊.

Great game; Disappointing number of ads. I love this game. However the number of ads to purchase game tokens has increased - but at least these were between games. What has changed recently is that every one minute the game gets interrupted by an ad for another game. This wouldn’t be so bad if the ad only lasted 30 seconds but the ad doesn’t stop & I have to exit the game to reset it. You’ve lost me as a player; the game has absolutely lost its attraction due to the interrupting adverts. Shame.

It’s good but coins are impossible. Can you add a few more ways to get coins as it’s impossible to get coins and it’s worse since you increased the amount of coins everything costs randomly. Here’s a few ideas- -have the option to Watch an ad or a couple of ads every few hours to get some coins. -give us a daily reward which includes coins, like when you log in every day you get a bonus chest and if you log in so many days in a row you get more stuff -give coins everytime we complete a Zen Room Make this game easier for us. Most people will NOT buy things with real money we will just delete the game. You want good reviews, lots of players and an income from this game? Don’t force us to spend real money cuz we won’t. We spend real money when a game is good to make gameplay even better, if you made this game seem less money orientated I’d be more interested in spending my money on it :)

Love/hate. I really like the concept and game play…. However so many glitches and game crashes. It just shuts down mid game then you lose your life along with any coins spent in that level. It freezes and becomes super slow at times especially during the daily timed puzzles. I don’t find myself being very zen after playing this sometimes. More frustrated! It has cost me money as I have purchased coins to help pass levels and then it crashes and I lose it all. Not cheap to purchase coins. Won’t be buying anymore until the bugs are fixed! Watching ads to go back and play other daily puzzles is problematic too as they freeze or you get through all the ads then the game crashes. Frustrating.

Good game need more rewards. Good game but lives and coins are hard to come by. Would like every now and then to get infinite lives for 30 or 60 minutes. Coins are hard to get so when I run out I’ll be deleting because some levels are impossible to complete without shuffling. Just finding it frustrating but has the possibility of being addictive if there were more opportunities to play longer. Also bug where I lose a life even though I’ve completed the level.

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Beware!. The giant board you see with all the tiles in the ads DOES NOT EXIST. First few hundred levels are pretty easy then they switch to next to impossible quite quickly and then only way to get through is the spend spend spend. The earlier levels are quite zen though, so my suggestion is that you can go back and play the old levels, rather than giving up when they get to impossible Recommend you avoid. Or maybe play for a month or so then delete

Love and hate all at once. I really love the daily puzzle they seem slightly easier and it all about the time and reflexes. The main puzzles I find absolutely frustrating because there’s no rhyme or reason for getting it out, it’s just luck and guessing the right move. Also coins are few and far between. I won’t spend money on games. And the levels seem to be rigged so you have to spend coins to get passed the levels. It’s super frustrating. Loved the timed puzzles. Some are hectic. Maybe make more options for getting coins to help pass levels. Maybe loyalty coins so if come back daily to do the daily puzzle instead of getting a plant at the end, add coins for it too. same with decorating a room, when it’s complete, add coins for finishing the decor. Anyway will still play, is fun but frustrating.

Tournament length. I was enjoying this game until Just recently playing in the tournaments. It might state there is 1 day and 17 hours left or similar and when you go back to the game in say an hours time the tournament is over and you have gone from the top of the leaderboard down to the bottom but there is still one day and so many hours left. This wasn’t happening at first but it is constantly occurring now. There seems to be four or five tournaments inside the two days originally stated. This is misleading and frustrating. Not calming at all. Prior to this mess you would have been given five stars but now I’m reluctant to give you any. A two day tournament should be two days not four or five tournaments in the two days.

Good but the new update isn’t fun. I like this game, as it’s very relaxing, but the new update is very boring. You used to get these blue flowers after completing a level and you could use those flowers to decorate a room. It was fun as you could customise it and design it through colours your own way. However, in the new update there is a pig and you get potions after every level. You can’t choose where the pig goes, there’s only one obstacle you can clear at a time. Please make it so that you can customise it in some way or bring back the old version, as it feels like the game is just telling you what to press.

This game could be good!. I have to admit I’m pretty addicted to this game right now…. It can be really relaxing but the fact that they make the game impossible to beat without spending coins is beyond annoying! I’ve been stuck on the same level now for a whole day and because I have no coins I can’t beat it….. as you can’t see the tiles it ends up being a game of chance and of course it doesn’t work in the players favour…. It’s just another game made by money hungry people trying to make it so you spend money on their game. Will likely give this game up soon….. it’s too frustrating, what a disappointment.

Love it but frustrating. I love the games but once I got to level 588, I found there was no way to solve the puzzle unless I wanted to buy more moves, which I refuse to do. I have spent money on the app, but I have a limit. That particular level I have played for months and never come close to solving. I find that very frustrating in games, that you can only go so far without spending a great deal of money on it. Unfortunately I won’t be playing it much longer. What’s the point?

The lives system is incredibly tedious to deal with. If the blatant cash-grab mechanic of the lives system wasn’t in the game, this review would be 5-stars. It ruins the experience to be halted to a stop when playing the game. Maybe the lives system could only come into play on the daily challenges? Asides from the irritations that come from the more money-seeking elements of the game. It’s incredibly relaxing to play, and should the flaws be ironed out I would recommend this experience.

Nothing “zen” about this game. I really hate false advertising and think its shameful to attract an audience this way as it’s already a good game as is. The problem i have is it’s impossible to complete some levels without coins, Ive been stuck on the same level for 2 days now and i dont want to pay real money to win. You dont get many lives and they’re often randomly taken away if an ad glitches out or something. The tiles are randomised every level so im not seeing a purpose for lives, Ive had the game for a few days now and everytime i get stuck on a level it takes days to complete and the lives take too long to regenerate when i play for 5 minutes. Its just a effortless made game that uses micro transactions (coins). The devs are probably laughing in their chairs because they’re making easy bank.

So expensive. I never thought I would have to experience inflation in a game before. You used to be able to collect around 20-30 coins in that little mini game, then spend 20 on a shuffle, around 10 on a redo, and 60 on the other one that gives you more space on your board. Why am i now collecting 100 on a mini game then 120 just to shuffle it?? Inflation is real and it’s coming for your child’s games.🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ This game is too expensive and it’s easy to run out of money, this game becomes useless after a while.

Just a few changes pls!!!. This is a great game, it’s calming, and overall very peaceful…but it does have a few floors. 1. I know that most games typically have 5 lives but if your goal is to make a peaceful game there may have to be more or even no lives. 2. I was stuck on a level for a very long time, I had a good run then I spent months on this level, I couldn’t complete it because I couldn’t get any upgrades, if your stuck a level there is no way to earn money. Please add maybe a daily reward? This would really help so you aren’t stressing about completing a level. 3. MORE COINS PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE!!!! Just 10 coins per level is really not good enough, and now you made the extra space 90 coins!? This isn’t going to work. Great idea for a game but please make it easier for the player, we just want to be zen :)

okay game. i first got this game 2 years ago and it was so fun and easy, and everything was so cheap and it was easy. i continued to play the game until "super hard" and "hard" levels were introduced, and I swear the more you got them, the more it was based on luck, no amount of coins could help you. I'm not so bothered by that, but i still am. Now what annoys me the most is the price change in the power ups and the icon changes. The power ups were at a good, reasonable price and now they're not, and the icon changes makes the game look so animated. The game claims to be a "zen, calming" game, but whats not calming is how expensive the coins are and how often you get lives, it's so annoying!!!

Too many ads. I actually enjoy the game a lot but the ads drive you crazy after a while. They go forever and are the same thing over and over. Almost every time you pass a level or click retry or even go to start a level you are forced to spend 30-45 seconds watching an ad on some other game. Each round only takes a couple of minutes so you end up watching an ad after every 3 minutes of playing. I have considered buying the game without ads but they want $9.99 which is more than I think the game is worth.

Fun Until It Isn’t. I first played this game many years ago and only came back to it recently…a lot has changed for the worse. Matching tiles and problem solving in this game is quite relaxing and fun, however it quickly stops being about problem solving and becomes more about gambling. Eventually tiles become completely random, leading to a very quick and frequent loss of lives as you start having to guess which tiles to choose. Coins can be used to purchase boosters and various other items to assist with these difficult levels, however it is very difficult to get the amount of coins necessary to actually help you through a single level, often they may help you halfway through a level, leading to not just a lost life but also a loss of your hard earned coins with no beneficial result. Coins, boosters and items can be purchased however these are overpriced and due to the nature of the later levels, purchasing these items simply isn’t worth it. It very quickly becomes a pay to play game. Coming back to this game I have noticed the main screen now being overly cluttered with various events, advertisements and deals for purchasing coins and item bundles on both sides of the screen. Simply opening the game leads to you being bombarded with with pop ups for these that you have to close individually, there are often 5+ of these pop ups simultaneously one after another. Losing a life or attempting to use coins that you may not have (as there appears to be nowhere to see how many you have while in a level) results in all of these pop ups appearing again. It’s a constant bombardment of advertisements that you likely have no interest in, making this game stressful at times. The daily challenge doesn’t typically have this issue if you know how to play and can think and move fast. These daily challenges are enjoyable for me however one enjoyable mini game a day isn’t enough reason for me to keep this app. While this game is enjoyable at first, it very quickly becomes frustrating, expensive and it shamelessly nags you for money constantly so I will be deleting it.

Daily Puzzle time issue. Love the game, constantly waiting to regain lives so I can play again. The problem i have found in the daily puzzle game is that whenever you get an add ( which is pretty much every second attempt) even though you think you have watched the add to the end, when you get back into the game you have started the puzzle on about half of its time left. This is a speed puzzle and having 90 seconds on some games is tough but you’re pretty certain to lose another life when it only gives you 40 seconds to play. And often when you complete the puzzle the next day it says you haven’t completed it and you start all over again. Have read that your gold coins can disappear, and it happened …had hundreds of coins and the 26 next time I logged in to play. Tired of the freezing of time and then losing time, adds, adds & adds

Love it. But pay to win. I’m a daily player, some levels are more challenging and you might get stuck for a few weeks cause you only get so many coins for power ups. Sadly they’ve put the price for reshuffle up from 10 coins to 20. Makes it much more difficult than it already was and I foresee getting stuck and just giving up on the game all together. Not a sustainable change, just to make people spend money to pay to win.

Lives - Be more generous. Can we please revise the amount of lives given? Alternatively, reduce the time to receive new lives? I love the game; but I will use another app if this issue with lives continues… it’s super frustrating. The levels have tiles randomly, sometimes you get lucky with matches early on, then sometimes it’s impossible within the first 3 moves. I love this - it’s great variety & keeps it from being boring - but not when we have restricted lives to this extent. It just doesn’t make sense for it to be that restrictive if the levels themselves are random. I’d rather pay for the game & have unlimited lives. Can this be an option?

Not ‘zen’ or relaxing. First few levels easy and lots of coins, then quickly gets difficult to pass without spending coins, but it’s very difficult to earn coins. Lives take a looong time to come back so the game is very obviously rigged so that you have to spend money to buy coins, or you’ll be waiting til next time you have spare time to play again. Ads are frequent and even with all sound and vibrations off within game and phone on silent, ads come on blaring. There’s also no dark mode. Oh and there’s this weird decorating room where you spend lotuses that you’ve earned and the colours you have to choose to decorate it are really ugly. Also, the first screenshot of game play doesn’t actually exist. Oh and if you leave the game to do something else briefly you’ll come back to a lost life and have to start again. In the higher levels you try to bank your coins, but guess what? They randomly disappear between shots. I really enjoyed playing the actual game but they don’t want you to enjoy playing the game - it’s rigged in so many ways to try to force you to pay money. DELETING

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Good game the Zen is ruined quickly. Fun game, I was hoping to get that board like in all the ads but it is basically Mahjong - which I still like. Speaking of ads - boy do they make sure you see them. After EVERY game an ad pops up and you have to close it 3-4 times every time. It’s a bit much. I don’t mind that they use ads to keep this game free, but having to close them 3-4 times every time after every game gets pretty annoying. Also, the app reloads if you move away from the app even for a moment. Kind of sucks when you are far along on their ‘fortune path’ and they reset it on you checked a text or had to take a quick call. :( I ended up deleting this app because of these issues.

3x coins. It pisses me off that you got rid of the 3x coin option. 10 coins every time you finish, and then it costs more than 10 coins for some of the boosts, you basically have no chance of ever getting passed certain levels. It is really annoying.

X-rated ads. You say your game is made for 4+. Yet I just watched an ad for a “KingsThrone” game that shows three cartoon women taking their close off and suggesting they have a foursome. A bit much don’t you think. Should really screen your ads. Otherwise I do enjoy the game.

after level 100 can’t play. After you reach level 100 it’s impossible to play without losing every time. This game sucks

Glitches?. no because it was so good before but now when you run out of lives it starts the countdown until the refill will occur but you go back like half an hour later and you still have zero lives and the countdown has restarted itself. also you used to be able to force close the app when you ran out of moves and then go back in without it counting as a heart lost but now you can’t do that and it just lowkey makes it less fun bc you can only play for like 5-10 minutes at a time before you have to wait again

False advertising. Not only is it not zen( cause it frustrating as F$#@) your tile amount is not like advertised, barley increases. Also become so hard at only level 100 that you will use all your lives on one game and not progress at all. convenient I’d think since they ask u to pay if u want more lives without waiting. The decorate a room part is sad in deed, you get 4-5 colour choices and they are mostly brown all beige- grey colours and that’s all you get to do is colour with their small choices. BORING!!

Money grab. The game has too many adverts, and is a bit of a money grab!

Too hard past lvl 90. Levels after you reach 90 are so hard that I’ll be lucky if I succeed even just one level. And that’ll be after using all 5 of my lives and most of my help thingies (like the undo, mix the tiles and stuff). Maybe I’ll even have to wait for my lives to refill and then use them all again to actually pass one level. Also, like someone else said, the choices for the design part of the game are kinda sad.. :/ There’s not many choices and it’s mainly the same colours that aren’t that pretty or don’t really fit well together, I’ll try so hard to change colour combination but I usually still end up thinking it looks weird.. My issue is mainly that it’s too hard now, I can’t progress at all

Frustrating timer. Is it just me or the timer for the lives doesn’t work very well ?! Actually it’s very annoying !!

Ruined. This was a great game. Adding all the extra pop-ups was annoying, but now they’ve added even more plus jumped on the stupid “cards” bandwagon. Very disappointing.

No ads, great gameplay. This is a great game. There are no ads, which is a huge bonus. But there are SO many internal pop-ups, it’s unbelievable. I just hover my finger over the X so I can close them immediately without reading them. When I first started playing, maybe around a year ago, the pop-ups were excessive but tolerable, and I actually looked at them. Now they’re getting to the point where they annoy me so much I close the app. There shouldn’t be so many in a row, it’s ridiculous. This is no longer my favourite or go-to iPhone game.

Love it. This game is pretty damn addictive. I’m on level 320 😅. You get to lightly colour design a room with rewards you get from completing levels. I love this game.

Fun until they added unnecessary difficulties. I enjoyed this app until they recently added stupid difficulties I don’t care for, like chains and ice blocks and curtains and bombs and glue sticking tiles together, it’s become so difficult it’s not even fun. The only fun thing on it is the daily challenge which is timed. I don’t like the being timed but most of them are pretty doable so they’re still fun. I tried to delete the app and start from level 1 again but that is not allowed so I guess I’m done. App deleted. There are way better ones!

More rooms. I spend a lot of money buying coins and etc but cannot play anymore as there are no more rooms to build.

If I could give it 0 stars I would.. The update ruined the game. The new boosters are not helpful and only having them available before the level starts is terrible. I will not be playing this game anymore.

Constant crashing. Ads freeze up the game way too often.

new update. the new update makes the game 10x more harder and it’s awful

This was a good game. Then it got weird.. So many icons on both sides, all trying to get us to spend money. So many ads. Very animated. I don’t enjoy the upgrade at all.

Nice game. I really like the game it’s chill.

Always Freezes. Great game, but after playing for about ten minutes it freezes. I close it, reopen and play another five to ten minutes and it freezes again. Too frustrating to keep playing unfortunately.

Super fun. I really enjoy this game it helps pass the time and it’s enjoyable

Just ok. Becomes unplayable after level 160 unless you start dumping money into it. I have to agree with the other reviews.

Wrong game. It’s not the game I signed up for this is for a. Child

Very zen game. This game is just what it says it is I recommend it

Boosters gone again. Waste of time with the new (terrible and pricey) power ups. Need to at LEAST be able to Shuffle the tiles. Hoping the shuffle, undo, and mega undo (3 tiles moved out of the bar) comes back again. If it doesn’t, I’ll be deleting

Don’t spend money!. I’m on level 3900 and the game is literally impossible at this point, and it’s clear to me that it became so as soon as I spent money to get past an impossible level. There’s nothing zen about the game anymore and it’s clear they’re just in it for the money.

Greedy. I’ve been playing this game for a WHILE. And they just suddenly raise the prices of of all of the bonus abilities. It’s a big f-you to all the players

stupid game. it’s nothing like the ad. it’s boring and it gets too hard too quickly. it’s not even fun just frustrating.

Game becomes unplayable after 75 levels. The beginning levels are easy, and you can zoom through the first 50 without wasting any lives. Once you get past level 75, the game becomes purely based on luck and it becomes impossible to win, even if you have a high skill level. Its basically winnable with the right lucky combination or if you pay for the shuffle feature. Its too bad because it was fun when it was actually a challenge but it is simply not possible to play it when you get to the higher levels and its not based on skill.

Not challenging. Way to easy, but I do like the game

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Pls help. This game has got me addicted im on level 920💔💔 would recommend

The fact cheats. The timer starts before all the tiles have been placed and before you can even begin to play. Also, the colour options for the “zen” seriously lacks choices.

So satisfying. This helps me come down whenever I’m stressed out it really helped me get through my exams I think that it really is one of the most satisfying games I’ve ever played

It was fun. I only got to level 664 and was terribly bored. The daily game is more fun than the game itself. There are not enough varieties in the challenges to stay interesting

Feedback. The latest twist to the game are tiles glued together making it quite difficult to complete a game. I get it, you want me to buy more coins but i just want to relax. I’m already having to watch so many ads. Unfortunately I suspect I will have to delete this game.

Make an original version🙏🏻. I love this game, but i really miss the old version before the ice and stuck tiles, which are fun when i feel like it, but make an original game mode too, best of both worlds.

My favourite game ever!. I really enjoy playing this game. I’ve been playing it over 2 years and it still keeps my interest!

Awful update. The new update where you took away the shuffle, new cards, and undo is horrible. How do you want us to spend our coins?? This has made me want to delete the game. No fun anymore.

What happened?. What happened to the other boosters? I’m level 262, and the mixing, move re-do and extra level tiles are all gone. Replaced with a +1 move that isn’t helpful. Even in the daily game where you could win boosters, it’s now coins?

It’s an alright game…. Aside from the fact it’s quite money hungry. After each puzzle you do, it will throw 3-5 different ads ‘events’ for reasons to spend your money. And they are quite expensive. The ‘safe’ thing is like 4 dollars for a few hundred coins, and the many ‘special’ events are an easy 6-20 dollars. My advice, don’t. The levels can be tricky to get around through, and a bit frustrating. The daily puzzles are challenging and timed, I tend to avoid them. Each level gives you little lotus tickets to decorate the background, and if you complete them, you get another to doll up.

What happened ? :(. This has been my go-to relaxing game for probably 6 months, but it’s just changed in a way that makes it more frustrating than zen. The in-level tools (half tiles, undo move, and shuffle) are all gone! Especially frustrating since I recently made an in-app purchase to get a bunch of them and I guess I just lost that purchase since the feature isn’t there anymore. I’m so so disappointed because these changes sort of ruin the game, and I feel scammed out of the money I paid. :(

Too much going on. This game used to be fun but they kept adding more and more extras and side games and whiz bang stuff AND attempts to sell things until it just isn’t fun anymore.

It’s fun but. I wish there was a way to play the big puzzle like the one in the publicity and in the pictures, otherwise it gets slightly boring

Open your wallet. It just seems to be a way to get you to spend money to buy more coins/points/whatever in order to have the ability to ‘cheat’ your way through the higher levels. I get it, they want to make money and I guess the advertising revenues are not enough for the company that put this game out. Not a very zen game… after level 100 it gets frustrating… unless you pay for the ‘power ups’… but why have advertising in the free version? I guess these folks want it all… I voted with my feet and deleted it… I won’t be back.

Money grab. I’ve played this game for months and it used to be fun until I updated it yesterday. Now the levels are impossible to beat without helps and basically the only way to get helps now is to buy them. I’m very disappointed. I will no longer be playing this game.

Not that great. The higher levels are impossible to win. The game is nothing like the ad for it either.

Too Hard (Impossible without Powerups). The game is fun until level 100, after that it’s impossible to pass without using (paying for) powerups. Daily puzzles are also too hard and there’s not enough time to finish. please add difficulty settings and this game would be great.

Rigged. Ever since they did that stupid competition a game that use to be relaxing and enjoyable has become clearly rigged and about money! All they want now is for you to spend money to buy more coins and they make the first level easy and the second nearly impossible. I’m done it’s a waste of time and stresses me more than it relaxes me now

Very glitchy. Started out really fun, but then started because very glitchy and laggy. Screen will often just turn black and eat your lives or if you watch an ad for more coins, at the end of the ad the screen will go back so you’ve watched an ad for nothing. Will be looking for an alternative now.

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Ads. I never usually post reviews on games, but this game in particular, while fun, has proved to also be incredibly annoying. This game is incredibly fun at times. However, in the times that it’s not it’s really, really not. There are several issues that need fixing in order for it to be enjoyable. 1. A lot of the daily puzzles are completely un-winnable, putting too constricting of a time limit on puzzles that have way too many tiles. 2. The ads. I understand a game is to have its ads, but when you begin a timed puzzle and an ad pops up that you have to wait in order to skip, the timer does not pause. Instead, that time wasted in the ad trying to skip is counted against you. I’ve had times where a 30 second ad came on or would not let me skip, and I lost the puzzle as soon as I was out of the ad due to the time running out. It’s unfair and obnoxious. I want to rate this game lower, but while the annoying bits are really annoying, it’s still pretty fun otherwise.

Great design and layout but needs work. The game itself is really fun. Simple yet addicting. Got to level 450. Being able to go through the levels and unlock new tiles is a nice touch. However, I feel like this game is a cash cow. Sometimes you have to do a level multiple times to clear it. Which resets your streak. There have been times where i have to use the shuffle on a level, and it never gives me a tile I need ever after shuffling multiple times. I’ll admit it, I spent money on this game, but sometimes you burn through it so fast. Before I finally deleted it, I just didn’t care about my coins so I shuffled and shuffled. I had to do it about 15 times before I was able to clear a set. I understand shuffles are random, but many times it felt like the game was against you. Maybe make it a little less random? Anyway, I deleted the app because it just got too frustrating without spending money on it.

Went from my favorite game to an instant delete after most recent update!. Initially I loved this game, I’m embarrassed to think about how much time I wasted simply because of how much fun I was having - but the most recent update fully ruined that. Before a person could get through two or three levels before an ad would get tossed your way, but now it’s every single level and every single restart and every single attempt to return to the home screen of the game. Don’t get me wrong, I completely understand that ads are needed to support a lot of mobile games nowadays, but this became way too excessive and there’s absolutely no way I’m paying six dollars just to stop the ads. Not to mention that every time I hit that three-levels-in mark my whole phone suddenly started slowing down, and that was before the ads suddenly became overkill. Thought I could power through because I really have had fun with this game, but I’ve ended up deleting it because it’s become more tedious and annoying than enjoyable.

Pure luck. Once you get to a certain point in the game, the game no longer becomes a game of strategy but pure luck or paying your way through levels to get boosters. I’m on level 535 and it seems no way of passing this level unless you have boosters, which I do not want to pay for. Once all my shuffles are gone I’m basically stuck playing the guessing game. There are three rows at the bottom with only the top tile showing and the rest behind it are a mystery unless you pick the tile on top of it. By the time you click two or three your limited on spaces left. It becomes a guessing game and hope for the best. Am I missing something? Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn’t this be a game of strategy? It’s really unfortunate because I enjoyed this game. But lately the only games I truly enjoy are the daily puzzles because those are actually strategic and are timed making it a challenge and not a guessing game. I also enjoy designing the room aspect, that’s fun.

Good but….. I want to do one of those big boards like they advertise. Where are those? The picture shows that at level 50. Um…nope. I wish I could see how many coins I have while in the game. I’ve been playing for a while, but now I can’t seem to go on with out purchasing coins. I know you need to make some money, but I think most people would prefer to pay a few bucks at the start and then play as much as you want. Leave purchases for extra stuff, but allow basic play to go on as long as skill hold out. Some of these higher levels cannot be beat without coins. Update! I’m done! I really liked this game but now it is impossible to go on without buying coins. You should make the prize bigger when you get to higher levels. You make the game harder, but don’t reward the effort. I think at this point I’m going to delete it. Too frustrating! I don’t mind buying some coins now and then, but I don’t want to have to buy them every time.

Really love this game…. But. I love this game! My main complaint would be the fact that I’m not earning flowers anymore! Idk what happened after the update but I’ve passed maybe 15 levels and not a single flower! Please fix this!! There’s complaints about having to buy coins to win the game but I’m on level 356 and I’ve never ran into this. I play the mini match game to get boosters and just come back when lives reset. I have gotten stuck on levels before but I find that to be more fun than just flying through a game. Some people think it’s more luck than strategy, and. I used to think that, but after playing more I’ve found that if i am really paying attention to all the tiles i can tell which ones are “hidden”. I think the game is really great i just want to be able to earn flowers again, please please please fix this!

Not so zen. It could have been a relaxing, meditative way to spend time if the developers weren’t so focused on extracting money from players. It was relaxing at the first few hundred levels, but then it became obvious there were levels that were designed specifically to be unbeatable unless you purchased help tokens. I didn’t even mind that so much; after all, the games need to generate revenue for the developers. It’s just the level of unfairness that soured me on the game; you earn a pittance for each game you win, yet it costs a fortune to buy help. If they had a fair balance between winning and plop ono needing to purchase pp pop something to continue playing, I think a lot of peoplej would be happy to pay to suplay. It’s just so unfairly rigged against the player that I gave up in the 500s somewhere. Oh, the color options for the rooms you create are so ugly it’s laughable, and once you create a room you can never use it again. And why do you build plants in the daily challenge, but you can’t ever use them to decorate your ugly rooms - where do they go?

It’s okay I guess. I just got it. I did the feb 7th daily challenge. I had one second to spare. There were no tiles left or anything. YET IT SAID OUT OF TIME. I’m so disappointed. Is it a glitch? Todays was very hard. I don’t want to have to do it again. I love zen challenges. I might go to another game instead. Btw if your getting it just know the dailys are timed. Please change the timer. Lots of ppl hate timers like me. Make it an option in settings of the app. Also I saw sonemobw merino this. The add I got for this game was the entire screen filled with tiltes and you had to match them.(With no timer!) but as far as I can tell that doesn’t even have a place in the files. That’s what made me download the app. So yeah super disappointed. Will delete if nothing interesting happens(such as getting that entire screen match) Ps also the colors are UGLY and crazy. Moss? Okay. Carmel? Fine. But the others are too ugly for words. Download the app. You will see immediately what I mean.

Read before you play. First, let me say this is literally my all time favorite game. I want to give it 5 stars. I really do, but I can’t. The positives first: It’s fun, challenging, relaxing and addictive. I am on level 1174, so you can see how much I enjoy this game. However, once you get stuck, you stay stuck on that level because you quickly run out of saves. It’s all about the money for them rather than the experience and enjoyment for the players. I want to play and relax which is how this game starts. Other games will let you reset, or start over when you are truly stuck and can’t move forward without paying. This game does NOT reset. Once you reach your highest level, you have to pay or delete the game. There are no other options. I would play this over and over again if I could reset to the beginning. I wish that was something the developers would consider. Again it’s all about the money for them. That’s unfortunate.

Glitch, please!. Fun if it works, but glitches all too common. Example: Countdown clock for next life hit 0 while I watched it, I pushed "restart" and lost the life without getting to play. Want to play the daily timed levels? Go ahead, and pray you don't have to sit thru an obnoxious advertisement only to be returned to the homepage, unable to launch the level because of glitches. 30 minutes between lives is ridiculous, especially when the games glitches and basically steals your lives, or does not actually give you the bonus coins you sat thru an ad to get. No obvious way to contact game developer about concerns. Booooooo! May as well update my complaints while I wait for my stolen life to repopulate. This time it was an ad, written and spoken in what I think was possibly Mandarin, that started playing randomly with no way out. After a few minutes waiting for the universal "x" to show up, I closed the app and reopened it, to find out my last life had somehow been "used up" during the whole confusing ordeal. WHAT IS GOING ON???

Becomes just a game of luck instead of skill…. I really liked this game at first! But once you get further into the game (I really noticed it after level 500) it becomes less of a game of skill and more of a game of luck. I play a lot of other tile games and although the levels can be hard there is a definite way to pass them. On this game… it puts 4 rows of 10 tiles on top of each other and you can’t see what’s below them. It is complete chance on which tile shows up. They of course change every time you restart the level so it’s not even like you can use memory to remember what tiles are where. I was stuck on a level a little while ago for about a month and then it all of a sudden changed and all the coin prices for refilling lives, shuffle, undo all because higher. That lasted for like 2 weeks and then went back to normal. Now I’m stuck on another level (545) for over 2 weeks again. I think I’m done now unfortunately. It had such promise in the beginning.

Not Zen at all!. At first I really enjoyed this game. I usually don’t mind games with ads but this one had so many long ads it was annoying so I paid for the app. Then it gets impossible to pass a level without spending money…. I think it was around level 100. You barely earned any coins and lives take forever to fill up. I ended up buying coins a few times and went through all of them very quickly as it really doesn’t even give you a chance. The game doesn’t give you enough chances to earn enough coins either. Now it’s glitchy, freezing up and then closing down which takes a life away. I’m so irritated I am deleting this app. For a game that is Zen, sure is frustrating playing it and doesn’t leave me feeling very Zen. I wish I had read all the reviews before downloading this app! Bubble WitchSage 3 is a great example of how a game should be! I have spent a little bit of money along the way but I am at level 1030 in that game and keep playing.

Love the game, but…. I enjoy playing this game. I love it when I pass levels and learn more strategy so I can pass the more difficult levels. I do purchase coin packages that include power ups from time to time, but I limit my spending as I can’t afford to spend too much. What I’m upset about is that the amount of coins to purchase the in-game power ups has gone up. The return and shuffle options went up 5 coins and the other 2 options went up 20 coins. In the Lucky Bonus, the 2 free mini games should earn you enough coins to get 1 return and 1 shuffle. Now, you only get 2 returns OR 1 shuffle. If you buy coin packages, they don’t go as far as they used to. I understand that this game’s developer needs to make money, but at the rate they’re going, eventually it’ll be a pay to play situation. Don’t alienate your avid players because of this. We’ll leave eventually.

Fun at first. Update - game keeps freezing for daily challenges and then when it starts again the clock has winded down. I have to play the daily challenges to get enough coins to try to attempt to beat level 619. Which is impossible. Maybe beatable 1 out of 100,000 times. ***** This game was fun at first, but I’ve gotten to the point where the levels are basically impossible. They also have arbitrarily changed the coin cost for the hints and made it much harder to get coins from streaks. And their cost for coins is way to high for what it is. I wouldn’t even be tempted by it since it will only help for maybe 1 level at a reasonable price. But yeah, once you get to a certain level they are impossible without the hints/power ups, and getting those is hard when you can’t earn coins. Unless you save up for weeks on the daily puzzles and freebies. But you’ll be on the same level for a very long time at that point. I don’t think I’d even try to use them on the one I’m on, as it’s a lottery on if it would even help or I just waste a lot. Basically at the point of quitting, since it’s practically unusable now.

Love the game but….. I really enjoy this game and I’d love to give it a higher review, but there are two glaring issues that are holding me back. The first is that the game keeps freezing on me. I’m playing on a fairly new device with high speed internet and it just barely keeps up. When it freezes I have to shut down and restart—then I lose my progress. I had to play level 29 four times before I made it through without a glitch. The second is the color choices for the zen decorating. They’re pretty horrible and from item to item, room to room, the same color name might be any one of several colors. For example, if you choose the color “Peanut” for your floor, it might be tan, but if you choose it for your wall, it might be brown—or possibly even cream. Could the color names stay the same, please? I would also love to have some more color and pattern options. I haven’t played for long, though, maybe those are unlocked as you progress through the matching game levels…..

Fun game, but it’s a money pit. I really like this game, but I am about to uninstall because it has become a money pit. It starts out really simple, and gets more challenging as you go- like most games. But, I definitely feel like as it gets harder I have to spend money to complete/enjoy the levels and progress in the game. I am also impatient and sometimes I miss obvious matches, so that doesn’t help. My feedback: I wish there were a few more options/ways to win free items. I also wish that I could see the amount of coins I have displayed while I am plague level. for the in app purchases: the Zen Pass thing feels like a waste of money it should at least come with coins, and I wish there were a few cheaper options to just buy coins or just buy the other features like the extra tile space, or the undo move, and reshuffle rather than just a pre packaged amount of those items.

Expensive. So like many other raters, I initially enjoyed this game and didn’t mind spending a little to buy coins to advance through levels. However, it reaches a point that it gets ridiculously expensive to pass levels, and really it has nothing to do with skill- it is just how all of the extensively overlapped multitude of tiles fall. Additionally, when you spend a crazy amount of time and money to complete a room, you get an insulting 10 coins when you probably spent $25 or more to purchase the 1500 coins you needed to complete it. I’ve been stuck on one level for 2 weeks now and will likely delete the game because I refuse to pay such crazy sums of $$ for such small amounts of coins. Too bad, because this could have been a fun game. I would recommend doubling the size of the coin packages (without increasing costs) and increasing room completion rewards to 250 coins to make the game affordable to continue playing.

Not Zen like at all.. Like a lot of people here, it stops being relaxing and merely frustrating and very “un zen like” as you pass level 300. Making sure the game is so difficult you need to buy items to pass. It constantly says connection lost. Yes, my internet is fine. Yes I rebooted game. Yes I cleared the cookies and cache. It also doesn’t load, or lags in loading. Most frustrating is the screen that keeps popping up saying my options to buy help. Please stop. It’s multiple screens and options which is not zen like. It’s as bad as commercials. Give us one buy tab to click on if we want to explore that option. I really don’t need you telling me all the buy options each and every time. It’s annoying. Stop taking us to the Home Screen also if it’s not needed. Unsure what that’s about. Again, I know how to get there if I need it. Started out relaxing. Soon became me realizing it was more a frustrating process then anything that should have zen in the title.

Almost impossible in higher levels. I loved this game and got addicted quickly once my daughter introduced me to it. As I got further and further, the levels of course became more difficult but several I can become stuck on for weeks. Was debating quitting the game feeling I was wasting my time on a couple levels but then would finally pass them. Every time tho, I had to earn coins with the daily challenges to mix up the cards when I got stuck. I refuse to spend money on these games which I know they want. I have been stuck on level 520 for a couple weeks now. Seems impossible. There are so many different tiled cards at these higher levels. I think I will quit this time. And TOO MANY ADS!! And at least 3-4 clicks to get out of the ads! I love the wizard of oz app. Similar to bejeweled but different. Yes the levels can be difficult but you don’t get stuck for weeks.

Cash Grab. Most games that are cash grabs I can still get by without paying and have a good time. This one is more difficult. 30 minutes to regenerate a life, but losing all 5 lives can happen within just a couple of minutes if you’re stuck on a level, and now for some reason they’ve raised the number of coins to refill lives to 400. For reference, each level win gets you 10 coins. If you manage to get an unlimited lives timer (few and far between), I’ve noticed that unlike other games after the timer is over you’re back at 0 lives instead of at full. Very difficult to progress. And while the rooms are fun to design, the color schemes are all essentially the same and the choices are often just the same 4 shades of brown. If you’re lucky, you may have a green or pink shade thrown in. Ads are CONSTANT, enough to severely interrupt gameplay, and it costs $5.99 to shut them off. That being said, what little gameplay you get in itself is a lot of fun.

Money grab, bugs that support it… Read all. This game was pretty cool until I ran out of lives. Having to pay $10 for more coins to get more 5 more lives sounds like a rip off to me. It would be different if they made it so you could keep playing over and over and the only thing that costed money was the in game perks, but nah it just cost money or time to play the game in general. When I do my ratings on games, I generally do it based off playability, and this game has minimal unless you are willing to pay for it. That’s why I have to give this game 2/5. As if paying for lives wasn’t enough, they spam you with ads all the time. On top of that, ads wouldn’t close so I would have to close the app out all together to play again, however, when I did that and came back to the app I would be missing lives. So there is a bug in the app that when you close it mid game or during an ad, it steals lives from you making it harder to play without wanting to spend money.

Unbalanced. Generally fun, rotates through several boards, updates the pictures every 20 wins (and you get some extra coins every 20 wins), 10 coins earned for win. This allowed you one shuffle (used to cost 10 coins) to get past the next board. Then they raised that amount to 15 coins. If you don’t want to spend money, it can take forever to pass a board, because unless you get VERY lucky your cannot pass some boards without shuffling, often multiple times, because it’s a mixture of luck and strategy. This has unbalanced the game. Used to seem “fair”. I even paid for no ads. But now I get angry every time I open the app. Maybe I’d be happier if it didn’t prompt me to join all these contests to “be the first to beat 10 boards for awesome rewards” or whatever, when the new setup means you might beat one board per day (if properly lucky) if you don’t already have a cache of coins and don’t want to buy more. Maybe I’m an outlier who is more likely to spend real money if I think a game is fair than if I’m being manipulated into it.

Issa scam. #1 protip: if you do play this game, turn on airplane mode on your phone b/c then it can’t load the long ads it would normally put after each level for other scam games Basically the con here is that the first few dozen levels are simple and designed to give you a sense of easy accomplishment - but this game quickly increases the difficulty by just increasing the number of tiles to match using procedurally generated levels. What that means is eventually you will reach a level that is very difficult (b/c you can’t see the tiles and have to guess) or actually impossible (the generated level does not have enough matching tiles throughout to complete it). This level depletes all your bonuses and coins (you only earn 10 for completing a level but restoring a life costs like 80) so the only time way to recover your progress quickly is to buy those back for like $10 or whatever. But really you should just delete the app at that point b/c there are 5 million mahjong games on here and if you spend real money on this the wallet inspector is coming to your house

I'm done with you. Where do I begin with this game. So first, it's not calming. You have to analyze the order of the cards and form a strategy, but over half the time, you're guessing because half the cards are hidden. It takes a long time for the lives to refill, it takes 400 coins to refill your lives sooner (which is a lot when your choices are to either win a few quests or purchase them), when the app crashes which is quite frequently, you end up losing a life. The game should give you a life every time it crashes. It also takes a lot of coins to use any of the helps. Basically there isn't a way to accumulate coins unless you purchase them or try your chances without using helps. It's not worth it to purchase them because you use them up quickly for the helps. Also, when you are stuck and you want to use the shuffle, sometimes it feels like they purposely do not give you the cards you need until you run out of coins. I like designing the backgrounds and the strategy is fairly decent, but everything else is frustrating.

This game doesn’t delete data. I had installed the played the game for a while and decided to remove it. Later I installed it again and it remembered EVERYTHING about me and my progress. I did not use the Facebook or Apple options to sign in and save my progress and I told it to delete all app data when I removed the app so why does it remember me? What is being left behind when I delete the app and what else are they storing??? I’ve tried to go through their support (just FAQs) and have tried to go to their website and there is no contact options other than to reach out to their developer on LinkedIn which seems odd. I can understand it remembering that I paid to remove ads because that is tied to my Apple ID which is used to download the game but everything else should be wiped. They say that they don’t want people losing their progress but that’s why they have the sign in options which I chose not to use. This seems like abusive behavior and makes me question what they have stored behind the scenes.

Misleading. The game is very fun, but the same as the other complaints, it is a scam to get you to buy coins. On the hard levels, you never have enough coins to beat that level. You can reshuffle a thousand times and it will not reveal the tile that you need. Also, sometimes when an ad plays at the start of a level, if it is one of the times bonus games, it will start counting down the time while you are waiting for the ad to complete! That is sooooo annoying, especially if I’m only given 1 minute to complete the daily challenge and 45 seconds of that time was taken by having to mandatorily watch the ad at the start of the game. I’m trying really hard not to delete the app because the game is really fun, but I think it will have to if this persist. The game is supposed to relax you, but ultimately stresses you when you get irritated by the ads, lack of ability to pass levels without using a gazillion coins or having to pay in coins to shuffle the time a bunch of times without the tile you need being revealed. Definitely a waste of time!

I love this game. I never write reviews but this game is so addicting. I downloaded it a few months ago and I have put an embarrassing amount of hours into it. I have epilepsy, and when I have seizures it is something that is not too mentally stimulating/difficult but still enough that it helps my brain recover. Also, there are so many reviews saying that once you get to the high levels, they become impossible to beat.. this is so not true! I’m on level 697 and they seem appropriately difficult to win. I saw a lot of people saying the higher up in levels you get, it becomes impossible to play without making in-app purchases. Coming from a very impatient and addicted player, I have never spent money on this game. There is almost always some sort of 15 minute free thing, if not there are so many different ways to get coins. TLDR, this is a great game.

Like the game but…. I love the game it’s both challenging and relaxing and it COULD be great, but sadly it has some issues that are very close to being deal breakers for me. -Half the time the ads to triple the coin rewards don’t actually get the additional coins. Some ads work but many play and then a grey box shows up as the only thing you can click on and when you do it exits the ad and does not give you the coins. -It is WAY too hard to earn coins. 10 for each level? That doesn’t even buy one of the helps in game each round. I’m sorry but that’s ridiculous. -Not a fan of running out of lives though I get it it’s a tool to hopefully get people to buy things to be able to keep playing. I can live with that if the coins you earn completing levels is at least a reasonable reward (30-60 per level maybe??) -Purchased a coin pack to give the game one chance to prove it’s even worth occasionally giving money to in order to enjoy and was charged but did not receive my coins. If this can’t be remedied I’m done.

An ad by ONEMT, based out of China, won’t close ad.. I love this game, particularly the daily games, and decorating the rooms. I haven’t paid to get rid of advertisements, which is usually just a small annoyance, but today, an ad came up for a game developed by ONEMT, called King’s Choice. I kept waiting, but the usual “x” in the top right corner never popped up. I kept thinking that maybe the timer was still going, so for the first time, I popped around the game/developer info. They collect a crazy amount of information from users, including IP addresses, and much more. I don’t know why you guys let them advertise on your game. This is the third time I’ve had to shut the game down and restart. It’s not a huge deal in the grand scheme of things, but I would seriously consider dropping this advertiser from your app. They are going to effect your bottom line eventually.

Just let me play your game!. I feel like I’m fighting this game to let me play it. Just let me play the game you made, I’m begging you! You only get to have a max of *5* lives, and you get one every THIRTY minutes, it’s nuts. The levels also get rather repetitive after a while, they all have one stupid easy-mini-level before you get to the ridiculously hard/possibly impossible-without-lifelines real level. Also, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised by this, ​​THE ADVERTISING VIDEOS/PICS THAT SHOW MASSIVE LAYOUTS (the first pic on this very app page) DO NOT SEEM TO EXIST. If you wanted to download this bc of that, you’ll be disappointed. This is a less egregious level of false advertising than most apps these days, but still I wonder why it’s legal. It’s all really frustrating, because I love the premise of this app and its core gameplay. Just drop all the dumb paraphernalia (false advertising, aggressive pay-to-play models, etc) that developers seem to think are required now, and this would be a great game that I would probably spend more money on, since it wouldn’t force me away the way it is doing.

Pay to play. Definitely make it impossible to play the game without paying money. It’s not a skill based game, it requires guessing, and not just one guess and you get it right and beat the level, but many many times (aka you have to pay). Been stuck on the same level for a few days now and have been refusing to pay already when I’ve only been playing barely over a week. So I’ve let my lives recharge probably 15 different times, and with all those tries, I have never cleared more than 1/4 of the board. Sometimes even guessing (a portion of the tiles are completely hidden meaning skill doesn’t even come into play) right 3+ times before just being stuck once again. I don’t mind paying for games if I’ve made it plenty far, know there will be levels ahead that will allow me to earn more coins, but I honestly feel like it’s just going to continue to be even harder, which means more pay to pass levels. Kind of a bummer because it was really relaxing up until that point.

Fun at first but becomes impossible without money!. Such a disappointment! Like many others have said, it was fun at first until the levels literally become impossible without the extra ‘cheats’. Seems like the devs only care about their bottom line and not actually fun gameplay. Many apps offer more ways to earn free coins but the only free thing this game offers is once every 24 hours and only one shuffle and undo is possible to win. Which, while we’re on the subject, the shuffle seems to be hacked to ensure any previously hidden tiles won’t appear on shuffle!! I have tested this a few times and there is no way that it is random…truly it seems like they are purposefully preventing you from getting the tiles you need. Meaning, now you’ve blown through your shuffles, coin, etc and are back to either waiting 24 hrs for your one freebie or spending real money. This would maybe be acceptable if the higher levels were actually POSSIBLE at all without using cheats. Garbage. Deleting app as soon as I finish writing this. I do hope the devs read these reviews!!!

Fun but hard to progress + time issue. Overall I love the game and I check in for the daily puzzle, however, I have come to only check in once a day because the normal levels are at a point where they feel impossible so the dailies are the only thing I can play. Additionally, when it gives the option to restart then plays an ad for TIMED dailies the time spent watching the ad takes away from the timer from when you start normally and it gives a large disadvantage both time-wise and psychologically. Another time issue is that while playing the screen will freeze for a couple seconds and then resume with like 10 seconds lost doing nothing. This happens multiple times and in the 1-2 hard dailies of the 30 I lose a minute and am not able to complete it which is very frustrating because there's a chance I could have if I wasn't set back.

Fun game but feels rigged. I enjoy this game until I try to use a shuffle. It loses its “zen” when I shuffle 10x or more and fail to find the ONE tile I need. It never is random. It seems to want you to run out of game coins, putting winning within reach and then continuously hiding the ONE tile you need. I refuse to spend actual money on this game after seeing how rigged it is. Why would I put my money in a game that I know isn’t “fair”? Whatever this strategy is - is backfiring. I regularly put money in games that I enjoy, but by so blatantly rigging the shuffles, I will NEVER give you my money. You've lost my trust in FairPlay with this game. I can have 20 shuffles built up and 20 tiles left and yet my tile never appears. Statistically, this is almost 1 in a million that one tile doesn’t appear, yet it’s happened to me REPEATEDLY. I just blow through shuffles stubbornly, cursing the game as I get to my final one and still no tile. Takes the fun out of it knowing there’s no way to win. Shuffles are useless. If you don’t get the tile you need on the first shuffle, just take the L and move on. Learn from my repeated mistakes. Disappointing.

Used to love this game until this most recent update. I’ve been playing this game for awhile—I’m on level 2438–and have dumped a decent amount of money into it (it’s not p2p, it was by choice). I love it, it’s relaxing and fun and I love the daily puzzles. However, this most recent update has pretty much destroyed any chance of me playing it again. I had over 2300 gems before the update…I now have 37 (these were earned and NOT bought). I keep getting notifications that I’ve lost the tournaments…that I’m never notified are happening or allow me to opt into until AFTER it’s over and I’ve “lost”. All of this wouldn’t matter much if there was a way to contact an actually human for support. There is troubleshooting guide through the game settings that is absolutely worthless and provides no contact info for additional support. Going through app developer website is equally useless. Until I’m able to receive proper support and get the gems that I’ve worked hard for and earned through effort and time, I will not touch this game again. It’s a rip off when something goes wrong.

It Started Off Well Enough…. I want to start off by saying that I really do enjoy the game, however, their sorely lacking in the instructions department. It doesn’t explain how to play the daily puzzle, none explaining the in game boosters, and, while it’s simple enough to figure out, there are no instructions on how to decorate the rooms. Watch out for the gifts as well. Within the first hour or so playing I was supposed to receive 15 minutes of infinity lives and another 30 minute bout later on in the week of which I received neither. I spent my “blue lotus flowers” decorating a room and it has all of a sudden started me on a different room and has me set back on a previous card. I went to the developer’s website and I couldn’t find any help there. If anyone knows how to fix all of this mess I’d greatly appreciate it! Other than all that, I love the game. It has relaxing music and you’re not pressured by time.

OMG THE ADD LOOKS THE SAME AS THE GAME!!. So as I previously got this game I was just like oh it’s a real game as in like it looks the same. It is the same as in the ad and it absolutely has no ads at all. It’s really nice it’s very easy to play it’s enjoyable and it helps your brain. And it’s fun to play! I really do recommend this game. And there’s nothing wrong most stuff you can earn on your own. And there’s easy levels two levels on one and like I said NO ADDS!! You can just keep playing and playing no adds at all. Also there are challenges. It helps your IQ. Well my little sister is love ing it it’s something we enjoy together! There’s also daily challenges and they time you. They give you give lives and you don’t have to pay for them you can just use your coins or wait the minutes you have to! I love this game! And I really think you’ll love them too

I’m Old. I enjoy this game a lot and figure it may be good for my old brain. I play a lot of games… all of them try to lure you in, then make it nearly impossible to progress without buying something… I’m accustomed to that. (I delete the games that are literally impossible)…But in Zen Match I am on level 406 and have only made one $2.99 purchase… I bought my bank of coins back… I really didn’t have to….with patience I could have made it to the next level… But my main complaint is the daily challenges… why are they timed? Like I said, I am old. I will never be able to accomplish those puzzles. Never. I don’t even try anymore. Also, why isn’t there an “oops” button when we accidentally touch a tile and it's the 7th tile?… as it is, it just ends the game with no recourse… any other tile can be retrieved by “paying” 20 coins…why not the very last one? Would give you a 5-star rating if these two issues were fixed.

The new update has made it harder to enjoy :(. I’ve been obsessed with this game for a couple weeks. I absolutely love it so much. I play it in the morning, I play it on my lunch break, before I go to bed- I really like this game! One thing that was nice about it too was that it had the perfect balance for ads, and even tho the “refill lives” was pricey (200 coins), it was still so fun. Before this update, you would get an ad every two games. So, you open the app, play and beat a level, then play and beat another level, and then have to watch an ad before you can continue. It wasn’t annoying, it wasn’t in your face- they got their ad revenue and I got to keep playing. Now though, it’s an ad after every. single. level. Not only that, but if you lose a level and restart it, you get an ad! I’ll be annoyed or frustrated after getting stumped and then have to watch an ad I’ve already seen 3 dozen times today to retry and it makes me even more frustrated! They’ve also upped the “refill lives” cost to 400 coins which doesn’t make any sense! It’s forcing people to buy coins with real money and that’s so not cool. If you want to fill your games with ads, why don’t you make it so players can watch ads to gain coins or gain a life or something? It’s really sad how this is bugging me so much, but jeez, I just want to chill out without Lily’s Garden showing up with some weird cheating scene.

Should be titled frustration match. The last thing this game is - zen. It is designed to either severely limit playing time because of the limited lives or to get the player to spend a lot of money. In the last 2 days, the game has shut itself down 4 times - and it took a life every single time. I didn’t shut it down - it shut itself down. I still lost lives. This is not the only game I play with in app purchases. It is the only one that limits how long I can play if I don’t make the purchases. I still enjoy the challenge, so I play until I lose a few lives and then go to other games. And since I’m going to lose the life anyway, I certainly don’t watch the ad between games unless I won the level. Don’t know if I’ll follow other reviewers and finally delete the game. I do know I will not make purchases within an app to play longer. I might be willing to pay to avoid ads, but why when I’m still going to be so limited in play time if I don’t solve the puzzle. Someone needs to really think about your business structure.

Fun game, questionable monetization. The game itself is fun and challenging. As many have noted, the ads are annoying and the ad opt out is a good investment for the player’s sanity and patience. Not every level can be completed as presented, which is fine and the way it should be, so the player must choose amongst a variety of power ups to move or shuffle tiles or simply restart the level. These choices come at a cost to the player which is where my concerns emerge. One starts with five lives. The cool down for one life is a half hour. One has to wait 2.5 hours for a full complement of five ‘free’ lives. One can choose to buy lives for 200 coins, which equals ~$2.83 USD based on their largest coin package (which happens to be ‘on sale’ at the time of this review). The power ups range from about $0.14 to $0.85 USD per use at the current coin price. It doesn’t take long to rack up $5 to $10 to complete one level if the player so chooses. One does have the opportunity to earn free items through completing levels and through a daily matching challenge. However, the ‘earning rate’ vs. the ‘use rate’ doesn’t work in the player’s favor. I like the game enough that I will continue to muddle along and take the completions I can. I’m certainly done spending money on this game until they make their options more realistic. Others might not mind spending money on games or find these rates to be unacceptable - that’s something you need to decide for yourself.

Fun but the price increases are getting out of control. I got this game about three months ago. I felt the prices and coins were very reasonably priced. I enjoyed the game immensely and was able to always earn enough coins to use bonuses to help help me beat levels. About a month after I joined that there was an increase in the cost of the bonus items. It wasn’t too bad and I could generally keep earning enough coins to have continued gameplay. Well today there was a increase of 5x+ the cost of coins. Essentially, it’s impossible now to earn enough coins to ever help you beat a level without buying them. It really is a shame because this was a fun and easy game. It was quick when you only had a few minutes to occupy your brain. I enjoyed the decorating aspect of redoing rooms, but now that the gameplay has become possible to play without putting out a lot of real money, I’m getting rid of the game

Fixing a bug actually made it worse. Full disclosure: I will only play the free version, I won’t pay for coins…but the trade off is me watching full ads and occasionally trying stuff they advertise, so I feel entitled to advance thru this game just the same. But recently they must’ve fixed a bug where I wouldn’t lose a life if I closed and reopened the game after unsuccessfully advancing to the next level (now I lose a life if I do this), and they make it near impossible to advance without either buying coins or waiting too long for the lives to replenish in the free version — this defeats the purpose of running ads because it ultimately means I don’t watch as many ads (or try out the stuff they’ve advertising) because I’m out of the game. They should just allow infinite play, which would lend more to the whole “zen” theme anyway. I used to like playing this game because it was relaxing, but not so much anymore.

I Love This Game- but…. THIS GAME IS WORTH DOWNLOADING!! This game is by far one of my favorites!! It is creative it’s fun it gets more difficult with the levels but not too difficult! It’s an amazing and interactive game it also lets you deign rooms which I found very fun and creative. Shockingly this game is also quite meditational, I love the sweet quotes at the beginning of the game. It’s by far a FEEL GOOD game. Now why did I give it three stars if I love it so much… we’ll ever since the updates it’s been very very very very very very laggy. It freezes during playing a game, the music gets all fuzzy, and even more during ads. This wouldn’t be that much of a problem if I was patient but no.. I go out of the game and then go back into it and my progress of the level I was almost done with isn’t saved.. so just a couple tips : 1. Please fix the glitch 2. Maybe make the higher number levels a little less difficult since I have to keep spending coins 3. Maybe also make level progress save for if you go out of the game! Thanks!!!!! I love this game!

Had a glitch and stole my coins?. It’s a really fun game honestly, I really enjoy it and I play it help myself fall asleep at night. A couple days ago it asked if I wanted to be in a competition, and I agreed. Afterward it logged me into every single competition… they never ended. I stopped trying to win after a while and just played for fun like I used to, even though the ranks for this competition kept popping up every single time I used the app. I honestly stopped trying and even if I was in 51st place I would log on in the morning and somehow be 1st place? It was obviously a glitch since I was definitely losing. They finally fixed the problem but they took all the coins I had as if I was at fault for it and I usually make sure I have at least 20 or 30 coins in there, so to be at absolute 0 was definitely not me… I guess I’m frustrated and its such a 1st world problem… I just really wish they’d give me my coins back, glitch or no glitch.

You want to like the game so much but…. Like others have said this is a good game and does have potential. However this game is clearly frustrating and clearly wants you to spend money. 1 life every 15-30 minutes. Some levels are near impossible without lifelines or spending money on coins. And then the daily levels? How much harder can those be? You clearly have no where near enough time to solve them so you end up again being forced to spend money or coins. I don’t get a lot of adds which is great but $5.99 to remove adds an no other perks? I don’t want to delete the game because I like the concept but man this game is frustrating…be warned. Deleting the game. Can’t take it anymore. For a came with Zen in the title far from it. I’m only on level 117 but at the point where coins are needed to proceed. Having the option to watch a video to add coins or shuffle would be great for those that don’t want to pay. What’s more frustrating is it’s not even the same tiles so you can plan better. All different combinations. Sad because this had potential…

Fun, pretty, and free. I am on level 1087 and I haven’t spent a cent on this game. And I’ve played every daily puzzle for the past three months. All free. There are some ads, but I just ignore them. After many, many levels (like 900+) you will not be able to finish on the first try every single time, because you just have to guess right now and then. I don’t see this as a problem. Usually I can play the tricky levels a few times and get them without any help. I have rarely used any of the “boosts” or whatever they’re called, so I have bunches of in-game coins to use when I really, really need to. I like the graphics, I like the sound, I like the gameplay. I kept playing even when I briefly ran out of rooms to decorate (before they added more). As long as they keep updating this game, I’m happy.

Money Grab. I understand you need to make money but chill out. There is an ad after almost everything, you can’t even play the game in any capacity after 5 lives and all your “lotus” points are gone. The levels get to almost impossible points where you can barely get past a level without having to use one of the stupid reverse or shuffle cards. Meaning that once your lives are up you can’t play the game until you get ONE life back in a half hour. This is really unfortunate because this is the best 3 of a kind game out there. It has appealing colors and great graphics and I love the zen rooms. But it gets so unbearable how often they are asking for your money. you can get one free reverse and one free shuffle token by playing a mini game over a certain amount of hours, but you can’t go past level 2 without spending 4.99 to unlock it. Ridiculous and just plain greedy. But clearly it’s working since these people in the reviews are spending $60+ on this game.

Fat shaming ads in zen game. Updating my 2 star review, due to glitchiness at higher levels and ABUNDANT ADS, to 1 star, read further, Your ads targeting women larger than size 5 to take pills and lose weight down to a teeny tiny size infuriates me. This is telling a fake story to all of your users how women ‘should’ be (weight conscious) and how they all ‘should’ look (thin) and happy about it. I even saw a woman around my shape and size (curvy) being compared to a stick thin version to illustrate weight loss. (My natural body will never be stick thin unless i get extremely sick, and i dont want that, i love my body and am happy this way). Rather than curate ads that promote positivity, you allow these shameful ads to promote unhealthy diets and ways of thinking or living to natural women of all shapes and sizes. Im angry to see you allowed this ad type, and it plays ALL THE TIME. Im sad that many people are likely being bombarded with this and are made to feel upset, angry, or ashamed while playing your ‘zen’ game. Get these fat-phobic ads out of your game or you WILL start losing customers.

Love the game, hate the bugs!. This game has some serious bugs and glitches that need to be fixed. You can barely make it through two or three rounds without the game freezing up. My phone always becomes extremely hot while playing, and it never takes very long. Seriously… two or three rounds is the most it will do without screwing up! It almost makes me wonder if it’s messing up my phone! I can sit and play similar games until my battery is almost dead and never have a single glitch, but not this one. Each time my phone does an IOS update, I hope that this game will run more smoothly, but it never does. Obviously, it’s the game and not my phone. It’s especially irritating when I’ve paid money for extras within the game, but I lose turns/lives and coins because I have to forfeit a game due to it freezing up. I should keep tabs on how much money the makers of this game owe me in return for the money I’ve wasted on all the stuff I lose due to these problems!