Candy Crush Saga
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Candy Crush Saga

Swap and match candies, combining special effects to complete level goals.

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Candy Crush Saga

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Who it suits

For players who enjoy match-three levels, booster combinations and ongoing challenges, with offline play.

Things to consider

Android includes ads and purchases. Play centers on match-3 levels, daily rewards and limited-time events.

How Candy Crush Saga plays and where to start

Controls & combat

Touch match-3: switch and match candies to blast through levels, create explosive combos to clear the board, and deploy boosters like Bonbon Blitz, Lollipop Hammer, and Jelly Fish.

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Exploration & story

A candy-themed level map rather than a story world: thousands of levels organized into modes and episodes, with themed time-limited event challenges layered on top.

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Editor’s tip

Your first steps

Try match-3 levels and boosters, then available daily rewards, tournaments and leaderboards to see which goals you enjoy.

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Starting out & daily time

Daily login rewards, limited-time events and weekly content updates; daily playtime is unknown.

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Purchases

Free to download; Android includes ads and in-app purchases.

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More gameplay & device details
Automatic battles

Automation not confirmed

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No auto-play or level-skip systems are described in the listed sources.

    Social play

    Asynchronous competition: tournaments and leaderboards where you crush more candies than your friends and rise to the top. No real-time co-op or chat is described.

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    Progression & catching up

    No verified returning-player guide

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    Returning-player support is not confirmed.

      Device & storage

      US iOS 1.338.0.2: requires iOS 15.0 or later; download about 316.6 MB. Download size is not total installed storage. Android requirements are unknown.

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      Based on the sources below; not a hands-on review of the current version.

      • Apple iTunes lookup (US) — Candy Crush Saga

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      Player reviews

      5
      FourTwenty8App Store · DE · iOS
      5/5

      I had a problem and support was exceptionally quick and friendly

      Translated from German

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      Ich hatte ein Problem und der Support war so schnell wie kein anderer und super freundlich

      Erfahrung mit E-Mail-Support von 2023; manche schweren Level seien nicht entsprechend gekennzeichnet.

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      An email-support experience from 2023; also says some hard levels lack matching difficulty labels.

      SK9993App Store · MY · iOS
      4/5

      However, the placement of the reward icons is becoming a major issue.

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      Accepts watching ads for rewards but says ad buttons overlap the close control and make it frustrating to exit.

      芳:方便好用App Store · TW · iOS
      5/5

      A very challenging game; with the music, it's hard to put down

      Translated from Traditional Chinese

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      非常有挑戰性的一種遊戲,搭配音樂,令人愛不釋手

      2024年對挑戰性和音樂的好評,把它當作閒暇消遣。

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      A 2024 appreciation of the challenge and music as a pastime.

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      Jasmine55521App Store · TW · iOS
      4/5

      Because they repeat far too often

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      因為重複率真的太高了

      為了額外生命看廣告,但同一廣告反覆出現,希望能封鎖不喜歡的廣告。

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      Watches ads for extra lives but wants to block disliked ads that keep repeating.

      NoprimaApp Store · ZA · iOS
      5/5

      Sending and asking lives from friends is a nice feature.

      Edition unspecified24/06/2025—View app reviews:Noprima · Opens in a new tab
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      Likes sharing lives and requests chat and other ways to help friends; those requests are not existing features.

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