Plants vs. Zombies™ vs Candy Crush Saga

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R12] Plants vs. Zombies™ 3/5 · US GG: It’s good, but not as good as the second game which is better in my opinion
2. [R50] Plants vs. Zombies™ 5/5 · US Great game: This game is really fun and a good game for it being really old. My favorite part are the mini games especially whack-a-mole because I like whacking zombies. In the plant book the doom shroom’s line is super tough. This is a great game and you should try the other PvZ games as well.
3. [R63] Candy Crush Saga 3/5 · US El stinky but good.: Very nice character design , good to pass time, but I will always hate the constant push for micro transactions and paywalls- “watch an ad to replay!” Its annoying it’s a shame that candy crush has succumbed to this level too
4. [R64] Candy Crush Saga 1/5 · US Scam: Game is a literal scam. When you get into the later levels (200s) they literally make it impossible to win by giving you a very small amount of turns and you can’t beat the level without using power ups and the sort. With that comes YOU spending money to either have enough gold for more turns or just buying a power up pack. Absolute scam.
5. [R6] Plants vs. Zombies™ 3/5 · US Very fun game for road trips: Rating isn’t 5 star because I got like 2 hours in, then the game wouldn’t get past the loading screen after waiting 10 minutes and restarting multiple times. Had to delete, lose all my progress then restart
6. [R19] Plants vs. Zombies™ 1/5 · US COMPLETE BS: Made it to Adventure 2 and the game started bugging. After each round it would freeze. So I thought easy fix reinstall. IT DELETED ALL MY PROGRESS. Even though I am on an Iphone and have game center. EA SUPPORT is useless.COMPLETE BS.
7. [R72] Candy Crush Saga 3/5 · US It’s okay but…: I like playing the game but the gyrations you have to go through between the comments keyed level and the next level is ridiculous. Layer after layer of add-ons, potential purchases, etc make playing the simple game a burden. Sometimes it takes twice as long to access the next level as it does to play it. There are other similar games that don’t force players to do nearly as much.
8. [R118] Candy Crush Saga 2/5 · US Too busy: There are too many side games and collection junk to enjoy just playing the game. It takes forever just to get into a level to play because of all of the forced interruptions. Deleting. There are much better match games out there.
9. [R28] Plants vs. Zombies™ 1/5 · US Doesn’t work: I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall the app many times and it restarts me every time! When it reaches certain levels it just stops working and it’s random so I can be far in my progress and it’ll just choose to stop working. I’ve waited days before as well but nothing works. My phone is updated to app was up to date with all updates as well. The app will load but once you try to star
10. [R115] Candy Crush Saga 1/5 · US Candy crash: System crashes a lot especially when you make are play for more than 30 minutes or streak is high. You lose everything and have to start with nothing again. No compensation for system crash.
11. [R93] Candy Crush Saga 3/5 · US Freezes: Have been playing a long time. Now on level 10641. It freezes every time I am going to win. The last time I used 10 bars, wasted. Sometimes there is a reward for the freeze but I have not seen that for a few days. Might be time to stop playing.
12. [R120] Candy Crush Saga 3/5 · GB Why bother with updates: fix the adverts that cost rewards and keep locking my phone up!: I used to enjoy the app, but recent versions hang during adverts (of which there are a lot that are 30 seconds long..) in the reward segment, and also kick you out of the game if you have to leave the screen to do other stuff (like answer the phone). All these things cause you to lose your hard-won rewards.
13. [R1] Plants vs. Zombies™ 1/5 · US EA has utterly ruined this masterpiece: Micro transaction cancer that EA is to this game
14. [R49] Plants vs. Zombies™ 1/5 · US TOO MANY ADS! No way these 5 star reviews are real: I loved this game, still great but way too many ads! Before and after every level
15. [R112] Candy Crush Saga 1/5 · US Unbalanced pay to win garbage: Waste of time
16. [R73] Candy Crush Saga 1/5 · US Bad game: Game keeps crashing when winning. Wants more money. Rip off.
17. [R109] Candy Crush Saga 2/5 · US Fed up!: After years of playing this game it has become seriously un fun lately, I’ve gone through some times before where it has been bad, but this is the worst! Every level takes days or weeks to get through and they have removed the chance for extra moves by watching ads. I guess the goal is to force me to use up my gold bars to win, but I only use them when there is a chance of winning somethi
18. [R3] Plants vs. Zombies™ 3/5 · US Ads crashing game: PvZ is a good game but the ads are too much I understand this is how games make their money but if you play on IOS your forced to play with the WiFi off because your game will crash if you get an add and the fact the you need to watch ads if you want to have all your lawn mowers is crazy