Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 06:30 am
Best Fiends – Match 3 Puzzles – Puzzle Game Review
Best Fiends – Match 3 Puzzles is a Puzzle/Adventure/Entertainment game from Playtika LTD, first launched in 9th October 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 308,037+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Best Fiends – Match 3 Puzzles Stand Out
Match your way through more than 10 000 levels of fun with new adventures at every turn! Solve challenging puzzles to advance ever closer to Mount Boom and discover the secrets that lie within. Experience match 3 games like never before: draw lines over matching items to create huge combos and unlock tons of fun rewards!
Collect over 50 cute characters, all with their own special powers! Evolve your characters as you progress through each challenge. Build a team of adorable creatures and make your way through fun puzzles as you discover the magical world of Minutia! Amazing storylines and fun adventures await you in the delightful, original BEST FIENDS game!
STORY:
The little creatures of Minutia lived in peace and harmony until the meteor smashed into Mount Boom, bringing with it a strange force that transformed the Slugs who lived there into an army of greedy, greenery-gobbling pests. They are taking over the world, munching a path through Minutia and sliming up everything they touch! Embark on a quest to solve the mystery of Mount Boom.
Be the HERO of the story!
BEST FIENDS FEATURES:
Match 3 Puzzle Adventure:
- Adventure through an engaging story filled with over 7000 levels of puzzle fun!
- Draw lines over matching items for longer combos in this unique take on match 3 games.
Collect Cute Characters:
- Over 50 characters to collect, from Brittle the nervous housefly to Karma the colorblind chameleon.
- Collect the adorable Fiends of Minutia and create a group of unique heroes.
- Band your little heroes together to solve puzzles!
- Level up, strengthen, and evolve each character to make a cute and unstoppable team of Fiends!
Blast Through Events:
- Collect rewards every time you open the game with Daily Events.
- Challenge your Facebook Friends, send and receive gifts, and earn massive rewards.
- Stay tuned for regular updates that bring new levels, characters, and surprises!
To get to Mount Boom, they’ll need to become… the BEST FIENDS!
VIP SUBSCRIPTION
Best Fiends now offers a monthly VIP subscription on top of the other great gameplay features. VIP players have Infinite Energy, Ad-Free Play (Spin the Fiend of Fortune and win – without ads) as well as Exclusive Discounts!
The VIP subscription is available on a monthly tier, which auto-renews. The monthly subscription is priced at $14.99 / month. The payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of the purchase.
Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off in at least 24-hours before the end of the current payment period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period and identify the cost of the renewal.
Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
Best Fiends is intended for those 18 and older. Best Fiends does not require payment to download and play, but it also allows you to purchase virtual items with real money inside the game, including random items. You can disable in-app purchases in your device’s settings. Best Fiends may also contain advertising. You may require an internet connection to play Best Fiends and access its social features. You can also find more information about the functionality, compatibility and interoperability of Best Fiends in the above description and additional app store information.
By downloading this game, you agree to future game updates as released on your app store or social network. You may choose to update this game, but if you do not update, your game experience and functionalities may be reduced.
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This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Best Fiends – Match 3 Puzzles is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
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Looking for a quick fix to uplift your day! Enter a cartoon world abuzz with Match-3 excitement when you help the fantastic Fiends defeat the dastardly slugs!
Get ready to enjoy 120 fiendish new levels, with 30 popping up every week!
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Download & Availability
Best Fiends – Match 3 Puzzles is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love best friend.we love to unlock new levels.
This game we recommend to everybody, fun, exciting and worth the effort,.
Ive had this game on our iPad for a couple years and its great we love the fact that it is a bunch of puzzles but theres just one little problem we were a little ways past mushroom valley and we stopped playing it for a while so the game uninstalled on our iPad causing us to start over we have the first six of all the colors and we had at least four of the fiend quest started plus we had 4-5 area bombs including whisper, Rose, Terry, Newt, and laplonin and we just started to try and unlock the double rows/columns ones. Please help.
Ive always loved Best Fiends, mostly because of the characters, and we didnt mind the small design changes the characters got over the years; but why have the designs and art style suddenly change so drastically? For example, Temper use to look sharp, strong, cool, confident, but now he looks soft, derpy, and weak we dont want to hate on you, we just dont understand how you thought these designs were better. The characters looked so good before, please bring back the designs they had right before the new ones, or make new designs that look even better.
This game is soooo fun it barley has any ads and there are so many levels to go through we definitely recommend as a very picky game player.
Fun game to wind down the day. We love all the cute little best fiend creature characters. The noises they make crack us up. And, its fun to crack the codes on the game puzzles! We recommend.
It is to hard and they ding give use enough moves.
We really like the game but Im not a big fan of the new designs especially brittles.
Things changing color after theyve dropped, sudden increase in pop ups during timed power ups/boosts, not dropping the one thing you need to beat the level, etc. Its just become obvious.
Why are our gold bars disappearing? Im not using them, and theyre disappearing! We are not able to reach anyone in Customer Service. Ive been playing this game for seven years and we cant get help.
We quit playing this game after a couple years of playing it. We got stuck at a point that it required us to earn bonuses in order to move on. It was impossible to get there. Opened it again after a few months, and it still wont let us play. Im done.
This game is so addicting. Will keep your mind going and figuring out each and every step. Highly recommended for anyone just getting clean. We started when we got clean and it helps to keep the mind occupied.
Played years ago and was having fun but if you look at the game today they made these weird babyish designs for the characters and theres so many events thats just randomized gacha stuff and so many pay walls overall became really boring and repetitive.
Sad to say but Im actually addicted to Best Fiends. Lol. Been playing for probably 6-7 yrs. Its our go to for zoning everything else out when we need to. If only the developers could share the $$$$ with us!!! Like we could play this for an extra income as much time as we spend on here!!! Would be nice.
Currently on level 4861. Every time we beat a level we cannot make any move no matter what we do. We have tried selecting different characters, going to the pause screen and the back. When we quit the level to restart, the game freezes up on the next screen. It was only happening every once in a while, now it happens every time we beat any level.
As other people have said, the pop-ups make the game nearly unplayable. Otherwise, this is a fantastic game. Also, the wave effect in the last update is so, so bad for people with vision problems. We thought we were having an episode when it first happened. Please consider removing this destructive element.
This gave use to be fun but now its just a money pit, when you do win you get very little prize and every thing requires you buying more gold to advance and its funny that you always finish one move short.
Ive enjoyed this game for several years, but the number of pop-ups has gotten worse and worse and with the latest update it added some kind of bizarre ripple effect when a lot of blocks are cleared at once that literally makes us dizzy. Im may just give up.
At first jojo had a cocoon base and it looked so good but they replaced it.
This game is PEAK but then you started to redesign the character and HOWIE LOOKS HORRIBLE like the other characters dont look that bad but THATS NOT HOWIE THATS WOWIE ZOWIE AT LEAST ADD A SETTING THAT LETS ME USE THE OLD DESIGNS.
We really need you guys to fix the glitch where after you win a few games back to back, youll start a new game and the screen will just freeze, preventing you from being able to move. The only fix is to force close the game and forfeit the extra moves youve earned from winning. This is very annoying.
Games forces you through a ours of nonsense you have to click out of, just to play the game. The puzzles are fun, but not worth going though that mess to play.
Love this game but sometimes we accidentally press buttons we dont mean toouse gold for 5 more plays for instance. We are trying to save our gold so we dont want to spend it. Please put a warning button since you dont earn gold easily.
Rompieron mi infancia antes poda disfrutar de este juego ahora con las animaciones los cambios en los eventos y dems no puedo ni siquiera mirarlo.
Way too many pop ups for their paid products and events, which there are way too many at a time it seems. Not to mention how slow it is to get through them all before we can actually play the game. With how many there are, if we get an unlimited booster for a few minutes, we can only use it for like one level before it expires. We JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME.
We love this game except for that it is so hard to almost impossible to earn gold unless you actually purchase it.
When we first started it was nice, the ads were short. Now they seem longer and continuous. Barely play this game now.
We have been playing for a few years and all the new features are great! It truly is our favorite! Our grandson been playing since he was 2 and still asks if he can play snd he 4 now! Keep ip the great work.
Please, we beg you return tempers old style. We really miss it.
We love how competitive it is and how you can keep upgrading your bugs our only ask is that you make some of the bugs look more how they do in real life tho over all we love this game and we will probably will play it for years to come and go.
We love this app. But its not as good as BEST FIENDS STARS.
Its such a fun game. We love that it isnt like candy crush type of game, meaning, it doesnt have to be a row, they just have 2 be near each other. But, we cant get passed level 200. We have a suggestion that u should make more useful boosters.
Fix your game! Earning rewards that get blown out because screens pop up that you cant get off of. It burns through the reward time until theres none left. You also need to fix the fact that sometimes you get into a level, after earning extra lives, and the game freezes so no moves can be made. Youre forced to exit the level and forfeit your extra lives because no moves can be made due to the game freezing. Its frustrating. Ive spent money to get boosts only to have them be wasted when the game freezes.
If you ever win a power up that has a timer on it not only will you have to try to by pass extra pop-ups as the time counts down but the animation is so slow you barely get to use the power ups before time runs out.
Its our absolute guilty pleasure. We love this game, so addicting and so fun. Characters are cute.
This is an app we thoroughly recommend and enjoy! It has all the features to get you interested, then before you can even begin to get anywhere, you will be hooked. That isnt a bad thing. This game is addictive, fun, stress relieving and it has not cost us a cent in the several years we have been playing. Give it a try! You will thank us, Seriously.
We used to play this game a long time ago and we were wondering if you could bring back old loading screens, designs, holiday events an other stuff that we really love through 2014, 2016 so seriously please bring back the old classic look because they really ruin this game for some reason we really miss it a lot.
We truly do love this game and have been playing for the longest time. But please, and we mean PLEASE change the models back. Howie is no longer a wizard, Temper is no longer a super hero, Gordon is no where near as intimidating as he was before, and Brittle isnt an ace anymore. If you want to avoid an update with this then at least make the old models free skins PLEASE.
We love the theme of this game! It is so creative and colorful! Our favorite character is Pop.
This game is amazing we cant stop playing it. We have always been on and off about the game but when we do its so fun.
Im 50 years old we love this game one of our Faves.
We have loved this game for almost 7 or 8 years now we think. The levels match the difficulty we're looking for in a puzzle game, and the bugs are cute! It's great at keeping us entertained, and it's been great in managing to stay away from social media apps that can be addicting. It's very pleasant. However, we feel like there's a lot of events going on. While there's minimal ads, the amount of pop up advertisements for events going on really disrupts the flow of gameplay. While we're sure a portion of the community loves the events, it becomes very frustrating for players that like the game for what it is- cute puzzles! We wish there was a way in settings for these pop-ups to be minimized, or if you could customize what you want to see on the home screen so there isn't so much to look at. The pop ups make us frustrated, so we end up not playing the game as long as we would like to. We'd love the game even more than we already do if there was something we could do about this.
If we get stuck on a another 4 minute Fanatics commercial, we will quit playing. Otherwise its a good mindless way to kill some time.
5 keys for hitting the Jackpot on the Fiend of Fortune is a LAME prize, IMHO.
All the other reviews are correct, this is a truly bangin game, one of the mobile game greats. Unfortunately, it's gotten so bloated with special features that it often feels like 50% of your time on the app is tapping through pop ups trying to get to the next level. They have a MINIMUM of three special events going on at any given time and they force you to click through each and every one of them between each level. It didn't used to be like this a few years ago. Every so often we download it again and play a handful of levels and then get so annoyed by the 30-60 seconds we have to spend tapping through pop ups between every single level that we delete it again. A real shame, we used to spend hours on this game.
We understand free apps rely on micro transactions, but oh our gosh we open the app and we are bombarded with at least 7 different pop ups one after the other. Special offer, new season, special game mode, special offer, free stuff, special offer we just want to play like 4 levels because we HAD a moment to ourselves, yet it was spent closing all of these pop ups.
Love the game over all, but HATE how theres sooo many pop ups for the game. We go into the game and we have like 20 things from the game, like the season, log in prize etc etc. Its ALL annoying. You cant even skip it, we just want to be able to play the game without having things come up everytime we go into the game.
Rarely do these games make levels fully impossible to win. This one decides to. Its literally a lottery machine as to whether you win each turn or not because some levels do not drop enough special items that you are required to collect to move on. You just retry it until it lets you win but if you want a puzzle solving game there are a lot better ones that are a lot less scammy.
We used to play in 2023. And man. More fun and engaging stuff.
We love this game! We love that it doesnt force you to watch ads after every level like every other game. We love how every level is different and how cute the little bugs are.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 17.6.0
- Size: 939.37 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Playtika LTD
Last updated: 19th December 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Adventure | Developer: Playtika LTD