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Crystal Caverns! – Casual Game Review
Crystal Caverns! is a Casual/Puzzle game from Sarah Pierce, first launched in 11th November 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 31+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Crystal Caverns! Stand Out
The free next-level bubble shooter!
Crystal Caverns is an addictive color-matching puzzle game. Shoot realistic marbles to match colors and clear the board. The beginner levels are easy, but the hardest levels can be extremely devious!
Play as many puzzles as you want in random mode. There are three levels to play, and infinite puzzles, so no matter how addicted you are, you will never run out!
You can also play the game in Endless mode, where the puzzle is never ending, and you can keep playing for as long as you can keep up. It really keeps you on the edge of your seat!
Crystal Caverns includes 150 hand-designed puzzles These puzzles were carefully tested to make sure they are as interesting as possible. We almost couldn't beat some of them, so if you want to finish them all you are in for a real challenge.
- Three levels of difficulty
- Random mode ensures you never run out of games
- Endless mode keeps you on the edge of your seat
- Puzzle mode with hand-designed levels
- Tracks your stats
- Beautiful glowing marble graphics
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Crystal Caverns! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th July 2023
Recent improvements include:
This update includes a few bug fixes. Thanks so much to everyone who has sent feedback! I hope you enjoy the update. -Sarah
Download & Availability
Crystal Caverns! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Crystal Caverns! on App Store
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 really like this game but hate the ads so much. We would buy the game to eliminate the ads. Since thats not an option, Im deleting the game. We play it for relaxation and the ads and the jarring YOU LOSE have made this game intolerable for us. It could have been better.
Its not relaxing to play this game anymore because of the obnoxious ad pop ups.
We hesitated when we saw a negative review. But then we remembered that we like all of this developers games. We were not disappointed. We actually played 20 games in a row the first time that we opened it. We found the hand crafted puzzles particularly satisfying.
This is the best game out. Love it.
Crystal Caverns was the first game we downloaded on our old iPhone 4. Youd think an old friend would give you a break, wouldnt you? But it doesnt. Its just as challenging after all these years. No ads, no bugs, more puzzles. Chicago Blue.
We play a lot of bubble games but this one is our favorite. We love that it has 3 modes. And it works real good.
And an enjoyable way to kill a few minutes.
First, the good part. The music and background sounds are soothing. Now the bad part. This is the most boring game we have ever played. We have a feeling the programmer does not know how to use a random number generator to vary the sequence of the gems at each level. It one repeats a level, the exact same sequence of colors appears. This strongly suggests that there is one and only one sequence of colored gems that will work. For the lower levels, this works fine. But for the more difficult levels, the more astronomical become the number of combinations and therefore the odds of success by stumbling upon that one combination become vanishingly small. We also have a feeling the programmer has not studied the psychology of game theory. At all levels, you have to let the player win a significant amount of the time to keep their interest in the game strong. If you want a challenging game, try something else. If you want to numb your brain, go ahead and play.
Perfect for multiscreening in front of the TV with. We love the Celtic+rainy soundtrack. Thanks Sarah Pierce Games! We hope you come out with a physics-based game soon.
It's a lot of fun and the game just keeps going. It doesn't shut us out like other games do.
Love this game, it is a perfect time killer.
Nice, simple graphics. Good puzzles. Touch control is natural and accurate.
We've really enjoyed this game. We don't have any suggestions yet because we just started but we hope there are more than 50 puzzles :).
Very relaxing and it doesn't keep asking u to pay.
We find this game to be relaxing and we like the music since we enjoy 'Celtic style' a lot. If it had a variety of music for a soothing effect , the game would be perfect.
We like this game but would like to see the random levels be more random. The same boards come up in the same order. We would also like it fixed so when your playing the game we can still listen to our music. Once you pass a certain level the game stops other music apps from playing Thank you.
This game is addictive but we think that u should be able to save the levels u pass without buying the paid version.
Love this app! Play until battery dies.
This is a very colorful, fun game.
This is a pretty good clone, and we appreciate the Colorblind option, though we don't see why something like it couldn't be a default (we do see slight variations in the textures, but it's so samey that we prefer Colorblind mode even though we see colour just fine). Our main complaint is we don't see any obvious sort of level selection option, should we quit the game and come back; we have to start over from the beginning to know if we played them all. We do have a small problem with the fact the pieces are not randomized; on one hand, it means every puzzle SHOULD be solvable, but on the other, it's infuriating to realize the developer has DELIBERATELY withheld useful pieces (say, green/heart pieces when the bottommost accessible row is entirely green/hearts) and is basically wasting moves. It is also somewhat sensitive in that if we lift our finger ever so slightly, it will register that as a shot and throw away a move (or two or three!).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0
- Size: 72.00 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Sarah Pierce]()
Last updated: 10th July 2023 | Genre: Casual, Puzzle | Developer: Sarah Pierce