This is a mobile game too, and I expect that's where it was intended to live. And that's fine. However....
Although there are no IAPs in the Steam version, these are clearly intended to be the revenue source. But the PC version has not been updated at all to reflect this.
So what you end up with is very, very obvious paywalls where the difficulty pretty much demands that you buy more coins/power-ups; but you can't. Even if you want/need to. And you shouldn't want or need to do so. (Even in the mobile version, IMO. But that's a rant for another time.)
There are some nice touches, like the hexagonal tiled levels. The graphics are pretty decent, and the whole thing runs smoothly. But I can't recommend it just based on the brutal difficulty. (Unless you know how to give yourself a 'slight advantage', which is the only reason I'll continue to play it, rather than demand a refund.)
Edit:
Further to the above, I'm now at level 107, and I'm even more convinced that without a little help, this game would be impossible to complete on the PC. I've played very few levels recently where I've not needed at least 1 or 2 coin-based extensions to play on. With a bit more luck/patience I imagine some of them [i]may[/i] be possible. But not in a casual, fun way. And since there is no way to even grind coins, once you get to a very, very hard level and don't have enough money, you're basically stuffed. (Has [i]anyone[/i] completed level 105 without a ton of power-ups and continues?)
In addition, the hex tiles, while a nice variation at first, become increasingly irritating when there are two possible ways the tiles above could fall. The basic logic used seems to be this; whichever direction you expect, want or need the tiles above to fall - well, that's not it.
The 'conveyor belt' levels also seem fun at first. But as the complexity of the paths increases the whole thing just becomes a chaotic mess which adds to the amount of luck (or lack of) in the level.
Another slightly unusual feature is butterflies. These fly up the screen, and you have to match them as a completion task on some levels. I've seen it before, and it's quite a nice addition to the match-3 base. But if one gets to the top of the screen here? Insta-death. (I.e. immediately lose any remaining moves). Including on screens where butterflies aren't part of the objective.
If I'd downloaded this for free on a mobile, I'd have uninstalled it by about level 10 or so. So to the developers; this kind of P2P system [i]just doesn't work anymore[/i] for some of us, unless you've got a [i]really[/i] good game. And to put the same thing on a PC as a paid product when it's clearly broken is just [b]bad[/b]. I shall be looking out for more games from this developer (and probably publisher) on Steam so that I can totally avoid them.
