Parents' Guide to Candy Crush Saga

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Erin Bell By Erin Bell , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 13+

Candy-themed match-3 offers variety & challenge.

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What's It About?

In CANDY CRUSH SAGA, players swap candies of the same color to clear them from the board and complete the level goal. Goals are varied, such as scoring points in a certain number of moves or within a certain time limit, clearing away sticky jelly squares, or moving ingredients down to the bottom of the screen. As players clear levels, they advance along a game map where they can track their friends' progress and compare high scores on a leaderboard.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say ( 9 ):
Kids say ( 8 ):

Candy Crush Saga draws players in with its cheerful candy theme, interesting power-ups, varied challenges, and the unique ability to create special candies and combine them for interesting effects. The game currently boasts more than 450 levels. Players can see which levels their Facebook friends are currently playing, which is a superb motivator to play "just one more game" to leapfrog past them on the leaderboard. Assistance from Facebook friends is required to unlock new levels, but, with 133 million active users at the time of this review, odds are good there'll be a few friends in your Facebook feed who will be willing to help you out.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about how a familiar game can seem fresh again with a new theme -- in this case, a match-3 game with a candy theme. What other themes would work well with a match-3 game?

  • Is it fair for players to be able to spend money to gain an advantage in a game?

  • Talk to kids about the dangers of overspending on in-game purchases.

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