Candy Volcano Puzzle Game Demo

Simple color-matching games can take up a few hours of your time without you even noticing, because the promise of more points and a new level just around the corner is way too inviting. Hence, titles like Candy Crush and Bejeweled managed to gather millions of supporters, even if most of them are casual gamers who don’t really play anything else anyway.

Candy Volcano Puzzle Game works on the same idea as the aforementioned titles, with the exception that this one is far more unrefined and unpolished. Partly because the concept is not at all original or attracting, and partly because everything from graphic design to user interface seems to be made in a rush and with minimal knowledge on the subject.

The game also comes with a story, in case you needed to know why you are matching colored objects together. As it happens, the items you combine are actually living candy created by some mad scientist and you must help him get rid of them. Through some miracle, they evaporate if four or more of them happen to touch at the same time, which is mighty lucky indeed.

Although you have the possibility to go through a lot of levels, the gimmick gets old after about fifteen minutes, although you have seen everything there is to see after only five. The levels are nothing to stand in awe of, because the only difference between them is the background image, which is in poor quality anyway. However, the speed at which the candy descends does increase a bit, which supposedly makes the game more challenging.

Graphics-wise, everything looks and feels like it was designed before dedicated graphics cards existed. The resolution cannot be changed, the textures and the images used are very rough, while the animations are simple and not very convincing. The interface is quite difficult to navigate at first, mostly because the menus are not very visible.

In the end, given the fact that this is merely a match-three game with nothing special about it, you may as well try something else, to avoid all the problems that come along with this title. Hence, unless you have nothing better to do or you have managed to play everything else in the world, keep your distance.