# Match Valley — user reviews > 74 indexed App Store user reviews of Match Valley by TaleMonster Games, rated 4.70/5 from 530 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/match-valley/id6511226434/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/match-valley/id6511226434.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 444 · 4★ 44 · 3★ 24 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Match Valley? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 😍 Adorable graphics and cute character design - 🎮 Unique gameplay combining match-3 with tower defense mechanics - 🧠 Strategic depth requiring tactical thinking - 📵 No forced ads, optional ads only for rewards - ⚡ Engaging and addictive gameplay loop - 🎯 Challenging difficulty progression - 👥 Guild/team system for cooperative play - 📱 Works offline without internet connection - 💰 Free-to-play without mandatory purchases initially **Cons** - 💸 Extreme pay-to-win mechanics at higher levels - 🚫 Impossible difficulty spikes without spending money - 🐛 Game crashes and kicks players out mid-level - ⚠️ Severe balance issues in level design - 🔄 Slow character upgrade progression - 🔌 Team feature frequently fails to load - 📊 Unfair reward system for failed attempts - 🎮 Repetitive gameplay without new content - ⏱️ Requires excessive grinding or payment - 🐢 Laggy and buggy performance after updates - 🎪 Misleading advertising vs actual gameplay **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes during matches, losing streaks and boosters - Team feature loading infinitely after phone updates - Game won't open or launch - Laggy and buggy performance after recent updates - Teams don't load properly - Can't participate in soul events - Possible intentional glitches to force purchases **Most requested features** - More playable levels and new content updates - Ability to replay older levels for character upgrades - Additional hero characters and units - Clan vs clan competitive game mode - Faster character upgrade mechanics - Health bar display for damage feedback - Better balance between difficulty and rewards - Selective ad watching for specific characters - Separate event levels with guaranteed rewards - Turkish language support ## Newest reviews (12 of 74) ### 2/5 — Fun at first, becomes impossible *2026-04-26* I’ve been playing this game for a few months, and at first I loved it. It was hard but not impossible, and required thought and strategy - which I loved! Some really hard levels required some luck in the initial “deal” to win, but with perseverance they were all winnable. Unfortunately though, I think the developers have misjudged the difficulty of the games “super hard” levels as you progress. I have been on level 440 for several weeks now. I play daily and play until I run out of lives multiple times a day. I have probably tried this level well over 200 times with every hero combination I can think of. I have never even made it to the boss. It is LUDICROUSLY difficult. Perhaps it is designed so that you have to spend money to win, I don’t know. Eventually I will give up and delete the game, which is too bad. It’s a great concept. ### 2/5 — Pay to play *2026-02-01* It’s fun but after about level 30 unless you have watched every ad then your progress stops. Unless you spend money of course. ### 3/5 — Fun but glitchy at a price *2025-12-26* I’m really enjoying this game but lately the game just shuts down in the middle of a match and I lose all my boosts and have to start my streaks over. It’s almost impossible to win the later matches without the extra streak boosts and I have actually purchased coins to keep my streak. Almost looks like the game is glitchy on purpose…. ### 2/5 — Toujours plus d’argent *2025-12-16* Dommage ce jeu pourrait être addictif et incroyable mais impossible d’avancer sans payer en permanence c’est de l’abus. J’y ai laissé quelques billets… plus jamais. Trop gourmands c’est stupide car sur le long terme vous y gagneriez. À bon entendeur ### 4/5 — Hard to level up without $$$ *2025-12-10* Great game, better graphics than ones exactly like it. I’d love to be able to replay older levels to strengthen my heroes. Otherwise might drop the game, hate playing same level over and over until I get lucky ### 2/5 — Unplayable *2025-11-24* Game was great when I first started playing it, couldn’t stop playing actually. But the last couple updates have made the game really buggy and laggy and almost unplayable. Teams doesn’t ever load, I can’t participate in the souls event, and when I eventually load into a level it’s so laggy and buggy it takes forever to complete. If the devs see this, please please fix this issue. I really do enjoy this game, it’s just so unplayable right now. ### 2/5 — Awful Balance! *2025-11-22, version 3081* The balance in this game is just ridiculous. At level 15 you seem to hit a brick wall, when you lose a level you get no progress rewards of any kind, so you can end up completely stuck. I’d watch Ads to help progress but will not spend money when the perk is what?! Spend more money, no thanks… ### 3/5 — Great Game, but Unbalanced *2025-11-17, version 3062* For the most part, I’m very much enjoying Match Valley. The graphics are adorable, I love the little characters and the way you can choose different abilities. Unfortunately, the game can get a little frustrating due to a small balancing issue. Hard levels come up far too often, and normal levels vary greatly in difficulty. Because of this it’s hard to get a consecutive run of good luck to complete levels, so the few ‘events’ are useless in getting you resources to use to help beat levels. This also means you can’t level up your heroes, as you can only do that by beating levels. This when stuck, you have to just keep trying and rely on luck- or spend money. I think what would help is having occasional events with a separate set of levels, and a small reward for completing X amount. This would give alternate levels to play while the main set are being frustrating, and enable you to strengthen your characters to help with the levels you’re stuck on. ### 2/5 — Game won’t load anymore *2025-11-17, version 3062* Great game except it won’t open so I can’t play anymore. ### 3/5 — Great game but…. *2025-11-11* I recently started playing Match Valley and absolutely love it. I would have given 5 stars if it wasn’t for the fact that I am now unable to help or receive help from my Team. When I click on Team it just continues to load. This is frustrating since I can’t get extra lives from my teammates. I noticed this after updating my phone. I don’t have issues with other games on my phone and my internet speed isn’t an issue. Please fix the issue so I can enjoy the full experience. ### 3/5 — Rip off *2025-10-08* I like the game and enjoy playing it but a you do not earn much in rewards … and the prices for a game that doesn’t give you break in fees is ridiculous so do not give ur kids ur bank card smh ### 4/5 — Toll, aber zu wenig Fokus auf andere Helden *2025-10-05, version 2500* Ich finde das Spiel wirklich toll, weil es keinerlei Werbung beinhaltet, man nicht zum gewinnen bezahlen muss und es auch ein gewisses Maß an strategischen Denken fordert. Es gibt jedoch eine Sache, die ich kritisieren muss: Ich persönlich bevorzuge die Helden König, Ritter, Affe und Frankenstein, aber vor allem für die letzteren beiden kriege ich NIE Karten, um sie zu upgraden. Stattdessen bekomme ich andauernd den Pinguin und Goblin(?), welche ich einfach nicht gebrauchen kann. Das sollte man noch etwas mehr ausbalancieren. Sonst ist es ein wirklich gutes Spiel. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — All about money *2026-04-01, version 4259* Level 210 the enemy start right in front of the castle. Where you can’t stop the bees. ### 1/5 — Pay to win *2026-02-25* Rectification : il faut payer pour avancer et garder ses bonus . Je déconseille ce jeu ### 1/5 — Fun at first *2026-02-07* This was super fun game initially, as you ranked higher the levels got more challenging. There are times where I would try to play a SINGLE hard level for days just trying to pass it. I would play until I no longer had lives, quit and then try again the following day. ****100%***off the time I would lose it was impossible to defeat the level without purchasing coins. It’s now super annoying bc imagining playing a game you’re just trying to enjoy but instead you’re just continually losing however many ways you try or changing different character skills you will NEVER get past it unless you pay for coins. I don’t play it that much anymore bc of this reason. I don’t want to get annoyed playing a game I play to decompress and this is game is the complete opposite!!! ### 1/5 — Game crashing *2026-01-30* The game crashes booting you out of the game making you lose whatever level streak you have built up and whatever’s comes with that streak, it is a fun and strategic game to play but unless this bug that crashes the game and kicks you out gets fixed I do not recommend downloading, I highly doubt that the creators will compensate those in the game who are experiencing this same problem because I know for a fact that it isn’t just me having this issue ### 1/5 — Scam *2026-01-26* Fun until level 48 and you think buying a little booster pack will help but then still can’t get past it after 15 tries. Nothing makes you want to delete a game faster than getting stuck with no help. (And then paying for help and wasting your money) 0/10 stars ### 1/5 — Aburrido *2026-01-12, version 3433* Aburrido ### 1/5 — getting bored *2026-01-05, version 3433* are you even doing anything with this game? apparently theres only been one update in the game. cant even update characters because there re no levels to win upgrade crds. u dont even win much in the soul event. #new edit. why is there an update for new feature,but no new levels? becoming very slow to upgrade characters #edit you have ruined this game. made it more difficult and you get no boosters. you really have become concentrated on the p2p players!!! ### 1/5 — Developers fault *2025-11-13* Any developer of a game that forces a player to un-check sooooo many switches that ask for personal data simply suck. I understand that there is money involved so, make a good game and money will come in. ### 1/5 — Your ads are so stupid *2025-09-27, version 2500* You don’t even show us how it’s truly played why are you following the trend of the King being trapped? That is so stupid. ### 1/5 — Totally arbitrary *2025-09-11* Shame, as this is an adorable game with a unique concept. But, essentially, if you don’t have a strong character in every column, & you didn’t get just the right coin bonuses, EACH ROUND OF A LEVEL, you’re going to lose. And ALL the secondary advancement paths are hinged ENTIRELY on you not losing. Ever. Thus, the game is not designed to be fun, the game is designed to get you to spend cash. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — From Slasher. *2026-02-17, version 3788* Super fun! Learning how to get better in defeating enemies and a lot of different enemies to destroy. ### 5/5 — LOVE IT!! 😍 *2026-02-03, version 3674* This is a VERY FUN GAME!! And very exciting. I love the anticipation when it’s time for battle!! ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-01-26, version 3614* Honestly loving the game ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-01-20, version 3520* Great !!! ### 5/5 — Très bon jeu ! Peu de pub! *2026-01-11, version 3433* Le jeu est super j’adore les fusion et tout et en plus il n’a pas trop de pub les seuls pub qu’il y a c’est quand vous voulez avoir des récompenses ou doubler votre gain ou accélérer en x2 pour 30 min c’est parfait ! ### 5/5 — Love *2026-01-04* Love this game so much just wish I could update my characters faster. There is options to watch ads I just wish you could pick which character you want to watch ads for. Otherwise I’m completely addicted. ### 5/5 — So cute! So fun! No forced ads! *2025-11-09* I’m so glad I found this game. There are only ads that you chose to play for a reward (extra lives or double prize). The gameplay is challenging enough to be fun, relaxing and keeps me interested at the same time. I can’t believe it took me so long to click around and find where to upgrade the heroes! I kept losing game after game until I discovered that my level 1 heroes had enough to level up to 4 and 5!! It made me laugh at myself and I’m glad I decided to give this game a chance. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-10-30, version 2717* My new favorite game! ### 5/5 — Oui ! *2025-10-17, version 2571* Petit jeu ultra accrocheur, facile et stratégique. Beaucoup de plaisir, parties courtes. ### 5/5 — Super fun game! *2025-10-02* I really enjoy this game a lot! It kind of reminds me of a combo between merge games and games like clash Royale. The only issue I have is it’s very simple and plain. It would be awesome if you added more characters with other events and more options for buying specific cards besides just the knight. It can be a bit pricey if you want to win but the game is a lot of fun. I just hope there are some updates in the future to add more to the game because I could see this getting boring if it stays the same. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-29.*