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FrostTally

Sweet puzzle games, kept on file

Seven fruit-and-candy boards, tallied level by level.

We play each game by hand, write down where it gets generous and where it gets stubborn, and copy the Google Play rating exactly as the store shows it. Nothing on this page was paid for.

  • Store data read with Australian settings
  • No advertising banners, no paid entries
  • All seven titles are free to download
Sweet Fruit Candy match-3 board with fruit tiles
Sweet Fruit Candy · 4.5
Candy Blast: Sugar Splash puzzle stage in progress
Candy Blast: Sugar Splash · 4.5

How the tally is kept

Four rules · no exceptions

  • 01

    Played, not skimmed

    Every entry is installed on an ordinary Android handset and played through at least the first forty stages, plus a sampling run in the higher chapters. A store description is never enough to describe how a board actually feels after twenty minutes.

  • 02

    Store numbers copied, never adjusted

    The rating printed beside each game is the figure Google Play displays for Australian users, taken on 18 August 2026. We do not round it, average it with our own opinion, or repaint it when it moves against a game we like.

  • 03

    Notes tied to level bands

    Instead of a single score we log where a game changes character — the chapter where move counts tighten, the stage that stalls people, the point at which a session stops being restful. Those bands are what the reviews below are built on.

  • 04

    Nothing here is for sale

    FrostTally does not run advertising banners and does not sell listings, ordering or wording. If a developer contacts us, the message is read and filed — it changes neither the order of this page nor a single sentence of the notes.

Lollipop : Link & Match landscape puzzle board
Test capture · Lollipop : Link & Match, chapter two

The file

Seven entries · [7] played

Sweet Fruit Candy
Sweet Fruit Candy

Sweet Fruit Candy

Beijing Youyoutang Technology Co.,ltd.

  • 4.5
  • 637K ratings on Play
  • Match-3 · casual
  • Free to download

A wide, unhurried board built around fruit tiles and a jar that reshuffles the grid when the moves run dry. The opening chapters read as a warm-up; from roughly the two-hundredth stage the move counts tighten and a single swap has to satisfy two objectives at once. The soft colour work and the bear mascot give it a picture-book calm that kept our testers coming back on the tram.

Open in Google Play → com.sweetfuirt.candy
Fruits Bomb
Fruits Bomb

Fruits Bomb

Bubblescapes

  • 4.2
  • 162K ratings on Play
  • Match-3 · blast
  • Free to download

Straight-line matching with a blast twist: three fruits clear, four or more leave a charge that sweeps a row. Stages are short by design — most resolve in under two minutes, which makes this the gentlest way onto the file for someone who has never touched the genre. The late chapters lean hard on limited moves, and that is exactly where the store rating starts to wobble.

Open in Google Play → com.mobileguru.fruitsbomb.free
Fruit Candy Bomb
Fruit Candy Bomb

Fruit Candy Bomb

Cool Cat Game

  • 4.5
  • 9.57K ratings on Play
  • Match-3 · objectives
  • Free to download

The smallest audience on the file and, stage for stage, one of the tidiest boards we played. Objectives stay legible — clear the jelly, drop the crates, free the fruit — and the tutorial gets out of the way after two screens. Progress is generous enough that a commute usually ends on a finished stage rather than on a wall.

Open in Google Play → com.mobileguru.fruitcandybomb.free
Cookie Mania - Match-3 Sweet G
Cookie Mania - Match-3 Sweet G

Cookie Mania - Match-3 Sweet G

Ezjoy

  • 4.1
  • 62.2K ratings on Play
  • Match-3 · long campaign
  • Free to download

A long-running bakery board with well past a thousand stages and a steady drip of new layouts. It is also the most demanding entry here: from the mid-hundreds onward, boosters matter and a failed stage can cost several attempts. Reviewers keep flagging a sticking point around stage 1850, and our own run met the same wall.

Open in Google Play → com.ezjoynetwork.cookiemania
Happy Dessert Cafe
Happy Dessert Cafe

Happy Dessert Cafe

LifeSim

  • 4.8
  • 40.3K ratings on Play
  • Idle · café management
  • Free to download

Not a match-3 at all: an idle café where you plate desserts, upgrade the counters and watch the queue move. It holds the highest store rating on this file, and the reason is pacing — it asks for a minute of attention, then keeps ticking while you are elsewhere. We keep it here as the palate cleanser between puzzle sessions.

Open in Google Play → com.kiwigames.idle.dessert.cafe.android
Candy Blast: Sugar Splash
Candy Blast: Sugar Splash

Candy Blast: Sugar Splash

NSTAGE

  • 4.5
  • 32.1K ratings on Play
  • Match-3 · arcade pace
  • Free to download

Bright, quick and heavily animated — the closest thing on the file to an arcade board. Chains build fast, and the combined pieces stay readable enough that you can plan two moves ahead without pausing. One editorial note: drop the effects a step in the settings if you play in bed, because the flash is genuinely loud.

Open in Google Play → com.cookapps.beagles.ng003
Lollipop : Link & Match
Lollipop : Link & Match

Lollipop : Link & Match

Puzzle1Studio

  • 4.3
  • 25.7K ratings on Play
  • Link puzzle · landscape
  • Free to download

Link-and-drag rather than swap: you trace a path through matching sweets, and longer paths fold the board in on itself. That one change makes it the most tactile entry here on a phone screen. Difficulty climbs gently, and the landscape layouts give each puzzle more room than the usual portrait grid.

Open in Google Play → com.bitmango.go.lollipoplinkmatch

What players wrote

Eight quotes · unedited in substance

4 / 5
“This game is fun and relaxing but it does get quite challenging in the higher levels. It is so frustrating when there aren't any moves left and the jar appears to shuffle them. The graphics are super especially the little bear.”

Jo-Anne B.

on Sweet Fruit Candy

5 / 5
“Love this game and it would be even more fun if we had ‘tools’ to use to remove a single item or something that rolled across an entire row to remove everything. Just a thought!”

A Google user

on Sweet Fruit Candy

5 / 5
“I am addicted to the game, very true, it's so amazing to play it, but unfortunately am stuck on the second last level and the number of moves given are just so impossible to complete the game, i wish you could update and add the number of moves, but i love the game”

Akullo Moureen

on Fruits Bomb

5 / 5
“fun game, not too hard but have only played a few levels.”

A Google user

on Fruits Bomb

5 / 5
“But it is very lovely ways of playing with Fruit Candy Bomb, but always useful in the mind to get more points.”

A Google user

on Fruit Candy Bomb

5 / 5
“Real i like this game although i change my phone several time but still without this game i cant enjoy anygame”

Daud John

on Fruit Candy Bomb

5 / 5
“At 1850 and cannot get passed, when is this going to be fixed? Otherwise a great and enjoyable game.”

Barbara Laverty

on Cookie Mania - Match-3 Sweet G

4 / 5
“Lots of fun but it stops working at the most inconvenient times. I got to level 1850 and can't go on because it wants me to get rid of something that's not in the puzzle. Very frustrating”

Lee Jacobs

on Cookie Mania - Match-3 Sweet G

These are reviews written by players and published on the games' own pages in Google Play. We reproduce the wording as posted and only trim length; spelling and punctuation are the authors' own.

The count

Store figures read 18 August 2026

7

Games on file

Each one installed and played by hand before it was written up.

968K

Play ratings counted

The seven store pages added together, as displayed in the Australian catalogue.

4.4

Average store rating

Plain mean of the seven Google Play scores listed on this page.

0

Paid placements

No entry, position or sentence on this page was bought or exchanged.

Editor's picks

Three shortlists · by session length

For a five-minute break

Sweet Fruit Candy board with fruit tiles and objectives

Sweet Fruit Candy

Stages are self-contained and forgiving in the first chapters, so a queue at the counter is enough for two of them. Rated 4.5 on Google Play across 637K ratings.

See the full entry →

For a long, quiet evening

Happy Dessert Cafe counter with plated desserts

Happy Dessert Cafe

The idle loop rewards a slow build rather than fast fingers, and the café keeps working between visits. Highest rating on our file at 4.8 from 40.3K ratings.

See the full entry →

For a first match-3

Fruit Candy Bomb stage with jelly and crate objectives

Fruit Candy Bomb

Clean objectives, a two-screen tutorial and the least cluttered interface of the seven. Rated 4.5 from a smaller audience of 9.57K ratings.

See the full entry →

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Cookie Mania - Match-3 Sweet G stage with cookie tiles
Test capture · Cookie Mania, mid-campaign stage

How to start

Four steps · about ten minutes

Fruits Bomb stage with fruit tiles and limited moves
Test capture · Fruits Bomb, opening chapter
  1. Step 01

    Decide how long you have

    The picks above are sorted by session length rather than by genre, because that is the thing that usually decides whether a puzzle game survives its first week on your phone.

  2. Step 02

    Read the entry, then the quotes

    Our notes describe the shape of the campaign; the player quotes underneath show where people actually get stuck. Read both before installing anything — they often disagree, and the disagreement is informative.

  3. Step 03

    Open the store page and check for yourself

    Every entry links straight to Google Play. Ratings move, and the figure you see there is always more current than the one printed here — if the two differ, the store is right and we will correct the file.

  4. Step 04

    Tell us where the file is wrong

    If a stage described as gentle stopped you cold, write to the desk. Corrections from readers are the fastest way this file improves, and they are read by the person who wrote the entry.

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