Toy Blast 4+

I have been playing this game for quite a while and finally thought I’d review it. I enjoy puzzle games - especially without timers or time limits - and found this one great to unwind with. I have never spent a penny on this game and with all the coins and extras you can win, never see myself needing to. The levels do get progressively harder and when you reach the legends arena games can seem a bit familiar but they vary it enough to keep it interesting. You do need to use strategy as the levels get more difficult but there is some luck involved in which blocks you get. Don’t rush the game but think through your moves to make them more effective. You can save up additional lives if you run out or use the coins you win to buy more or spend 25 coins to keep playing if you’re close enough - but you only get 5 more moves so use this sparingly. If you build up a stockpile of coins and extras then that helps to fall back on with a particularly hard level. I have now reached the point where I run out of games to play frequently and have to wait for an update to add more levels but they do this often so I’m never without games for long. I do have a busy life outside toy blast (believe it or not) and do not play it endlessly but it’s great for relaxing and distracting my brain after a stressful day.

I have this game on every device I own, old and new. I have never bought a single in-game purchase and have won 1 tournament, giving me 250 coins ( didn't realise this was a thing until level 1247). Your 5 free lives will give you about 20-30 mins playtime but each life replenishes after a 30 min countdown. So you can return every 2.5 hrs for another 5 free lives (you can also bank lives & coins you win). Obviously the games get harder as you go up in levels and that is where strategy and skill is required rather than speed. (I mean no disrespect; but with regard to the reviewer who said they have reached level 346 after "a few years" - There are many, many basic strategies to play this game successfully and I would expect level 346 to be reached within a few weeks / months depending on whether you play intensively or not; and whether you buy coins or not - The new "challenges" are obviously designed to push you to buy coins etc, but it's not essential and I ignore it.
Top tip :- don't use 25 coins at end of game for 5 more moves - wait until all lives are gone and use 25 coins to get 5 more LIVES. Toy Blast is the best bit of my day !

I’ve been playing Toy Blast for about 3 years now and I’ve been enjoying it. I liked the fact that you could send, receive and request lives with Facebook friends as well. However, I’ve had a problem with this in the past month or two. One day, I got a notification saying that one of my Facebook friends sent me a life, but when I tried to use it, there was nothing there. It also wouldn’t let me send and request lives to anyone, and the list of my Facebook friends who have connected to the game with Facebook had disappeared. I was the only one on the list. So I tried turning my iPad off and on again, which didn’t work. Then I tried deleting the app and reinstalling it because they said I wouldn’t lose my progress if I did that. So I deleted the app and reinstalled it, which kept my progress, but didn’t fix the problem with the lives from Facebook friends. I thought this might be fixed in a future update, but it wasn’t. The previous few updates haven’t fixed this problem. I thought it might have had something to do with my iPad’s iOS, but the App Store says this game requires iOS 9 or later, and I have iOS 12.4.8 installed. I really hope this gets sorted soon because I think this is the only reason why I’ve had to give this game 4 stars rather than 5.