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Season 2026 · Seven titles · Reviewed in South Australia
Sweet puzzles, hung like a small exhibition
TreatFolio is an independent desk that installs candy, fruit and bakery puzzle games from Google Play, plays them properly, and then writes down what the levels actually feel like. Seven games in this folio — every one of them free to download.
- 7 games played in full
- Ratings copied from Google Play AU
- Updated 18 August 2026
Why this page can be trusted
Four things a title has to clear before it is hung
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Played, not skimmed
Each game is installed on an Android handset and taken past level thirty before a single line is written. Trailers and store copy are never the source.
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Ratings copied, never rounded
The score beside a title is the Google Play figure for Australia on the day of publication, shown to one decimal place with the number of ratings behind it.
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No banners, no paid placements
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Plain notes on difficulty
Where progress stalls, we say where and how long for — including the levels that made us put a title down and come back a week later.
The folio
Seven sweet-shop puzzles, in the order we hung them
Each entry carries the studio name, the genre, the store rating for Australia and a short account of how the levels behave. Links open the Google Play listing in a new tab.
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01
Colorful Gummy Blast
Rows of glossy gummies on a pink board: swap two neighbours, clear three or more, and free the pieces trapped under sugar glass. Matches of four and five leave a striped or round clearing piece behind, and that is where the real board planning lives. Levels are short, the colour palette is loud in the best way, and the curve stays gentle well past the first fifty stages.
Sessions run three to five minutes. The celebration sound at the end of a level is genuinely startling at full volume — the audio settings are the first place to visit.
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02
Cookie Blast 2 - Match 3 Mania
A biscuit-tin board of cupcakes, iced hearts and layer cake on a dark tabletop. Objectives rotate constantly — clear a quota of one shape, drop ingredients to the base of the grid, break the jelly under the pieces — so the goal card is worth reading before every stage. Progression is unusually even: the step from comfortable to demanding arrives in small increments rather than as a wall.
The most generous title here for players who dislike being stuck. Board readability is excellent on a 6-inch screen.
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03
Candy Swap 2
A long candy road under a sky-blue horizon, with a board that widens as new chapters unlock. Longer sequences build a colour wheel that lifts one shade off the whole field, and most goals ask you to collect specific sweets rather than clear everything in sight. Around level two hundred the pacing tightens sharply — players say so in the store reviews, and our notes agree.
The prettiest board of the seven, and the one most likely to hold you on a single stage for a fortnight.
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04
Fruit Match Blast: Link Line
Not a swapping game at all: you drag a line through neighbouring fruit of the same colour and lift your finger to clear the chain. It runs entirely offline, which makes it the most portable title in the folio — a tram tunnel does nothing to it. Boards are small, tap targets are generous, and the rules take about ten seconds to explain to someone who has never opened a puzzle app.
The gentlest learning curve here. Its lower score comes mainly from repetition once the fruit set stops expanding.
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05
Catch the Candy 2・brain puzzle
The outlier of the folio, and a welcome one: a physics puzzle in landscape orientation where a small furry creature stretches, swings and sticks its way across a stage to reach one lollipop. Fans, magnets, ropes and springs are introduced a single mechanic at a time, and a stage that looks impossible usually turns on one correct anchor point. Stages are self-contained, so it suits short bursts.
The lowest score here, mostly because a handful of late stages ask for precision the touch controls do not always deliver.
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06
Sweet Road : Lollipop Match 3
The special pieces carry this one. The grid itself is a standard lollipop board, but combined clearings are unusually powerful, so a stalled level rarely stays stalled for more than a few attempts. Chapters are framed as a road through a sweet shop, with a small cast of shopkeepers narrating the map between stages. It has by far the largest number of ratings in the folio.
Best suited to players who want steady forward motion rather than a puzzle that pushes back.
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07
Cake Match 3 Mania
A patisserie board of macarons, doughnuts and sponge slices, with bakery framing for the goals — out-bake the pastry chef, collect the honey, fill the order card. The art is the cleanest of the seven: high-contrast pieces that stay readable at arm's length on a small handset. Every objective is stated on a card before the stage begins, which removes almost all of the guesswork.
Our pick for a first sweet-themed puzzle. Clear rules, kind pacing, no hidden goal conditions.
The wall
Screens as the store shows them
Store images from the seven Google Play listings, uncropped and ungraded. Boards, goal cards and the little narrators that appear between chapters.
Player voices
What players wrote on the store listings
We keep the awkward ones in. A folio that only quotes praise is a catalogue, not a review page.
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The game is so colourful and bright. It's fun and for some reason gives me 90s vibes while playing. Although I have too play it on silent because my dog freaks out when I finish a level and the sound of fireworks suddenly appear. Like the game alot though
Kayleigh
On Colorful Gummy Blast · Google Play
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Just started playing it this afternoon but loving it so far. Would be more fun if you could join a team to help each other out, like similar games
sandra glen
On Colorful Gummy Blast · Google Play
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So far so good! Graphics are bright and fun too! Levels are almost perfect when it comes to progression of easy to more difficult
Corinna Clements
On Cookie Blast 2 - Match 3 Mania · Google Play
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I love this game and I'm already addicted to it and I've only played about 2 hours!! Update: Well I'm still loving this app/game so much!! But they do need to do a new update on the app. Thanks! RB
A Google user
On Cookie Blast 2 - Match 3 Mania · Google Play
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It was fun n interesting game, until level 200..i tried so hard, its been 2 months since i was stuck on that level, so i did a favour to myself and uninstalled it. Good riddance!
Rifna Ak
On Candy Swap 2 · Google Play
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So many goodness sweets and cakes and explosive that would be used in the game and those candies can make you really hungry for those candies and you can eat candy all day long without being full from eating all candy!
Cassandra Chau
On Candy Swap 2 · Google Play
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it's simple and easy to understand for children
Victor VIKAD Copywrighting
On Fruit Match Blast: Link Line · Google Play
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I like this game so far and it's easy to play. I feel motivated when I don't have anything to do, especially during my free time.
Prince Ogutu
On Fruit Match Blast: Link Line · Google Play
These are reviews written by players and published on the games' own pages in the Google Play store. TreatFolio did not commission or reward any of them; two have been trimmed for length, with the meaning left intact. Names appear exactly as the store displays them.
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