Foodie Sizzle

I really like this game despite the frequent ads, but recently this one Shein ad that shows up at the bottom of the screen during levels has been ruining the game. It would be fine if this ad did not open itself in a separate browser tab multiple times during a level. It is just the Shein ad that does this for me, but every time it shows up, it will switch me to a completely different app a good five times while I’m trying to play a level. I’ll have to close that tab and go back to the game to keep playing, with, of course, whatever move I was just in the middle of making undone, so I’ll lose a few seconds of the timer as well. It’s probably lost me several levels at this point. I’ll also have to then go back to my browser and close the numerous tabs the Shein ad has opened after I’m done playing. I also do not even have to accidentally click on the Shein ad for it to do this. I’ll be super careful about not tapping anywhere near it, and it’ll open anyway. It’s extremely frustrating and has been ruining the game for me ever since it started happening a couple weeks ago. There was even a bug update about a week ago that, of course, did not fix this issue at all. Please get this resolved as soon as possible.

Foodie Sizzle used to be my favorite app game because it was one I could play without having to spend a ton of money (still some, but not a ton). However, when I finally updated the game last week (the last time I updated was last year and it reset all of my progress so I’d been wary to update again), all of the changes to the app were greed focused. There used to be a feature where if you were on a win streak of three wins or more, you got additional time added to your level, which was great - that’s gone. It also used to cost 600 gold to extend the timer no matter how many times you needed to extend and now only the first time is 600, then it jumps to 1200, then 1800, etc. I had saved up over 25,000 coins on the old update and burned through them in a single day. It’s hard to recoup any coins without the streak time extender as every level feels too short, and when you do manage to finish on time the rewards are minimal- 80 coins if you watch an ad. So it would take 8 perfect levels to organically gain the coins for even one single time extension, and if you needed to do two (1800 coins total) it would take TWENTY-THREE. This is absolutely bonkers. Surely there’s got to be some sort of middle ground here. Bring back the streak time bonuses. Revert the cost of the time extensions to 600 each time. Otherwise I and likely many other players will simply find another app game to play.

I am on level 173 and have been playing for a little while. The game itself is fun and some levels are easier than others so it has nice variety. You can watch ads for some “power ups” (quotes because I’m not sure what they are called!) which is nice when you are stuck on a level. I do agree with the reviews saying it’s frustrating when the order guy comes after you have already used the item and then you have to restart the level you would have already won otherwise but you can tap the x on the order and watch an ad to skip the order so that helps if you have to. My current complaint that just showed up this morning is half the items look like they normally do and half look like they are trying to look more like real food or something. Having to get used to so many different items at once is overwhelming and so I would suggest if making the items look different (and please don’t, please have them look like they did before - they used to be cute but now they just look weird!) please only do one item at a time, our poor brains might appreciate the gradual change!