I had been playing a lot of Solitaire games on Steam as basically my lazy games. Games I'd play on break or lunch or just when I'm watching YouTube, to have something to do on the side I'd been working towards achievements with. Well after finishing another one of those games, I decided to switch it up and went with Bejeweled 3. A fun and engaging match 3 game. I haven't played a whole lot of those to know how this is much different from others or how it may be better or worse than some. In fact I think I can safely say now this is the one I've played the most.

So did this game fulfill what I needed from it for a lazy side game? Yes, for the most part. I got most of the achievements easy on my own skill without much worry. It was the time limit game modes with the higher end achievements that gave me trouble.
Ultimately, I figured out that if you play this game windowed, and click on the top boarder with your mouse and hold it, it stops time in the game without a pause screen allowing you a moment to plan out your next move. This helped me out so much when trying to get the 750K achievements in Diamond Mine, Ice, and Lightning Modes. As well as other achievements in those modes like the 15 column combo in Ice, 15 artifacts in Diamond, and the 60K points in the last Hoorah of Lightning. Is that cheating?... yeah probably. In this case I don't see that as a problem however, since I'm not that great at match 3 games and I'm not going to put hundreds of hours into it to try and get fast enough to do it without that.

I wanted to move on to another Solitaire game. Ultimately I enjoyed this one and I may go back to more match 3 games at some point in the future, but I've had my fill of it for now. I would recommend this one, and say if you're having trouble with the time limit game modes and their harder achievements, try the trick I figured out.

I had been playing a lot of Solitaire games on Steam as basically my lazy games. Games I'd play on break or lunch or just when I'm watching YouTube, to have something to do on the side I'd been working towards achievements with. Well after finishing another one of those games, I decided to switch it up and went with Bejeweled 3. A fun and engaging match 3 game. I haven't played a whole lot of those to know how this is much different from others or how it may be better or worse than some. In fact I think I can safely say now this is the one I've played the most. So did this game fulfill what I needed from it for a lazy side game? Yes, for the most part. I got most of the achievements easy on my own skill without much worry. It was the time limit game modes with the higher end achievements that gave me trouble. Ultimately, I figured out that if you play this game windowed, and click on the top boarder with your mouse and hold it, it stops time in the game without a pause screen allowing you a moment to plan out your next move. This helped me out so much when trying to get the 750K achievements in Diamond Mine, Ice, and Lightning Modes. As well as other achievements in those modes like the 15 column combo in Ice, 15 artifacts in Diamond, and the 60K points in the last Hoorah of Lightning. Is that cheating?... yeah probably. In this case I don't see that as a problem however, since I'm not that great at match 3 games and I'm not going to put hundreds of hours into it to try and get fast enough to do it without that. I wanted to move on to another Solitaire game. Ultimately I enjoyed this one and I may go back to more match 3 games at some point in the future, but I've had my fill of it for now. I would recommend this one, and say if you're having trouble with the time limit game modes and their harder achievements, try the trick I figured out.