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Fish Sort Puzzle - Bubble Jam offers an appealing, visually delightful take on modern 3D sorting and matching casual games. The colorful fish models, soothing water sound effects, and smooth bubble-popping animations create an instantly engaging environment. The core mechanic of sorting fish into target aquariums while keeping your temporary holding bar clear provides just enough tactical tension to keep casual puzzle enthusiasts coming back for more.
However, the overall experience is noticeably held back by aggressive monetization and ad placements. Higher levels introduce steep difficulty spikes where optimal fish drops feel restricted, heavily incentivizing players to watch forced video ads or spend premium currency on nets and power-ups. For players willing to buy the ad-free upgrade or navigate the free-to-play friction, there is a very polished, satisfying underwater puzzle title underneath.
Vibrant 3D aquatic visuals and calming underwater audio design
Intuitive tap-to-sort controls paired with strategic holding-slot mechanics
Multiple color bubble layers and diverse fish species to clear
Special live events including Aquarium Challenges and collectible rare fish
Regular updates with performance optimizations and level enhancements
To clear levels efficiently without running out of space, focus on identifying fish types that currently match your target aquariums. Tapping non-matching fish pushes them straight into your temporary holding slot queue; if this bar fills up completely, the game immediately ends. Prioritize removing top-layer bubbles to reveal the exact fish species required, and reserve your holding slots exclusively for unblocking critical fish paths.
The core gameplay involves tapping visual 3D fish to clear layers of colorful bubbles and transport creatures into matching target aquariums. Players must meet specific quota numbers for each fish type while balancing board clearing against holding slot capacity. Dynamic events like Aquarium Challenges introduce rare fish species, while time-limited stages test player speed and spatial coordination.
You lose a level if your temporary holding area becomes completely filled with non-matching fish before you complete the target aquarium requirements.
I liked this game overall. However, the difficulty level is unnecessarily high as early as level 3. I like to play the game with no powerups, assistance, or purchases until I can see if it can be played without it. Suffice to say that the game requires that you use their powerups to complete a task. If you run out you have to pay. I only made it to level 7 when I hit that wall. Mind you, I didn’t use any powerups because I need to see if the game is rigged or not. Turns out that the game is rigged. No strategy I used could get me past 49% on level 7. Ultimately, if you want to pay, play it, it is an enjoyable game.
Starts out great and is really fun! But just a few levels in, they become nearly impossible and you have no choice but to watch multiple ads just to pass the level. For every single level!! Just to test my theory, on multiple occasions I spent 3-4 hours on one EASY level without using ads. Then still ended up having to watch ads to pass the level even after 4 hours and probably literally hundreds of level restarts. I assume this is because there aren’t any other forced ads in the game or specific number of life’s (both are amazing things, so keep that up!) so they need to make ad revenue money somehow. Which in this case is making the levels LITERALLY impossible without watching 1-5 ads (or more!) each level or the alternative is spending endless hours on one level to still never be able to pass it. Really enjoyed this game, but because of this, I am deleting it.
They must be paying quite a few people to leave 5 star reviews for this game to have an almost perfect 5 star rating with thousands of reviews. Aside from it being a money grab, my number one issue is with the way the game itself works You have 5 extra spaces to put fish in to clear space up to hopefully get the fish you need. But you really only have 4. The moment you put a fish in the 5th space, the game is over, even if putting a fish in that 5th space made available to fish you need to clear a fish bowl. So the 5th space is absolutely useless. If there are 5 spaces, I should be able to put 5 fish in them without the game automatically ending. If it was programmed to recognize that there are no moves left and end the game that would be fine, but that’s not the case. If that was fixed, I would pay the 7.99 to remove ads.
I really enjoyed this game until I realized you can never actually buy the extra fish bowls permanently. I watched ads to double my coins and finally saved up enough to “buy” the third fish bowl. After I purchased it, I found out it was ONLY for the level I was currently playing. It wasn’t mine to keep for future levels. When the next level started, I was literally wondering, “Where is the fish bowl I just bought?” That was extremely disappointing and honestly felt misleading, so I deleted the game. As far as the ads go, I personally only had to watch them when I wanted to use an extra fish bowl or one of the advantages. But some of the advantages were basically useless. The “Refresh” option was especially frustrating. I watched three ads to refresh three different times, and it gave me the SAME exact fish every single time. The fish “Net” advantage wasn’t much better. It kept giving me the same fish I already had, which meant I had to keep watching more ads just to use the net again and store fish in the holding slots. I liked the game itself, but the way the extra bowls and advantages work completely ruined it for me. If I spend coins to purchase an extra fish bowl, I should be able to KEEP it—not lose it after one level.
The game play is fun, and actually kinda challenging which I was surprised by, but the 3 stars are because the game has 5 storage slots to keep fish that you have selected and are not being used, but the moment you fill the 5th slot the game ends. The first time this happened I used it to pop a bubble and the fish I was looking for came down, but it didn’t matter because the game ended. Never have I seen in a game an ornamental storage slots that might as well be called the game over slot. If the developers intended for you to only use 4 storage slots then only put 4. Many games have it to where you use the final storage space, the game waits a second and if it’s not possible to win the game will end. I do not see why the same mechanic cannot be used here.
they use a type of music that sets the pace as relaxed, and then they suddenly introduced a timer that no one can see and runs out on you and you can't progress without spending money or coins to get past it. The timer is unrealistic I routinely as a player only 56% of the puzzle before the order expires. I've spent the last two weeks saying what order. nobody explained there was gonna be an order order for what it's never been explained. It's nothing in the back that tells you what it means there's no update provided. I like this game and it was relaxing but now I hate it and having this timer suddenly appear that you never knew existed and constantly end your games on you with no realistic way to skip the game because you haven't earned enough points it's sadistic and I'm no masochist. I just updated it and played it again and I only got to 51%.
This was fun at first but as usual you are forced to watch ads if you want to get to the next level. What it does it keep holding the fish you need so you have no choice but to watch ads hoping after that the fish needed will drop. It’s a clausal waste of your precious time don’t bother! All games have ads but unlike many video games this one forces you to watch videos in the middle of the game nonstop. We play video games for escapism. It’s true the water sounds and the beautiful fish are soothing and relaxing but you don’t get a chance to appreciate them because you are constantly interrupted by ads. I deleted it and advised my family don’t bother and waste your time there are games out there that engage you first and have ads at the end. Disappointed to the max!!!
Got several levels into this game and was enjoying it when suddenly I started getting kicked out of a level with an “ORDER EXPIRED” notice. Sometimes this would happen several times as I tried to progress in the level, and each time I would be required to watch an ad to proceed in the level. The problem is that the App keeps it’s timer HIDDEN so there’s no way to know when you’re approaching a timeout. SO even someone like me, who was foolish enough to pay for NO ADS, is being forced to sit through ads in order to finish a level. This is DIRTY POOL period. I would ask to be refunded for that $7.99 no ads shakedown, but I suspect the aggro is not worth the bother. AVOID unless you don’t mind being forced, mid level, to watch several ads.