Aevryn Candy bets everything on the words no ads ever
A newly released Android match-three that leads with its absence of adverts, and the screenshots back that promise up more than the puzzle itself.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The first thing Aevryn Candy wants you to know about itself is not the match-three grid, the candy world map, or the chirpy portrait of its mascot. It is a banner, rendered twice across the screenshots, that reads simply: No Ads. Ever. In a genre where the interstitial advert between levels is practically a genre convention, that is the pitch doing the unusual thing of leading with what is missing rather than what is there. What is there, going by the screenshots, is the sort of match-three you could describe to your gran in one sentence and have her nod along. A board of hearts, stars, spi...