Only a handful of mobile-oriented games are on the same level as Candy Crush Saga’s popularity, being a title that has run strongly for more than 11 years. Given how fun and addictive Candy Crush can be, the game enjoys a download count north of 1 billion on the Google Play Store alone, excluding other storefronts.
If you’re a sweet-toothed gamer with a fond likeness for “match-3” games, Candy Crush Saga is something you must try out on your trusty Chromebook. This guide will cover all that you should know about the task at hand, walking you through the most prominent highlights of the title along with its installation steps.
Let’s jump into this sugary delight with no further ado.
Best gameplay features of Candy Crush Saga
The following is our effective round-up of the most sought-after features of Candy Crush Saga that so many people are reveling in across the board. Make sure to read through the end for the best results.
Optimized for Chromebook tablets
The Candy Crush Saga app on the Google Play Store of your Chromebook has been optimized to work with ChromeOS, but a catch needs to be addressed here. For full-screen optimization, you must play on a Chromebook tablet, such as the Asus Chromebook Detachable CM3 or the Lenovo Chromebook Duet.
That way, you can also enjoy a load of other Android apps without any gimmicks to boot, thanks to the flexibility in screen orientation that offers such apps some leeway to work with. Standard clamshell Chromebooks won’t be able to run Candy Crush Saga in full-screen mode, but as per our testing, the game appears to be optimized for clicks and trackpad use.
Therefore, even if you don’t have a touch-enabled display or a Chromebook with a convertible form factor, you can enjoy Candy Crush smoothly on the device, which we’ve confirmed from our end.
Free-to-play with microtransactions
The best part about Candy Crush Saga is the level of value it provides to the person playing on the other side of the screen. It’s a free-to-play title with literally thousands of levels to complete. As you progress up the ladder at your own pace, you will find Candy Crush becoming increasingly difficult and adapting to your skills sequentially.
Despite being free-to-play, this isn’t to say that the game does not have microtransactions—a technical term for in-app purchases. Candy Crush Saga has raked in $9 billion in terms of generated revenue, according to Business Of Apps.
There is a limiting system in the game, though, that has led people to make the most amount of microtransactions commonly. Each time you play a level, you burn a life while doing so, and the game hands you a limited number of those at a single given time.
Among other types of buyouts in Candy Crush, people often purchase additional lives with real money when they run out of them while playing. After all, no one likes a discomforting break in their gameplay experience, especially when one is having fun.
Near-limitless number of levels
If you scroll up the level ladder in Candy Crush Saga’s in-game menu, you’ll have to scroll hundreds of miles to reach the end. In this manner, there are seemingly endless levels in the game, and even if you happen to reach the end, there will be more levels to come out by the time you do that. Talk about endless replayability.
Daily rewards system
Candy Crush Saga incorporates the Daily Booster Wheel that comes in for a spin as soon as you arrive at the game’s main menu. The gist of the mechanic is that you spin the wheel and wait for the wheel to land on a particular item. It’s an enriching opportunity that can often get you some high-yield power-ups immediately.
Speaking of which, another way to earn rewards in the game is by completing the various match-3 challenges that the title generates on its own based on analyzing the player’s gameplay. For instance, you could be asked to match a particular type of candy a specific number of times to earn a special reward. In this manner, things are kept ever-exciting.
Compare with friends
The Leaderboard feature in Candy Crush Saga
Candy Crush Saga encourages healthy competition and in doing so, pits players against each other in a friendly environment. The game incorporated a leaderboard system, where the high score of your friends and family appears to be enlisted. You need to surpass their scores to climb the competitive ladder and beat your friends.
The “Levels this week” in the Leaderboard section also tells the player how many levels their friends have played over the last seven days. That further clarifies how many levels you need to beat to outclass your opponents within the title.
Variety of game modes
Aside from the main game mode that has you matching candies incessantly like the ultimate sugar champ, Candy Crush Saga employs a variety of other ways to play as well. There’s the Target Score mode, where you must cross a specific score limit to beat the level alongside Clear the Jelly, which offers increased difficulty and skill compared to regular levels.
Lastly, there’s Collect the Ingredients, where the only way to win the bout is by taking certain items to the lowest level of the gameboard to “acquire” them, per se. If you get bored of the standard way of playing Candy Crush, know that these additional game modes will always be there for your added enjoyment.
Playing Candy Crush Saga on a Chromebook
Now that you have a fair idea of what Candy Crush is and its defining features, let’s move forward to the heart of the article and talk about playing the game on ChromeOS. As it turns out, you can enjoy the match-3 title on your Chromebook in two easy-to-approach ways.
We’ll review both, so you know your options and can proceed accordingly. The first pathway discusses the Google Play possibility, while the second route will have you playing a web-based version of Candy Crush on your Chromebook.
Option #1. Using the Google Play Store to install Candy Crush Saga
The Google Play Store has seemingly turned out to be one of the most convenient features for Chromebooks at the moment, powering these sleek devices with the ability to do more day in and day out. Having the Play Store opens doors to the best parenting, 3D modeling and design, trivia, note-taking, and productivity apps for ChromeOS users.
Before you move forward, though, it’s worth confirming whether your device supports Google Play in the first place. Many Chromebooks manufactured before 2018 may not be compatible with the functionality at hand, and if you’re using a dated model and haven’t run the Play Store on it before, best confirm whether the device works with Android apps.
With that out of the way, let’s dive into the installation steps of the game right away.
1. The first step is opening the Google Play Store on your Chromebook. Use the launcher section to do that quickly, and if you want direct access to the app next time, pin it to the shelf.
Opening the “Google Play Store”
2. You should now use the in-app search bar to look for the “Candy Crush Saga” game. Type in its name and press the “Enter” key to the next step.
Searching for Candy Crush Saga on the Google Play Store
3. At this stage, you should see an apparent “Install” button on your end. Click on it to begin downloading the game.
Installing Candy Crush Saga on ChromeOS
4. Following the previous step, Candy Crush Saga will be installed on your Chromebook in a couple of minutes, depending on your internet connection. Go to the launcher area afterward to find the game present on the device.
Candy Crush Saga installed on ChromeOS
Congratulations on coming this far! You can now seamlessly launch Candy Crush Saga on your Chromebook and take the game for a spin to see how it plays out. As iterated earlier, the title does not come up in full-screen mode, but it works well and is optimized remarkably in terms of performance.
Candy Crush Saga running on a Chromebook
Option #2. Playing Candy Crush online
The other major way that you can play Candy Crush Saga on ChromeOS is by turning to the Chrome browser, which is known for being loaded to the brim with browser-based games all the same. Now, unfortunately, King — the developer of Candy Crush — provided a way in the past to play the match-3 title online on its official website, but not anymore.
That is why you have to tend to this site called Bubble Shooter, which houses a web-oriented version of the mega-popular game that you can access with ease. We recommend using this direct link and heading straight to the IP. Bubble Shooter is a site that can be considered better than others, especially because it does not clutter its interface with tons of ads.
Playing Candy Crush Saga online
Other Candy Crush games to check out on ChromeOS
As compared to its humble beginnings on Facebook, the Candy Crush IP has branched out and enticed King to create other similarly addictive games as well. These include Candy Crush Friends Saga, which expands on the original IP and emphasizes the addition of revamped graphics.
Moreover, Friends Saga takes pride in its 3D graphical sequences, which is apparently a first for the franchise. You’ve got multiple adorable characters, namely Yeti, Tiffy, Misty, and Nutcracker, to accompany you on your adventures, too. Once you unlock them in-game, each friend possesses a special power-up to help you complete levels.
Candy Crush Friends Saga on ChromeOS
Next, you’ve got Candy Crush Soda Saga to enjoy on your Chromebook, standing proudly as one of the top-grossing games of the Google Play Store alongside the rest of its siblings. In Soda Saga, you match and blast candies, the same as its predecessors, but this time around, you get more challenges to topple and combine diversity.
There’s also the inclusion of a new game mode called “Row,” where teams of 4 are made to play collaboratively. Soda Saga introduces more candy combinations, such as combining 4 candies in a square block to generate what the game calls a “Swedish Fish.” It’s undoubtedly fun and shouldn’t be missed out on.
Candy Crush Soda Saga
Last but not least, King has released another iteration in the franchise called Candy Crush Jelly Saga that players can download on their Chromebooks and play effortlessly. It’s got over 100 million downloads on the Play Store alone and tons of positive feedback from reviewers praising the game’s difficulty and how it kills boredom on the fly.
Candy Crush Jelly Saga
Wrapping up – Sweet-toothed pleasure
ChromeOS is home to many Android apps and games, but it’s worth noting that things weren’t always this way. Back when the concept of these sleek, lightweight devices first manifested, the whole world turned to mocking ChromeOS for being nothing more than a glorified web browser—Fast-forward to 2023, and all that has aged like milk.
World-class games, such as Apex Legends, Alto’s Odyssey, Genshin Impact, Tower of Fantasy, and, of course, Candy Crush Saga, are easily playable on Chromebooks, all thanks to the various optimizations and feature compatibility that Chromebooks have been receiving for the past years.
Let us know in the comments section whether you found this helpful guide. Chrome Ready wishes you happy gaming!
