Candy Crush Saga is a flash based game developed by the company, King (United Kingdom). The game was launched on 12th April 2012 for Facebook users. Then, November 14th, 2012 on Apple's iTunes store and also became available for all Android devices on December 14th, 2012, which was also the month which saw the most downloads of the app totaling to around 10 million downloads.

This app has 132.9 million monthly Facebook-connected users.According to data by third-party analytical service, AppData, Candy Crush has 45 million monthly active users. Adding to those numbers, it’s played more than 600 million times each day on mobile devices.

The game has become so addictive that UK Rehab opened a residential rehabilitation program for addicts.