I’m always excited when I have the chance to preview a game that I just know will make it big (like Crossy Roads did last year). And well, you see where I am going with this, as soon as I started playing Cubic!, I knew I had a winner. Slightly …
Read More »Switch&Drop – a colourful Tetris-like – Review
Imagine a world where you always get the long bar while playing tetris. Okay this game actually isn’t THAT easy, there’s a catch obviously. The catch is that each square of that long bar are a different colour, and you need to make matches of 3 for them to disappear. …
Read More »Cookie Dunk Dunk: a yummy match-3 – Review
After candy you might as well crush cookies! What we have here is a classic take on the match-3 genre. I can’t possibly have to explain the dynamic of this match-3 game type, do I? You need to switch up 2 adjacent pieces to make matches of 3 (or more); …
Read More »BlastBall MAX: put on your thinking cap – Review
I enjoy a good puzzle along with a hot cup of coffee. I was looking forward trying out this one for a while and I am delighted that I had the chance to do so. Blastball MAX is the child of Monkube, a worldwide team of app developers who put …
Read More »Colords: Threes! meets a Puzzle RPG – Review
Colords plays like the excellent puzzle game Threes!; your heroes level up when they bump into another hero matching their colours: they then combine by adding up their numbers. Some enemies will have 2 colours and this means they can be vanquished by either of those colors. The controls are …
Read More »Castle Scout; monsters and ghosts – Preview
Castle Scout describes itself as “color match meets arcade action”. I immediately understood the arcade action part: when the monsters fall on your floor, you better get out of the way because they will explode. The ground beneath your feet will be no more. But I will plainly admit I …
Read More »Puzzle to the Center of the Earth: a rising star – Preview
I’ll confess, when I heard match-3, I cringed a little. It just seems there are so many crushing candy candidates out there, I wasn’t sure I had it in me to review yet another one. Then I was pleasantly happy to hear it was combined with a platformer. Even if …
Read More »Yes Chef: A veggie match-3 – Preview
You’d think the world has enough of the match-3 genre, à la Candy Crush. But when you repackage the format so beautifully, you cannot help but to get drawn in. Yes Chef is a new title by Halfbrick Studios where you assist the young Cherry, who is hoping to learn …
Read More »Luminux – To lighten up your day, the match-3 way
Luminux is a frantic puzzler, in a match-3 fashion, that you will have a hard time to put down. While, as I stated, it’s technically a match-3, its modus operandi is different enough; you will definitely not feel like you’re just playing another Bejeweled clone. First of all, the game …
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