match-three

Pretty Girls Pop Match is the latest puzzle game in eastasiasoft’s Pretty Girls series, a series that has had takes on pretty much every puzzle game format you can think of. From Mahjong to 2048, there isn’t any sub-genre that developers, Zoo Corporation, won’t put some Anime girl portraits on. Strangely though, they’ve […]

Pretty Girls Pop Match – PS5 Review

December 1, 2024 in PS5 tagged anime / anime is weird frankly / Casual / match-three / pretty girls pop match / puzzle by Richie

Match Village is a minimalist puzzle game that combines a sort of chilled-out city building set up but with a match three element and it comes to us from Brazil-based solo dev Moraes Game Studio. It’s currently on PSN for a penny under four quid and it has been published […]

Match Village – PS4 Review

March 22, 2024 in PS4 / Reviews tagged islanders / match village / match-three / puzzle by Richie

Now that we’re conservatively half a century into videogaming, there aren’t too many original ideas left when it comes to core gameplay mechanics and so the easier option is to try to combine two disparate ones into something relatively new. In the indie gaming world, this usually means trying to […]

Galacide – PS4 Review

October 31, 2020 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / galacide / match-three / shoot em up. puzzle by Richie

Battle Chef Brigade landed on Switch and PC late last year and has now arrived on the PS4. If you imagine all those cooking shows where people cook under a time limit in order to impress judges then you’ll have a vague idea of the premise, but these chefs have […]

Battle Chef Brigade – PS4 Review

October 30, 2018 in PS4 tagged 2d / action / battle chef brigade / cooking / match-three / puzzle by Gareth

Awww. The poor old match-three puzzler. Once a source of harrowing levels of addiction before having its heart ripped out and replaced with in-app purchases. I used to enjoy these games a lot but greedy developers made them all a bit ‘pay to win’ and I was out. So, it’s […]

Castles – PS4 Review

July 17, 2016 in PS4 tagged castles / match-three / puzzler by Richie

Sparkle Unleashed arrives on the Playstation 4 as the third instalment of 10tons’ match-three puzzler series. A game that traditionally finds a home amongst mobile platforms, this game intends to provide that experience for a console audience. For the unfamiliar, the main gameplay consists of flinging marbles at an advancing […]

Sparkle Unleashed – PS4 Review

June 4, 2015 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 10tons / match-three / puzzle / sparkle unleashed by Mike