Fish Story 3

Fish Story 3 runs a reef-coloured board across a level list of more than four thousand, with a mermaid host who appears between chapters. The palette leans on blues and corals, which is pleasant to look at and slightly harder to read than a high-contrast gem grid — worth knowing if you play on a phone in daylight.

Two tracks run in parallel. The main route is the level map; alongside it sit daily missions and a separate daily challenge with its own rewards. The second track is the one that keeps a game like this in a rotation, because it gives a five-minute visit a point.

As a board it is conventional and well behaved. Matches register cleanly, cascades resolve without hiding the result, and goals are stated before the first move rather than discovered after it.

1. Exchange two adjacent sea pieces to line three or more of a kind.
2. Satisfy the stated goal inside the move limit.
3. Take the daily challenge separately — it pays its own rewards.
4. Build bigger lines when the board allows; the pieces they leave clear more later.

On this palette, sort by shape rather than colour when the board gets crowded. Several of the pieces read as the same blue at a glance and the silhouettes separate faster than the hues do.