Fish Story

Fish Story puts the board under water and hands the introductions to Poseidon, who turns up to explain what a level wants before you start it. Under the theme it is a straight match-3: line up three or more of a kind by swapping neighbours, and the board refills from above.

The run is long — past seven hundred levels — and the shape of the difficulty is the interesting part. Early levels teach one idea at a time, and the tutorial voice sticks around long enough that you are never guessing at what a new tile does. By the middle of the run the levels stop being about spotting a match and start being about spotting the right one, because the goal and the move count no longer leave room for both.

The presentation carries a lot of it: fresh art, a tune that loops without wearing out, and a reef that fills in as you progress. It is a good pick for a game you dip into rather than sit down to finish.

1. Swap two adjacent pieces to line up three or more identical ones.
2. Check the goal panel before the first move — each level asks for something specific.
3. Match four or five in a line to leave a powered piece behind, and set it off where the goal actually is.
4. When a level resists, restart it early rather than spending your last moves on guesswork.

The board falls downward, so a clear at the bottom rearranges everything above it and often triggers a second match without costing a move. Reading from the bottom up is a habit worth building here.