Forest Match 4

Forest Match 4 is the fourth chapter of a woodland series and it is built around a saga map: levels laid out along a path that winds back toward a village, with a fairy as the figure leading you along it. The map is the game’s structure, and it is a good one for a board with 4,620 levels, because it converts an unreadable number into a route with landmarks.

The boards themselves are move-limited rather than time-limited. That is the more forgiving of the two constraints and it suits the pace the art is going for — there is no clock pressing while you look for the swap you want.

Objectives rotate between collecting fruit, opening coin chests and bringing gems down the grid. The variety is in what the level counts, not in how the pieces behave, which is the usual bargain in this genre.

1. Swap two neighbouring forest pieces into a line of three.
2. Read which of fruit, chests or gems the level wants before you move.
3. Work within the move limit — no clock is running.
4. Call on a booster when a goal piece is trapped behind an obstacle.

Gems have to reach the bottom row, so clearing high scores nothing toward them. When a level counts gems, start every turn by looking at what is directly underneath them.