Match Adventure

Match Adventure is a match-3 with a mystery attached. One morning the woodland wakes to find that its edge has been wrecked overnight, and in the same night Gemmy the squirrel has lost her brother Johnny. The colourful board is the vehicle for the search, and the game’s tags put fruit and forest animals into the picture.

Between the puzzles the work is closer to detective work than to collecting. Gemmy questions the other forest inhabitants, tries to reconstruct what happened while everybody was asleep, and then follows the trail out of the woods altogether. The journey runs from one world to another, and each new place brings its own residents and another piece of the story about Johnny and the other characters tangled up in his disappearance.

That gives the game a reason to keep going that a plain score board lacks. The tone is gentle and family-friendly, the hero is small but determined, and the pull is simple: one more conversation, one more clue, one more world to visit.

1. Clear the match-3 boards to push Gemmy's search forward.
2. Talk to the forest inhabitants about what they noticed last night.
3. Follow the trail from the damaged forest edge into other worlds.
4. Meet the residents of each world and gather new details about Johnny.

Read the dialogue instead of clicking past it. The story is what ties the boards together, and following Gemmy's investigation is half the reason this title exists.