Fairyland Match

It doesn’t take much to come up with a match-three video game, but the experience must be both fun and challenging at the same time. People won’t just play anything you give them, unless they can enjoy the challenge and feel rewarded for their efforts. As such, it’s not just a matter of matching jewels on a board, although it’s definitely not very complicated either.

Fairyland Match is pretty much a standard match-three game, given the fact that it doesn’t try to mix it up at all by including other mini-games. In essence, you just have to keep eliminating symbols from the board by matching them together, along with a couple of secondary objectives. Everything is designed to be simple and straightforward, including the story and the user interface.

Speaking of which, the story revolves around a magical fairy village that gets attacked by a tribe of goblins. In the aftermath, the village is barely holding together, which means that someone must rebuild the structures and bring the neighborhood to its former glory. To do that, you are tasked with repairing the buildings, and you must use diamonds to pay for them.

To make matters more interesting, a variety of combos are possible, although they only provide you with additional points. Sometimes, your purpose is just to clear the marked tiles on the board, while other levels also require you to get a certain number of diamonds to the bottom of the board. Special power-ups allow you to clear a large number of tiles with a single click, which comes in handy when you are stuck.

As far as the visual quality is concerned, everything is more or less as you would expect it to be. The environments and the particle effects are both bright and colorful, while the artwork representing the fairies and their village is quite enjoyable as well. It is obvious that the game was designed for the younger audiences, but that doesn’t mean that adults cannot enjoy it too.

In the end, Fairyland Match does not revolutionize the genre, but it certainly reinforces it. As such, if you need a cute match-three game to keep you company and you’ve run out of options, this may very well help you for a few hours.