1000 LYA

1000 LYA is a classic match 3 game that offers many hours of gameplay, a fair challenge, but not much replay value.

Match 3 games have a very simple mechanic, so anyone can just pick up one of these titles and play. 1000 LYA is a good example because it doesn’t’ make a lot of promises and it delivered on what it wants. It has quite a few nice diversions from the regular recipe, but at its core is about matching gems, using powers, and getting to the end of the level.

Don’t expect the best quality from 1000 LYA though. You’ve seen better, and we know that there are much better games than this one, but it should be enough for the hardcore fans of the genre. What’s even better is that at the time of this review the game also had a whopping 70% discount.

You won't be surprised to find out that 1000 LYA also comes with a little story, enough to get things going. For starters, the full name of the game is 1000 Light Year Away. This would have been a much better title, but the developers settled on the least interesting one. Unless you read the subtitle, you won’t know what it means.

The story is not going to win any awards. You play the role of Tohard, the guardian of the time machine, found that the machine is missing, and he thinks that it has been stolen by the villain Origon. Also, Tohard looks pretty much like an Ewok from Star Wars, but we’ll let that slide.

You start moving from planet to planet, solving the levels and moving forward. You unlock more and more powerful bonuses, but the levels also become increasingly more difficult. It’s not a challenging game, at least not on the first two difficulty levels.

1000 LYA is not optimized for full HD monitors, so it doesn’t look good. The best solution is to make the game run in a window, which also happens to be the native resolution. The version that you can download for free only has 60 minutes of playtime.