![]() ![]() If you wanted to get a young child or an elderly relative into gaming, you’d probably start them with a match 3 game. It’s also really quick and easy to jump into that cycle, because the core gameplay loop is so simple. It creates a very fast cycle of challenge and reward. You get a little challenge every few seconds when new tiles appear – and it’s satisfying to solve them and see the tiles then disappear, often with an animated flurry of colors. Here’s why we think that is: They offer quick-fire gratification There aren’t many genres that have maintained their appeal right through from the very dawn of gaming. All these things create fresh challenges for the player to overcome. And your time limit or number of moves available steadily decreases, level by level. Sometimes there are physical blocks or spaces between tiles. Those tiles disappear, creating clear space for new tiles to appear in a random order.Īs players advance through levels, the tiles usually become more varied. In core gameplay mechanics, these games are all very similar: players have to match three (or more) of the same tiles. But newer versions of classics like Candy Crush (and Tetris, for that matter) are still going strong. And more recently, there are popular titles like Ticket to Earth, Triple Town and TwoDots. In the 2000s, there was Candy Crush and Bejeweled Blitz. They started back in the eighties, with games like Tetris, Chain Shot! and Puzznic. Pretty much any game that challenges you to put matching objects together can be classified as a match 3 game. So now that we can see this classic, much-loved sub-genre in all its multi-metric magnificence, let’s take a look at what a successful match 3 game looks like. We recently updated our Benchmarks+ tool to include 25 sub-genres – one of which is ‘match 3 puzzle’. ![]() With Benchmarks+ we can see what metrics make the best match 3 games successful. The match 3 genre has given us some of the most successful, long-running games of all time. ![]()
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