TAG · 14 REVIEWS
Match-three
Every App Comrade review tagged Match-three, across every platform.
Fishdom on Android is the match-three you were promised by an ad that lied to you.
Playrix's aquarium puzzler has lived on the Play Store for a decade, pulls a 4.6 rating from nearly 295,000 reviewers, and arrived in many of those installs via an ad campaign that bore only passing resemblance to the actual game.
MAY 11, 2026
Aztec Dominion is a passable couch-time match-three with a temple skin.
Desoline's free Tizen casual game dresses standard tile-matching mechanics in jungle stonework and golden idols. Fine for a quiet evening with the remote, less interesting the third night in.
MAY 11, 2026
Candy Crush Soda Saga is the same machine in a fizzier coat.
King's sequel to its match-three juggernaut adds soda bottles, gummy bears, and a few new physics tricks. The hooks underneath are unchanged.
MAY 10, 2026
Farm Heroes Saga is the quieter Candy Crush, and the Fire build is showing its age.
King's barnyard match-three keeps its gentle puzzle hook intact on Amazon devices, but Fire-tablet players live one update behind everyone else and feel it.
MAY 10, 2026
Candy Crush Soda Saga is the sequel that quietly outlasted its parent.
King's 2014 follow-up is still getting new levels a decade later, and the soda-and-honey twists give it a sharper identity than the original it sits next to.
MAY 10, 2026
Candy Crush Soda Saga on Android is a free-to-play machine wearing a candy costume.
The Soda variant tightened the match-three formula in 2014 and hasn't really left since. On Android, the ad-supported scaffolding and Google Play Games hooks define the experience as much as the puzzles do.
MAY 10, 2026
Galaxy Gems is a competent match-three stuck on the wrong screen.
A serviceable jewel-swapper landed on the LG Content Store. The mechanics are familiar; the TV-and-remote pairing is the part nobody quite solved.
MAY 10, 2026
Triple Goods is a competent match-three that the TV barely needs.
A swap-and-clear puzzle ported to the LG Magic Remote. The mechanics work, the polish is fine, but the living-room context never quite earns it a permanent place on the launcher.
MAY 10, 2026
Happy Tile Match is another face in a very crowded crowd.
The Galaxy Store's tile-match shelf is dense with near-identical entries. Happy Tile Match arrives with the same triple-pair grid, the same timer, and very little to argue it deserves the install over the genre's anchors.
MAY 9, 2026
Candy Crush on Samsung Galaxy is the same machine, on Samsung's parallel store.
Identical to the Google Play version reviewed on App Comrade — same King design, same difficulty curve calibrated for booster purchases, distributed via Flexion to Samsung's storefront.
MAY 9, 2026
Gardenscapes is the original Playrix match-three with a garden attached.
The first of Playrix's renovation-themed puzzle games launched in 2016 and has run the same ad campaign of pin-pulling gameplay that the actual product never delivers. The puzzle game inside is fine.
MAY 9, 2026
Homescapes is the Playrix match-three with a renovation story attached.
The match-three core is well-tuned, the home-renovation meta is genuinely satisfying, and the ads are still selling a pin-pulling puzzle game that doesn't exist. Same engine as Fishdom and Gardenscapes. Same disclosures.
MAY 9, 2026
Candy Crush is the longest-running F2P case study on the App Store.
King's match-three has been on Android for thirteen years and still grosses more than most launches do in their first quarter. The mechanic is the same. The monetisation has gotten more sophisticated.
MAY 8, 2026
Fishdom is the Playrix match-three with the most misleading ads in mobile gaming.
Playrix's aquarium-themed puzzle game has a real, well-designed match-three core — buried under years of viral ad campaigns featuring gameplay that doesn't exist anywhere in the actual game.
MAY 8, 2026