Welcome to the Triple Town quick start guide on Gamezebo. Triple Town is a unique match-3 game developer by SpryFox, and is currently available for Facebook, Google+, iPhone, iPad, and Android. Construct a town by matching three or more like items to create something new - but watch out for the bears! Gamezebo's quick start guide will give you all the tips, tricks, and instruction you could ever need to start your new career in match-3 city planning.
While the match three genre has never been at a loss for new games, it's a pretty safe bet that most new games will be fairly mindless, asking you to simply make matches of three or more like gems as quickly as possible, with little concentration or effort on/for a greater goal. With Hello Venice however, you have a game that plays with far more strategy (and therefore lasting entertainment) than most others.
Match three games are a dime a dozen these days. That means that if you want to find a good one, you'll likely have to slog through a lot of crud. Planet Buster, thankfully, is one of the gems that stands out from the muck, thanks to its goofy style and incredibly fun gameplay.
There is something oddly soothing and comforting about a game that sets up its own rules and variables, and then allows players to think through the effects logically (based on those rules and variables) to solves its puzzles. What is not so soothing is when a game sets up the rules and variables, and then fails to give you enough feedback or enough consistency for the game to be rewarding to play. Thus is the folly of Miniclip's Feed That Dragon.
Let me just get this out of the way since the comparison is inevitable: The first person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. will immediately remind you of Portal. They're both set in stark environments with ambient sounds and a severe sense of isolation, all while you're making your way through a facility with a series of tests to challenge your sense of problem solving. While Q.U.B.E. might not be the classic that Portal turned out to be, it still holds its own.
Jewel Quest is one of the most established franchises in the match-three world, but over the years, competition from newer, flashier titles began to overshadow its name. The franchise is still kicking however, with the newest installment, Jewel Quest: The Sapphire Dragon, containing a wide variety of level types and a lengthy storyline that sees you helping a group of adventurers fight pirates and discover lost treasures.
If you're worried that the ancient Mayans have already made a muck of 2012 by insinuating that the world will end on the winter solstice, then you might enjoy knowing that they've focused on happier themes in this new puzzle game by GameDuell. In Maya Whiz, the mathematically adept Mesoamericans are less concerned with making doomsday calendars than with outdoing each other with simple sums in speed matches. It's not without its stumbles, but Maya Whiz's combination of thought-provoking gameplay and Bejeweled Blitz-style mechanics allow for a unique twist on a familiar format that should satisfy many newcomers.
Candy: it's usually not healthy for you, but it sure does taste good going down. Fortunately, publisher Vostu's latest Facebook offering isn't bad for your teeth, nor is its sugary sweet premise too much to stomach. Candy Dash takes a page from the Bust-a-Move recipe book and adds lots and lots of sweetness.