Shariki
Shariki is a Puzzle and Single-player video game developed by Eugene Alemzhin for Windows. The ultimate gameplay is offered by the game, and the main objective of the player is to obtain the best points by matching three or more same-colored balls in a line either vertically or horizontally, by swapping the adjacent balls. While playing the game, each swap must result in a match. As three or more balls of the same color are matched, they will be removed from the board, and new ones will drop the top to fill the gaps. The premise of the game is its match-3 genre and offers addictive gameplay, in which the points are rewarded based on the performance of the player. The more matches the player made, the more points he earns. There are many levels, and each level puts the matching skills of the player to test. The game will go over when no more matches are possible to be made in the game field.
#1 Farm Heroes Saga
Farm Heroes Saga is another great Match-3 Puzzle video game from King, the maker of the popular game Candy Crush Saga. The game provides with similar mechanics and game-play as Candy Crush Saga and offers a brilliantly immersive Match-3 type game-play experience. Farm Heroes Saga lets you manage your personal farm by matching up three or more of the same farm items (Onions, Tomatoes, Carrots, and Lemons etc.). Your duty is to swipe or move similar items together to make them disappear from the screen and in reward you’ll get points and upgrades. The game requires you to collect a number of items by matching them up in a number of moves. If you are able to collect all the required items in time, you’ll win the level and move towards to the next one. Farm Heroes Saga offers beautiful visuals, sounds, easy controls and an addictive game-play. Do give it a try for an amazingly addictive and engaging Match-3 Puzzle gaming experience.
#2 Bejeweled
Bejeweled is an exciting Match-3 Puzzle video game by PopCap Games. With a record 75 million copies sold and downloaded more than 150 million times, Bejeweled lets you swap different gems and match them with others of the same color to make a horizontal or vertical chain of three or more gems. By doing that, the jewels vanish with a splash and your score grows. You can also win bonus points by making chain reactions (Cascades) that will lead to more exciting things. Bejeweled offers two main levels named as Normal and Time Trial, super cool visuals, a lot of fun filled game levels and much more. Bejeweled is a great game Match-3 and Puzzle video game to play and enjoy. Give it a try and you’ll love it.
#3 Luxor: Pharaoh’s Challenge
This super cool Zuma inspired game Luxor:Pharaoh’s Challenge is developed and published by MumboJumbo. Luxor:Pharaoh’s Challenge is a Match-3 type Puzzle and tile or balls matching game. With 3 sequels Luxor 2, Luxor 3 and Luxor: Quest for the Afterlife this game has earned a record profit. Game-play is almost similar to the popular Zuma, the balls roll towards the Pyramid and the player must hit them with the same colored balls or else if the balls reach the Pyramid, player loses a life. Game-play gets fast with every level passed and player gets to play this amazing game with the option to select the difficulty level. With a lot of exciting new power-ups, cool upgrades and stuff, Luxor: Pharaoh’s Challenge provides you with an amazing Match-3 Puzzle gaming experience. Luxor:Pharaoh’s Challenge is available on Mac OS X, Windows, iOS and PlayStation.
#4 Butterfly Escape
Butterfly Escape is a great Match-3 and Puzzle video game developed and published by Genimo Interactive LLC. This super amazing Puzzle game offers 109 levels of fast-paced game-play. Just like all other match-3 puzzle games, in Butterfly Escape player hits the differently colored orbs with the ones he shoots from the origin. He must shoot the orbs fast and prevent them to reach the Dungeon of Darkness. With every shot, the orbs return to the Kingdom of Light a little bit and the player wins the game by sending all of the orbs to the Kingdom of Light. Every orb converts to a butterfly upon reaching to the Kingdom of Light. If any of the orb reaches to the Dungeon of Darkness, player loses a life and a prince of Darkness emerges. If you really want to get lost in the land of wonders, you must try this game. Butterfly Escape offers beautiful visuals and sounds, challenging and quite exciting game-play along with a very interesting theme of the game.
#5 TumbleBugs
This fast paced Puzzle and Match-3 game TumbleBugs is developed by Wildfire Studios and published by BigFish games in collaboration with GameHouse. Tumble bugs offers a similar game-play to the Popular Zuma Series and allows you to enjoy an immersive game-play experience. A slight difference is the presence of Bugs instead of the colored balls or marbles etc. In the game your task is to to hit the bugs with the same colored bugs and stop them from reaching the center. In other words you can say that the player must stop the bugs from reaching the underground lair of Black Bug Empire. If any bug reaches there, the player loses a life. With great power-ups, beautiful visuals and sounds and a beautiful environment, TumbleBugs provides with an amazingly addictive and catchy game-play. You can always try this cool game if you want experience a bit of change. TumbleBugs is available to play on iOS, Mac OS X, Windows, Wii and PlayStation 3.