Zuma’s Revenge!
Zuma’s Revenge! is a Tilt-Matching, Puzzle, and Single-player video game created and published by PopCap Games. The game offers an exciting gameplay and it acts as the sequel to Zuma. It introduces HD graphics, new power-ups and levels, several new features, and new boss fights. In the game, the player controls a frog from a top-down perspective with an aim to clear each stage from the colored balls. It mainly revolves around Match-3 elements and the player needs to clear the string of rolling balls by matching three or more same color. The player move a ball-shooting frog which always points regardless the direction of the mouse to aim and fire at the strings of balls. When three or more same balls match together, they are vanished from the screen, and nearby balls take their place to fill the space. The game has four modes such as Adventure, Challenge, and more. Each offers a unique gameplay and a set of objectives that the player has to complete at any cost.
#1 Sparkle
Sparkle is a marvelously fast paced Match-3 Puzzle video game developed and published by BigFish Games. This wonderful match 3 puzzle game offers an amazingly addictive Game-play, beautiful environment and sleek mechanics along with beautiful visuals. In the game, player shoots the orbs from orb slinger to pop three or more of the same colored orbs and by doing that he prevents the orbs from reaching to the Black Pits. Orbs poured is from 3 different directions so the player acts fast to secure the maximum orbs. If any of the orbs drops down in to the pit, player loses a life. With every popped orb, player earns power ups and amulets that can be really helpful during the game-play. Three exciting new modes named as Challenge, Quest and Survival add a little bit more spice to the game. For all those fans of Match-3 Puzzle games who loved Zuma, this game would really be entertaining because of its similar game-play and mechanics. Sparkle is available to play on Windows and Mac only.
#2 Luxor
Luxor is a Tilt-Matching, Action Puzzle and Single-player video game developed and published by MumboJumbo. The game serves as the first sequel to Luxor 2, and it introduces new gameplay, bonuses and levels. It offers the similar gameplay to Zuma and Puzz Loop, and lets the player to eliminate colored spheres by combining three or more spheres of same color. The nearby spheres form a segment of three or more of the same color when same colored sphere are eliminated. During the gameplay, the player needs to clear the screen and score the highest points to prove his skills. The game will end or the player lose his life, once any sphere reaches to the pyramid of the player. If the player successfully eliminate all the spheres, causing new spheres arrive and the player can be completed the levels by eliminating the remaining. There are more than eighty-eight levels available and the game offers the exciting power-ups. Luxor offers prominent features such as Innovative Gameplay, Power-ups, 88 Levels, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#3 Zuma Deluxe
Zuma Deluxe is an enhanced version of the original Match-3 puzzle video game Zuma, developed and published by PopCap Games, Inc. for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS platforms. The objective of the game is to remove all the rolling balls across the screen along with a declared path with other balls before these rolling balls reaches to the yellow skull structure and destroy them to end the game. In the game, the player can carry two different balls at the same time and can swap easily during the game to use. The player loses a life, if the rolling ball reaches to the skull. To fend off the balls reaching to the hub, the player must struggle to remove them all by firing the colored ball from the mouth of the stone frog towards the balls’ chain. In simple, the player must fire the ball to form a set of three same colored balls in order to destroy and the empty space fills by other balls. It has two modes such as Adventure Mode and Gauntlet Mode.
#4 Marble: Temple Quest
Marble: Temple Quest is an Adventure, Match-3, and Single-player video game developed and published by Jungle Adventure for Android. The game has two different modes such as Classic and Adventure, and it follows the traditional Match-3 elements. It offers the similar gameplay to Zuma and allows the player to smash as many balls as possible to score the best points. There are more than hundred levels available with increasing difficulty and the game features multiple secrets maps to make the shooting game more addictive. It has over six different props available including Lighting, Pause, Bomb, Colorful, and more. In the game, the player has to shoot at the rows of colorful marble lines to eliminate the same color marbles. The player just tap the screen where he want to shoot and match three or more marbles to remove them. He must smash all the marbles in the chain before it reaches to the end. Marble: Temple Quest includes core features such as Two Modes, Six Props, Adventure Mode, Challenge Mode, over 100 Levels, and more. With addictive gameplay, touch controls, and brilliant mechanics, Marble: Temple Quest is the best game to play and enjoy.
#5 Magnetica
Magnetica, developed by Mitchell Corporation and published by Nintendo is a great Match-3 type Puzzle video game. This match-3, puzzle game is playable only on Nintendo Devices such as Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii. Magnetica features a resembling game-play and graphics to Zuma and lots of other big names of this specific genre. Magnetica lets you fire and match differently colored marbles with the ones rolling towards the center. The game is quite fast-paced so it’s totally on you to stop the marbles from reaching to the center. If any marble reaches to the center and falls in the hole, the game is over. With a lot of exciting power-ups, beautiful visuals and an immersive game-play, Magnetica offers quite a unique and addictive game-play experience. If you love playing match-3 type of puzzle games, you should totally try Magnetica, it’ll definitely entertain you good.
#6 StoneLoops! Of Jurassica
StoneLoops! Of Jurassica, created by CodeMinion and published by Game Club Cafe is a fast paced action, Match-3 and Puzzle video game. With multiple language options this game is available to play on Windows, Apple Macintosh and iOS. StoneLoops! Of Jurassica is a lot like any other Zuma like game when we talk about the game-play and environment. A little difference between traditional Match-3 and StoneLoops! Of Jurassica is the presence of differently colored marbles instead of orb or ball like things. Player shoots the marbles and it makes 3 or more of the same kind marbles to disappear. Player wins the level when the evolution bar is full and the player cannot make the new combinations. Bonus items like power-ups, fireballs, multiballs, clouds and shooting stars are the great inclusions to the game. StoneLoops! Of Jurassica offers beautifully designed environment, eye catching visuals and an immersive game-play to enjoy.
#7 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.
#8 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.