Cats and Candies

Cats and Candies is organised into three boxes of 20 levels each, named Wooden, Stone and Fire, for 60 levels in all. The developer says every new box brings different goals, obstacles and bonuses, and that the difficulty climbs as you work from wood to fire.

The theme is a group of cats gathering sweets. Underneath it sits a swap game: trade the places of two candies so that three or more of a kind form a row, and they come off the board. Each level sets objectives, such as collecting a required number of candies or clearing obstacles from the grid, and larger combinations earn stronger bonuses. One thing to know before you start: the interface is entirely in Russian, so expect menus and goal text in that language. The developer pitches it as a relaxed way to exercise your logic.

Swap two candies to make a row of three or more of the same kind, which removes them. Work towards the objectives set for the level, which can mean gathering a given number of particular candies or clearing obstacles off the board. When the board allows it, go for longer combinations, because the size of a match decides how powerful its bonus is.

The developer does not list the controls for this game. It runs inside the frame above, so a click or a tap on the game is the place to start.

A match of four or five is worth hunting for before you settle for three, since bigger combinations give bigger bonuses. If the level wants a certain candy, aim your swaps at that one. The Stone and Fire boxes each add obstacles you will not have met in the Wooden levels, so read the goals again when you reach them.

Swap match-3 in a landscape frame (800 by 600). Sixty levels across the Wooden, Stone and Fire boxes, 20 in each, with new goals, obstacles and bonuses per box. Every part of the interface is in Russian.

Candy Match Pop also groups its 80 levels into chapters, and Treat Tumble lists more than 100 levels with themed areas such as soda swamps and cookie cliffs.