Match Village

Match Village
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Metacritic
88
Steam
59.25
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Release date
20 October 2022
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88 (34 votes)

Match Village is a minimalist strategy game about match buildings to create villages on colorful islands.

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Match Village system requirements

Minimum:

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 7/8/10
  • Processor: TBD
  • Memory: TBD MB RAM
  • Graphics: TBD
  • Storage: TBD GB available space
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Fríða
Fríða

I really enjoy this game. It's simple and relaxing! I would love to have a sandbox mode or a way to get slightly bigger islands but there wouldn't be much challenge so I understand why it isn't part of the game

mopkins1971
mopkins1971

Match Village is a fun and engrossing game, once you work out that you need to match everything together in threes, your village will include fields, breweries, mills, churches, seaweed farms, lumberyards and ever increasingly large dwellings and more.

After eleven hours I found myself on Island Five, how much more content there is I am not sure, but so far it has been a pleasant and entertaining way to pass time, and worth the low price. Highly Recommended.

Steven Seagull
Steven Seagull

WOW!
I want to personally thank the developer for making this game, this is glorious!

I loved ISLANDERS, played a lot of Bejeweled 3 (for the younger generation, think of Candy Crush). I also played a little Dorfromantik. This game is mixing these three in a brilliant way! It is even better than Dorfromantik and Bejeweled. Very nice idea, I usually only dream about such hybrids/mutants. But this is played out really well!

Once I dreamt about a Duke Nukem 3D / Command & Conquer hybrid. Maybe one day someone develops that as well! (I know about C&C Renegade, but what I was dreamt about was more like an RTS than FPS, with a little tower defense-like feeling where I commanded the pigcop forces against Duke.)

Thank you for the game again!

SmartDog
SmartDog

Honestly a very fun puzzle game. Put a building down, upgrade it, do its quest (which means putting specific other building around it), get more points, when you get enough points go to the next island. Rinse and repeat.

Not a lot more to say, there's no deep story and it doesn't need it. It's just... a fun puzzle game

Thisha
Thisha

If you like tile games, you'll certainly won't regret buying this one.

You combine buildings to upgrade them, unlock a 'mini quest' and get more points. You'll have to plan a bit ahead to make sure it will be possible to place all required buildings to get those extra tiles and points.
Having a certain amount of points unlocks the next island but it's good to stay a bit first to collect more tiles if you can.

The video made me doubt a bit, I don't know why exactly but once started, it really caught me.
The absence of a tutorial was no issue for me.

Quite fun!

Sinistra
Sinistra

Game concept is rather simple. Place tiles with specific buildings on the map and if three of the same type and level are connected, they fuse together into the same building with a higher level. Higher level buildings may offer quests (surround the building with more buildings of that type with a specific level, for example six level 2 houses). For completing quests and fusing buildings you get additional building tiles. With a high enough score you can move to another island (unlocking different building types) and basically start over.
I can't recommend the game, because:
it became boring really fast,
there is no explanation or tutorial in the beginning,
houses are hard to differentiate (different levels almost look the same) so most of the time I mess up somewhere building a village,
my PC became rather hot when playing (even though not much was going on),
my PC crashed a few times when trying to exit the game
and now even after reinstalling the game it doesn't even load (stuck in the cloud animation in the main screen).

InPinkClover
InPinkClover

Very good game to consume time. I haven't run into any problems at all. You can just plop things down, or strategize for even more points, it's your choice. That's what I like, choice! And yes, there is an undo button.

Crazy4Puzzle
Crazy4Puzzle

Very nice this game, as soon as I realized that it has a little of the 2048 this game has everything to become my favorite hobby.

BeSyde
BeSyde

Relaxing and fun game, with great graphic and animations. Also, the concept of the game is original.

Dohi64
Dohi64
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edit: some optimization happened, made the game playable at least.

match village is a hex-based islanders-like (so a lot less expensive dorfromantik) with merge matching mechanics. on top of placing various things strategically for maximum points, plonking down 3 of the same thing next to each other makes a better version of that thing. some buildings only reach their full potential after surrounding them with relevant stuff (fields around the windmill, etc.). I wouldn't mind some info about the buildings, or at least their names on mouseover or something.

random/endless levels, as expected, until you fail, of course. there are a limited amount of tiles to place, the next couple are visible and certain matches add more to the deck, the last placed piece can be undone. reaching a high enough score lets you move on to a new island if you want, running out of tiles ends the run. online leaderboards are available for competitive purposes.

mouse wheel zooms, hold rmb to rotate the camera, wasd or holding the mouse wheel moves said camera (mouse stuff isn't mentioned anywhere and mouse camera pan is a bit too sensitive for my liking), q/e rotates buildings before placement (only cosmetic). you can leave the game and continue later, but starting a new run erases progress for the current one and previous islands can't be revisited. how these games are still not capable of restoring all your islands is beyond me (islanders stores them as separate files, gotta do some copying, this one only keeps the current run's progress in the registry).

the game looks great for what it is and sounds as it should, nice ambiance, etc. settings are plentiful: separate volume sliders, resolutions, windowed mode, v-sync, overall quality based on shadows, anti-aliasing, ssao and hdr, plus a couple of languages for the barely any text. resolution changes instantly to the next/previous one instead of offering a selection, always annoying.

performance was absolutely dreadful on release, but a patch quickly improved it. my hardware is ancient, yet had no issues with other games in the genre, nor is there anything here that should be this demanding. toggles for the clouds and other fluff would be nice regardless.

not much else to complain about, it's a great little time-killer, though at some point one might want to decide which of all these clones to get. I'm a fan of more of the same, so instead of playing islanders or sky tale again, I'd rather try something somewhat new but also familiar and with a much lower price point than dorfromantik.