Season Match 2

Season Match 2
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57
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36.962
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$0.51
Release date
10 October 2014
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57 (103 votes)

Bring the celebration of seasons back to the Fairytale Kingdom! Join forces with the Snow Queen and Princesses of Seasons to battle the despotic Prince January and save the Fairytale Kingdom from eternal winter!

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Season Match 2 system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: XP/Vista/7/8
  • Processor: 1.5 GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 800 MB available space
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☾.⁧⁧Zubumafu
☾.⁧⁧Zubumafu

I am 32 years old.

My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.

When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.

Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.

With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.

After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.

Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.

Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.

Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.

Thank you.

Obey the Fist!
Obey the Fist!

Season Match 2 is yet another of literally hundreds of mobile app Match-3/Bejewelled/Candy Crush ripoff games infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. It's from a commonly copy + pasted Match-3 asset that infests Steam, with dozens of reskinned copies of this game polluting the place as greedy cash grabs. Gameplay is, well, it's Candy Crush, you know it. Nothing to offer gamers here that free browser/mobile match-3 games don't offer... but of course they want your money for this garbage.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics.

The game features simple, cartoony 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort mobile apps. 3D graphics programming does require a degree of skill and competence and unfortunately not all developers have the budget or talent to deliver this, despite 3D graphics cards hitting the mainstream in the 1990's. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.

The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.

This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).

Regardless, for all intents and purposes "Season Match 2" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Season Match 2 has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for completing the "butterfly" level, trivial to do (it's a match-3, hardly Dark Souls), but only around 7 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.

Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show only 7 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

Season Match 2 has the preposterous price of around $4 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam.

KDD!^putler kaputt 26/93
KDD!^putler ka…

The second game adds several months on top of the 4 seasons and Snow Queen is now your friend. For some reason now it's all in "oriental" style.

Only a half of the game is tile-matcher, every even level is a hidden object game. Where the objects are not hidden, but mostly just transparent to some degree. And every of seven stages ends on another mini-game as a kind of a boss-fight. The game has a weird spell system. There are traditional powers and there are four spells in a different UI on top of it. The player can replenish them with coins. The tiles are still noisy, leaves are not gems and there is no transparency on falling tiles.

All achievements are working fine. Wealth Collector! is pretty easy and there are guides for it. Now, Sharpshooter! requires pretty strong FPS proficiency in one game and good reflexes and analysis in another. And outside of these two achievements the rest just track the progression.

The game works in 16:9 and in 4:3 equally fine.

Luca Stahl
Luca Stahl

FALSE ADVERTISING!

This game has 70 levels. Exactly 70. Not 250 "missions" as stated in the description above.

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Classic match-game just like 4-Elements for example, nothing much to say.

Smooth backgrounds, nice soundtrack - Everything looks fine, but nothing special.

I managed to finish the game and get 100% achievements within 3hours due wild clicking, no tactics needed.

This game is good for the quick and brainless fun. Or for people who want to grab another 100% quickly ;)

mmiwo
mmiwo

Same game mechanics as Season Match 1, Match atleast 3gems and try to complete the stage requirements.

Its pretty nice Casual game, when you don't want to think anything, grab this game!

genderfluid cistern
genderfluid cistern

This is basically trying to be the ur-casual game and it does well if that's what you want. It's a non-standard Match 3 title with every other stage being hidden object "goals" on the same map per world, and an incredibly bizarre story about warring... seasons? Months? Whatever they are, a bunch of differently-Asian people representing these concepts all bicker and magic at one another until you help them out or repel their opponent. Via matching and breaking and clicking all 20 of the things that sort of blend into the map.

Competently done though! Gotta give it that. They polished up the original's rough edges.

chrissszy
chrissszy

Supposed to be relaxing? More like boring and frustrating.

Anghofio
Anghofio

I bought this because I'd enjoyed Cradle of Rome, but this didn't feel half as strategic.

On the good side, this is extremely reasonably priced in the sale (currently 69p), the graphics and design are quite beautiful, and real thought's gone into creating a non-distracting storyline.

However. it may have been because I chose to do games against the clock - but I found that the only way to get through many of the levels was to click as fast as possible all over the board to amass enough 'wealth' to finish in time. Which seemed pointless.

Also, each level includes a hidden object round - which is fine. The problem, for me, came with the occasional challenges that you have to pass to get back on to the match games: one protecting daisies from being blasted, and the one that entirely blocked me from going further: one clicking on an expanding flurry of snowflakes. Both of these were all about extremely fast reflexes, and clicking furiously for a couple of minutes.

I'm not adverse to fast-action games, but I'd not expected them to crop up in a match game, nor to be as challenging as they are, quite randomly in a completely different genre. I bought the game for relaxation, and quick-thinking strategy, but it ended up being a frantic click-fest.

Mr Ozru
Mr Ozru

You won't get past level 17 on relaxed mode because of a game-breaking bug. There's a chain reaction of three bombs required to clear the level, but the bombs do not properly destroy the surrounding blocks, making the chain reaction impossible.

Until they fix this bug, I strongly recommend against this game, at any price.

Marcelloz071
Marcelloz071

Season Match 2
Ranking: 6/10

Diablo training, part 2. Now with mini-games that are fairly easy or a pain in the a-s-s.
Like #1 in the series, the story is forgettable, graphics are ok, sounds are great and character portraits are fantastic!

Great fun when you just want some dumb stuff to do.

False Knight
False Knight

Much better than part1... actually could be a really good piece for a matching puzzle game... but there are annoying bugs and bad-designed levels you CANNOT actually do without smashing a lot of gold into explosive powers. The gems simply don't fall/fit in some places... poor thing. 5/10

pesha.vashti
pesha.vashti

I liked the first one because of the fun Match 3 concepts. I'm completely against the stupid minigames with the glitchy cursor which won't move/doesn't respond in anything approaching relative ease. It's completely impossile to kill the fast moving obstacles in some of the rounds with the responsivity given in the controls. I turned OFF the custom cursor with no resolve to the slow responsivity. It's literally just the game. Lagging. Like a lagger who lags. Add in that I really, really, really do not like games where the whole point is mindlessly clicking as quickly as I can with no strategy whatsoever involved and no, I would not buy this game again, nor would I recommend it to anyone else. Will I mindlessly click until I get 100% on this game? Maybe. I don't know. I can't decide if I want to waste more of my life on this or not. If I get beyond this minigame? It will be due to pure random chance.

Thalatte™
Thalatte™

Game Information

"Season Match 2 HD" is a Match 3 game. The game was developed by URSE Games and published by Buka Entertainment.

"Season Match 2 HD" is the second episode of "Season Match." Previous episode: "Season Match HD."

The Game Review

Game Visuals

I want to mention that the visuals in the game are well done. The visuals can be adjusted in the game's option menu.

Game Audio

I want to mention that audio for the game is well done. Even though the audio is somewhat simplistic and repetitive. The audio can be adjusted in the game's option menu as well.

Gameplay

There are two different difficulty game modes to choose from: Relaxed and Action (Timed.)

There are three different types of match 3 play styles: Swap; Chain and Group. In this match 3 game, the play style is group match 3.

There are seven different match 3 mini-games. They are available after the entire game is completed.

There are a few match 3 special bonuses to help make matching a bit quicker.

There are miscellaneous mini-game in-between the match 3 levels. It is done so that playing matches 3 levels after another is so monotonous.

There are nine different achievements that can be unlocked from playing the game. Each of these achievements does come with some requirements that need to be completed before they can be unlocked.

Miscellaneous

There are five different trading cards to collect. Only three of those trading cards are given out by the game. There are several ways to get the rest of the trading cards: Purchased from the Steam's Community Market; Trade with friends; Booster Packs and its Booster Pack Creator.

Final thoughts: I have found the game enjoyable to a certain extent. The replay value for the game is low. I would recommend this game, but not at the game's full price value.

Abbyflame
Abbyflame

I completed the first game, it wasn't great but it was relaxing enough. This game however is very frustrating because it has a bug that makes level progression impossible. The bombs don't "explode everything around them" so some blocks are impossible to clear if it is a chain-reaction level. I'm stuck on level 17.
I like the addition of the different hidden object minigames etc inbetween levels, but I haven't seen many as I'm stuck, so...
Until they do a bug fix, don't buy this unplayable game!

Astraea
Astraea

5/10
I liked this game but it has no real value. There are many more better match 3 games out there especally since this one doesn't even really have matching its more just spot 3+ and click it. Infact on most of the game you can just randomly click all over the screen and beat the level really fast. I bought this game for my Aunt, she enjoyed it aswell but found herself randomly clicking as well. I own all three games I must say they do get progressively better storywise. And the minigames do break up the game a bit so its not just the same thing over and over again, at somepoints the minigames proved more fun than the actual game lol.
All in all it is a simple casual game, I'd recommend it only if that is what you are looking for. If you wanted better gameplayed I'd say get season match 3 it being the best of the lot that I played but the characters are recurring through the franchise so if you enjoy these type of games getting all three for the story wouldn't be too absurd even if they are short and the plot isn't too thick. lol

polkatari
polkatari

If you are a gamer who likes to obtain all the achievements, then you won't like this game. There are two mini games that are INSANELY fast. I tried CPU killer at 75% and different mouse settings and didn't come close. It is crazy to have difficult mini games in a match 3 format!

Katy Dubu
Katy Dubu

Season Match 1 was stupid, but fun to pass time. Season Match 2 crams in more mini games with horrible controls. The art for the "enemies" you match battle against looks like it was stolen from a different game due to style choice. Not fun even for someone who sort of liked the first game because it's not enough like the first game. This game auto pauses, which SM1 didn't, so that's a plus. The screenshot ability didn't work for me in either game.

Pi
Pi

70 levels. 30 match-3 levels, 30 Hidden Object levels, 10 Mini Game levels.

I would not say it's the most fun match-3 game. Montezuma's much better. Puzzle Quest again much better.

For the game lay, Match-3 click as fast as possible in the areas with largest groupings. the HOB are easy/straight forward. The mini games are mildly fun except the daisy one - that one isn't fun, frustrating is the most generous description I can give it.

There's nothing brutal about the game, but neither is it overly captivating. Last achievement is difficult.

I gave it a borderline thumbs up, but I can definitely understand why someone would have an opposing point of view.
Definitely wouldn't pay full price.

nom de plum
nom de plum

"How is it?"

"I'm fighting to match things and drive away an angry toadstool. Now I'm fighting an angry stump. Now I'm fighting an angry dragon. Now I'm fighting an angry hedgehog."

"How bout now?"

"Now I'm fighting... um... uhmm... It's dark brown. It's shaped kind of like a teardrop? A squashed teardrop? With a funny point? But it's still angry. Definitely angry, very scary enemy."

"Are you fighting poo?"

Still not sure but at least I won.

Recommended.

Morphy
Morphy

A boring gem matching game with some average mini-games. Nothing of any real interest.

IFIYGD
IFIYGD

Recommended only at 75% off or better.

If you liked Season Match, you will like the clickfest matching part of the game. But probably HATE the minigames.

Minigames are disappointingly "difficult". Not because they are designed to be, but because the mouse controls are really clunky, lag is bad only during the minigames (you click and it does not register half the time due to lag...), the hitboxes on targets must be 1 pixel in size. If you don't hit that sigle pixel... sorry, you lose and get to do it over again and agian. The Achievemnets for getting all of the Sharpshooter trophies won;t happen for me, since I don;t have aim assist and don;t have super human relexes.

Very much a let down, after enjoying wasting my time on Season Match. Wish i could recommend this game, but I honestly cannot, in good faith. The scenery is even prettier than the original game, but that's the only real pro I can find.

4/10 - mainly for poor optimization for mouse controls, clunky cointrols and ridiculously difficult "easy" minigames due to those clunky controls and lag.

Arkabed
Arkabed

Season Match 2 is by far the shorter game of the three Season Match available on Steam. It took me 6 hours to get all the achievements for Season Match 1, 10 hours for Season Match 3, but only 3!! hours to get everything in this one. It's very light. There are like only 35 matching levels, 30 hidden object levels and 7 mini-game levels. They even didn't care to implement an ending to the game >_< A bit disappointing, prefer the others and buy this one if, like me, you really wanted to play some more.

TheCyberDruid
TheCyberDruid

Nice match 3 game with horribly annoying minigames. Every second level is a super simple hidden object scene and at the end of each stage there's an annoying and often quite difficult minigame. This really makes playing the game a chore.

Pikachu
Pikachu

Perfect..Much better then first one....I wil try the 3rd soon...Thank you .

Taller-Paul [iRiSHMAN]
Taller-Paul [i…

After completing Season Match 1 not even 24 hours ago i couldn't wait for my second installment of the game, the layout in the first game was perfect the game play was perfect, it was easy on the eyes, so what could they do to improve the game nothing! instead to release their 2nd game they decide to add pain in the ass mini games which ruin the game experince.

Between each level there's a mini-game of hidden object, which is straining on the eyes, the CPU shoots away up for no apparent reason too and the game seems determind to run on my gtx graphics card rather than standard intel hd which it's more than capable of, i wouldn't expect such a simple game to require so much resource.

The User Layout has got worse at least with the first version of the game it explained every power up and how to use them however in this version they just have random leafs in jars with no explanation.the tile patterns don't work out very well meaning you cant clear all the obstructions to pass the level and your forced to use power-ups to complete the level.

So yeah my advice stick to the first version of the game not the second version of the game, if it's not broken don't fix it!

2nd Class Janitor - Wilco
2nd Class Jani…

Tags: Casual - Match3
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Asian captain Jean Luc Picard of the CCCP enterprise on second screenshot. Uses unengaging click-to-match mechanic. Inferior sequels of franchise. Inferior to Hexus or Tales of the Orient.

Servicable but not very recommendable. Improves on Season Match1 and underperforms slightly in the visuals compared to Season Match3. If you consider Hexus which also has clicktomatch with a gimmick and tales of the orient offers a rotating board mechanic and multiple mechanics including clicktomatch. This becomes awfully redundant looking fast.

Would recommend Season Match 3 over this because of the nicer color palette and identical mechanics. This is still a lot of content in this subgenre but I am not a huge fan of the simplicty of the click-to-match mechanic. The VN sections were odd with weird looking asian characters. The new cooldown powers that recharge by matching and adding a 4x4 objecting to the board on every level are welcome additions compared to the original season Match.

Krazedlion
Krazedlion

Season Match 2 is a very fun match 3 game. It's a lot like the first game in this series, the story is kind of laughable, but that's not what I play these sort of games for anyway. It does have nice music and the click click click of the mouse works quite well. Recommended if you like match 3 games.

woosk
woosk

This second title of the Season Match series by URSE Games and Buka Entertainment features the characters from its earlier title Season Match together with a new artwork sprite on an existing princess, an additional princess and two princes across 70 different levels. The gameplay remains the same where clearing each level requires matching gems of 3 or more, or using magic items to clear away all obstacles and meet the matching gem requirements for each level. In addition, there are also new hidden object and arcade minigames in this game.

As the second title of this series, it retains the charm of the series with its casual gameplay, attractive artwork, background music and easy achievements. The storyline, artwork and gameplay is expanded where each level will have a short amount of monologue from each different character, and there is an artifact and portrait of Prince January's minions. The hidden object and arcade minigames do not form the main part in this game, although they lend a bit of variety on what is a pure match 3 game otherwise. For a game that offers around 4 hours of gameplay, this game is recommended when it is at a very attractive price when discounted to less than a dollar.

Bug
Bug

I enjoyed the first Season Match and equally enjoyed the second. I play matching games for this feature, not story. Do not expect a story. You play through each season. The art style is lovely. The music - when turned down- is pleasant.

The match three is best placed when time mode is disabled. Keep in mind, this is a click happy game. You speed click through levels or can take time to build up points. There are no achievements on the match three levels themselves. They are all based on the final mini-game of each season. The hardest mini-game was the snowflake one. The rest are easy. Keep in mind, you do not need to achieve both the coin and perfect game in each mini-game to unlock their achievements.

The in between mini-games are hidden object games. You can spot them rather easy. The every 10 level mini games step it up a bit. This is a feature I liked.

Serieus
Serieus

Season Match 2 is a very simple game. Every other level is a matching game that does not require any strategy and thought process. It is pretty much a click fest. Typically these levels want you to collect a certain number of colored tiles and unlock the main artifact on the level by also breaking all tile objects in the background. If you play on hard you will be timed, but even on hard I think I may have lost only a handful of times. Between these matching levels you will have hidden object scenes. These consist of you searching for the exact same picture many times throughout the scene that comprises of not much other than an empty scenic view with one castle type of building. These are boring and again very mindless and easy to go through. I did have a few times where I couldn't find the remaining hidden objects, and when I finally did find it, it seemed to have been due to it being too transparent rather than cleverly hidden in a scene filled with other objects.

There is a story in there somewhere, something about the seasons, but I quickly didn't care and just moved on with the clickfest. At the end of each world, there are 6 of them with 10 levels each, you would play a final world game. These games varied from searching for four leaf clovers in a area filled with clovers to controlling a bee that evaded falling objects and collected honeycombs. These again were not difficult to pass and move on giving no meaning other than a new level for the end of the world.

I will say that I did struggle with the last achievement which is one of the end level games where you're supposed to protect the flowers from fireballs. This one took me many tries to the point that I've only just come back years later to accomplish this achievement. For a casual game this was not expected to be so difficult and I wish this level of difficulty was found in the matching portion of the game where you would have to click strategically and not just blindly to finish a level.

Definitely not worth playing this game, though the genre is typically very casual and simple, there are much better iterations of the genre found in other games.

Hell is Playing
Hell is Playing

Nice and simple...If u wanna kill time is the best for you.

agentnanakochan
agentnanakochan

Color matching and hidden object games collide beautifully in Season Match 2. The story isn't exactly that great, but it definitely works your brain.

Moimee
Moimee

Well this WAS a great game with nice graphics, music, game play and SFX UNTIL the mini game between the main Match game board where one has to click on snowflakes . They are ridiculously fast and I even have a gaming mouse. Well, after 4 tries on this level with NO OPTION to skip, I hit the quit button and came here to write this NEGATIVE review. Challenging is fun, but next to impossible is not. BTW I am a veteran gamer, have played games of many genres and skill requirements and it appears this is obviously either a flaw in game development or maybe even the developers are sadistic. Too bad they lost me on this one (though I own and enjoy their other games) I hope those reading this realize they may not be able to progress in the game due to no skip options.

Edited: I finally succeeded on the snowflake level after many tries but I still dislike the pace and no skip option of this mini game between the match levels.

dragoon4
dragoon4

Boring, tedious, repetitive shit.