How Tile Family Adventure Is A Truly Unique Puzzle Mobile Game

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Casual puzzlers are among the most popular genres of mobile games, and match-three puzzlers are among the most popular kinds of puzzlers. 

We get it. Candy Crush is amazing, and so are many of the games that followed in its wake, reproducing the gameplay, the power-ups, the boosts, the aesthetics, and, well… basically just copying Candy Crush. 

But innovation matters too. Download Tile Family Adventure – published by Catbyte and backed by LOUD Ventures – for free and you’ll find a casual puzzler that dares to be different, doubling down on accessibility and challenge while offering a type of gameplay that you’ll rarely, if ever, have encountered before. 

Here’s how it works. 

You’re presented with an arrangement of tiles, many of them overlapping. On these tiles are a vast range of colorful, cartoony images, such as candies, cookies, apples, maps, donuts, shovels, spades, four-leafed clovers, purple stars, and more. 

Along the bottom of the screen, meanwhile, there’s a rack of spaces for seven tiles. The object of the game is to tap on tiles from the stack to place them in these spaces. If three matching tiles end up in the rack, they disappear—even if they’re not touching. 

To win a stage, you need to clear the entire screen. If you end up with too many non-matching tiles in the rack—and therefore too few spaces to accommodate three of a kind, you lose. 

And that’s it. Sounds simple, right? 

It is. As game mechanics go, Tile Family Adventure is as straightforward as they come. But here’s the rub: it’s also incredibly easy to go wrong if you’re not paying attention. 

That’s because it’s not possible to play a tile that’s partially covered by another tile. Before you attempt to match three of a kind, you need to be sure that you’ve got enough moves ahead of you to expose all of the tiles you need. It’s harrowingly easy to get this wrong.

To make matters worse, the game gradually introduces special tiles, such as surprise blocks, sticky blocks, and frozen blocks, all