Gardenscapes features 3D certoony looking models over great looking 2D images that give the impression of being handpainted. As you complete the levels, you’ll see the story advance and how you and Austin the butler keep on bringing the mansion’s garden to its former glory.

You also get to use a special shovel item to take away any figure on the grid when you want, and at the start of each level, you can select 3 boosters to help you, a couple of bombs, a rainbow sphere, or a dinamite stick. The level objectives are typical of a game of the genre, collect a certain amount of a specific figure, get rid of boxes or other objects in the grid, clear spaces covered by something until the whole grid is cleaned up, get a special item to drop down to the bottom of the grid… The usual. If you have many bombs on screen, and with one exploding you activate more, the rainbow explosion meter will charged up much faster.

Once is full, you’ll get in the grid a rainbow sphere, that when switched, it eliminates all figures of the same color you switched it with. In order to activate an explosive, you just have to switch it with whatever, and another distinct feature of this game, is a Bomb Meter in the bottom left corner of the screen, which fills with every explosion. With a bigger match, you get a powerful TNT stick, and if you ever manage to create a match-7, you’ll get a TNT barrel, that takes away a huge chunk of the grid.

If you create a match-5, no matter if it’s a line, or a line that has 3 figures vertically and 3 horizontal sharing the same figure in a T or X shape, you get a bomb, that explodes affecting 2 spaces around. With a 4-match, you get a firecracker that explodes affecting a single space to each of its sides. In most games, you create a line bomb that explodes vertically or horizontally taking away a whole row or column but here, you create a bomb that affects its surrounding spaces, and the bigger the match, the more powerful the bomb.

Whta makes this game different than most, is what happens when you match together 4 or more figures together. If 3 or more are aligned, a match will be made and they’ll disappear, if not, they’ll go back to their spaces and you’ll have to look for a match to be made. You touch an element on a grid, and drag it up, down, left or right. Gardenscapes is a match-3 puzzle that plays like most popular mobile games of the genre.

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