Jewel Match Winter Wonderland 2 Collector's Edition

34 hours (+/- depending on what difficulty level you choose--I played on the easiest) This is not your Momma's Match 3, nor your Grandma's Match 3 game. Jewel Match games are next level Match 3. With multiple screens (I call them rooms) per level that you go back and forth like a metroidvania. Instead of the typical Match 3 game where each level is just one screen and you have to clear that screen, the Jewel Match games have usually 3 screens, sometimes more, sometimes only 2, per level. There are keys that unlock things from zappers to half a screen's worth of space. So, for example, you start on screen one and can only clear half of it. There's an arrow button pointing left, right, up, down, that leads to screen two where the key to unlock the rest of screen one is at the top and you have to make matches so that the key falls down to the bottom. Then you can go back to room one and finish off the other side. There's lots of things that will help or hinder you. Zappers (my word for it) that, when you make a match against it will clear all the icons of that specific one that was matched within a certain area of the screen. Automatic moving belts (you will come to h…

Jewel Match Winter Wonderland 2 Collector's Edition may be a fun match 3 game but it will NOT launch!!! These developers have trouble with their games and you have to do work arounds to make them work. It black screens and says out of range. I'm tired of lazy devs. AVOID!!!

Nice relaxing match 3 for the holidays. If you've liked the others in this series you'll like this one.

Match 3 and Christmas music. It's alright.

Much like the other Jewel Match games.

https://youtu.be/sUwT41vIC7c Applying a heavy coat of holiday paint onto the common match three elements is not enough to elevate the experience to provided anything fresh tot he well worn formula.