Laruaville Match 3 Puzzle

love the game. such a wonderful variety. Thank you for making it and I hope you continue past #17. Maybe even add more side games.

It a fun little game help to pass time

Hi -- Do you like Match 3 Games + Friendly Ghosts then have I got a game for you. It's basically a match 3 to earn coins to build the Ghost Town -- these Ghosts don't speak unless they need something -- Hidden Object or Puzzle mini game -- a wave would be nice -- after all I did build the town.

The very first Laraville game is considerably different than the rest of the series. While it still has the goal of obtaining all the coins, it plays mostly like a traditional M3 and not so much the puzzle-y concept later games brought in. It also doesn't have a limited moves mode; there's either timed or relaxed. The timed mode features a very short timer, as do all the rest of the games in the series.

I like the town scene to build - it's an actual town, and not as cartoonish-looking as the scenes in later games, plus there are more friendly ghosts floating about. There are so many freebie coins appearing after a good deal of the town is constructed that you don't need to play all the way through to complete the scene. This was disconcerting to me, since I finished the town at level 85 with the ghosts thanking me, but there are 115 levels total.

No Steam Achievements, but there are in-game achievements, which sadly were taken out with later games. I had first thought only the very first Laruaville has such achievements, but they are also in Laruaville 2. You can't get all the achievements in one game mode either, so will have to at least try both modes if you're an achievement hunter.

There's not a glut of minigames. Unlike later games where it can feel more like a mixed-genre game with the plethora of minigames being thrown at you constantly, here there are only 2 kinds of minigames, HOS where you are tasked to find X number of a certain type of object (these are actually pretty challenging with how the objects are blended into the scenes), and a very easy version of mahjong. The focus is more on playing the M3 levels. Graphics are a little dated looking considering the game's been out for 12 years as of this writing, but I enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

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