Splash Link

About this game

A hyper-casual link puzzler. Drag a path through three or more touching tiles of the same colour and the whole chain clears at once. Diagonals count, so routes that look blocked often are not. Each level gives you a fixed budget of moves and puts crates, stone and other obstacles in the way, and the longer the chain you find, the higher the tier of special tile it leaves behind to deal with them.

How it plays

Tiles count as adjacent in all eight directions, diagonals included. Three is the minimum for a valid link and the least it can pay; chains past that leave a special tile behind, and the tier of that tile scales with how long the chain was. Since every level caps your moves, holding out for a longer route usually beats taking the first match you see.

Obstacles do not link. A crate has no colour and has to be broken by clearing tiles next to it; stone takes two hits. Smash and bomb tools are there for when the board stops cooperating, at the cost of a move each.