Jewel Star : Match 3 Game

Jewel Star sticks close to the match-3 formula most people already know, then adds two ways to actually lose a level. Backplane mode wants you to clear every tile sitting under the gems, so a match that looks good on the board can still be wasted if it does not touch a backplane square. Collection mode instead asks you to walk specific gems down to a marked spot, which turns the board into more of a routing puzzle than a scoring one. Both modes share the same pressure: a move or time limit that punishes matches made just because they were available. Obstacles on later boards block whole rows until you clear around them, so scanning the full grid before swapping matters more than in a plain match-3.

How to play

Swipe or drag a gem into a neighboring tile to swap them; matching three or more of the same gem clears them from the board. In Backplane mode, check which tiles still have a plate underneath before matching, since gems above cleared plates do not count. In Collection mode, work matches toward moving the target gems down to the marked drop zone rather than just clearing whatever lines up first. Finish the level's goal before your moves or timer run out to advance.

Controls

Swipe or drag with a finger on mobile, or click and drag with the mouse on desktop, to swap adjacent jewels.