CHRISTINE DELES
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2 min readMar 7, 2021

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Homescapes was released on september 2017. a fee-to-play video game with combing traditional match 3 machanics with a storyline gameplay concept. The story revolves around Austin, who feels homesick and moves back home with his parents, Olivia and William.

Austin parents told him that they are trying to selling the mansion, which is in a poor condition. Due to their old age they are unable to renovate the mansion and renovating the mansion would be too costly. Austin is trying to convinced his parents not to sell the house and volunteer to restore the mansion. As austin try to restore the house the player and also austin learn more about his childhood and his parents younger years.

To complete each level player must achieve the listed goal in each level. Each level up players earns a star which can be use to purchase furniture to help restore the old ancestral house and progress more in the game. In the game player can have power up which can be obtained by matching certain number of elements. Matching 4 in a straight line you will have a rocket, rocket can clear 1 row or column. Match 4 in a square you can obtain a plane, plane clears 4 surrounding places then 1 additional in another area. Matching 5 in a “T” or “L” arrangement you will obtained a bomb, bomb clear many surrounding spaces and lastly, matching 5 in a straight line you will have a rainbow ball, rainbow ball remove all of one type of elements. The games also have events you can join where player can get special rewards like power ups, coins and many more.

You only have 5 hearts so you should really think wisely to not lose the game cause you would also lose a live in every game you lose.

The whole game is really fun and really enjoyable. It makes you think and calculate every move you make though your just matching elements in the game. You’ll get hooked up matching elements, but it can also annoy you specially when you only have one missing elements in your list and you lose a move..

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