Toon Blast vs Victoria
Toon Blast
Toon Blast plunges you into a crazy cartoon world filled with plenty of challenging and wacky match-3 puzzle games where you get to destroy cubes and various tricky obstacles, complete level objectives, and obtain powerful combos. Each level has up to 3 stars for you to colect and these stars, when accumulated, will grant you special bonus rewards. Although how long you can play depends on how many lives you have left, you can always pester your friends to ask for more lives.As opposed to the other "candy match-3 games", Toon Blast has a really interesting and unique theme, a crazy cast of characters, as well as a fun gameplay. These factors are behind the incredible success that this game is currently enjoying. So, if you really like your match-3 puzzle games, you wouldn't want to miss out.
Victoria
Victoria is a horror-themed match-3 adventure game that begins with a tragic story. The protagonist in this game, Victoria Miller, lost her husband and two children in an incident involving an aggressive poltergeist. Driven by her bitter need for revenge, she decided to pick up the ancient art of hunting supernatural beings and track the poltergeist across the United States in hopes of slaying it.At its core, Victoria is a pretty standard match-3 puzzle game where you’ll need to make matches of 3 or more in order to remove the items from the playing area. Most levels require you to clear away blue tiles by matching over them but sometimes, you may be asked to make specific matches in order to use the many weapons that will eventually be available to you against the supernatural creature you’ll be fighting. However, what allows this game to stand out from the usual match-3 games out there is the creepy atmosphere it provides and the occasional jump scares that's intended to give you a solid jolt from time to time.
Overall, when it comes to immersion, Victoria hits the nail on the head. However, despite the supernatural-fighting bits, the gameplay in this game can be rather simplistic, and after some time, rather mundane. That said, considering that true horror-themed match-3 games can be pretty rare, Victoria might just fit snugly into the gaming niche it is obviously designed for.