Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 08:08 am
Matching Story – Puzzle Game Review
Matching Story is a Puzzle/Casual game from VERTEX GAMES PTE. LTD., first launched in 8th November 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 117,960+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Matching Story Stand Out
Scattered items await your Merge, upgrading them to gardens and castles. Oh! And there are treasure chests everywhere waiting for you to unlock. With your friends, start enjoying yourself together!
Please note! Matching Story is a free game and no Wi-Fi needed.
Test your match-3 skills and craft all kinds of magical items on your wonderful fairytale adventure! On this uncharted island, there lies a piece of barren land, waiting for you to make it glow with dazzling light.
What sorts of miracles will you find? In Matching Story, you’ll solve match-3 puzzles to unlock amazing rewards you can use to spruce up your island and uncover surprises that await you! Explore and upgrade a world full of charming and fantastic floras, gorgeous goodies, and cute critters to choose from. Use them to design and decorate your garden and island!
About match-3 games, Matching Story provides over 3000 levels of different difficulties and gameplay for free. It offers an immersive experience with the stunning effects brought by TNT, various styles of game pieces, and interesting match-3 level designs, ensuring a double gaming experience for both your vision and touch.
In the Matching Story games, you can not only explore the fun of solving puzzles but also gain more resources in a variety of match-3 modes. It allows you to unlock different islands and build your dream garden island through collection and merging. At the same time, you can unlock new story chapters through match gameplay. Starting on a new journey with our protagonist Emma to save, explore, solve puzzles, match, and merge. Come and enjoy the amazing matching experience that Matching Story has to offer.
The game features:
● MATCH cute pieces to help Alice cast her magic!
● RENOVATE your island as you wish. Your own fantasy island is at your fingertips!
● EXPLORE exciting stories and unlock lots of mysterious characters!
● CHALLENGE rich and engaging levels to unlock unique boosters and explosive combinations!
● ENJOY the main story and explore the secrets hidden on the fantasy island!
● PLAY OFFLINE so you can take your fantasy island with you wherever you go! Visit our
● Merge Continuously upgrade your dream match-3 garden by matching identical items
Facebook page so we can start a fantastic adventure together! https://www.facebook.com/MatchingStory
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Matching Story is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Are you ready for the new update?
- 50 NEW LEVELS to challenge!
- Christmas event is coming soon! Decorate your island and make it shine with holiday cheer!
- Bug fixed and performance improvements for a better game experience!
Download & Availability
Matching Story is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Matching Story on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game. There is so much to do all the time!!! No ads. LOVE IT.
We like the fact there is no time limit.
We never get the story or the help. Othwise we love our team and this game.
We love the game dont get us wrong, but there is no story where you help Flora do anything and we wish there was. Why say there is? You can get enough customers just by saying what the game really is. Plus ithink you make enough money that you could hire someone to put the story in the game. It doesnt have to be all the time. Maybe special events that you pay extra or one story every new land, which would only be like 5 times and then no false advertising. Think about it. If your customers us alotof you, you will do this.
All we have is the game no side storys.
Some levels are hard but they are eventually doable. This game doesnt cheat like that popular candy game.
This game has a fairy tale theme and there are no ads, only in-app purchases. So far, it's easy. We're at level 14.
The game itself is fun but to call it matching story is a lie. The story part of the game doesnt last Im a little upset because thats why we downloaded it.
Great game. Hard times but great.
We never get to play the little games where you save the girl.
We started playing this game a while ago and love it. It has quickly become our favorite. Im just wondering why it was advertised with this woman you can help out and redecorate her rooms. We saw her once when we started playing and havent seen her since. Im on level 1730 and havent see that portion of the game since the very beginning.
Love this game its so cute and fun. But Ive been upgraded to co leader in our team, and the messaging system is so buggy! We will write messages but they disappear and then come back later. Sometimes it says we cant send a message and it says no internet connection when we definitely do. Can the devs please work on this issue.
The main game play is fun and addictive. Very satisfying to blow things up with the bombs/etc! But the matching 3 items in the garden to get a bigger item is just annoying and feels like work. We wish we could just block that part of the game. Plus its so small and awkward to move stuff around on a phone (maybe a tablet would be ok). And we really have no idea the point of the cards? Just give us more items. And make it easier to buy items with coins.
We really like this game, but we can guarantee we will not spend a time on anything on this game, but we wish you would give more diamonds for rewards instead of the gold coins or even let you use the gold coins to purchase some diamonds. This is our suggestion. Thank you for the game.
The game is still available on the appstore. And everytime we click on the update button, theres always a notification pops up and says This game is removed from the appstore by the creator. We contact the help center, but there is no answer. We feel really angry.
UPDATE: still waiting for the rooms, challenges, and other things pictured here. 12-9-2025. Why are there no more help, problem solving or seeing rooms..? Also, what can you do with all the extra silver also, what can we do with extra silver wands? 11-11-2025. Wants you to spend money to get lives. At first was good because matches were easy. As got harder can blow through five lives in nothing flat. Then either buy lives or wait. We are not buying lives. Enjoy this, but will not play much longer if have to wait 30+ minutes for more lives.
We love the game. However we have never gotten a side story or we are doing something terribly. Wrong.
Great game overall. However what caught our eye is the title Matching Story what happened to renovation of the rooms like in the beginning? That is the feature that got us playing the game. Now its no longer in existence. Not so much of a Matching Story after all.
A lot of people are saying to GREEDY!! We definitely agree! We have spent way too much money on the game and it appears the games are fixed to make you spend more diamonds . Ridiculous! This makes the game maddening! We do like the merges and playing with others but Im getting very tired of the manipulation techniques.
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It states in your commercials that they are exactly as the game but nowhere in your commercials does it show a merge part to the game. We hate merge games. So your commercials are basically lying to the players.
Be warned! Unless you pay 10- 20.00 dollars per day, hard to progress or keep playing. If you dont pay you get punished with the same level over and over. Addictive but soon joy turns to anger and resentment as you realize the greed baked in, now its no longer relaxing but bad for your mental health! Should not be for kids under 18, harmful unless you have unlimited money to waste.
It is fun. But you never see the games that are shown to promote it. All those games in the pictures? Non existent. Blah.
This is one of the best games Ive come across! One of the things we enjoy the most is they give you insane rewards for playing so Ive yet had to purchase any packs to restore diamonds or coins because they loaded us up on them! The game is easy but it does have some more challenging levels to make it fun. We like the characters and this is one of the few merge games that gives you a decent amount of room for merging. It does get filled up but it gets cleared eventually as you merge your items. Absolutely love this game.
Its perfect right before bed. We play it while we lay in bed. It takes our mind off the day. We get tired enough and turn it off and go to sleep. The game is not stressful. Its engaging and fun.
This is different from the game Im playing. But it does cost a lot to play.
Very fun and rewarding matching game that has no ads.
Really enjoying playing this game! We typically jump from game to game but we've been on this one for a few weeks and it's still challenging.
This merge game is the best one out there. There are so many different features and types of games. You get what the ads show, not like some of the other games out there which show you two people running from a snake or getting buried by rocks and 500 levels in none of that has shown up. This one advertises stuff like that and those games actually do come up. You can earn them by playing and they show up often. In addition, you can play for a really long time before you have to purchase anything. And when or if you run out of stuff, you can ask for help from other players or purchase at a very minimal or reasonable cost. Try this game. You wont be disappointed.
This game is fun and cute and we like that there are always bonuses and rewards for free.
Great game to play. Love love love that its completely ad free. Always adding new challenges.
Maybe there are people who enjoy honor throne. But we get less rewards a materials. Wish we have option to play regular or honor throne. We just want to play regular settings where we get a chest everytime we beat a level.
We didnt expect to like the game but its got us hooked. The one annoying thing is that the diamonds you need to win are out of proportion to the demands of the game. Too few diamonds in a payoff and it drags down the rest of the game. Pretty sure its a deliberate attempt to get into spend money and we dont mind spending a few dollars a week on entertainment- but this game is greedy and that particular thing erodes our enjoyment.
We dont mind the game itself, but it is not what it claims to be.
We get you need to make money, but its not fun at advanced levels when the game is rigged so you need just one more move to win and the only option left is to purchase 5 more. Make it less gems to continue. Maybe 100. Reward more unlimited life time. For now we just stop playing this game for the day and play something else. Solitaire with ads is more fun than this algorithm.
The honor throne is fine because it gives players a chance to reach the highest level. Whats the point of the master level? It wastes playing time and boosters, especially if a player is part of a team. Also, why wasnt there a prompt for the latest level update. Some players had to hunt around for it while others cant find it at all. Youre making a lot of money. Do better.
We love playing the game, but you guys charge way too much gems for extra moves because gems are so hard to get a hold of and you dont really give the opportunity to have fun with it. Same with the coins, it gets very frustrating and we end up just stopping from playing for several days and we hate that because the game is fun but you charge so much. Its just not a lot of fun when you do that.
It should cost 900 stones for five moves. Come on people do right by us players.
The one that advertises and even shows pictures of the game that you keep seeing but its not that game when you download it? This is THAT game. The ads dont match game play except the Match-3 style of play and little else. The game itself isnt bad but the merge strings are quite long and it takes forever to move things along. Its quite frustrating to deal with.
Its not necessary for the hour long ads!!!! 30 seconds tops!! You interrupt games that are that are more interesting than Matching Story.
Why cant the game be what the teaser is? The teaser game is better than the actual game.
Play this game daily. We loved it until our friends and we raised the Funky Monster which took a good week or so, opened the prize box and it Iwas empty.
Cant go anywhere for long without paying. You better have a good bank account if you want to stay in the game. We like the game but its not worth it. You can tell they have it fixed against you.
Love creating new homes and building them up.
This game is super relaxing and its so easy to get gems. You can renovate special rooms during special levels and have a gem level where you collect as many gems as possible.
Game not loading consistently. Lagging during play. We love this game, but find ourselves frustrated and moving on.
We love this game and we accidentally deleted it and we have the data backed up on Google and Facebook its Very interesting game . We have spent money on this game we want it back it was an accidently deleted it please get it back for us joanna last name ishee.
El mejor juego que he encontrado sper divertido y lindo muy adictivo.
App keeps shutting off in the middle of the game? Weird. It just started this week.
We love the game and the side games. We just wish it would cost fewer gems to buy more moves since it is so hard to earn gems. We buy a few but as the levels progress and get harder we often need just one more move to win. Good programming, but not fun on this end. Either give us more opportunities to win gems especially larger numbers of gems, or lower the number of gems needed for extra moves and lives.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.54.01
- Size: 468.49 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: VERTEX GAMES PTE. LTD.
Last updated: 8th December 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: VERTEX GAMES PTE. LTD.