Traffic Puzzle: Match 3 & car puzzle game

 

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Help the trains reach the station in: Traffic Puzzle: Match 3 & car puzzle game

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Today I bring you a short blog about a game that combines match 3 with a very old game concept. You have a parking lot full of cars and you have to move them around until all the cars can exit. Every 20 levels or so a new mechanic is added to the game to make it more complicated.

Every couple of days there is some kind of event that draws people into playing. Some of them give some nice bonuses.

The main map is an endless vertical scrolling map. You have to beat the last level in the section to get a key to progress on. Every so often there are super hard levels designed to make you burn through lives or powerups. This game follows a lot of what Candy Crush does and unless you get very lucky some levels are very impossible to beat without power-ups. I made it to level 128 then I could not progress anymore as it was impossible to get more coins to buy power-ups.

You have very basic options here, sound and music. Nothing exciting here to find.

There are many packages to buy power-ups and coins. Some of these packs get very expensive as the cheapest power-up is 25 gold coins. Which is over $4 USD, which is very expensive and not a good value at all.

Each level has a max of three stars and you have a simple image that tells you the objective of the level. You will run into the same kind of objectives as you play through and some of the hazard levels are thankfully rare.

Here is an example of the game field. You have to pay attention to the direction to which color of cars are matching and which direction cars are facing. If you clear a car by matching it, the other cars can drive out of the way and off the map even if you do not intend them to yet. There's a lot of thinking and planning that has to be put into the game. There are 4 power-ups. The van changes colors to match a car it connects with. The clown car will clear the car in front of it and to each side, This will not repair broken cars in later levels. The police car can remove cars in a straight line. Lastly, the rarest power-up is the tow truck that will remove all cars of the same color. As far as I've played I never got this power-up for free at all.

Overall:

 4 of 5 cogs.

The game is a very unique take on the parking lot puzzle and match 3. I would love to rank this higher but this game suffers from the same problem Candy Crush. There are too many artificial difficulties that are added in the game to try to goad people into paying for money. This game is semi-pay-to-win and at the end of the day, it just leaves me feeling a bit swindled. 

Story:

 0 of 5 cogs.

None. Zero.

Amount of ads:

 

many

After level 10 you are forcefully shown a video after every completed level, and that really slows down your progression. Sometimes you can watch a video to earn extra moves on a level. 

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

The ads are not click-bate and are the most genuine thing in this game.

Graphics:

 5 of 5 cogs.

The graphics are professional and high quality with a chibi style to them.

Gameplay:

4 of 5 cogs.

The game engine is unique and combines two different elements into one in a unique way. There also appear to be several clones of this game as well that may or may not have the same mechanics.

Free play:

50%

You could potentially play this game for free if you become very lucky to beat the harder levels. This game does a lot of under-handed sleight of hand to try to get you to spend money.

Fun factor:

🚗 "I like to move it!"

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