Spooky Bonus

It's a great match 3 game! Webs, rocks and golden skulls make for some really fun and challenging layouts. I was 100% invested playing against the timer, especially on the later levels. Well worth playing, I'd love to see more games like it.

Super relaxing game to play after a long work day.

Spooky Bonus is a match 3 game with halloween decorations. I would say that $10 is a bit too much for a match 3 game in 2025 but on sale (I got it for $1) it is very much worth it. There are a 100 levels of increasing difficulty and complexity and along the way you get upgrades and abilities. It took me around 18 hours to beat fully and that was going pretty fast I would say. Match 3 games always have an element of luck in them but this game does a good job of balancing luck and strategy for a good casual level. Each level clearly has some thought put in it with unique layouts and several types of obstacles, and you will find that you need to move fairly quickly and think a bit about the hard to reach spots. But with some basic strategies you will beat the game. The art and music is fine, and very halloween appropriate. Since the game is over 10 years old, none of it is AI, so while its not great or anything I do appreciate the human touch. My only real complaint is that it has no endgame or replayability. Once you beat all 100 levels and have all the upgrades there is no reason to keep playing as you get nothing for replaying a level and with all the upgrades its way too easy anyway. Having the bespoke 100 levels is nice as you play them but you run out and there is no endless mode or something. Overall, its a Match 3 game. Nothing fancy but a good time waster, and on sale it is worth it.