SWAP is out — our third game is on Google Play

On 29 September SWAP went live on Google Play: a sweet match-3 on a floating island, with fifty levels, no lives, no timers and nothing for sale.

Published 2 October 2026

SWAP has been on Google Play since 29 September 2026, as version 0.1.0. That makes three MiniScape games in under three weeks: Shift on 11 September, LOOP on the 23rd, and now this one.

The banner on the store listing. Swap, match, pop — the whole game in three words.

What you are getting

A match-3, and I know what that word makes people expect. The game itself is the familiar one: swap two neighbouring sweets, line up three of a colour and they pop, and everything above falls into the gap. Four in a row leaves a rocket, an L or a T a bomb, five in a row a prism — and two specials swapped into each other go off together.

The first level of SWAP: a board of sweets on a garden island, with the goal on the level card. — The first level. The card says what it wants from you.

A special going off in SWAP, with the word on the board that a good combo earns. — Make two specials, then swap them into each other.

There are fifty hand-made levels in five worlds — a garden, an orchard, a coast, a starry night and a crystal cave — and each world brings one new thing to the board: glaze to polish off, crates that hold up a column, locked pieces, and little robots that ride down with the sweets and walk home. Every level asks for something within a set number of moves, and those numbers come from a bot that played each level ten times.

Harbour Wall, a SWAP level on the coast: a row of crates across the middle of the board, with the goal on the level card. — The coast. A row of crates holds up everything above it until a match beside them breaks one open.

A SWAP level in the starry night: a board of sweets on a dark blue island, with a little robot riding down among them. — The starry night. The robots drop in with the sweets and walk home from the bottom row.

What it does not do

This is the part I care about most, because it is exactly where games like this usually start asking for money. SWAP has no lives, so a lost level costs you nothing but another go. Nothing counts down between attempts and nothing waits for you to come back. The boosters — a hammer, a free swap, a shuffle and five extra moves — are earned by playing well, and there is no shop to buy them in.

No ads, no in-app purchases, no account, no network call; your progress stays on your own phone. Every piece has a shape as well as a colour — hearts, diamonds, cubes, stars, hexagons and drops — so the board reads without telling the colours apart. And after the fifty levels there is a puzzle a day, the same board for everyone, and an endless run of generated boards.

What I would ask of you

The same as with Shift and LOOP: play a few levels and say what you think in the Play Store. A review, even a short one, does more for a small game than anything I can put on this site. And if a level feels unfair, I would rather hear it there than not at all.