Best Fiends

Best Fiends is a match-3 puzzle game that wraps its puzzle skeleton in distinctive, cute bug characters and a light story framework about defending a garden from an army of ants. The controls involve dragging a finger between neighboring tiles and matching the same colors into rows, while gradually adding special abilities of the collected characters, which can be upgraded and combined into a team. The level design keeps adding new rules and obstacles, so even after dozens of levels the game never feels stale.

Seriously released the game in 2014 and built it from the start on a standard free-to-play model with an energy system that limits how many levels can be played in a row, along with common microtransactions for speeding up collecting and upgrading characters. The distinctive visual style and cute characters helped the game stand out from a flood of similar puzzle titles and find a loyal community of players who appreciated the atmosphere more than puzzle difficulty.

Best Fiends grew into spin-off titles in the following years and remains actively maintained, which isn't entirely common for a puzzle game from 2014. The studio gradually added new characters, environments, and story chapters, so the game still feels like a living, continually updated product rather than a long-abandoned title.

Why play it: Good for players looking for an easygoing match-3 with pleasant graphics for short sessions, keeping in mind that energy limits and time-limited events push toward occasional payments.