The tip jar is open. Match Mates stays free — no ads, no paywalls, no accounts, every world and every mode yours. This update finishes the job the last one started: the Support Us screen in the menu can now actually take a tip, if you'd like to leave one. • Tips are entirely optional and unlock nothing — the whole game is already yours • The Mates say thank you properly when you do • Small fixes and polish under the hood Thank you for playing.

Match Mates is now FREE — no ads, no paywalls, ever. If you love it, there's a new tip jar in the menu (Support Us), and our other games are one tap away. The Storybook Update. The Mates finally get to tell you why they match: calm the Grumble, relight each world's landmark, and bring every page back to color. Veterans: Classic keeps its four-heart, full-run challenge and records; Storybook is a new optional path. • New Storybook path: six hearts, bookmarks after bosses, the full story for everyone • Every pop now shows its promise and leaves a receipt • Objective waves: protect the Seedlamp, stop the thieves, clear the blight • Worlds visibly restore as you calm their bosses • Calmed creatures now gather in your Zen Garden • Share Diagnostics in Settings (local file export — nothing is transmitted)

Yellow has a job now. THE SUNRISE - when a hit would take you out, your yellow pops catch you instead. The board freezes, the sun comes up through it, and gold light ticks your health back. A second life, not a game over. FIVE SUNLIGHT PERKS bend the new rule: start every wave with the sun already up, keep it up longer, buy a spent one back with coins, tuck a spare in your pocket, or never let it set at all. A KINDER WORLD 1 - meet the Puffling, an enemy made of pure bluster and dandelion fluff that never lands a hit and pays you a coin for popping it. The first two bosses ease up through rank 3, and stay exactly as tough from rank 4 on. Also: your armor is finally drawn on screen, and a death save now cancels the whole incoming volley - nothing lands after the game says you were saved.

One more Game Center fix - the real one this time. - If achievements you earned never showed up in Game Center, they will now: the game re-syncs everything you have earned each time it launches. - No action needed. Launch the game once while signed in to Game Center and your collection catches up on its own.

Four bug fixes from your reports - thank you for sending them in. - Achievements now fire reliably again (one bad listener was silencing the rest) - Clearing a world properly unlocks the next one, and profiles stuck by this repair themselves on next launch - Sculptor runs can no longer freeze on a board with no legal pop - The main menu can no longer come back invisible after leaving the world map

Game Center has arrived in the garden! - 41 achievements with hand-painted badge art — and your past progress unlocks retroactively - 8 leaderboards: Descent high score and depth, plus your career records - New Game Center link on the Options screen Sign in via Settings > Games and climb.

New in Match Mates: - GARDEN STEPS: a gentler first hour for new players. The roguelike systems - perks, evolutions, powers, shrines - now unlock gradually across your early runs, so World 1 no longer throws everything at you at once. Veterans see the full board unchanged. - Pack selection and an end-of-run recap so every run ends with a clear look at how it went. - Polish and readability improvements throughout. No ads. No in-app purchases. One purchase, the whole cozy roguelike.