Crystal Reef: Match-3 Puzzle
Guide Every Crystal Home Quest
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
A handcrafted extended Match-3 adventure game where you don't just clear elements.
It’s something more than a match-3 game.
100% offline
No timers, or life limits
No ads
Welcome to Crystal Reef: Crown Challenge - handcrafted extended match-3 adventure where you do not simply clear pieces.
You guide magical crystals through shifting reefs and deliver each one to its matching collector. Every move can change the tide.
100 HANDCRAFTED LEVELS AT LAUNCH
Begin your journey with 100 handcrafted levels across five complete story packs, each containing 20 levels.
The Crystal Reef will keep growing, with new handcrafted 20-level stories planned twice a month.
GUIDE EVERY CRYSTAL HOME
Match colorful reef dwellers, create rockets and bombs, unleash powerful special chains, and trigger spectacular cascades.
But crystals are different: they can be swapped, but they do not matched. Open routes, break obstacles, control their movement, plan side shifts, and deliver every crystal to the right collector before your moves run out. Choose the perfect booster at the perfect moment or trust a wonderfully lucky tide.
Every board is a small tactical journey shaped by your decisions.
RACE FOR THE CORAL CROWN
Your World Chart Total Score is the sum of your saved best scores across completed levels. Replay a level, improve your result, and only the difference is added to your total.
Climb the global ranking, compete in the Race for the Coral Crown, and reach #1 to become the Coral King.
THE REEF REMEMBERS HOW YOU PLAY
Most puzzle games tell you whether you won. Crystal Reef tells you how.
The Reef Journal separates Tactics from Luck, turning every level into a personal performance profile. Track cascade count and depth, cascade score, automatic special chains, lucky crystal drops, booster use, and last-move luck. See how often you win with no moves left, how many points and crystals arrive on the final move, and whether the last crystal reaches its collector through a cascade.
Replay levels, study your patterns, improve your personal bests, and watch your playstyle evolve. For players who love statistics, optimisation, and understanding exactly why they won, Crystal Reef turns every number into a clue and every clue into a better next move.
MASTER MORE THAN A SCORE
• Follow story packs through beautiful underwater worlds.
• Collect illustrated character and mastery cards and uncover their stories.
• Earn Reef Points as you improve levels from three stars to Mastered.
• Build your Tactics and Luck identity in the Reef Journal.
• Complete daily missions without streak pressure.
• Replay levels to improve your stars, Total Score, and Reef Points.
• Play every level offline. Internet is required only for online services such as Game Center and purchases.
FEEL THE REEF
Crystal Reef is designed to be felt as much as heard. Every gameplay sound was created especially for the game, blending warm mid and low frequencies with gentle haptics to make each match, cascade, and crystal delivery feel calm, deep, and alive. Put on your headphones and let the game surround you.
MADE BY HAND. PLAYED BY PEOPLE.
Every level is designed by hand and completed by a real player before release. There are no automatically generated filler levels. Each board begins with an idea, is tested for fairness, and is refined until victory feels satisfying.
OUR MANIFESTO
We believe a puzzle game should respect the player.
Difficulty should come from thoughtful design not impossible boards or meaningless filler. Progress should reward curiosity, persistence, smart decisions, and those lucky moments when the ocean lends a hand. Every level should have a reason to exist, and every victory should feel earned.
Crystal Reef is built by hand, played by people, and designed to remember your whole journey not only your wins.
The Crystal Reef is waiting.
Ratings & Reviews
A handcrafted extended Match-3 adventure game where you don't just clear elements.
It’s something more than a Match-3 game.
100 handcrafted levels at launch
The developer, Sonettic, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Sonettic
- Size
- 92.4 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.6 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.6 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.6 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Ocean Vault $12.99
- Reef Reserve $5.99
- Current Cache $2.99
- Little Glow $0.99
- Copyright
- © Roman Bambura
