HSH's MatchHex

Haunted Space Hotel Studios

In-app purchases

About this game

Match the hotel, tile by tile.

MatchHex is mahjong solitaire built on hexagons. Clear a layered board by matching free pairs of tiles, each one faced with the artwork of a room aboard the Haunted Space Hotel: the Action Room, the Upgraded Action Room and the Weakness Room of all six factions.

A tile is free when nothing covers it and one of its sides is open. Take the pairs you can see, and keep the ones you are going to need later. The tiles are real 3D pieces under a perspective camera, so a stack reads as a stack: turn the board with the arrows or a drag and look at it from another side.

SIX FACTION WORLDS. The Deep, the Stem, the Hex, the Dread, the Honored and the Seed each hold three boards, and each one plays on its own ground. Eighteen layouts in all, from the classic Turtle, Pyramid and Fortress through Spire, Ziggurat and Cairn to Halo.

EVERY DEAL CAN BE WON. Boards are generated from a seed and solved before they are dealt, so a board you cannot finish is one you played into a corner, never one you were handed. Take a hint when you want to know a safe move exists, undo and redo when you would rather not have, and shuffle when you are genuinely stuck.

PLAYS THE WAY YOU HOLD IT. Portrait and landscape, phone and tablet, with the board and the controls laid out for the shape of the screen rather than letterboxed into the middle of it.

PICK UP WHERE YOU STOPPED. Every move is saved as you make it, so the game is exactly where you left it when you come back.

THE DEEP IS FREE. Three complete boards, the classic Turtle among them, with nothing held back. One in-app purchase unlocks the other five worlds and their fifteen boards together, once and for good. No subscription and no currency.

NO ADS, NO ACCOUNTS. No advertising of any kind, no sign-in and no tracking. Nothing about you leaves your device.

From Haunted Space Hotel.

What’s new

The unlock sheet opens again from every padlock, with Restore Purchases. Portrait is rebuilt for phones: bigger buttons and text everywhere, a two- or three-row control bar, and the title set in hexagons. The version shows on the title screen. Launch no longer sits on a black screen: the title appears in about a second on a Tab A7 Lite. Tiles you pick now name their room.