Empires & Puzzles: Match-3 RPG

Name: Empires & Puzzles: Match-3 RPG
Author: Small Giant Games

89.1.0

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Collect and assemble powerful heroes, build your base, and fight monsters

Empires & Puzzles: match-3 battles inside a fantasy RPG

By Priya Raghavan

Senior reviews editor

Match-3 tile swaps that charge each hero's special skill
Five-element color wheel to learn and use on the board
Base-building alongside hero collection and RPG quests
Head-to-head 1v1 Raids and 100v100 Wars
Dozens of mythical quests across seas, underworld and dragon realms

What kind of game this is

Empires & Puzzles is a match-3 puzzle game with a fantasy RPG built around it. The puzzle board is how you fight, and the RPG side covers the heroes, the quests and the base you develop between battles.

It suits players who like tile-matching puzzles but want a longer progression, with a team to build and a world to work through. The listing rates it 16+.

Fighting with tile matches and hero skills

Matching tiles produces Match Shields, which deal damage to enemies and fill each hero's Special Skill meter. You decide when to spend a charged skill, and chaining matches into larger combos is how the listing says the bigger hits are made.

The game uses a five-element color wheel. Learning which elements work against which is part of planning your matches, since the board is where the strategy happens.

Quests across seas, underworld and dungeons

The adventure runs through several themed worlds: stormy seas, underworld monsters, sandy dungeons and titanic dragons. The listing describes many dozens of mythical quests spread across them.

Heroes are collected and assembled as you progress, so the team you bring into each quest changes over time.

Base-building between battles

Alongside the puzzle battles, the game includes base-building, which the listing presents as a separate layer of play next to the heroes and quests. Your base is the place where that side of the game is managed.

The summary frames the whole loop as collecting heroes, building the base and fighting monsters.

Head-to-head Raids and large Wars

The developer lists two competitive modes: 1v1 Raids and 100v100 Wars. Raids are one-on-one duels, and Wars are large-scale battles with a hundred players on each side.

Both modes build on the same match-3 combat used in quests, so the skills and matching you learn carry over into head-to-head play.

What's new

Oct 9, 2026

- Turn even more Sanguine Skulls into summons with the Halloween Lure!
- New Adventurous Rodent Heroes go wild
- Leveling bonuses for ageing Heroes and multiple Costumes
- Various improvements and bug fixes

About this APK

The build we hold is Empires & Puzzles: Match-3 RPG 89.1.0 (APKS split bundle) for Android 7.0 and up.

Version: 89.1.0; 23117
Requires Android: 7.0+
Target Android: 16

Package ID: com.smallgiantgames.empires
Format: APKS split bundle
Malware scan: Google Play Protect
Permissions: 20 declared
Signed by: CN=Small Giant Games
Certificate SHA-256: c710c053b790ce17017f85c564f30eafe38194aee9f90162d60c52e0434d7028