A gem-matching puzzle where time is your real opponent, ignore a gem too long and it crumbles, taking your health with it.
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How to play
Swap two adjacent gems to line up three or more of a colour. Matches clear, the board falls and refills, and any new lines cascade, all in one turn. The catch: at the end of every turn, every gem that survived gets one step older and more cracked.
A gem that reaches maximum age shatters, vanishing and costing you health.
Older gems score more when cleared, and defusing one just before it shatters earns a bonus.
Cracked, flashing gems are one turn from breaking, clear those first, not just the easy matches.
The run ends when your health hits zero; play for the highest score before the board crumbles.
Controls
Desktop: click a gem, then click an adjacent gem to swap them.
Phone & tablet: tap a gem, then tap a neighbour, the canvas is fully touch-friendly.
Game modes
Daily: everyone gets the same seeded board each day to compare scores.
Practice: a fresh random board any time, with 6×6, 8×8 and 10×10 grid sizes.
Tips & strategy
Scan for the oldest gems every turn and route your swaps to include them, even if a younger match looks tidier.
Build setups that cascade, a single swap that triggers a chain can sweep several aging gems at once.
Watch the danger counter in the status bar; if too many gems are about to break, prioritise survival over score.
About Decay Match
Decay Match reimagines the gem-matching genre as a race against entropy, layering an aging-and-shatter system onto classic swap-to-match play. It is an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
