Star Three

Match tiles. Fly your ship. Mine the stars.

$4.99 · iOS 17+ · Plays offline

Every match flies the ship

Star Three is a cozy match-3 puzzle game where every tile match flies a starship through space.

No ads. No timers. No pay-to-win.
Just you, your ship, your cat, and the stars.

When humanity built a warp gate to reach the newly discovered Star Three system, no one expected an alien presence to steal the key piece that keeps it running. The theft destroyed humanity's flagship, scattering its advanced technology across the system, and left you with nothing but a battered junker. Explore Star Three, recover what's lost, rebuild your ship, and reclaim the key piece to get the warp gate running again. Are you up for the task?

Out past the inner belt

Mine for stardust, gold, and diamond

Crack open an asteroid and you never quite know what tumbles out. Stardust to spend, gold to save, diamond if you are lucky, and the biggest rocks always hide the best of it.

Upgrade the whole ship

Sink what you find back into the ship and watch it become a different machine: further reach, a sharper laser, better sensors, a drive that opens up whole new stretches of space.

Explore the regions of space

Start close to home, working the inner belt for stardust, then push as far out as your ship can carry you. The deeper you go, the denser the rocks and the richer the hauls waiting in them. The dangers grow right alongside the rewards.

Face challenging environmental hazards

Space keeps things interesting. Lightning nebulae crackle across the board, magnetic storms scramble your tiles, and stranger things wait further out, some of them a little bit silly. Each one turns a quiet mining run into a fun little puzzle of its own.

Rescue aliens, save Star Three

There is a story out there between the rocks: pick up survivors, rebuild your ship, and work out what happened to the star system.

Premium, and it stays that way

No ads, no energy gates, no in-app purchases, no creeping monetization. You buy the game once and it's yours forever. The stars are yours to explore.

Upgrade your ship. Feed your cat.

Pet her, feed her, buy her a bed and a hat. She keeps you company on the long hauls out, and she is always glad when you make it home.

Matching tiles powers the various systems and pushes you forward through an asteroid belt. Asteroids contain valuable resources for upgrading your ship, but watch out: boosting past them causes them to fall down into your grid, becoming rock tiles that block your progression.

Screenshots

The match-3 board below the ship, with a nebula drifting across the tiles — Every match flies your ship.

The cockpit hub with department panels, a launch button, and the cat on her cushion — Upgrade your ship. Feed your cat.

The star map, showing a region's estimated resources and threat level — Weigh the haul against the threat level.

A small green one-eyed alien among the asteroids, saying Sparkle Sparkle — Meet whatever else is out there.

The ship cat beside a green monitor reading: wanted, brave starship pilots to explore Star Three — Wanted: brave starship pilots.

Match tiles. Mine asteroids.

Five tile types, one ship system each, turning a board of coloured tiles into a flight plan.

Right thrusterCharges movement starward
Left thrusterCharges movement spaceward
Mining laserBuilds the charge you spend cracking asteroids
Fuel cellTops up the tank and keeps the mission alive
BoosterPushes the ship forward

Gromit, a sleeping puppy, curled up and snoozing

You are not out there alone. Sometimes the most unexpected help finds you when you least expect it, and decides to stick around.