Matching Meadows

About this game

Matching Meadows is a deck-based puzzle game that combines the simple pleasures of building a vibrant city with challenging objectives. Build your own idyllic landscape! To reach the top of the leaderboards, you'll have to strategize and carefully plan ahead.

City, nature and industry

Will you create a peaceful village, or a bustling metropolis? Every card in your deck comes with its own unique objective to complete. Discover the perfect balance between city, nature and industry tiles to grow your city. Hone your skills through dozens of handcrafted levels and climb the leaderboards as your strategic prowess improves.

Master your deck

Besides containing a puzzle, each card has its own rarity, value, tile-type and side-effects to consider. Can you discover how to make the most of each hand you're dealt?

Pool and Draft mode

Matching Meadows contains two types of deckbuilding: Pool and Draft mode. In Pool mode, your deck of cards automatically evolves as you increase your score. In Draft levels, you're in control of which cards are added to your deck.

• Place cards to build a vibrant village or city
  
• Easy to pick up and play, challenging to master
  
• Strategic puzzles to solve with each card you play
  
• Master deckbuilding mechanics to perfect your strategies
  
• Seven distinct worlds containing 38 handcrafted levels
  
• Unique challenges and objectives for each level
  
• Leaderboards to climb versus friends and foes

Latest news

• Patch Notes·8 Oct 2025Official

  Bugfixes & improvements, v1.6.1

  We've rolled out a small update to fix a critical security flaw that was recently discovered in the Unity engine.In order to patch the vulnerability, Matching Meadows has migrated to a newer version of Unity. With any engine upgrade, some gremlins are bound to sneak in. We've already squashed a few bugs, but if you notice any glitches, crashes, or weird behavior, please let us know!v1.6.1:Updated Unity Engine version and patched the critical security vulnerability.Various bug fixes and performance improvements related to the engine update.
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• Announcements·18 Nov 2024Official

  Taking your first steps? Tutorial revamped!

  v1.6: Added a card library where all the cards in the game can be found along with descriptions, card effect tips and stats for how many times you completed their puzzles. Replaced the old tutorials with three hands on tutorial levels Two tutorials in their own world which explain the game mechanics step by step One tutorial added at the start of the Cassini world to explain the unique mechanics introduced in the Cassini world Added Romanian localization Added new tutorial world completion achievement Various small improvements & bug fixes, including: Ultrawide resolution end screen having a button partially cut off Fixed issues when combining controller and keyboard/mouse input methods Added custom cursor
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• Patch Notes·9 Aug 2024Official

  Bugfixes & improvements, v1.5.1

  v1.5.1: Increased maximum camera size (you can zoom out further) Modified the background visuals and map themes of Cassini levels to ensure sufficient contrast between the game elements and background elements Cards for Landmarks now show how many times you can gain bonus points by completing a puzzle adjacent to it. (4 for the stadium, 3 for other landmarks) All landmark phases that still require more than 1 adjacently solved puzzle to complete, now contain clear hints in their designs that indicate how many steps are needed for their completion, as illustrated below {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44801330/5d9521e9b919abe336c2cbf4d51af7f414036db9.jpg Reminder regarding level savestates from v1.4 and older As mentioned in the v1.5 update, we briefly introduced a legacy branch to complete older savestates on. If you have any old levels-in-progress from before we introduced the cassini world, remember to use the legacy branch if you wish to complete them. Right click on Matching Meadows in Steam, go to Properties, Betas, and select the v1.4 branch from the beta participation dropdown menu. This legacy branch will be removed a few days from now.
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• Announcements·18 Jul 2024Official

  Steam Deck Verified! 🎮✔️

  We're excited to announce that Matching Meadows' Steam Deck compatibility how now been verified: It's Great on Deck™! Our controller support makes full use of the Steam Input API, which means it'll work well with any of over 200 input devices you can connect to your PC. Furthermore, you can personalize your control scheme through Steam's Controller Configurator menu. If you've already been playing with a mouse, playing a puzzle game like this on a controller may take some getting used to. Never the less, we're glad that the game is now playable on the go and can reach more people. Happy puzzling!
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• Announcements·15 Jul 2024Official

  🌌 New world, new levels, new features

  We're excited to announce a free new expansion to Matching Meadows, featuring a new world with 7 new levels and a few new gameplay features to boot. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44801330/ee32903edbe56395842a9538ba2981fe39721313.png Levels in the new Cassini world contain new features such as 0.5x and 3x multipliers, instant pool/draft level-ups and perhaps most importantly, placeable Landmark cards. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44801330/d0e83cfc864f31ac25cf1320718ee18b13626fde.jpg Landmarks are very powerful thanks to the points bonus they can provide to adjacently solved puzzles. They come with a wide variety of unpredictable puzzles to solve. It's important to give your placed landmarks some room to breathe if you wish to extract the maximum amount of points from them. You will need to adapt new strategies to make it to the top! Besides the new world, there are plenty of other quality of life changes to celebrate. See the changelog below for a more exhaustive list of changes introduced by this update. Important notice regarding level savestates from v1.4 The saved levels from the previous version no longer work with the new version. We have added a legacy branch for the old version, which you can use to finish any levels you were still playing and want to continue. Your overall level progression & challenge completions are not affected and carry over to the new version. To complete levels in progress on the old branch, right click on Matching Meadows in Steam, go to Properties, Betas, and select the v1.4 branch from the beta participation dropdown menu. This branch will be removed a month from now. v1.5: Added a new world Cassini featuring 7 new levels Added single use placeable landmark cards (Landmark cards come with a wide variety of possible puzzles and are automatically destroyed on placement) Added new stadium landmark (remains in construction phase until puzzles are completed in 4 adjacent tiles) Added 0.5x and 3x score multiplier grideffects Added grideffect that levels-up yo...
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