Planned Release Date: Oct 12, 2026

About This Game

Halloween is in trouble, and it's delicious.

Sophia is a young witch with a simple mission: every kid gets sweets. Thorn, the self-proclaimed Master of Mischief, has a different idea: every kid gets tricks. They're both creatures of Halloween. They admire each other more than either will admit. And they cannot agree on what the night is for.

Settle it the only way that matters: one match at a time.

Story Mode: A Trick-or-Treat Road That Gets Creepier Every Step

Travel a winding neighborhood map, house by house. The first porches are bright and friendly; the deeper you go, the darker the yards, the stranger the neighbors, and the closer you get to Thorn's front door. Short story scenes play out along the way as the two of them bicker, boast, and maybe, just maybe, come around.

Skulls, Candy, and the Gems That Change Everything

Match three or more skulls and sweets to clear the board. Line up bigger matches to brew special pieces:

• Witch's Broom: sweeps an entire row or column clean

• Trick-or-Treat Bag: gobbles every gem of one kind

• Jack-o'-Lantern Bomb: blasts everything around it

• Cauldron Boil-Over: the combo finisher that turns a good move into a great one

Five Ways to Play

• Story Mode: 18 hand-crafted levels along the trick-or-treat road, ending in a showdown at Thorn's home

• Progressive Mode: 15 escalating levels for players who just want to keep matching

• Timed Mode:Starts with 60 seconds on the clock, each move can regain time, bigger bonuses recover more time.

• Zen Mode: An endless mode where things never get more difficult, just a sweet distraction where you can relax until you run out of moves.

• The Thorn Patch: Thorn has hidden monsters deep in the bramble and dared Sophia to flush them out before the thorns creep over the whole board

Dark Fantasy, Light Heart

Painterly, romance-novel-cover art with a wink. Skulls and Sweets is built for players who like their Halloween a little gothic, a little goofy, and never mean-spirited.

Features

• Classic, relaxed match-3 with four special gems and combo chains

• 18-level story with click-through dialogue between Sophia and Thorn

• Progressive Mode (15 levels) and The Thorn Patch bonus mode

• An overhead neighborhood map that transforms from cheery to chilling

• Original painterly dark-fantasy art and a Halloween soundtrack

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Artwork: created with generative AI, pre-rendered, hand-curated and edited.
Code and design: 100% human-written, built on a match-3 framework I've developed and shipped five games with since 2012.
Runtime: no AI is used while the game is running.