- Build 23: Provisional Pilot, Cosmic Ambitions - 10 September 2026
*Changes from v0.21.0-dev.1 to v0.23.0-dev.2*Matchy left his wallet in Xanadu. His favourite photo of all his friends is inside. Unfortunately, so is his pilot’s license.There’s only one sensible response: go back to flight school, earn a provisional licence, and launch a wildly overconfident rescue mission across the cosmos.“Provisional? I know how to fly! I’m the best…”“…now what was the button again?”This update gives Matchy Star a new introduction, a much more helpful crew, and a substantial round of gameplay feedback, controller, and presentation fixes.**Welcome to Flight School!**- Replaced the old tutorial flow with a character-led opening, a hands-on flying exercise, and reactive free flight.- Learn the central rule by doing it: move a Star one square, and your ship moves one square. Numbered pieces show exactly where to start and where to go.- Practice making connected matches…
- Build 19: BLASTOFF TO OMEGASPEED! 🚀 - 27 August 2026
Blastoff is the biggest moment in Matchy Star, so we strapped it to a rocket and turned the juice up to eleven.🚀 A completely rebuilt BlastoffEvery movement now lands on a rhythmic beat—moving, turning, collecting, and charging.Trips end with a dramatic three-beat charge-up, directional sparks, smoke, sound, and a proper BLASTOFF!Exhaust and sonic-boom effects escalate continuously as your ship gains speed.The entire board wakes up in a ripple when Blastoff begins, with increasingly excited stars cheering you onward.Camera framing now keeps the board centered, visible, and free from unwanted rotation.⚡ OMEGASPEED!Collect 500 Zoot during a single trip to hit OMEGASPEED!A new trip-specific Zoot counter tracks your launch haul.New OMEGASPEED voice-over added.Bigger effects, faster stars, stronger trails, and increasingly ridiculous space velocity.☀️ Introducing Sun ChargesEvery new run be…
- ZOOT IS ON FIRE! — Alpha Demo v0.18.0 - 25 August 2026
Hey everyone!Matchy Star Alpha Demo v0.18.0 is live! This update is all about making BLASTOFF faster, clearer, and much more satisfying.Blastoff now follows one simple rule: the rocket keeps moving. Movement, turns, collection effects, sounds, and rumble remain synchronized as the ship accelerates. Matches caught during launch resolve without stalling the run, while major reward popups linger long enough to celebrate—even after the rocket has flown past them.There’s also a new live ZOOT COUNTER! Hit 1,000 total route Zoot and you’ll go ZOOT ON FIRE, complete with an ignition burst and a flame-and-star trail behind your rocket.What’s new:Added the live Zoot Counter and ZOOT ON FIRE celebration.Made Zoot popups smaller, clearer, and less likely to overlap.Gave major bonus popups a fixed display time regardless of rocket speed.Made unused fuel increase the final Blastoff payout.Fixed ships…
- Matchy Star v0.17 — QA Pass Complete - 24 August 2026
v0.17 is a QA-focused update concentrating on interface consistency, controller support, display scaling, and route presentation.Highlights include:Fixed controller navigation when connecting a gamepad during the tutorial. Board stars are now immediately selectable.Corrected tutorial menus loading the wrong level.Improved menu layouts across 16:9, 16:10, ultrawide, portrait, and 4K displays.Fixed text distortion when playing in a maximized window on a 4K monitor.Restored ships orbiting their current planet on the route screen.Removed invalid and invisible controller targets from the route screen.Improved route variety by preventing the same route from being immediately generated again.Smoothed the galaxy’s entrance animation so it expands naturally instead of beginning as a tiny cluster.Removed the Settings button from the full-reset confirmation, preventing a recursive navigation stack…
- Another Do Over?! Reworking everything till we get it right. - 19 June 2026
Thank you, guys, so much for the constructive feedback, bug reports, and ideas on how to make Matchy the best matching game of all time.We really need people to let loose and tell us what they don't like so we can work out the problems before we go live.The tutorial is all new... and hopefully less confusing. Ballast... gone, 1 move of the Stars = 1 move of the ship. Scoring, simple as can be: match 3, fuel 3 spaces. Match 4 fuel 4 spaces...And bugs, we've been smacking them to bits!We are publicly tracking the issues reported in our issue tracker, so please contribute here.
- The 5-Planet Run Update Is Here! - 11 June 2026
Hey everyone!I just pushed a major new build of Matchy Star, and this is a big step toward the game I’ve been trying to make.The headline feature is the new 5-planet run structure. Instead of feeling like a set of loose levels, Matchy Star is starting to feel much more like a real run-based space adventure. You’ll travel from planet to planet, build up your strategy, and see how far your current setup can take you.This update also adds a new camera perspective, which gives the board and world a stronger sense of depth and personality. Matchy Star has always been about matching stars in space, but this build makes the game feel a lot more like you are moving through a strange little galaxy instead of just playing on a flat board.The other huge addition is items. Items are still early and will keep changing, but they are the beginning of the build-making layer that will define the full ga…
- Matchy Gets Vertical - 23 February 2025
Ever wanted to play on your vertical monitor? Or how about switching to windowed mode and resizing the game? Now you can! We also fixed a bug with loading and saving item stats on computers based in countries that use a decimal point the way the USA uses a comma. Hit me up if you want to demo the game, we are shooting for March 31 for a totally revamped version of the game that is 100 times more fun.
- Speed, Progression, and Item Strategy Redesign - 19 February 2025
Matchy is not dead! We've gotten a bunch of detailed critique and are starting another round of development. New things to come in the next build: 150 unique items - Instead of having a million versions of a top hat with slightly different stats that don't make much difference, each item will be unique, affecting the game in it's own way. Items themselves will upgrade as you progress based on how you play. Redesigned the Speed System - Right now you can frantically move your pieces super fast, but that isn't as much fun as deciding thoughtfully where to move things based on optimizing your score and making it to the end of the levels. Now speed will be tied directly to how many pieces you can move, and each level will up the speed so that it is harder and harder to win, giving a sense of progression! Progression is based on "runs" rather than unlocking "stars - Instead of getting 3 vict…
- Matchy with your Joystick! - 22 August 2023
Big change: Joystick support. Tons of small fixes: No longer possible to get cash onto the ships. Green buttons have green text. Shop and Overworld music cannot play at once. Improve win confetti particle. Back button works correctly. Selecting locked planet shakes planet.
- Help Beta Test Matchy Star - 10 March 2023
Hi! I'm Michael Silverman, the Silverware Games guy. We really want to bring Matchy Star to you but we need your help to let us know the game is ok.
- Our new game network SWGIO.COM - 5 August 2022
We've had a lot of trouble getting seen on steam. They seem to push us to the back and not let us get much visibility. So we've created our own gaming network that lets you play games on your phone without downloading them, compete with others directly or for high score, co op, and post social posts. Our network is run and moderated by humans, not algorithms. And we curate what makes it based on our own criteria that are determined by actual people. Also there are no bots on our network, unlike certain bird themed networks. We hope you join us in this adventure to take our games and our community to the next level, reach out to me @michaelplzno if you want info or an invite to our new space for games! Here is our video about the new update: And here is a link to our site: SWGIO.COM
- MatchyGotchyZ v0.38 - EA Update: Cards - 25 June 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2F9ad1f9d32f42b8d332871cae7e90005c0a770f84.png Check out the latest update from the Matchyverse: Cards in MatchyGotchy Z. We did a poll and we heard the biggest updates people wanted was more games so we are doing just that. Now you can play a game of Memory with your favorite Stars. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2F773a03c19470659f7ece3c78b36fa7dc4aaec826.png There are 3 different decks of cards, and each time you play you get a randomized set of icons to match, so have fun! We also cleaned up a bit of the user interface. The full Build Logs are on our discord: Silverware Games Discord Also, we are featuring the Heart of the Matchyverse and our own Derpy Wasabi, Say here on the matchyverse blog: Spotlight on Say We are hoping to build a community of citizens of the Matchyv…
- ☆ Early Access Updates ☆ - 17 June 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Fc127ef08a00eb032b79225350d8fa24d964b9a96.png Henlo! Happy to share that a new build goes up today and it features: - Whole new sprite system which makes it easier for us to update the build. Had to reorganize over 200 sprites to make this work! It's optimization to make future updates easier. - Important UI tweaks: different buttons / sliders, icons black out correctly. Also, it includes: - New music for Stardust, Zootlandia, and MatchyMart. - New MatchyMart items. Introducing different cups for the cup game, each plays differently. - And last but not least! New bug progression, each time you clean there are different bugs with different properties, including the BOSS BUG. We will be showing the build via Twitch before it becomes available, that way we can show you all these things real time and hang out as we ma…
- MATCHYGOTCHY Z IS HERE! - 5 March 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Ff24efb828d5c2279d6b6cd0d780f204ca052794b.png MatchyGotchy Z is a colorful digital pet game that combines idle clicker elements with a new take on pet-raising simulation: trainable personalities. All the nostalgia of those old virtual pets, fully adapted into a new desktop gaming experience. After months preparing, it is now available on Steam Early Access with a 20% launch discount! You can find MatchyGotchy Z on Steam right here. https://store.steampowered.com/app/888220/MatchyGotchy_Z/ Join the Matchyverse as we keep up with Early Access updates, community feedback, giveaways on our Silverware Games Discord server. We are also available on Twitter and Facebook. Although, if social media is not your thing, you can also subscribe to our newsletter or if you would prefer you can follow Silverware Games Steam devel…
- Fun Pack DLC ☆ - 28 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Fa865f7120eb5828954fbd757e3d3bdf4777aa6d2.png MatchyGotchy Z is hatching next Monday via Early Access, and to celebrate, we have launched not one, but two DLCs this week! We received comments to get more options available to support the studio, as we had requests to get more artwork available too. We decided to combine both, and now you can download HD artwork to decorate your desktop MatchyGotchy style! MatchyGotchy Fun Pack is a DLC available via MatchyGotchy. It's a free game, so by purchasing the wallpaper DLC, you are supporting Silverware Games and you get to keep the game on your library as well. There are 5 colorful wallpapers available: https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2F63f6a9587e2b7780c8fdeff54d4f05b8d1ec00d7.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040030/MatchyGo…
- MatchyGotchy Z Hatching March 4th! - 21 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Ff171f407a58f530014209e7821eddacda10fa446.png The most successful beta testing experience we ever had, inspired a whole new game and we have a release date now. Introducing Zoot as a currency, you can buy all sorts of new items on MatchyMart and customize your gaming experience away - MatchyGotchy Z is almost here! ☆ MatchyGotchy Z ☆ is a brand new game coming soon to Early Access. We decided to include the community in the on-going development process this time around, and it is because of your kindness and support that the Matchyverse 🚀 continues to grow :) MatchyGotchy Z is hatching on Early Access March 4th ～☆ https://store.steampowered.com/app/888220/MatchyGotchy_Z/ Click here to follow our Steam developer page to keep up with updates https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%25E2%2580%25A6
- MatchyGotchy Love - 14 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Fed975fb4a0a93fd5d13dbd94111ee0aeb05ff28e.jpg Happy Valentine's Day everyone 💕 Reminder that MatchyGotchy Valentine's cuteness is available now! Starting today, all the Valentine's Day specials are free to download, play, and love! Available only for seven days, if you missed out on last year then make sure you don't miss out this year. Go ahead and share the love on Valentine's Day :) http://store.steampowered.com/app/772700/MatchyGotchy/ -Say ʕ•ᴥ•ʔﾉ♡
- MatchyGotchy Celebration - 1 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Fe6e3a5efed24c72f55b847dca14c3db3cfc25756.png It's been one year since MatchyGotchy launched on Steam! Thank you for downloading and playing MatchyGotchy, it means the world to us. What originally became a simple idea to introduce the Matchyverse, it is now a world of its own - and weeks away from important MatchyGotchy Z updates, we can say there is much more coming for Matchy Star and friends. We are currently working non-stop on MatchyGotchy Z and Matchy Star, and as are preparing for publishing, we are excited to share some launch dates very soon! However, we decided to do a Birthday update to MatchyGotchy to celebrate it's one year anniversary. From today Feb 1st, until next week Feb 8th, you will be able to enjoy birthday celebrations - including birthday cake to go along with your selfie! And from here on,…
- MerryGotchy Christmas - 20 December 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Fb8248618e01c854395023c0686f2fef379fc0870.png We come bearing good tidings of cheer and mirth. To get into the holiday spirit, MatchyGotchy is celebrating Christmas. There is a Christmas selfie screen, holiday food and snacks as well as a little bit of snow because this holiday update is super cool. Check it out now before all the presents are opened and the season is past! Download it here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/772700/MatchyGotchy/
- Meet The Rocket Surgeons - 13 December 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6856690%2Ff45276e52aa556e90b4a28e15e7bee3f01785834.png MatchyGotchy happened as a result of Matchy Star. While working with Matchy Star, we wanted to give these cute characters a life of their own. This is where the idea of interacting with them as virtual pets came into the Matchyverse. Matchy Star is the original character, and he explores the Alpha System where he meets all the other stars on the way. Originally called gems, as part of a match 3 design, eventually they all became characters instead and we call them Stars now thanks to MatchyGotchy. The stars were given a purpose in space, they want to grow to become rocket surgeons. It comes from that quirky mix of ‘rocket science’ and ‘brain surgery’, commonly used as a light hearted and fun take joke to suggest high intelligence or higher qualifications. Each of their…
