Playrix continues to push its own little match three meets hobbyist casual gaming market with the release of Fishdom 2. In the first game, as with many of their casual titles, you have to gather cash via match-three games in order to accomplish some other task. In the Fishdom series it’s a matter of playing the match three to accrue cash and fill up your fish tanks. Then on top of that you can get a screensaver featuring your fish tanks, which is sort of cool.

The goal is to max out three meters in your aquarium: comfort, beauty and, of course, fish. You do that by purchasing certain items in each of the three categories in the shop with the money you gather from the match three rounds.   

The match three rounds are exactly what you’d expect from Playrix. Custom-shaped playing areas with various aquatic items to match. Locked blocks that need to be unlocked before being cleared and a timer. It’s very much like the previous Fishdom games. Matching five or more at once will net you some explosives that come in handy when you need to clear a large section of blocks at once. That’s extremely useful in the case where some blocks are chained and you need to break the chains before clearing them to open other areas of the levels.

Each level has a certain number of gold blocks where you must clear pieces from in order to finish the level. There are two ways to play casual with no timer and timed which gets you extra cash when you finish in a certain time. The timer isn’t so pressing that you will generally run out of time. In fact I usually get to a point where I can clear the level and then stick around to make a little extra cash before I do so. The more

The music in the game can only be described as...porno music. Often while playing the music would come into my awareness and I would think "am I watching a 70’s porn film?’ It’s not exactly the classic ’boom chikka-wa-wa" but it’s close. Now I’m not saying it’s bad, none of the sounds in the game are bad in fact, I’m just saying that it is reminiscent of that style of music.

Overall, Fishdom 2 does a good job of carrying on the hobbyist match-three genre that Playrix is certainly the master of. The combining of hobbies like gardening, aquarium keeping and the like with casual match three gameplay is certainly a good match and works well for Playrix who have now got multiple games in the genre. If you’re looking for a robust match-three title with a twist, this is the place to go. Note: you don’t really need to fill in your aquariums and could just play level after level of match-3 if that were your desire.