Heroes & Villains will let you play as your favorite DC characters

Match-3 games have come a long way since Bejeweled, and it’s one of the dominant genres on the mobile market. Heroes & Villains is a new match-3 game that will let you play as your favorite DC, well, heroes and villains. It was a pre-registered title for a bit, and now it’s available to download.

This game’s download is around 840MB on the Play Store, with about 40MB of user data created. It’s free to download, but it does have in-app purchases. The Play Store listing says that it contains ads, but we haven’t encountered any so far.

Heroes & Villains: What is this game?

So, the gameplay is pretty straightforward. It’s a battle Match-3 game, so each time you make a match, you’ll launch an attack on the enemies up above. The enemies occupy the top of the screen while the tiles take up the middle. On the bottom of the screen, you’ll see your character portraits.

Match three or more tiles to send attacks. Matching more than three will spawn special tiles, but this is a classic match-3 mechanic. This will spawn tiles that will take out a whole line of tiles and tiles that will inflict extra damage.

You’ll need to be careful where you match the tiles. There are seven columns of tiles, and enemies will stretch across a certain number of columns. In order to land an attack on an enemy, you’ll need to make sure that the tiles you match occupy one or some of the columns that the enemy occupies.

Each character has a certain color, and this color defines who they’re weak/strong against. There are five colors: Blue, Red, Green, Orange, and Purple. Red characters are strong against Green characters, Green’s strong against Blue, and Blue’s strong against Red. Purple and Orange are both strong against each other.

Matching tiles with the same color as a character will gradually fill that character’s special bar. When it’s full, you’ll tap on that character’s portrait to perform a special attack. The special attack will reflect one of the characters’ powers or weapons from the comics.

As you play, you’ll earn in-game currency that you’ll use to summon characters and upgrade the ones you have. It’s your typical mobile gaming fare with currency you earn, currency you buy, crates, and collectible characters.

If you’re a DC fan, and you want to play through an original story, you can download this game now.