IIf you enjoy matching colourful sweets, clearing puzzle boards and completing increasingly challenging levels, there are plenty of Android games worth trying, with these five alternatives offering familiar match-three gameplay alongside different objectives, settings, power-ups and progression systems, all available on Google Play.

1. Royal Match is a colourful puzzle game where you swap adjacent pieces to complete objectives, create powerful combinations, clear obstacles and restore and decorate rooms in a royal castle as you progress through increasingly challenging levels.

2. Gardenscapes combines match-three puzzles with a garden renovation adventure, allowing you to swap colourful pieces, overcome obstacles, earn stars, restore neglected outdoor spaces, unlock new areas and follow a continuing story, with free downloads, optional in-app purchases and offline puzzle play.

3. Homescapes brings match-three gameplay into a home renovation story where you complete puzzles, collect stars, use explosive power-ups, overcome increasingly difficult objectives and improve rooms while discovering new characters and progressing through the narrative, with optional purchases and offline support for much of the core experience.

4. Fishdom combines match-three puzzles with an underwater setting where you use boosters, overcome obstacles, earn rewards, unlock fish and customise aquariums with decorations, while enjoying free gameplay with optional purchases and offline access to core puzzles.

5. Toon Blast offers a different take on casual puzzle gaming by letting you tap groups of matching-coloured blocks instead of swapping adjacent pieces, with larger groups creating powerful boosters and increasingly challenging levels requiring careful planning, limited-move management and strategic block clearing.

Whether you prefer castle renovations, garden makeovers, aquarium building or strategic block clearing, these games offer plenty of alternatives to Candy Crush, so try Royal Match for familiar swapping puzzles or Toon Blast for a different matching mechanic and see which one keeps you coming back for another level.