If you've played modern Match-3 games, 7 Wonders of the Ancient World will leave you frustrated and angry.

I've lost count of the number of Match-3 games I've played and was excited to try out the original 7 Wonder's. It's a competent Match-3 game, but a few design choices make it an absolute slog to play through. Pyramid pieces and any gap in particular block row clearing projectiles. They also cannot be moved except by gravity so you can easily trap yourself when they reach the bottom two rows. Use enough power-ups and get a power-up that removes random tiles, I've had multiple of these fail to remove the single tile I needed to clear a stage. 7 Wonders is repetitive in every sense of the word, each wonder has 7 stages which generally have very little variation from the previous stage. If you run out of lives you need to restart the entire wonder. The difficulty ramps up by increasing the number of different tiles. By the fifth wonder you will have multiple no valid move board resets per stage. To get the board resets though, you need to clear every possible match on the board even ones that make you no actual progress.

Masochists only.