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Kozlings: Match-3 Beast Rescue

A cozy match-3 adventure with real battles. Match runes, battle the runaway legends and bring 15 Kozlings home. Free on Android, with no ads and nothing to buy.

Kozlings key art: the keeper with Ember, Pebble, Sprig and the Thornback King, and the Royal Menagerie's castle behind them

Fact sheet

The facts

Game
Kozlings: Match-3 Beast Rescue
Developer
PoratGames, a one-person studio
Release date
October 9, 2026
Platform
Android phones (Android 10 or newer, 64-bit), on Google Play. Not on iPhone.
Price
Free. No ads and nothing to buy.
Genre
Match-3 puzzle adventure with turn-based battles (a puzzle RPG)
Players
Single player. No account needed; with Google Play Games, a copy of your save is kept in the cloud.
Age rating
Everyone (as shown on Google Play in the US)
Language
English
Version
0.4.0, the launch version
Engine
Godot 4.7
Website
kozlings.com
Trailer
youtube.com/shorts/pKjyucnw6FU (30 seconds)
Follow
YouTube · TikTok @kozlings
Press contact
kozlings@gmail.com

Descriptions

About the game

Use any of these as they are, or cut them to fit.

In one line

Match runes, rescue legendary beasts and build them a cozy home. A puzzle RPG!

Short (about 50 words)

Kozlings is a cozy match-3 adventure with real battles. Someone set the Royal Menagerie's legendary beasts free, and a villain's goo turned them wild. Match fire, leaf, water, sun and moon runes to battle them, calm each legend, and bring all 15 Kozlings home. Free on Android, with no ads and nothing to buy.

Long (about 220 words)

The other keepers quit. You stayed.

One night, someone crept into the Royal Menagerie and opened the cages of the kingdom's legendary beasts. Splice, a giggling inventor, was waiting: his goo snapped magic shackles on them, the shackles made them wild, and they fled to five wild lands. Now it's up to you, the junior keeper, and Ember, a small fiery Kozling with a big heart, to bring every one of them home.

Kozlings is a match-3 puzzle game where every match is an attack. Fire beats leaf, leaf beats water, water beats fire, and sun and moon beat each other. Line up four or more for special runes that sweep rows, blast whole areas or clear a colour, and chain big combos to set off an Element Surge.

Your team grows as you play. Friends join along the way, and every legend you calm in a boss battle joins too, until five Kozlings fight side by side, each with a power of its own: heal, stun, hit every foe, smash stones or change the colour of the runes.

Follow the runaways across six lands and 60 stops on one painted storybook map, plus 12 bonus stops. Each land brings new tricks on the board and a legendary boss at the end. Between battles, the story plays out in an opening movie, animated rescues and chapter films, with a mystery to solve: who opened the cages?

Free on Google Play. No ads, and nothing to buy.

Features

What's in the game

  • Every match is an attackFire, leaf and water beat each other in a circle, and sun and moon beat each other. Plus special runes, big combos and Element Surges.
  • 15 Kozlings to collectYour team grows until five fight at your side, each with its own power. Pick, swap and level up your team.
  • Six bosses to calmThe Thornback King, the Frost Alpha, Old Mossback, Sunmane, the Silver Panther and, at the very end, the Chimera. Beat each one, calm it, and it joins you.
  • Six lands, 60 stopsOne storybook map plus 12 bonus stops. Thorns, frost and stone, creeping moss, scorching burns, moonlit charms and gilded cages.
  • A story told in the gameAn opening movie where the King, Splice, Ember and your keeper speak, with the words on screen; rescues and chapter films after the bosses.
  • Your own keeperPick a boy or a girl, give them a name, and dress them in hats, packs, nets, prods, bells and vests you can see.
  • A home for your friendsRescued Kozlings live in your Sanctuary and leave a gift each day, with a 7-day gift calendar and a daily keeper's task.
  • Fair and freeNo ads, nothing to buy, no account needed. Optional cloud save with Google Play Games.

Videos

Trailer and clips

All videos are vertical (9:16) MP4s. You're welcome to use them in articles and videos about Kozlings.

The trailer (30 seconds)

Free the legendary beasts, match runes, build a team of five and rescue the legends.

The opening movie (49 seconds)

How the game begins: the King, Splice, Ember and the keeper speak for themselves, with the words on screen.

Gameplay clips

Real play from the game, cut for TikTok and YouTube Shorts (1080×1920, with captions and an end card).

Logo and art

Logo, key art and characters

Behind the game

How it's made

Made by one person

Kozlings is made by one self-taught developer at PoratGames. AI tools were part of the work from the start: they helped write the code and the story, and they made the art, the 3D models, the story films, the music and the sound effects. The keepers' animations come from Quaternius's free animation library (CC0), and the font is Lilita One. The developer designed the game, chose and fixed every piece, and played and tuned it on real phones.

Made with Godot

Kozlings is built with Godot 4.7, the free and open-source game engine. The rune board, the battles, the map, the Sanctuary and the story films all run in Godot on your phone.

Contact

Questions? Write to us

For questions, bigger files or anything else, write to us. We read every message.

kozlings@gmail.com