Candy Crunch is a parody Match 3 game which highlights and critiques the implicit presence of labor in games. Candy Crunch opens to a familiar scene: a candy-themed Match 3 web game. Between the overprocessed art, the simple swapping mechanic, and the bouncing music, Candy Crunch’s aesthetic is a bastardization of Candy Crush and Bejeweled, in all their psychologically pleasurable glory. But the tensile reproduction collapses when the candies stop falling onto the game screen and upon further inspection of the game space is not limited to the purview of a 5×5 grid.
