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Nectar Trail

Match-3 Trail Shooter

The game loads when you press play.

  • Free
  • No ads
  • No account needed
  • No install — plays in your browser

About the game

Aim, match three, clear the trail. A calm, colourful match-3 trail shooter with 18 hand-built trails and a Trail Editor. Plays fully offline.

Nectar Trail is a match-3 trail shooter set in a sunlit garden.

A line of nectar orbs rolls along a winding wooden groove toward a hollow log at the end of the trail. From a petal launcher you fire orbs into the line: land three or more of the same kind and they pop. When the gap closes, a fresh match can chain straight into another, and chains are worth more. Clear every orb before the line reaches the log.

Eighteen trails wind, sweep, zigzag, spiral and loop, adding orb kinds and speed as you go. Each of the five kinds carries both a colour and its own silhouette — honeycomb, heart, star, leaf, dewdrop — so matches stay readable without relying on colour alone.

The Trail Editor lets you lay out your own route: tap to add waypoints, drag to shape the curve, move the launcher where you like, then play it.

Built for in-flight entertainment: one self-contained file, no network of any kind, full gamepad support alongside touch, eleven languages, and an in-app exit for seatback units that hide the system Home and Back buttons.

How to play

  1. Match 3 or more orbs of the same kind to pop them off the trail.
  2. If the line reaches the hollow log at the end of the trail, the run is over.
  3. Popping a gap closed can chain more matches — chains score more.
  4. Clear every orb in the level to move on to the next trail.

Controls

TouchDrag anywhere to aim the launcher and release to shoot a nectar orb; tap the launcher to swap the loaded orb with the next one.
MouseClick and drag anywhere to aim, release to shoot, and click the launcher to swap the loaded orb with the next one.
KeyboardLeft and Right arrows aim, Space or Enter shoots, Up, Down or S swaps the orb, and Esc or P pauses.
GamepadLeft stick aims · right stick, D-pad or bumpers fine-tune the aim · LT for precision · A or RT shoots · Y swaps the orb · B pauses or backs out · X or Start quits to the menu.

Screenshots

  • Nectar Trail title over a spiral trail of orbs, with PLAY, Choose Level, Trail Editor, How to Play, High Scores and Language
  • Level 14: orbs roll out of a figure-eight trail while the bee launcher aims a red orb; best 41,880 and 75 orbs left
  • Level 13: a line of orbs sets off along a four-lane serpentine trail toward the hollow log at the far end
  • The Trail Editor with an eight-point serpentine trail, and Undo, Redo, Preset, Clear, Play Trail and Back beneath it
  • High Scores: eight runs from Level 12 at 41,880 down to Level 2 at 6,120, medals on the top three, Clear and Back
  • How to Play: six illustrated rules from aiming the launcher to clearing a trail, then a four-line Controller list

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