Space Pet Link

The board looks calm at first, then the timer starts eating into your buffer and suddenly every alien pet on screen seems to be hiding behind another one. That's the moment Space Pet Link gets good. You're not just matching tiles, you're tracing lines with three corners or fewer between two identical creatures, and the clock does not care how cute they are.

The cast here is new: alien pets you won't have seen in the older Space games on this site, scattered across the field instead of neatly stacked. Clear the whole board before time runs out and you get that specific little jolt of having beaten the puzzle, not just survived it.

Easy mode is there for when you just want to poke at tiles without your pulse rising. Hard mode is there for when you want the pulse rising. Fans of Mahjong Connect will recognize the connect-and-clear bones here, just repainted with tentacles and antennae. It plays free in the browser, no download, on desktop or mobile - so the only real obstacle is that timer.

Clear every tile from the board before the timer runs out. Use your mouse on desktop or tap on touchscreen to connect two tiles showing the same alien pet, and they'll vanish from play.

The catch: a connecting line can only bend around three corners or fewer, so tiles that look close together aren't always linkable. Scan the board for a legal path before you commit to a match.

Start on easy mode if you want to learn the pets and the corner rule without pressure, then move to hard mode once clearing the board feels routine.