This year's mysterious game is an abandonware PC game from 2005. It's a unique match 3 puzzle game about a dragon family trying to reclaim their fortune by finding a bunch of elemental pearls.

I played it as a kid, on Wild Tangent, but only a trial version. And it took me years to find again because of one fatal mistake:

It's called Dragon Ball

No it's not related to the manga at all, it just has the same name. Why? Well who knows, whoever made this game has zero presence anywhere online. The company is called Venton Soft. Looking them up gives very little results.

I like this game and I want others to play it. But I have a problem. I was only able to get the trial version from an archived download. I believe this trial version is just the full version but with a time limit on it imposed by Wild Tangent. So after an hour, it's not playable anymore.

If anyone knows how to get rid of this DRM and have the game completely playable, or knows somebody who does, that would be wonderful. I guess I'm technically asking for piracy, but this game is clearly abandonware and not on sale anywhere. Also, I couldn't find a single download of it on any abandonware websites, and the only download I found was a complete lie. And finally, I have no way to contact the creators of the game: I didn't get far enough in the game to see credits, so I don't know the names behind it.

https://youtu.be/Sky7NS29Ihc Here is my gameplay video of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140724082151/http://www.wildtangent.com/Games/dragon-ball archived link

http://download.wildgames.com/gamesapp/TouchpointInstallers/wildgames/Setup-dragonball-wildgames.exe copy this url to download it