Travel Story Match is a match-3 adventure game. A global traveler, Sophia, needs the player's help while she explores famous locations in Italy, France, England and Egypt. From level to level, she provides the player with tasks they must complete on match-3 boards. The player earns points, coins and prizes for their efforts.
Each board features different travel-related items, such as beverages, cameras, compasses, sandals and wallets. The player must collect a specific number of these items, patches beneath items, and special items like gold tickets. On some levels, they must remove obstacles that Sophia refers to as blockers, such as ice, rope and stones. They might also need to open boxes that contain coins or boosters.
The player typically performs collections by aligning three adjacent identical items in a column or row. That said, they can create super items like glowing line and cross blasts and rainbow-colored hot air balloons by aligning more than three basic ones. With these super items, they can remove non-identical items or mass-remove one type, respectively. If they combine these tools, they cause incredible outcomes. For example, two hot air balloons remove all items on a board.
The player can also use boosters. They can use arrows to swap the positions of two items, a pair of scissors to break or collect one item, and airplanes to remove columns and rows of items.
Travel Story Match rewards the player with many prize opportunities. The player receives gifts for achievements and from Sophia at random now and then. Additionally, they can collect coins and boosters from daily challenges, daily rewards, floating path bubbles, special events and treasure chests.