Very interesting game. The controls are challenging but once I got them it became really fun and satisfying navigating the raft and doing the match 3.
I played several rounds on easy/normal and the game always ended the same way - being stuck on a new raft piece that I had nowhere to slot. Unless I'm missing something, it feels really bad and punishing further into the game to match logs to create new pieces that just have nowhere to go. Sure I can maybe pick a config that will fit, but the select screen covers part of the raft sometimes so I can't be certain what space I have. On top of that, sometimes logs match themselves and I'm busy clicking elsewhere when that happens and a piece gets selected for me, so I have no control over it. And, I can't do a controlled burn with the bombs to make space because other pieces can auto match themselves and put it out. So then, I end up just waiting for my raft to fill up while I can't move. In this case, it feels like the player is being punished for doing too many matches, which feels really bad in a game of match 3. There's enough to juggle between navigating and fires and losing squares that I shouldn't ALSO have to worry about not having space for a raft piece. I think just letting the player lose the piece is fine, it lets the game continue and the player can still lose by being too slow and getting overwhelmed. Again though, if I was just missing something in the controls and there's a way to back out of the piece select, then pay this no mind!
Despite that one thing, this game is honestly so fun and I could see myself playing more!