Puzzle Quest

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $15.95

Features:

• For the first-time ever in a puzzle game embark on an epic single-player campaign comprising more than 150 challenging quests.
• Create and build a hero from one of four unique classes who gains skills, spells, weapons and more over the course of the game.
• Battle other Warlords for supremacy via multiplayer

Customer Reviews:

Depth?! In a puzzle game?? [Posted on 2008-02-08]
What am I going to say that other reviewers haven't? If you are a nut who loves matching grid puzzles, you should have no problem playing this game. If you love RPGs but hate the endless overly dramatic combat sequences you must endure to fight a rabbit for that one last XP, this game is for you.

Granted, you will find yourself doing a awful lot of matching, but PQ does an admirable job of varying the game play for different scenarios. Destroy anvils to forge new equipment, match up certain quantities of each of the elements to learn new spells, clear the board to capture monsters and mounts. The rules change with every encounter, particularly since each foe has a set of special abilities that can radically change the tide of the game, or just slightly annoy you. You yourself have a large selection of spells and skills that you can manipulate the game grid with, changing the color of certain elemental gems, clearing a row or column, wholesale destruction of specific types or strategic removal of a single piece. I do enjoy how carrying certain special items can compliment your selected skills to create devastating combos.

While the mechanics of the game center around the matching puzzle motif, the spells, skills, equipment, game types and foes vary this up so much that you can find yourself staying up way too late to get that last twenty gold so you can buy the siege tower and capture cities for your empire...

A simple, yet very addictive game [Posted on 2008-02-23]
A VERY addicting game that is a variation of 'Bejeweled' with RPG features.

This is an ongoing adventure/quest game that is entirely playable with the mouse; you compete against computer generated opponents on a 'bejeweled' styled game board. If you win you get money and XPs with which you can buy upgrades in the form of magic spells, rings, equipment etc. that make you stronger and more powerful.

There were things I liked about this game, but a couple of concerns as well...let me explain

The good:

1.)An extremely simple and addicting game. I player for hours; I played until my eyes were so sore they felt like they're going to fall out. You could waste an incredible amount of time playing with a 'just one more game, one more level' attitude.

2.)The game saves automatically when you exit it; a good feature.

3.)Several 'heroes' to choose from; each with their own particular skills, strengths and weaknesses.

The con: (singular)

No instruction manual! I downloaded this game from 'Steam' and there was no manual with it (in fact, I couldn't find a manual anywhere, even on the website from the manufacturer). And although game play, on its own, was simple enough, there were some game skills (basically on how to combine 'runes' to make powerful weapons) that seemed difficult to understand without some input from a manual; and without these 'new runes combos' you have almost no chance of winning this game.

Conclusions:
1.)A fun, compelling game that keeps you playing.
2.)It's reasonably priced.
3.)The availability of an online instruction booklet would have been appreciated not only for general game tips but how to develop a strategy that would allow you to win the game.

Simply Fun and Addictive [Posted on 2008-03-03]
I had played this on a Nintendo DS and decided I wanted my own copy for the PC. It's a great game and I think even more enjoyable on the PC. In fact, my wife plays it and she hates video games! Very quick learning curve, good sound and graphics, and the official patch that you can download adds a few noticable "tweaks" to the game. One tip, if it fails to run after install you need to run the patch. I'd recommend this to just about anyone.

Great Little Game! [Posted on 2008-04-21]
I had read an article about this game in a computer magazine and being a fairly active gamer and relatively busy, I thought I would see if this game was worth its incredible review. It is.

It is an incredibly addictive game that does not require any learning curve and you can walk away from the game for 2 weeks and return as if you never left it.

You can choose 1 of 4 types of characters to play (the fighter, knight, wizard and druid) and each type had its specific strengths and weaknesses as you would expect (fighters have more hit points and do more damage than a wizard, etc...). Each class also has different spells in the combat segment which plays like the Bejeweled game (a fun game in itself) where you try to match 3 (or more) of the same colored gems in a grid and when yo do, they disappear and are replaced. However, the spells CHANGE the bejewled game into something more challenging and very deep and soon, you are looking at both getting certain types of colored gems yourself while preventing the computer from getting what they want for their spells. Each type of "monster" that you fight has different spells so each time you "fight" a monster, you always want your stones, but they will proboably want different ones (I suppose that a giant bat has a different taste in gems than a skeleton).

Your character will level and each level you can put points (4) into raising a skill which effects your health, damage, each of the 4 magic types (color types) and so forth. This is where it is easier for a knight to have more hit points because it is easier (you spend less points) to raise that attribute than a druid (for instance) but likewise for a druid to invest in magic than a knight. Magic helps you cast your spells when you have the required number of gems.

The game also has a light but interresting ( and comical) story to it as well. You can follow the plot without writting notes or really worrying about it. As well, whenever you accept a mission of some sort (up to 4 missions are allowed), you can put your cursor over the mission on the screen and a neat little red arrow shows you in which direction to go!

This is a must for the casual gamer. 8 year olds might enjoy this game as well as an adult. This will not be removed from my hard drive for a long time!

Nice Little Time-Waster [Posted on 2008-05-08]
Depending on your viewpoint & your gaming status, Puzzle Quest is either WOW Light or Bejeweled on steroids. This game combines aspects of both titles & ends up being a nice little hybrid game. Casual gamers will like its quick & easy pace; while hardcore gamers will appreciate its homage to WOW w/out the time demands. Play is intuitive & easy to learn. As w/WOW, each player can customize his style of play. All ages should enjoy this game; & the price is nice, too!

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