Match 3

Genre: Puzzle/Match-3/RPG
Platform: All (mobile, PC, PS4, XBox)

For the first time in Super Fun Time Gaming Girl blog history, a game is being replaced in my top 25 list. I know the list isn’t fully done yet, but in this instance, the former #17, Puzzle Quest, is being replaced with Gems of War.

Puzzle Quest deserves all of the props that I gave it in my original post. I have since fallen in serious like with Gems of War, however. The game takes the mechanics that made Puzzle Quest great and really ran with it. It’s the natural evolution of the game and it is oh so sweet.

This is a match-3 game combined with a card-based troop system with several different modes. It has an active online user base and is available on every platform, which makes it very accessible. I play it on all platforms but mobile. It’s fun to create my different play styles over the different platform. For example, I play a bit of a trickster goblin party on my PS4, but a more serious dragon-based party on my XBone.

The developer is constantly making great updates to the game and it doesn’t appear that they have plans to stop. Since I’ve been playing, they’ve added pets, weapon crafting and a completely re-done class system. One of my favorite modes is treasure mode, where you combine pieces to form bigger pieces and get more loot.

Gems of War Treasure

As you play, you can also conquer kingdoms and add troops to your arsenal. I am always adding, upgrading and maintaining new troops to my collection and tinkering with my lineups. There is also a PVP mode, although you aren’t actually playing a live person. You are playing a person’s team. I would love to see a live PVP and I wouldn’t be surprised if it showed up one day. The map of kingdoms is quite large and is growing:

Gems of War map

Anyway, if you like match-3 games, this is the mother of them all. It will keep you busy for hours on end and you will keep coming back for more!

10m play

Genre: Match 3 with RPG elements
Platform: PC

I just discovered 10,000,000 yesterday on Steam. I haven’t gotten much accomplished around the house as a result. I need to do my taxes, balance the checkbook, do a load of laundry, vacuum, start planting my garden, mow the lawns, etc etc. But no, instead 10,000,000 has sucked me in all day yesterday and today. In fact, it took me over an hour to write up this post because while getting screenshots, I ended up playing it more.

That should be reason enough for those of you that like match 3 games or casual games to go out and get it. You are an adventurer stuck in a dungeon and you can earn your freedom by scoring 10,000,000 points. This isn’t a quick task. I played through the entire game in about 7 hours, but I started over immediately after completing it. You start in your home dungeon area, which consists of some rooms and a bed. You unlock the rooms and upgrade them as you go. In these rooms, you can upgrade your weapons and armor.

Before entering the dungeon, you are given three tasks, which award you with either gold or experience, both necessary for upgrades. The game play itself has you at the top of the screen, meeting monsters or loot chests along the way. You only have so much time to play, and you can eventually get upgrades or food items which allow you to extend that time. The longer you’re in the dungeon, the higher your score. The monsters get tougher, but you rank up, which increases your score multiplier.

There’s not much more to this game than that, but it is super fun. Check it out on Steam or on your mobile device!