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Puzzle Quest 3 revives match-3/RPG mash-up after ten years awayBut now it’s free-to-play
But now it’s free-to-play
Puzzle Quest is returning after a ten year absence. Puzzle Quest 3 will again combine match-3 and RPG mechanics together with the original designer Steve Fawkner at the helm, but this time it’ll be - possible uh-oh - free-to-play.
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Not much to go on based on that trailer, or in the press release, which vaguely promises “a twist on traditional puzzle gameplay” and “an intense 1-versus-1 battle system realized in a 3D game world.”
Match-3 gets a bad rap, but there’s little more satisfying in games than matching a bunch of gems of the same colour. In Puzzle Quest, different kinds of matches gave your hero different resources which they could then spend on attacks against various fantasy monsters. There was a quickly identified pattern to your pattern-matching, but it was more-ish in the extreme.
John wrote aPuzzle Quest 2 reviewfor us back in 2010, finding himself compelled to keep playing despite finding it repetitive.
It’s ridiculous that after playing it for days, just repeating those same actions again and again, that I know as soon as I’m done writing this I’ll go back and play some more. I’m quite certain what it offers can’t justify the interest I have in playing it. But I shall not stop. I don’t want to stop. I want to repeat that action. And repeat that action. And repeat that action. And I’m almost disinterested in whether the context changes.
