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Gems of War is a Match-3 RPG from the original creators of Puzzle Quest! Start your RPG journey and fight puzzle battles through hundreds of quests, or build your army of troops and go to war in strategic PVP match-3 combat!

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG is a free to play, match 3 and puzzle game developed by Infinity Plus 2 and published by 505 Games.
Released on November 20th 2014 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 8,790 reviews of which 7,067 were positive and 1,723 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Gems of War - Puzzle RPG into these genres:

Free to Play Match 3 Puzzle PvE PvP Card Game Strategy RPG Turn-Based Strategy RPG Strategy 2D Turn-Based Combat Story Rich Singleplayer Casual Fantasy Magic War Adventure Multiplayer

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Vista SP1+, Windows 7 or higher
  • Processor: 2.33 GHz or faster x86 CPU, or Intel Atom 1.6Hz or faster CPU (SSE2 instruction set support)
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Radeon HD2000 series or better, GeForce 8 series or better, Intel 3000 or better (Pixel Shader 4 support required)
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 800 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Required

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Feb. 2017
A very fun but very poorly balanced game. I want to cover four quick points. Lack of balance part 1 - the reason for nearly all negative reviews here (and a workaround!) In Gems of War the primary gameplay is broken down into games you either play against AI created teams in a variety of scenarios, or in games you play against real teams created by other players that the AI controls. The balance for the AI created teams is a bit messed up. It starts out trivially easy but scales up incredibly rapidly and caps at around level 50. The problem is that you'll soon find yourself unable to effectively compete against the AI teams. At this point it seems lots of people decide it's either go pay-to-win or call it quits. There's a much better solution. Go play PvP. PvP will pair you against more fairly matched teams. You'll get better rewards and be able to continue leveling up your cards and team. Since the AI team scaling stops at level 50, by the time you come back to it - it'll be a cake walk. It's counter intuitive but yeah. Start by playing against AI teams and then after that do PvP until you're ready to face the AI... Lack of balance part 2 - the fun is strictly capped The cards in the game are in no way balanced or is there any major attempt to balance them. Rarer cards tend to do everything less rare cards do... and more... and better. The problem is that this strictly caps the room for creative team design. You are left to take your best/rarest cards, add a mana generator (turning gems of a certain color into the one your 'win card(s)' need), and that's pretty much going to crush any other team you could make. This is really fun at first when you're regularly finding more rarer cards and your decks are constantly shifting and changing in new and interesting ways. But as you start to collect most of the top cards - the fun starts to stop. Suddenly there's not much to look forward to, and since less rare cards tend to just be worse in every possible way there's not really any sort of room for creative team design. Monetization - you can, but don't need to and I wouldn't want to The major 'grab' in this game is chasing the carrot of rarer cards. With real money you can buy these cards - or at least keys to chests that give you a very high chance of getting them. However, everything relevant that you can buy you can earn through regular play as well. I actually find this a bit frustrating. I'd love to toss the developers a few dollars since I've gotten a lot of enjoyment out of this game, but just about everything you can buy is going to just decrease the hours of enjoyment you can have with the game. A recurring problem with free to play games that don't just focus on aesthetics purchases. Overall - Great game. Overall yeah, give it a go. It's by a wide margin the most fun I've had in this sort of game and there's hundreds of hours of entertainment in this game for those that enjoy the fundamental gameplay.
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Feb. 2017
The best "Puzzle Quest" since the original, made by those same developers! Featuring new content weekly and developers that are very engaged with their players. To get the most out of the game, find a good guild ASAP and check out the official forums. My hours played is much higher than what you see here, since I usually play on iOS. (You can use the same account across the PC, iOS, and Android versions.)
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Feb. 2017
This is a fun and addicting game. I've been able to join one of the top guilds, which makes the game a lot better. Very good community and everybody seems to be very helpful. The forums are very active and informative and the devs are active and quick to get bugs fixed. Very much worth checking out. I love that I can switch from PC to mobile version as well.
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Feb. 2017
I saw this game on my friend's profile and saw that he has over 200 hours logged on it. I checked Gems of War out on it's store page and thought that it seemed pretty lame. One day out of sheer boredom I decided to download it and give it a try. I have my roots playing Magic the Gathering back in college with my friends. Since then, I've always been search for a game on PC that was as much fun and as addicting as that was. I've tried Hearthstone, Shadowverse, and many others. None come close to Gems of War. The others have their high points and aren't bad games but the fact that Gems of War has a guild system makes the grind that much easier. If you're looking for fancy graphics, you won't find them here but overall the game is very well done. Best of all, it's free. Give it a try, you'll end up gettting as addicted as I am.
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Jan. 2017
Gems of War is addicting. I try and play everyday. I sometimes lose track of time when playing. Try it you'll like it. What have you got to lose its free to play.
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Gems of War - Puzzle RPG is free to play on Steam.

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Gems of War - Puzzle RPG received 7,067 positive votes out of a total of 8,790 achieving a rating of 7.84.
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Gems of War - Puzzle RPG was developed by Infinity Plus 2 and published by 505 Games.

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG is not playable on MacOS.

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG is not playable on Linux.

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 6 DLCs available for Gems of War - Puzzle RPG. Explore additional content available for Gems of War - Puzzle RPG on Steam.

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Gems of War - Puzzle RPG does not support Steam Remote Play.

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Gems of War - Puzzle RPG
Free to play
7.8
7,067
1,723
Game modes
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Online players
754
Developer
Infinity Plus 2
Publisher
505 Games
Release 20 Nov 2014
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