What it does best
Tower defense as a serious strategic sandbox
Gem combinations that invite obsessive theorycrafting
A tower-defense campaign built to swallow hundreds of hours
The wave-by-wave loop is dangerously easy to extend
What might put you off
Late-game grind and repetition
Technical presentation and readability
The setup
What you are walking into
The latest installment of the GemCraft series is a unique tower defense game, where, instead of towers, gems are the main weapon to fight endless hordes of monsters. Place your gems in towers, traps, or amplifiers, replace and switch them as you wish. Even combine them to create more powerful gems with powerful abilities, drop them as gem bombs or activate powerful buildings, the possibilities are endless, the choice is yours! Fight your way through an epic story, unfolding mysteries and facing sinister enemies and artifacts, as you try to entrap the Forgotten, an archdemon with an unknown agenda and no known way to kill, and to slay her demonic avatars, the shadows. Fierce and desperate battles await you...
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