Puzzle Kingdoms

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Item Description

Puzzle Kingdoms looks like a match-three game for about five seconds. Then you realize you are not swapping gems at all: you are shoving entire rows and columns across the board, watching a new tile enter from one edge as another falls off the far side, and planning each push to power up specific soldiers in your army. It is a puzzle-strategy hybrid that rewards a slow, thoughtful player, and it comes from Infinite Interactive, the studio that turned Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords into a phenomenon.

The campaign returns to Etheria, the fantasy world shared by Puzzle Quest and Infinite's Warlords strategy series. You travel a world map conquering kingdoms one at a time, leading up to four heroes into each fight along with troops and relics. Gold is the lifeblood of the war effort: it recruits the troops who deliver your physical attacks, and fallen soldiers are gone for good, so choosing between cheap, quick-striking fighters and expensive, heavily armored ones becomes a real strategic call. Heroes level up and learn spells, and matches you do not spend on troop attacks pour into a magic pool for devastating spells.

Each troop needs its own combination of matches before it can strike, which gives every battle a layered, almost chess-like quality once the system clicks. Side challenges at shrines, dungeons and taverns ask you to clear tiles within a turn limit or match colors against the clock, earning stat upgrades, items and information.

On the DS, sliding rows with the stylus suits the game's push-and-shift board, and the dual screens keep your army and the battlefield in view at once. Reviews were mixed, with some critics finding it slower and more demanding than Puzzle Quest, but that is exactly its appeal for the right player. Puzzle Kingdoms is the more strategic, more demanding sibling to Puzzle Quest, and the natural next step after finishing that game for players who want a puzzle RPG with a heavier war-game layer.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2009
Publisher
Zoo Games
Developer
Infinite Interactive
About the game

Puzzle Kingdoms challenges players to plan out strategic attacks in order to defeat their opponents. Order troops across the map, conquering cities through innovative puzzle gameplay. Players build and manage armies led by heroic commanders to save the world of Etheria from the brink of destruction. By matching corresponding gems on the game board, players will both inflict damage on enemy forces while building mana that can be used to perform devastating attacks that will cripple their opponents.

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