Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (2007)
Genres:Adventure, Strategy, Puzzle
Themes:Fantasy
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Experience a puzzle game like nothing you have played before. Embark on an epic single-player campaign comprising of more than 150 challenging quests. Jump into this exciting puzzle game and out match your opponent in Quick-play mode. Build your empire as you capture cities, build castles and gain a party of companions that will aid you in battle. Earn money with each gold title to buy helms, weapons, armor and more!Show more
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A fun game that has much more stuff than one might have expected: siedging castles, mounts, crafting, monster collecting, quests, fun combat and soundtrack that gets stuck in you read forever.
I ended up whistling (badly) the theme long anough to start annoying my family.
And then there's that satisfaction of pulling off a combo.
It's a simple but long game.
I enjoyed spending hours on it, just roaming the map and completing side quests. The contents is diverse, ranging from harsh siege battles, puzzle map, capture and much more. The RPG elements are interesting and allow for various builds.
Sadly, the game is old and hard to find by now.
Being a big fan of the Warlords series of games, I had to at least try this one once I found out that this was based in the same universe. I was quite surprised at how enjoyable I found this game as I don't really go for puzzle games all that much (Tetris of course being a very big exception), but this one really hooked me.
I even found a way to change the portrait for your hero character. The game's asset archive is just a simple ZIP file, so anyone can pull out the portrait graphics, change or replace them, and zip them back up in the archive.
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