Puzzle Quest 3 - Battle RPG

This game was fun but I had to delete it because it would drain my battery on my iPhone 12 and, later, brand new iPhone 15 in the span of like two hours of play. Despite reducing all settings to lowest possible performance/resolution. Did a little research. Turns out fans have been complaining for over 18 months with no meaningful response from developer.

Gameplay is fun if you like puzzle adventures. A little repetitive, but that’s to be expected with these type of games. However, what you would expect to be such a simple game, it completely drains my battery life on my phone and makes it really warm. I have even turned the graphics in game down to lowest settings, with little change. At first I thought it was my old phone, but I just upgraded to the 16 Pro, and same issue. The game is great, but these issues may be a deal breaker for me.

It crashes constantly on my fairly new iPad and it’s super slow to load. BUT it may be the most fun and addictive game I’ve played that’s not on my PS or Nintendo.

I've been playing this game for over a year now and I made it through the dev change a while back. Nothing was lost - the gear values changed (like when Warcraft did the gear crunch) and as far as I can tell it has changed back to what it was. I have made steady progress as a free to play player and while I would love to progress faster, the system feels fair to me. I finally spent 20 this last season cycle as a thank you. I'm not paying to win either. I find this game fun because my free time is scarce and I can play this casually and enjoy it. The previous seasons and grinding is not a grating experience. I love the monster and character designs and the art style overall. The UI changes for the better and for the worse depending on what the devs are trying to do and I don't fault them for that. I am very happy to have this game avaiilable. Kills my iPhone battery though - fast. So I play on the PS5.

This game would be amazing if it weren’t for a few issues. The biggest is it freezes ALL. THE. TIME. Which is annoying on its own, but the turn timer will keep ticking down while it’s frozen so you can’t do what you planned for the turn. If they just fixed that alone, I’d probably give them 4 stars. There are also issues with it crashing, though it does seem to be less frequent with recent releases. They have frequent server issues too, but they seem to be aware of that. It’s weird that you stop leveling at level 50… I don’t understand that. Also, I’m fine with a pay to play model but the prices they set to get things to advance & improve your character aren’t reasonable for what you get. Way too high for what’s offered.

Really good. Relaxing and chill and fun. I absolutely love the fantasy d&d theme and elements. I’m too impatient to read the story dialogues and skip through them. But the actual mechanic of the necromancer is nice. I never write app reviews, so congrats!

5 Stars so far. I haven’t hit a paywall or been forced fed in game purchases. No ads that I’ve seen. Great gameplay. If this continues I will support this game with my wallet as well as recommend this to anyone.

Fun enough to not get redundant quickly.

The Dev’s hook you, then get you to expend a lot of time and energy to gather your strengths and playing style, the “upgrade” the game without warning and leave you with worthless gear. Previously, before the spell book change, you could pick and choose what set of spells you wanted to work on, and upgrade those spells first. Gone with the update. Now you upgrade a “Book” at 1000x the previous cost and can only gather the required upgrade pieces randomly. Very randomly. Then along comes the gear “update”. No longer can you choose a specific piece to upgrade. It is all random. This game has turned itself into a roulette wheel. You can spin it, but you have no control over the outcome. Finally, you hard time and money turned gear got wiped out as the Dev’s, without warning but the again they care not for you, the quality of the gear gets re-done and you lose your entire playing power. Sending in support tickets just elicited a Dev’s ire, and responses that are uncaring. Just spare yourself, send them your money and do not play the game. That outcome will happen whether you play or not.

All of a sudden all the previous poor reviews are gone, leaving you to think this is the best RPG game out there. This game is completely changed. Those who started playing over 6 months ago have lost all their progress, and builds, and works, only to be replaced with a system that wants your hard earned dollars to get back to where you were before the big updates. Progress is not a bad thing, but changing the entire system, without warning, and having you lose the builds your spent a lot of time and money to achieve, just is not fair. Then again, fair was not in consideration when the Developers changed the system at your loss. The play is mundane. The same theme rotates around again and again. Grinding to gain better equipment becomes monotenous and boring. Then all kinds of special offers occur, all of which cost money, for you to improve your stats. Strange how that coincides with your suddenly needing the very thing to improve, suddenly appears with its pricey cost. Spare yourself, keep your hard earned cash and look at current reviews, not the few posted by individuals that write glowing reviews for reasons that may not be in your best interest, but in theirs.