Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Review

GameSpy is offering a review of the PC version of Puzzle Quest, noting it “finally arrives on the platform it should have called home”. they give it a 3.5/5.

The fact that Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords has been released for five platforms now is a testament to the insidious appeal of its formula. While the idea of splicing RPG elements into a match-three puzzle game seems pretty incongruous at first glance, it begins to make a lot more sense after you take a few minutes to play. After all, RPGs have always relied on random numbers to put their engines in motion, so in the end, does it really matter if it’s a Bejeweled grid determining your fate instead of an imaginary 20-sided die? Everything about the game seems built expressly to nurture your addiction to it: if the RPG stats-twiddling doesn’t get you, then the mesmerizing gem-matching game that enables the higher concept will.