Puzzle Quest: Galactrix Previews

The new week brings us yet another preview of Infinite Interactive’s Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, and this time it’s over at Frictionless Insight.

When damage is inflicted on a ship, that damage is first applied to that ship’s shield. Once the shields are depleted, damage is applied to the ship’s hull. By eliminating blue pieces, players can re-energize their shields. There are also white tiles that provide intel to help the player character grow a sort of experience and purple tiles related to “psi” that will enhance a character’s abilities outside of battle.

To make battle particularly interesting, play will change depending on whether the battle takes place within the gravity well of a planet or star. When combat takes place under gravity, pieces fall in from the top when other pieces are eliminated. In space, when there’s no gravity, pieces come in from the direction in which you moved a token. So, by determining which token you touch first when swapping pieces, you can control how pieces come into the board. That should make the strategy of setting up combinations considerably more interesting. Without gravity, you’ll have more control over how battle plays out. And so will your foes.