Puzzle Strike
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $3.99 | Sirlin Games | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Will you go heavy on economy, offense, or build an intricate engine? In any case, make sure to adapt to your opponents because Puzzle Strike has a lot more interactivity than most other deckbuilders. And like the other games in the Fantasy Strike universe, Puzzle Strike is designed to hold up to thousands of games at the expert level, and we fully embrace the philosophy of even-playfield competition.
The new iOS version of Puzzle Strike has these new features:
- Cross-platform play with players on iOS, Steam or the web version on FantasyStrike.com
- Chips have 4x the resolution as the web version
- Climb the leaderboards in Quick Match and check out replays of top players to improve your game!
- New Puzzle Challenge mode: learn advanced character tactics and think outside the bag! Beat these advanced challenges to become a real Puzzle Striker!
- Complete your Daily Quests to earn Jewels, then spend them to play "Puzzle Smash", a high-powered version of Puzzle Strike
- Contains all 48 Puzzle chips from both Puzzle Strike Third Edition and Puzzle Strike: Shadows, as well as the promo chips, Combinatorics, Dashing Strike and Custom Combo
- Practice offline against AI Puzzlebots for the first time!
- English, French and Japanese language support, with German localization on the way
- The base game comes with the first four characters (Grave, Jaina, Midori, and Setsuki), with fourteen additional characters available in-app
Reviews
Too expensive
Skysavage
This is a Free to play game that costs you $4 (thus not free at all). It comes only with four characters out of like 30ish and you can’t unlock them at all except through ANOTHER $12 in app purchase. Nothing to unlock them in game. The pricing is nothing near online with other games. The gameplay itself only merited the extra star I gave because the board game is fun. Until they give you all the characters for maybe a $5 purchase... just pass and spend your money on a better and complete game.
Hoped for better
TheClarkFactor
I couldn't wait for this game to come out on iOS, but the UI leaves quite a bit to be desired. I realize Puzzle strike is a complex game, but the interface is busy and difficult to manage. The game has crashed more than once as well. Will continue to play and hope to see improvements in future versions.
Confusing Game
robaustin
I love Deckbuilding Games, having played Dominion, Star Realms and Ascension. I found this game really confusing in the tutorial. Maybe if I'd have played the physical game first I might understand it better. I was thinking about reading the instructions for the physical game so I'd better understand it that way. So many symbols, so much to remember. I'll try it again and see, but wow...just overwhelming.
Great
wahmetapul
This is a very interesting bag-building game. Similar to quariors, you are building a bag of things, in this case it's poker-like chips. The rules are interesting and different. You win by giving your opponent gems and filling up their gem meter. What's really interesting is as your gem meter fills up you can use chips to send a gem from your pool to your opponent which also reduces your gems. There is a mechanic of combining chips so your "attacks" (called crashes in game ) "hit" harder; there are chips that combine your gems in your pool, so even though you can only send one gem you can end up sending a large gem over to your opponents. It takes a little getting used to the flow of the game. The app does a good job of walking you through the concepts and rules of the game but you need to go slowly through the tutorial and read the pop-ups. There aren't many glyphs to learn and they are all explained in the tutorial. Briefly there are: arrows which indicate you can play more chips, circles which mean you can draw more chips from your bag, money with let you buy chips, piggy bank which let you save chips for your next turn. I might be missing one or 2 but it's not complex. The interface does a good job of displaying a lot of information in a small screen and by pressing any chip zooms in so its easier to read. I am really enjoying the game so far. My one complaint is the price of the iap for more characters. It's $12 to unlock all the characters. I think their thinking is $1 per character but I think that's a bit steep.
Great deckbuilding game!
Saint Cornelius
Being a huge fan of Dominion, Ascension, Dream Quest, and other deckbuilding games, as soon as I saw screen shots of this game I had to have it! If you’re familiar with deckbuilding games, then you’ll jump right into this. If not, it might take you a little time to sort it all out… but don’t get frustrated and eventually it’ll all become clear. Thanks Sirlin for this wonderful game!
Needs work
Zachary Apps
This is probably a good start for a game that has this much going on. But it crashes too often and online play is fairly impossible with how much it freezes. Also, I realize game companies need to make money, but fans of the game really don't want to have to pay a total of $18 dollars to be able to play with all the characters. Especially since buying the physical game was already pricey enough...
One of the best deck builders out there
animepauly
The game itself is very fun and rewarding to pay. The strategy can be extremely deep but new comers will be able to pick up the basics and have fun in the ritual and AI. I highly suggest playing the AI first until you can consistently beat it, and then move on to paying live people. I do agree that the UI on the phone could be better, but I haven't had any problems with it overall other than chatting is difficult. Still highly recommend to anyone who likes deck building games.
Great implementation of a great deck builder
theodorelogan
I love puzzle strike, and was excited to see the iOS implementation. The pricing is great ($4 to play four characters...another 12 I think to get all the rest). If you have two devices, you can put it on both and play a friend. There are a few bugs, but nothing so severe that it detracts from the great gameplay. If you love Dominion (and you were disappointed by the recent IOS release of that game) this is definitely one to check out. This release definitely took the sting out of my Dominion disappointment.
