Puzzle Quest Challenge of the Warlords is a strategic puzzle game action/adventure developed by ValuSoft for PC.

I know the title may seem strange for a good game meant to fill your time at work, but I notice a new trend this year, the trend of “mutants” in games; and through this, I understand the different combinations of genres, and I believe that in the future, this idea will expand allot into gaming, while the traditional divisions FPS, RPG, RTS etc, will be in disfavor.

The idea of the game is pretty simple: Puzzle Quest Challenge of the Warlords is a typical RPG only this time we talk about a strategic puzzle game.. anyway when I say RPG I mean that: you have an inventory, you will find weapons, armor and runes, you have to complete missions and doing this you will gain experience and money, which you should invest in the best artifacts and better skills, you have a main story – no surprise here -weird stuff happens with invasion of Orcs and immortals and the Queen asks you to save the world – and optional adventures where the characters are typical races, known, and even have your own fortress where you build buildings, train the animals you caught and learn spells. What is not so typical in this game? Is that the battles are given for runes.

And still, is not quite so simple. In fact, the idea remains to match them by color at least 3 minimum each, but now their destruction creates the colored aura and the combination of colored auras might be used for killing spells, spells that you will learn about while playing the game. Moreover, there are skulls that appear sometimes and the one that will destroy them will decrease the others’ life and this because you do not fight for points, but for life and death, you change shifts and of course, the vigorous enemy will attack back (obviously, the computer sees better the combinations than man), and so, you can win but you can also lose.

I liked in this game the fact that enemies are varied and they have different combination of spells and skills, so for each enemy you must adopt different game tactics (e.g. instead to collect the green aura, which is useful for you, you collect the blue one so that you’re enemy will not use it), you can develop yourself in different directions throughout the game, depending on what kind of style you prefer to the spells.

Puzzle Quest Challenge of the Warlords Minimum System Requirements:
-Operating System: Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP, Vista
-Processor: Pentium® III 1.0 GHz or greater
-Memory: 256 MB RAM
-Graphics: 64 MB video card (ATI 7000, Geforce 2 or Intel GMA 900 series)
-Hard Drive: 105 MB hard drive space
-Sound Card: DirectX 9c compatible sound card
-DirectX: 9c or greater
-Input: Keyboard and mouse
-Installation: CD-ROM