CrossOver: Roll For Initiative

[h2]A mashup of three game genres that's less than the sum of its parts. I would rather play the match-3 individually and either have the shooter automated or not present at all. I wish I could give a neutral review - this isn't bad, but it isn't good enough for me to recommend, either.[/h2] [h3]The Good:[/h3] [list] [*]The art for the races/species and for the events is beautiful, done in a fun sketchy pencil style. [*]The idea of combining a top-down shooter (it's not really a tower defense, despite the label), an rpg, and a match-3 is really fun, and there are some genuinely good ideas here (like having the match-3 work as ammunition, where if it works out well you only have to match-3 in the lulls between enemy waves, or the random items/spells/money you get after each completed arena) [*]You can pause the game at any time to check the glossary and strategize, or even just stare at the dice box for another match. [*]If you go too long without making a successful move in the match-three, it will point out a match to you. [*]The match-3 dicebox actually has some interesting strategy - instead of the dice always moving in the same direction, they move in the direction of your las…

85p on sale just now for a game that is worth the full price.

The idea is fantastic, but the gameplay sucks. Play the demo first, and if you like it, wait for the sale. I got mine with 88% discount.

What a fun concept and actually very fun game. Innovation on the match 3 game, a fun roguelike campaign, and a fun anxiety rush trying manage my character and match dice to get resources. Lots of fun metal multithreading, im looking forward to putting more time into this.

Nice little not-quite tower-defense, heavily RPG and certainly match 3. Reviews claim "tower defense" and the game lists that feature, but all there is that resembles a tower are mercenaries, and they only stay on the board for 20+ seconds and then you have to hire more of them to defend you. I have yet to see a tower. Okay I was confused by this game when I tried to play the demo. Then I forgot about it, but saw it on sale for 88% off at just a little over a dollar, and decided to go ahead and try again. But this time everything clicked. So if you're familiar with the DnD dice, there is a 4-sided, 6-sided, 8-sided, etc. And the number of sides is always the same number when playing the match-3. And when you score in the match-3, that makes those dice available for casting or whatever attack you want from your collection of weapons and spells. If what I just wrote made sense to you - you've played enough of these sorts of games so this will all make sense relatively quickly. BUT if it didn't make sense, this game doesn't bother to explain this all to you! That was a big failure I think - they really should not have assumed that everyone knows how attack rolls work. The…

Got it for almost free and played a bit and didn't hate it - so I guess positive review? But the game feels like it was an id3ea and got built with not much additional thought. A lot of systems work poorly with each other and the UX is pretty bad. Don't get this unless it's on deep sale.