Gem Master

Gem Master is a Chinese mobile-app esque point and click "match-3" style game where you're presented with a grid of gems and an AI opponent. By selecting a set of adjacent gems, you change your colour to that of those gems, and absorb adjacent gems of the same colour... this forms your "territory". The AI will do the same. The objective is to claim more territory than the AI, before all the territory is taken and the match ends. What fun. Surely the competitor that CS:GO needed all this time. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers t…

Fun little game, but really, REALLY needs a human vs human mode, whether that be hotseat (with this kind of game, steam's integrated remote play together would be sufficient, as it is turn-based) or some other form of netplay. There's potential for various strategies involving plotting paths where you try to predict your opponent's color change and blocking them off of it by nabbing that color at a critical time, as well as the usual space-grabbing and trapping strategies. No idea if the game would be all that deep, as the AIs can be figured out after a while and countered fairly effectively. With human opponents, this game could potentially be an engaging hidden gem, but currently it is still good for a short fun puzzly romp only. Price is adequate on a sale; with player vs player implemented, price might be entirely justified. Hope the dev adds it at some point.

Reminds me of 7 Colors on Amiga

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Interesting game concept, but the execution is so rough. Tolerable, if a bit mindless and too luck-based puzzle game. No real graphic settings, besides a bit of a visual aid. Including NO resolution control, setting it to a tiny resolution, when tabbing out everything is smol. Entire game looks very low-res, because it is. [hr][/hr] Im on a quest of at least trying every game in my library, of which I got plenty from all kinds of bundles. If you are interested in my journey, check out my other reviews :)

I did a thing and I won somehow? Not entirely sure what I'm meant to do, nor why I can't click certain colours at times but sure, it's alright for a puzzle game I guess!