GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
Game in a Bottle · 2015 · Tower Defense, Strategy, Indie, Singleplayer, Action
PC
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About GemCraft - Chasing Shadows
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Craft and combine magical gems to power your towers against endless waves of demonic enemies in this deep tower defense strategy game. With nearly 200 levels, hundreds of achievements, multiple difficulty tiers, and countless gem combinations to master, GemCraft offers endlessly rewarding gameplay for both newcomers and veterans.
The cult classic tower defense game beloved by millions comes to Steam with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows. Against swarms of vicious, demonic avatars, your only defenses are the gems you conjure that, when placed atop towers or into traps and amplifiers, become conduits for powerful magical and elemental attacks. GemCraft combines fast-paced real-time strategy as you deal with waves of incoming monsters, and cunning tactics that allow you to craft and combine magical gems.
Create traps that poison or slow, discover powerful artifacts and unlock new abilities, and stand alone against The Forgotten, a seemingly unkillable archdemon whose endless armies threaten to swallow the world. GemCraft is packed with multiple levels of difficulty, hundreds of achievements, nearly two hundred levels, and much, much more, making it a rewarding, deep strategy game you'll come back to over and over again.
Conquer over 190 stages with unique challenges and conditions.
Over two dozen passive skills to unlock and enhance as you level up and increase your power.
More than 400 achievements that will reward you with more skill points as you earn them.
Craft and combine nine gem types with different effects to suit your tactical needs.
Combine and stack multiple tiers of difficulty and challenging battle traits for greater rewards, but also greater dangers.
Socket fragments you find into your mystical talisman to impart new bonuses.
Wield devastating spells to decimate your foes or enhance your gems.
Control the speed of battle with fast-forward or pause to fit your play style.
Want more monsters? Summon them with wave stones, but beware their greater power...
Replay any stage you've completed for more experience points or with a new challenge.
Hold out as long as you can after you win levels in Endurance mode for more rewards.
Create traps that poison or slow, discover powerful artifacts and unlock new abilities, and stand alone against The Forgotten, a seemingly unkillable archdemon whose endless armies threaten to swallow the world. GemCraft is packed with multiple levels of difficulty, hundreds of achievements, nearly two hundred levels, and much, much more, making it a rewarding, deep strategy game you'll come back to over and over again.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I used to play gemcraft as a kid and it was one of my favorite games. I looked it up on steam and at first thought "wow 10 bucks??" but holy moly, only 5 hours in, and its so worth it! this is so well made and a blast!!!
you make your game too beautiful ;-;
Oldie goodie. 9/10.
It's a pretty good game.
I really enjoyed this game and had lots of fun playing it. You're free to make it as difficult as you'd like, and as you can see by the hours I put into it - there's lots of content. I'm not even near completed, but at this point two things are making me move away from it: a) once you've unlocked all the gems, the different levels start looking too much alike and b) the levels at this difficulty level really start taking way too long. That said, I don't regret playing this at all, and I'd definitely recommend it to all defense tower lovers.
I love (and occasionally hate) this game. It goes on forever. Gems can be combined, amplified, used as bombs to destroy structures or enemies. You can build incredibly intricate paths. You build up a supply of points to assign to increase the effectiveness of the various gems and boosts and effects (and you can customize those assignments with each map for best effect). There are some grindy points where you need to return to earlier maps for better scores before you can conquer newly-discovered maps. I'm okay with that. At every step I felt like progress was being made (except when I got too greedy with boosting the difficult of an early map to get a better score; greedy doesn't work in this game). I've thrown a lot of hours at this game and I'm nowhere near done. Disclaimer: although Steam says I've put in 1000+ hours, over the years I've restarted several times, so I've got maybe 200 hours in this run. And, if you like it, there are several other games in the series. And the earlier games are being updated and collected, so that'll keep you busy.
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