Gem Forge

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Gem Forge ist ein kurzweiliges Match 3 Spiel das mit genauer Steuerung und guten Sound Effekten zu gefallen weiß. Der günstige Preis (unter 1 Euro) macht dieses Spiel zur Empfehlung.

This game itself is not bad: a decent but simple puzzle game for a good price, EXCEPT... So it seems that the achievements have been bugged (and will not unlock) for at least 4 months (at the time of this review) without any update or information from the devs. I would be happy to revisit this review after this gets resolved, but until then, I cannot recommend! PS: I am also generally not a fan of games that dump a bunch of items in your inventory. Not a huge deal, but another strike against it...

Ever played "2048" before? If not, try it out right now: http://2048game.com/ "Gem Forge" by Bogemic Games (current Steam username "redhat") is just like that, with all the addiction, but with colorful gems instead of numbers. 💎 Here's what else it has: 👍 A nice, fiery background (which is now animated via a prior update) that gives the feel of being in a forge. 👍 Keeps track of your highest score. 👍 Steam Achievements; some are rare enough to be ranked in your "Rarest Achievements" showcase. ...That actually goes to show how rare people play this game. In fact, this is only the 20th review for it overall. ☹️ 👍 Good music to listen to that fits the game's theme. 🎶 👍 Steam Trading Cards to make decent-looking Profile Badges, along with decent-looking profile backgrounds and emoticons; probably not useful emoticons but still look fun to have anyway. 👍 Two gameplay modes: 4x4 and 8x8. While 4x4 works as a normal "2048", redhat took a step further with the 8x8 and made it so that some gems that appear on the board are chained, blocking all but the same kind of gem that's chained to pass. This is because that the 8x8 version of "2048" has the player to make a tile adding up to 16384 but here the highest gem is still the Royal Brilliant, so redhat simply made something more unique for the gameplay. That all being said, there's a few issues I need to point out for fixing to make the game better. 👎 Beforehand, if it wasn't for that discussion I read about the Beta "comp-compatibility build" thing, I would've still gotten that error message about installing Xaudio2_9 when I already did. Might want to fix that for Windows. 💡 Since redhat has images of Gem Recipes on your Trading Cards, Profile Backgrounds and emoticons, perhaps making a guide of an in-game portion in the menu which describes all possible combinations to make what Gems, as I saw I could fuse 2 starting gems (whatever they're called) with a Triangular Amethyst to make a Square Emerald for example. That might be a good idea. 👎 A serious issue regarding gameplay the players MUST be aware of; unlike other Match 3 games like "Bejeweled" and online "2048", the game is unaware of truly knowing how many moves left could be possible. It's usually it's Game Over when the board is full with no more possible gem matches left to make but for this game, if the board's full with some moves left to make but you press the wrong arrow key, you get the Game Over screen, even when you were still capable of going on. Point is that as good as this game is, BE CAREFUL NOT TO PRESS THE WRONG KEY; you WILL regret it. If you truly plan on getting the Achievements for the current 4x4 board, I suggest reading this discussion board for guidance, otherwise you might consider the "Royal Brilliant" Achievement unbeatable: https://steamcommunity.com/app/546170/discussions/0/135508662493930135/ Good luck on the 8x8 board too; you'll need it, along with some good strategy to get the Achievements specific to this mode. Regardless, Gem Forge IS a good game to try out and enjoy.

Basic game .

+1 Match 2

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