Darkest Hunters

Darkest Hunters could have been a brilliant adventure based puzzle rpg, if only devs cared to raise their ambition a notch. On the paper it all works and sounds appealing : leveling with points, tons of loot, elemental equipements and mobs, a journey through regions of the chaotic world, gold and shops, upgrades, and a tiles combo system for more spectacular fights! Doesn't it ring a bell? Yet even with the greatest model, DH stopped at the minimum requirement of the genre : a grid, rewards, and move along. The first fights are quite nice, you discover how to make combo, you learn to analyze the enemies in order to equip your hero according to their weakness. And the next fight after that. And the third... Aaaand eventually the fights (if not for some bosses) fall into a boring chore because the mobs simply never make a difference without their Elemental tag. They don't even use the grid like the player, they just rush right at you and attack, which makes them not only generic, but e...

Darkest Hunters is a fantasy puzzle R.P.G. developed by ECC GAMES, Ultimate Games S.A. and published by Ultimate Games S.A.. Are you prepared for a grand adventure to battle viscious monsters and find glorious loot? Then don your armor, take up a sword and ready yourself for battle. As a member of the Hunters only you can defeat the Lord Of Darkness and save the land from evil. Are you up to the challenge? This is a wonderful title that any fan of the puzzle/match 3 genre, like me, should take a close look at. Fans of the match 3 genre will feel right at home with this title. On the battlefield there are four different types of gems such as green for health replenishment, red for attack points, blue for mana points and of course gold for coins. The gameplay is simple in that you connect gems of the same color up, down, left, right and diagonally. You need to link as many of them as you can in order to power up your characters abilities, keep you healthy and collect gold. If you manage...

Rather complicated genre of gem matching game plus rpg dungeon adventuring. Mission tasks based across a large map. Overly extensive library of different sets of equipment items and spells. Large map of node stages, each with its own criteria in obtaining three stars. Crucial in micromanaging the elements and improving equips to match each stages' tasks and difficulties. Coarse graphics. Travelling long distances can be tedious with mouse clicks. Costs for leveling equips gets overly pricey. Bugs regards to few portals are last stage of Furious Boss. Long Grind for those who have patience, for coins, loot chests and equips leveling. Larger than I expected of a low priced game. Playable.

Unfortunately, I can't recommend this game. It seemed like it had an interesting premise and mechanics, and was on sale for only $3.59, but ultimately I felt that it wasn't challenging enough to hold my attention. It also appears that despite having a reasonably large selection of characters, they all function the same, have the same stats, story, and skills - it's purely a cosmetic choice for your icon.

I would recommend. Pleasant and fluid gameplay, difficult fighting and character leveling. The game worth the money.

I paid 64 cents and played this game for 3 hours, so I suppose I got my money's worth. And it was fun for those 3 hours. I have been addicted to Gems of War and thought this would be similar. It isn't really, but that is not a bad thing. You only match gems to move and collect gold, as well as creating more powerful gems with 5-plus matches. I like the concept. Before I stopped playing, I only found 2 things I disliked. The first is there is no point in choosing different characters. They are all the same in the game. Every character has magic, a bow, and a melee weapon. The only differences are the portraits and the stories for the characters. There are 13 characters, each with a somewhat long explanation and backstory. If the dev had cut that to, say 4, characters and made them different in skills and playstyles, the game would be a lot better. As it is, I feel the dev wasted time creating 13 characters that all play the same way. The second flaw is the camera. It is quite zoomed i...

tl;dr: Mobile game disguised as a pc title. I don't want to write this negative review, since there are titles like bejeweled out there that are pc titles... But, unlike bejeweled, the control scheme is hard, because it didn't transition well from mobile. [h1]The Mobile leftovers[/h1] [list] [*][b]The camera[/b] The fact that the camera doesn't zoom in on the gem-line im about to do. Which means, that if you try to hit more than 4 gems in a row, good luck clicking the 5th when the camera stays put in place. Literally impossible to do anything "advanced", or hit a lot of gems in 1 turn, because you are stuck seeing only the adjacent gems to you... This legit makes the game frustrating and not fun, since I legit feel i am being handicapped because of the awful camera. And ofc, you can move the camera, but only with mouse, so ofc, you cannot move it while matching the gems... Instead of WASD or arrow keys... This legit feels like a rushed port and this very disadvantage is the r...

This game could be interesting if its RPG elements were more fleshed out. But there's no story, all characters play the same, light and heavy armors play the same, all melee weapons play the same... Then remains only the puzzle elements, and they're very, very basic. And repetitive. In the end, I got bored with only one hour of playtime. Not worth even on sale.

While this does feel like a ported mobile game, it has a good bit of quality to it. It can be very challenging, especially if you are trying to complete all the challenges for each level. If you liked Puzzle Quest or just puzzle games in general, give this a shot.

Worthless. No challenge, no interest, just boredom. A mobile game balanced around forcing you to wait for things; for this version, they removed the waiting, but didn't bother re-balancing or even changing the in-game messages talking about the waiting that they removed. Likewise, they didn't even bother updating the control scheme; it's all left-mouse-button based, so opening menus is done via an awkward click-and-hold that would be better done on this platform with some other gesture. There's nothing wrong with the core concept. A decent game could probably be developed using these core mechanics. But as with all other aspects, this game just doesn't bother. Maybe you'll take a chance on it because it's marked down to less than a dollar, but you shouldn't.