Puzzle Quest Arrives on iPhone, iPod Touch

December 23, 2008 8:13 AM

As if the impending arrival of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix didn't pose enough of a threat to your free time, TransGaming has brought the addictive puzzle-RPG series to the iPhone.

Priced at $9.99, Puzzle Quest: Chapter 1 - Battle of Gruulkar is the first in a trilogy that splits the Infinite Interactive-developed, D3Publisher-distributed original Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords into three parts for the iPhone and iPod Touch audience.

The iPhone version replicates the gameplay found in the beloved original, requiring players to juggle various RPG-style quests while trying to fight monsters and earn experience, mana and more by matching three or more orbs of the same color.

The subsequent two entries in the trilogy will allow players to carry over their characters from the first game, and are said to be "coming soon to the App Store." As an added bonus, gamers can back up their saved game on TransGaming's servers for free.

The 67.7MB game is now available through iTunes, with a direct link available here. Thanks to shacker mattfl for the heads up.

Chris Faylor

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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Vergs

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December 23, 2008 8:28 AM

This is just evil. If Apple ever comes up with something to rival Microsoft's Gamer Score, I'm doomed. This game is fantastic.
- Derringer
  
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  December 23, 2008 8:40 AM
  
  Until you have an enemy down to 2 life and you have 80 and then the computer makes a crazy combo and kills you in one turn.
  
  There have been entire pages of threads about how "cheap" the AI is that game, but damn it's fun. :P
- Chris Faylor
  
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  December 23, 2008 8:43 AM
  
  My only complaint after five minutes is that you can't save mid-battle, so if you want to do something else on your phone, you'll have to redo the entire battle next time.
  - Chris Faylor
    
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    December 23, 2008 8:44 AM
    
    Oh, and the fact it's a trilogy that looks like it'll end up running $30. I didn't pay that much for the XBLA version :(
    - derelict515
      
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      December 23, 2008 8:49 AM
      
      Yeah, that really dampened my excitement.
    - tfboc
      
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      December 23, 2008 8:55 AM
      
      Yeah I lost months to the DS version, had a blast. I could justify a re-buy at $10 but I'm not going to spend $30 on it again. I'll save that for Galactrix on the DS.
    - vynn
      
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      December 23, 2008 9:02 AM
      
      sorry, this 2nd complaint is null and void, you said you had only 1 complaint
    - pandastrong
      
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      December 23, 2008 9:06 AM
      
      lame. not buying this at $10 then.
      - Chris Faylor
        
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        December 23, 2008 9:15 AM
        
        To be fair, I'm not sure if I'll even play far enough to get through the main story mode. I may end up playing Instant Action most of the time, so those other two purchases wouldn't be necessary.
        
        pandastrong
        
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        December 23, 2008 10:06 AM
        
        thats a good point. i may still wait and see if this goes on sale at some point before buying it, though.
    - evancg
      
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      December 23, 2008 9:49 AM
      
      I've been checking daily waiting for the game to appear after the announcement of it's December release last month, and now I don't know if I'll even bother. $30? That's more than I paid for the DS version.
      
      On top of that, I just bought Samurai Puzzle Battle (the full version) for $2. I don't know if I like it as much as Puzzle Quest (it's more puzzle + Risk than puzzle + RPG), and instead of a "Story Mode" it has Campaigns that last a few dozen battles with minimal story, but for $28 less than the full Puzzle Quest, it may just tide me over until Puzzle Quest gets cheap. Oh well.
    - Fayk
      
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      December 23, 2008 11:01 PM
      
      I don't want to be one of -those- gamers who whine over-much about price, but that move made me go from "buy it" to a pass.
      
      This is partly because I already own it for the DS, but I figured, hey, $10, sure, I'm happy to have another version. Oh well.
- sharpie
  
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  December 23, 2008 1:14 PM
  
  getting really poor app store reviews. The $30 thing is keeping me away as well.