Puzzle Quest 3 was introduced final 12 months, and now developer Infinity Plus Two has introduced that it’s going to launch on Steam Early Access on March 1st 2022—the fifteenth anniversary of the unique sport’s launch. “We’ll be working with the group to get the steadiness and really feel of PQ3 good on PC,” writes Steve Fawkner, CEO and artistic lead, “whereas additionally experimenting with new options primarily based in your suggestions, together with controller assist!”
The sport options 5 courses—Paladin, Berzerker, Murderer, Necromancer and Shaman—and might be performed in multiplayer co-op and PvP mode. I have been trying on the numerous gifs and movies however I am unable to see that something dramatic has been modified within the sport’s core puzzling exercise.
Puzzle Quest is a kind of low-key good video games. It is by no means going to win any sport of the 12 months awards, however whereas the large beasts stomp round boasting about large campaigns and ray-traced shrubbery, Puzzle Quest (or its even higher sequel) sits quietly in your machine sucking up hour after hour in peaceable tile-sliding trend, whilst you turn into ever-more attuned to its ambiance and kinks. As our own Evan wrote in a review of PQ2: “I am virtually embarrassed by the sense of drama I felt from such an outwardly modest sport.”
The large pitch this time, aside from the very fact it is extra Puzzle Quest, is 3D graphics within the background: Watch the warrior bash the skeleton in superb trend! It is set 500 years after the unique sport, and options tons of of quests, dungeons with mega loot, and RPG-style levelling. The sport can be free-to-play, and you may pre-register here to get some in-game rewards on launch. I’m going to play numerous this sport.
