Gems of War: Match 3 Strategy 9+

Long Time Player Review

I have been playing this game since its infancy and can honestly say it is a free to play game. The devs do an excellent job of giving free rewards while mixing in pay to play options. There will always be people out there complaining about pay options, but without them, this game or any game for that matter would not exist. The devs also do a great job of coming up with new and creative game modes. I admit, it can be confusing in the beginning, but there is going to be some sort of learning curve with any game you start. Of course there are glitches when new patches are uploaded but again, the devs do a great job of fixing these and compensating players for missed rewards. If you are a new player, know that they have made the grind much easier than it was when I started playing. Guilds and the community as a whole is very accepting and helpful. All in all, I really enjoy this game and would give it six stars if that were an option.

Developer Response ,

Regarding your game crashing and issues with dungeons, please contact our support here https://gemsofwar.zendesk.com/hc/en-us so we can help you further.

Unfortunately, we will not be rolling back to the old version UI. We have released a small update which should fix the issues with eye strain and headaches, as well as improve readability. Please make sure you are running the latest version of the game to see these changes. We are endeavouring to do our best to improve the UI as much as possible moving forward. We felt that we were overdue a UI overhaul as it was starting to feel cluttered and dated. We would like to have Gems of War around for a while, so we wanted to modernise the feel of the game, especially as we have started to localise into more countries and expand our playerbase further. However, we are aware of the player feedback we have received and will do our best to make the new UI as easy to read and understand as possible.

No more upgrades please

Every time they do upgrades it messes everything up. I have been playing this game, believe it or not, for about 2 years. When I first started playing it was about earning trophies and upgrading troops. Now they have so many games and guild activities it’s kind of confusing. They also make it very hard to earn specific items to upgrade your troops. People that have started months ago have better and more troops than I do. Also I must have spent about $100 on this game. I should be a VIP member where I can do anything. But I am only at
VIP 4 and Cannot excess the VIP chests. Playing kingdoms at the hardest level should give us the highest talismans not the lowest. And to craft better troops and weapons you have to use 100,000 souls which is impossible to get unless you spend more money. So don’t waste your money on this game because it won’t help you. It is fun to play and I’ve made a lot of friends. Even though they are from different states and countries we have become close and that makes it interesting But all the upgrades and games that they added really slows the game down and causes a lot of problems so I have to keep rebooting the game. They make it more about you spending money to upgrade your troops. If I didn’t become friends with my Guild I would have deleted the game a long time ago.

Extremely fun and addicting match-3

This is my favorite match-3 game I’ve ever played. Well done to the creators. The one thing I ask for now is that they create the option to make it available in portrait mode. Also, it has some stability issues in that it tends to crash when opening.

UPDATE: so I’m level 405 now, and I’m having an insanely hard time getting arcane traitstones. I get celestial more often, surprisingly. So I would really love it if some balancing fixes happened, as I’m getting extremely tired of farming. I can farm one Explore mode for 2 days straight and not find ONE arcane traitstone. Also, why can’t I connect my progress to the PS4? I would love to play on there, but I’m not about to completely start over.

ANOTHER UPDATE: I’m level 730 now, and I STILL have not uncovered a mythic troop. This is extremely discouraging, especially since I’ve spent actual money on this game in the attempt to get mythic troops. I’ve opened countless chests. It’s getting old. I’ve been playing this game for many many months. I’m certainly not spending another dime. The game is still fun, and I especially like the addition of the daily quests, so I’m not changing the rating. But if I make it to 1000 without a mythic troop, I will stop playing. This is just ridiculous.

Developer Response ,

Hi Musiq, have you visited our community forums? community.gemsofwar.com - There are lots of helpful guides and people there to walk you through the methods to achieve a Mythic, like crafting one in the Soulforge :)