A collection of top-down views of vaguely invertebrate beings that crawled out of a Lovecraft story. The enemies come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and yet at the same time manage to be almost nondescript. There's no background music to speak of, just the soft sound of distant, howling wind, in keeping with the blasted landscape. It's a world of stone, earth, shadows and marshes, punctuated by the colorful gems. This is not a world of sunlight, green grass and blue skies. That's not to say that thought has not been put into the look at feel of the game. For all its complexity, Gemcraft Labyrinth could most generously be described as aesthetically spartan. You'll notice that I've spent most of this page talking about the game mechanics, and not so much about the art, story, and sound. You can also combine gems of different types, broadening their abilities, though it's a calculated risk, as the combined gem will be less than the sum of its parts.
The gems can be upgraded to provide greater tiers of range, damage and effectiveness. You have at your disposal eight types of gems, each with distinct abilities.
But these serve as platforms for the real game pieces: the eponymous gemcraft. You still build towers and traps on the game board.
#GEMCRAFT LABYRINTH B9 SERIES#
Zombies or Kingdom Rush, the Gemcraft series takes a modular approach to the concept of Tower Defense. At any rate, while Game In A Bottle may have funny ideas about counting, the developers have a good grasp of solid game design, resulting in a deep and complex tower defense game. So in case you missed it, the sequence is: Chapters 1, 0, Blank, and 2. Well, technically it's the "Lost Chapter", which was preceded by Chapter Zero, and Chapter One before that. Gemcraft Labyrinth is the third chapter in the Gemcraft tower defense series by developer Game In a Bottle.
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