Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns
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Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is an adventure developed by Infinite Interactive, released 18 September 2019 on Nintendo Switch.
What Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is
Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is an adventure game developed by Infinite Interactive and released in 2019. It was published by D3 Publisher. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Save the Kingdom of Etheria from the evil Lord Bane. Make matches of different crystal types which build your inventory of spells. Outscore your oponents and unleash your spells to disrupt their matching chances and lower their totals. Build your heroic character by winning head to head battles.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Warlords series
Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns is the 17th of 19 entries we hold in the Warlords series. It arrived 9 years after Puzzle Quest 2. The next entry was Warlords I + II in 2019. Its critic score of 80 is 4 points above the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords at 84.
How it was received
Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns launched on 18 September 2019, within three weeks of Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and Gears 5. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), Gears 5.
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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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