Caves and Castles: Underworld Reviews

This is a fun and interesting Match 3 game. Your character moves around a maze. They keep move until they reach an intersection. You then have a choice as to which way to go. Once you start in that direction, you cannot stop and turn around. You follow the path until you reach another intersection, the end of the path (which turns your character around and brings them right back to the intersection), an obstacle, or the exit. It's not free-roam. When they reach an obstacle, you use Match 3 basics to Match around the object and destroy it. This is where all of the Matching comes in. There are different obstacles and different ways to destroy them. Match around the object to destroy it, speed match until the bar reaches full, and drop keys to the bottom of the board. Defeat the hazard, and your character keeps going. There are items to find in the mazes. Animals to free, coins and chests to collect, essence to find, etc. Finding these items allows you to upgrade the castle. The challenge and puzzle solving is figuring out which may to go in the maze. You don't want to head to the exit before you've done everything else. So, while your character is moving, you kind of have to see the exit and figure out which way it leads ... then don't go that way until you are ready. Match 3 is fun, too. Overall, and interesting addition. It's not very difficult and the choices for upgrades will eventually all get picked. Still, it's a great casual time waster.

Simple Match 3 game. It contains a small story that gets you going (earn money to rebuild a castle). There are 35 to 40 mines (levels) to explore; some of which are replayed after about 1h30 because you still need money. There's no possibility to select the level played. While very short, it's still a good game to kill time. Maybe my one complaint would be the "not too great" responsiveness of the purely match-3 part (moving tiles with the mouse) It ran without issue on Win7 64bit

Really cute match-3 game. Nice concept with the dungeon crawling aspect. My only complaint is that it's not long enough. I hope there are more chapters to come!

Aww... The main screen has the saddest looking animal... I bet it's there so you can't leave and must continue to play the game. Although I gotta say... You kinda save the animals in the beginning pretty much... It's the castle/people who need lots of saving. XD The game 's not bad! Match-3 may have started off slower than I am used to, but then once you get into the rhythm of things... It all works out! There are skills you can use in battle and out of battle you can speed up your character. All require a certain amount of matches of gems or purple orbs to activate. Majority of the time you walk around the dungeon and get loot, while playing Match-3. There are 50 levels and when it reaches the end level, you will see the same levels again, so you can get the rest of the money necessary. Or I guess you can trade your purple orbs for coins too... On the castle screen you do tasks and collect purple orbs, which recharge after two minutes have passed. Overall, the game is fair and I had no complaints... Apart from that really sad animal in the beginning... Sigh... Regardless, it was fun, so thanks you! :D =) :3