To get a feel for Caves and Castles Underworld and to decide whether the game is for you; before you download it, please check out the following game play videos HERE, HERE and HERE

Caves and Castles Underworld

In Brief

Caves and Castles Underworld is an original take on the match three genre with a castle building mini game. Today's game giveaway is well worth downloading, especially if you like match three games.

Introduction:

Find adventure beyond your imagination and riches untold as you descend into the caves beneath an ancient castle! Match gems to remove obstacles, collect keys to unlock new passages and build your strength as fast as you can to break through barriers in Caves and Castes: Underworld, a sometimes relaxing, sometimes heart-racing match-three game!

Above ground, you'll become wrapped up in a quest to rebuild a castle and its grounds – only something strange is preventing you from achieving your goal! Unlock one mystery after another as you restore the stunning structure to its former glory! Enjoy colorful hand-drawn art and animation, a charming story and hours of match-three fun as you play Caves and Castes: Underworld!

Reference accessed HERE. 23rd February 2020

The Game:

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 your character reaches 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.

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Mithras on the 26 November 2019. Edited and re-posted by Whiterabbit-uk 23rd February 2020.

Other Reviews and Videos of Zzed:

You can see a few Steam community reviews of Caves and Castles: Underworld HERE, and more videos of game play HERE, HERE (русский), HERE, HERE and HERE.

The latest games to be given away via Epic Games this week are Faeria a card based Strategic RPG with single player, online pvp and cooperative play. (you don't get the add-on DLC) and Assassins Creed: Syndicate - London, 1868. In the heart of the Industrial Revolution, lead your underworld organization and grow your influence to fight those who exploit the less privileged in the name of progress: Champion justice and Command London’s underworld. A brilliant open world action game; minimum system requirements Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 (64bit versions), Intel Core i5 2400s @ 2.5 GHz / AMD FX 6350 @ 3.9 GHz, 6 GB of system RAM and at least a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 / AMD Radeon R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0). Next week we will be getting Inner Space a game about exploration, about player-driven moments both small and grandiose. Take your time, soar through the skies and dive through the oceans, and the secrets of the Inverse will reveal themselves.

Don't forget to check out the Game discussion threads over in the forums for details of other free games and offers HERE (I've recently updated the thread though 'some' of the links to older bundles are no longer active; however, most of the links still take you to the latest deals); especially Delenns thread, HERE.