

The goal in a match is to bring the opponent avatar's health to zero before one's own. Matches of four or five gems may also lead to additional turns. Clearing matches allows other gems to fall into place, which can potentially create further matches and combos which also can be more valuable.

By swapping two adjacent gems to match at least three gems of the same color in a row, a player can clear those gems and gain some benefit, such as directly damaging the opponent, earning colored mana to cast spells or use abilities, or gain gold or experience. In nearly all games, players play with an avatar character against a computer opponent using a shared board of colored gems, and alternate turns matching gems on the board. The Puzzle Quest games are a hybrid of a tile-matching puzzle game with role-playing game elements. Its latest game, Puzzle Quest: The Legend Returns, was released in 2019. It was first begun in 2007 with the release of Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, a spin-off of the Warlords series of turn-based strategy games, and since expanded to other licensed content models. Puzzle Quest is a series of Match 3 and role-playing video game hybrids published by Infinity Plus Two (formerly Infinite Interactive). Infinity Plus Two, Demiurge Studios, Hibernum/Oktagon Games
