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Gem Hunters – Card Game Review
Gem Hunters is a Card/Roleplaying game from Armor Games Studios Inc, first launched in 25th May 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 96+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Gem Hunters Stand Out
Match lines of elemental gems and unleash powerful spells in this addictive puzzle/RPG adventure. Guide your hero through 7 exciting and magical worlds on a quest to find your long lost treasure!
- Choose from three heroic character classes!
- Puzzle gameplay meets RPG battles!
- Procedurally generated items and loot!
- Over 80 spells to collect!
- Battle for glory against other heroes in the Arena!
- A fun and engaging storyline!
This Card game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Gem Hunters is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th November 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Added new chapter to the story (Campaign Emetteoe, location The Isles of Gemini)
- Added new monsters: Jungle Wasp, Giant Jungle Wasp, Parrot Emetteoe
- Improved battles in the Arena (the pets now stand alongside the hero)
- Fixed problems with UI related to the Zoomed/Standard views on iPhone
- Improved UI disposition on iPad
- Increased level caps for the items (6->8) and characters (60->65)
- Lots of smaller bug fixes and improvements
Download & Availability
Gem Hunters is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Our experience with gem hunters is great because you can fight monsters and get a reward after you beat them in battle.
We love this game and have been playing it for years! We dont know how many active players there are anymore, but we hope the developers consider continuing the Emetteoe campaign. We think this game has a strong foundation worth expanding, and we would be willing to pay money (not a subscription) for additional content. Ideas for improvement: A marketplace to buy special gear, either using coins or gems Ability to change gear or abilities on pets for arena battles Ability to use pets in campaign battles Ability to reassign level up points after the fact Just some ideas we gave it 5 stars even without all this.
We highly suggest it to anyone who wants to enjoy a game. Its very addictive and you will want to play for hours on end. Anyways this game is great and we love the creators of it.
Love the game. Love the snappy repartee. But for cryin out loud, would you add the next world already.
This game is very enjoyable, with a nice concept and story with loveable characters. The first campaign ending is very funny. However beating the final boss felt impossible unless we waited and saved up the gems but it was very much worth it and satisfying.
A mixture of Pokemon and bejeweled, great game.
Love this game. You don't need to spend money just so PVP to get great rewards. Don't underestimate stats.
This is a easy and fast game to kill time. We would always spend a few minutes playing it every day.
Good puzzle game made more fun by rpg semantics. Plus good old school game humor.
It combines matching with fighting and a funny, easy to follow story line. Fun to do when you have some down time.
We'd definitely recommend this game. It's fun, simple, easy to use, doesn't have a bad energy system, and it's something quick. A great game all around.
But the PvP (Arena) is not balanced and filled with bots. You are matched with opponents 5 -10 levels above you to get you to buy gems and spend money skipping opponents to find a poorly balanced bot to fight. The bots are pretty obvious. They are 50+level players who have never leveled up or changed their starting pet? ..and then have a bunch of duplicate equipment whose stats don't stack.. No human player gets that far doing that.
Update: The game is not finished!!! The developers apparently forgot all about this game. Which is a shame because its pretty good. Old school RPG with fun graphics and a nice story. Be prepared to grind a lot for higher scores in the later levels. Youll need to upgrade equipment. Our only complaints are- if you accidentally skip part of the story, its gone for good and the upgrades cost too much vs what an enemy may drop. Still, Im going to keep playing! And Ive finished what is there. Wish theyd cared enough to complete this.
We fell in love with this game but just as we really got into it the story just stopped. Real bummer. FINISH THE GAME ALREADY.
If we try to play an ad for the free gems our phone locks up and the ad doesn't play or come back to the game screen. It is stuck on a black screen. If we close and reopen the app it will restart just fine but there are no rewards for watching the ad. Please look into it.
We really love this game, but it crashes or freezes all the time. Its hard to play, when you can't.
Eh. It's ok we seem to only face the same five or six people in the arena no matter how we do. So it's getting boring.
It's a fun game to a point but after a while they make it so hard to finish levels you just get frustrated with it. After you finish the first world it's gonna take a long time to do anything else in this game don't waste your time after the first world.
We really enjoy this game. There is one major problem though; It crashes constantly. It's to the point that it's basically unplayable. The only reason we gave this game this score is because when it works it's probably our favorite game. Desperately needs to be fixed.
Nothing out of the ordinary. Gets boring pretty fast.
Annoying ads that are supposed to be gone after a purchase are still popping up all the time. Restore isn't working.
There are times we win a battle & our phone locks up. It doesn't give us the credit for the win or reimburse what you lost to battle. They have deleted our second hero twice & we lost everything when switching sometimes it deletes your character & you can't get it back. There is no delete button if you want to delete a character either. They haven't upgraded. We cannot go any further with our character until they make more levels. Outside of that, The game is fun easy to learn & addictive to play. Upgrade fighting gear for both your character & your fighting pets! We Gave it a 2 until revisions are made to 5 star standards.
So we played a hour with zero issues. Then we spent 2.99 for double coins since then….all it does is crash. After ever battle crash….even upgrading crash. So don't spend and you might be ok….such bs.
Very addicting game. Love the levels and can't wait to play the next one. Please hurry with the next level.
We love the customizing and battle aspects. Side quests and arena fighting add a break and way to build stats for story mode. More levels please.
We always play, we're happy for the New levels coming out, and it's fun to compare With all our friends.
A great little game to play on the go and the relaxed pace is very pleasant for us.
This is a fun game and so far has an amazing story.
Pretty good overall need new levels pls.
Amazing. Such a fun fast paced game.
Literally love everything about this game. The story line is fantastic, although we want Sam back! He was our support against the worlds of monsters. We, and we think we speak for everyone who plays this game, need the new levels! We actually started to replay old levels! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS GAME.
This game is a priceless GEM of a game.
We literally love playing this, we're obsessed.
Funny story and awesome game play.
An interesting take on the match three genre. The RPGs elements makes strategy and combo moves more important. We like to grind level ups so the difficulty curve suits us. But we wouldn't mind paying for power ups just to help the developers.
How long are you going to keep us waiting for a new journey… Hopefully you'll let us fight it soon.
Fun fighting game with no blood. We find it easy to see the best play on the board but not easy to figure out where the stones will fall. Small gripe about the last update: we think the pets make bouts less fun.
Basically there is a login issue after the latest update for this app. It will forever say it's logging in but won't. Sad because it's really such a fun game. We were on the 5th level too.
We love this game but since the update it gets stuck in the login screen and won't ever open up.
And for the love of god, stop weighting loot drops. We don't want to use magic, so if it's not equipped DON'T KEEP TRYING TO FORCE IT ON ME EVERY DROP AUGH.
A bit over an hour in– nothing to speak of. Your average gem match game that wants money from you. Gave it a two because it does have some decent design and almost a story.
After the latest update, we go to Gem Hunters, and all our data is gone. It says pick your hero and name. We got pretty far in our game and it's just so sad how it's all gone. We're not playing it again.
Loved playing till the update and pets were added in the arena now we don't like playing it thinking about deleting the app now.
We like this game because it is a good way to kill time. Many would say the game is based on luck of the board. But we have learned that there is a definite dependency on skill and forethought. It is still simple enough that it does not get in the way of any regular life activities. Whilst the storyline is simple we find it quite witty and amusing. We would like to see more worlds open up to continue the fun. Update: A new world was released with a plot twist! We love it!! We can't wait for the next world to be released! :)).
Good game very fun and addicting.
We like this game for many reasons… You can pay to play but you don't have to- the story line is witty and funny and although it can take awhile- if you're patient- you can earn the things you need…we love earning a variety of weapons an figuring out how to best use them.
Beautiful story, amazing game. One of the best that we played this year! You should download it now.
This game is unbelievably addicted! We started play this game last night, and we got attracted to this game by its graphic, strategy, upgrading the characters, story, non-bug, and goes on! Please keep up with the excellent work here, Developers.
Great game we are lvl 42 and love it. But needs some work, we recommend getting an auction house to sell and buy things and the boxes are a rip off. Also letting people have more than 3 items to use in battle. Add us— 35e7e56e.
It's a fun game to kill some time. If you think a little about what you're doing, you can win matches well above your level.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.19.2
- Size: 195.49 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: [Armor Games Studios Inc]()
Last updated: 17th November 2016 | Genre: Card, Roleplaying | Developer: Armor Games Studios Inc