GemCraft: Chasing Shadows

Tower Defense games are one of the most addictive, time consuming and entertaining of game genres. If you begin this one, you will be at it for a very long long time. You have been warned!

The path of GemCraft continues, bigger and meaner than ever… GemCraft is a unique tower defense game, where, instead of towers, gems are your main weapons to fight the endless hordes of monsters coming for you. Place your gems in either towers, traps, or amplifiers, replace and switch them as you want, combine them to create more powerful gems with various abilities, drop them as gem bombs or activate powerful buildings, the possibilities are endless, the choice is yours!

Fight your way through an epic storyline, unfolding mysteries and facing sinister enemies and artifacts, as you try to entrap the Forgotten, an archdemon with an unknown agenda and no known way to kill, and to slay down her demonic avatars, the shadows. Fierce and desperate battles await you…



***HUGE GAME (30 MB), WILL TAKE A WHILE TO LOAD, PLEASE BE PATIENT***

T: Build tower
R: Build trap
A: Build amplifier
W: Build wall
Hold Shift to place multiple buildings
Drag to place a row of walls

G: Combine gems

Q: Swtich time speed
Space: Pause time

N: Start next wave

D: Duplicate gem
U: Upgrade gem
Dot: Show/hide info panels
X: Destroy gem for mana
Click on empty building: Insert first gem from inventory
Tab or – : Drop gem to inventory

Numpad 1..9: Create gem
1..3: Strike spells
4..6: Gem enhancement spells

B: Throw gem bombs
Hold Shift + B: Throw gems by clicking from inventory
B + hold Shift: Use mana to throw clone bombs of the first gem in the inventory
Mouse wheel or Up/Down over Gem bomb button: set number of bombs to throw on wave/spark stones in clone bombing mode
Mouse wheel over gem: decrease gem range

Select target, then Arrow keys: Cycle through targets

Right click or Shift-click on gem: Adjust target priority
Alt-click or Ctrl-click: Ignore gems, force selecting targets

Esc: Options screen

WASD, Arrow keys, Mouse drag: Navigate world map
PageUp/PageDown or Mouse wheel: Zoom world map