GemCraft – Frostborn Wrath continues the epic tower defense journey, immersing players in a dark fantasy world filled with strategic challenges and intense battles. After escaping from your frozen prison, your wizardry skills are still dulled by the cold, but there’s no time to waste. Reclaim your knowledge, craft versatile gems, and place them in various structures to transform them into formidable weapons. Defend against relentless waves of monstrous hordes and face off against sinister foes as you fight your way back to the Spiritforge. The Forgotten is already on her way, amassing a demonic army that grows stronger with each passing moment. Will you be able to stand against the encroaching darkness?
Gameplay Overview
GemCraft is a dark fantasy, fast-paced, real-time strategy, tower defense game that challenges players to create and combine gems with unique properties, upgrade them, and place them in towers and traps to fend off enemy waves. Players can cast powerful spells to enhance their gems or directly attack foes, level up to unlock new skills, and replay levels with various battle traits to continuously improve and adapt their strategies. As you progress, you’ll grow into a wizard of immense power, mastering the art of gemcrafting.
GemCraft – Frostborn Wrath is the fifth installment in the series, offering a new chapter in its branching, epic storyline.
Key Features
- Defend Against Endless Waves: Battle through more than 100 fields, each with unique conditions and challenges that test your strategic thinking and adaptability.
- Craft and Combine Gems: Mix and match six types of gems, each with different effects, to devise your ideal defense strategy or make quick tactical decisions in the heat of battle.
- Unlock and Enhance Skills: Gain access to over two dozen passive skills, leveling up to increase your power and refine your abilities.
- Customize Your Talisman: Collect and socket fragments into your mystical talisman to gain new special bonuses and enhance your abilities further.
- Cast Devastating Spells: Use powerful spells to obliterate enemies or enhance your gems, turning the tide of battle in your favor.
- Control the Pace of Battle: Speed up or pause the action to match your play style, allowing for thoughtful strategy or fast-paced gameplay.
- Increase the Challenge for Greater Rewards: Enrage upcoming monster waves to make them more formidable and earn more experience points to level up faster.
- Explore and Experiment with Battle Traits: Unlock a variety of battle traits to modify the difficulty of each battlefield, offering greater rewards and more experience points.
- Endurance Mode: Test your limits in Endurance mode, where you aim to survive as long as possible. Collect endurance wave stones to extend future endurance runs.
- Trial Mode: Prove your gemcrafting skills in Trial mode with a fixed set of gem types, spells, and difficulty settings, and unlock wizard stashes containing various rewards.
- Achievement Hunt: Earn over 600 achievements to gain more skill points and unlock higher battle trait levels, pushing your gemcrafting abilities to their limits.
Special Features for GemCraft Veterans
- New Chapter to Explore: Discover a completely new chapter with brand-new fields and a sprawling chapter map to navigate.
- Enhanced Visuals: Enjoy full HD native game resolution for more detailed and crisp visuals, bringing the battlefields to life.
- Expanded Battlefields: Experience larger battlefields with enhanced detail, offering more space for strategic placement and combat.
- Redesigned Mechanics and Interface: Explore revamped gem types, skills, battle traits, and spells, along with an updated player interface for a smoother gameplay experience.
- New Structures and Enemies: Utilize new buildable structures like lanterns and pylons, encounter more powerful shrines, and face new types of enemies and support structures.
- Gem Power Tied to Mana Pool: Gems now grow stronger as your mana pool levels up, incorporating a feature previously exclusive to white gems in GemCraft – Chasing Shadows.
- Innovative Talisman System: Engage with a new talisman system featuring fragments inspired by jigsaw puzzles, allowing for extensive customization and optimization.
- More Achievements and Challenges: Embark on an even larger achievement hunt, with more Steam achievements to unlock than before.
- Refined Endurance Mode: Start endurance runs from wave 1, with opportunities to extend runs by collecting endurance wave stones.
- Challenging Trial Mode: Nearly every field now features a Trial mode with fixed spells and mana, providing a consistent challenge regardless of wizard level, similar to the vision fields in GemCraft – Chasing Shadows.
- Linked Waves: Face linked waves where two waves start simultaneously, such as giants arriving alongside swarmlings, adding new layers of strategy.
- Streamlined Gem Management: Benefit from one-click gem creation, pre-adjustable gem creation grades, and mouse wheel gem upgrades for faster, more efficient gameplay.
- Enraging Gem Slot: Intensify your battles by socketing a gem to enrage all waves, amplifying the difficulty and rewards.
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