Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition just hit Steam—and I wish this franchise had been given more respect.
Back in 2007, the first Puzzle Quest was genuinely groundbreaking. It was one of the first games to fuse match-3 puzzling with RPG progression. Quests, loot, spells—all mapped onto Bejeweled-style mechanics. It worked. It was influential. It spawned a hundred imitators. And the bitter truth? Some of those imitators ended up outshining Puzzle Quest’s own sequels.
Now comes Immortal Edition, trumpeted as the “definitive Puzzle Quest”—a banner release bundling nearly twenty years of content. That means you get Challenge of the Warlords, its expansion Revenge of the Plague Lord, plus all the Switch-only content from The Legend Returns. Add in a new Swordmaster class, 40-plus items, and redrawn 4K art, and on paper this looks like the ultimate package.
But let’s talk execution.
The new character models are flat and lifeless. The match-3 gems look like assets ripped straight out of a generic mobile game. If you’re going to lean into retro, lean hard. Instead, this looks halfway modern and halfway cheap.
And the music—oh boy. They swapped it out. Which is madness. Imagine if Nintendo re-released Super Mario Bros. with a different soundtrack. Or if Street Fighter II came back with all the stage themes replaced. You don’t mess with the auditory memory of a game people have carried for almost two decades.
Mechanically, it’s still Puzzle Quest. Keyboard and mouse work fine. Xbox and DualShock controllers are supported.
This is verified for Steam Deck. Has the green check mark. And that means it plays on Linux without a hitch.
Specs are microscopic. An old Intel i3, 4 GB of RAM, 2 GB of space—you can run this on a potato. Infinity Plus 2 is still at the helm, now tucked under 505 Games. They’re the same crew behind Puzzle Quest 3, which landed with a thud thanks to its free-to-play grind.
As expected, reception is mixed. On Steam it’s sitting at 69% positive from 26 reviews. To be fair, this is still Puzzle Quest—there’s fun to be had. But it should have been better.
Introductory price is C$15.19. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but you might be better off hunting down the original Puzzle Quest.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3236710/Puzzle_Quest_Immortal_Edition/
