Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, or Galactrix, is a puzzle video game developed by Infinite Interactive for the PC, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network service. The game offers a full-featured campaign mode, online multiplayer for 2 to 4 players, and downloadable content, including ships, items, plans, planets, factions, and missions.

Gameplay

Like the original Puzzle Quest, Galactrix has Bejeweled-style gameplay with a few exceptions. Tiles are now hexagonally shaped, and gravity will be a factor in how they fall. If the match takes place in orbit around a planet, the tiles will always fall downward, but in open space new tiles will come from the direction of the player's previous move. Unlike the original Puzzle Quest, Galactrix's quests have the player traveling various planets, star systems, and the entire galaxy. D3 Publisher has stated that there will be a diplomacy system and commodity system as well as the ability to collect, customize and build ships.

Tiles

There are currently two basic forms of tiles:

Puzzle Types

All the puzzles use tiles with small changes in the rules and large differences in the goals.

Synopsis

Factions

Human factions

The four main Human factions all grew from the four Megacorporation's that created the Leap Gate system.

Alien factions

Enemy factions

Plot

Thousands of years in the future, mankind expands their domains beyond the limits of the solar system, assuming control of dozens of other systems, connected by a network of jump gates that allow fast travel between them. Each system is controlled by one of the four megacorporation's who compete against each other for supremacy over the human empire. The player starts the game as a novice pilot at service of one of these megacorporation's, the MRI. As the game progresses, more characters are added to the player's crew, each one possessing special abilities helping to improve the player's arsenal and resources, while interacting with each one of the megacorporation's and even some alien races and uncovering the secret of a mysterious threat that may endanger the entire galaxy.

Reception

Hyper's Daniel Wilks commends the game for being "very bloody challenging [and] a good amount of variety in gameplay". However, he criticizes the game for relying "on luck as much as skill [and the] controls are a bit iffy".