Oafmatch

Oafmatch is a roleplaying game that combines turn-based combat with match-three mechanics. You lead Knuckles the Oaf and his companions on a quest to save their stricken homeland from a powerful, mysterious foe. Battles use a party of four, chosen from 30 playable classes: match gems to power your weapons, build mana and unleash skills against monsters.

Campaign and modes

The campaign offers over 30 hours of play, with light-hearted dialogue and dozens of different monsters. A roguelike dungeon mode provides changing, punishing runs, while New Game Plus shuffles the loot and adds extra playable classes.

Build your party

Each class has its own traits to master and levels to attain. Characters are each assigned two colors from red, yellow, green, white, blue and purple: one major and one minor. A well-formed party represents all six colors, at least as minor colors.

Your equipment choices shape the party’s tactical flexibility and resilience. The game has 60 unique equippable weapons, each with five ability ranks, as well as equipment with overlapping roles such as:

• Direct damage: attack one or more targets; the Poleaxe damages its target and a random enemy standing next to it.
• Board control: influence the 8x8 gem board; the Pipes of Beckoning let you choose gems to destroy.
• Mana management: gain mana or hinder enemy mana generation; the Mana Scalpel removes a small amount from each of the enemy’s mana pools.
• Board shuffling: disrupt the board to create cascading matches and destroy enemy special gems. The Orb of Magma places a persistent Magma Gem that destroys the three gems immediately above it each turn.