Buy Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion PC key

Roguematch: The Extraplanar Invasion is a turn-based roguelike RPG played on a Match-3 grid. You guide heroes through a castle filled with raw magic and creatures from other dimensions, watching how enemies move and choosing when to attack up close with physical strikes or from a distance with elemental magic. As time passes, more foes threaten to emerge from portals in the walls. The story begins as a simple fetch quest between three friends and quickly goes badly wrong.

The castle

Every room is on lockdown. Alongside defeating enemies, you must deactivate magical intruder alarms by uncovering floor sigils, blasting crystals with mana and stepping on raised floor panels. The castle’s elaborate defences seem designed for more than keeping out a Nekomancer searching for the Nekonomicon.

Rooms are also affected by elemental forces. The Cryovolcanic Plane can send you sliding toward lava, while the Elemental Plane of Steam fills areas with superheated gas. Sticky floors from the Elemental Plane of Mud can hinder your movement. These hazards affect enemies too, so you can lure them into traps.

Combat and magic

Combat takes place in randomly generated grid-based levels, with randomly generated items. Match groups of elemental mana to control the raw magic that has flooded the castle. Six matching powers change how you play: Time Pieces can stop time and freeze enemies, while the Wildcard set supports mana combos. You can also create attack cats that shoot across a room or bomb pieces that trigger chain explosions.

You can alter elemental conditions to set up attacks. For example, spend mana to create wind, then match fire mana to produce chain lightning; or turn a room into earthen surroundings and use water mana to make mud traps.

Heroes and equipment

Choose from six characters, each with distinct skills, strengths and play styles. Binky is a speedy Bungeoneer, the magical Nekomancer summons cats, and the hardy Paladinu can shield bash. Characters also have expertises that let them perform more than one of certain moves per turn.

The game includes over 100 spells and items. Many boost your stats or elemental damage, and some provide spells to cast. If your backpack is full, you can discard an item while memorising its spells.

Enemies and bosses

The castle is overrun by creatures from the elemental planes of fire, air, earth and water, as well as realms beyond. You face over 20 bosses from the elemental realms, each with distinct attack patterns and weaknesses. Avoid Orochill’s ice blasts, break free of Cementicore’s cement attacks and dodge Lavaiathan’s burning body ram.