Much like XenoWars, Devil Invasion is the product of a castle defence game crossed with a matching puzzle. The gameplay revolves around the board filled with differently coloured titles, with the enemy progress displayed in a small window at the top. You use this as a guide for when to deploy your special abilities, depending on how near the assorted devils are from your fortifications. Special abilities are only limited to how many coloured blocks that you’ve collected; however the amount necessary is insignificant and if you can find matches quickly enough you’ll get to use them frequently.

As well as these special abilities, each block that you match deals damage to the enemy troops, with the exception of rocks that just take up precious room. It’s pretty crucial to equip yourself with abilities therefore, and it’s also important to keep strengthening them with upgrades that you purchase with the gold that you earn during each round. You can equip up to three abilities and one special, passive ability and switch between them before each round at a whim.

Devil Invasion takes place over five different scenarios, connected by an overworld map. Each has its own graphical and musical theme, and its own set of enemies which vary from skeletons to warlocks, all drawn in a cartoony style. This presentation is fairly decent in all.

As a complete package, Devil Invasion is actually rather good. You have a multiple slot save system with autosave (but no freeze level state), and a quirky graphical style. The only thing we didn’t like about the game is the generic match three game board, and although you can slide tiles in six directions it doesn’t really offer any other special twist. With that said, you’ll still find Devil Invasion good fun if you’re not yet sick of matching puzzle games.

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