FaeVerse Alchemy

FaeVerse Alchemy
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Metacritic
66
Steam
60.397
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Price
free
Release date
2 April 2014
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Steam reviews score
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66 (339 votes)

What wonders await those brave enough to follow the alchemical path of magic? FaeVerse Alchemy is a puzzle game where you combine like elements to form greater elements in an effort to create the most powerful elements of all and get the highest score possible.

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FaeVerse Alchemy system requirements

Minimum:

  • OS: Windows Vista/7
  • Processor: 800 Mhz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 100 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Windows 8 works but is not yet fully supported.

Recommended:

Recommended requirements are not yet specified.
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Night
Night

Early access, not recommended at this time. I picked this up with a coupon, but if you're interested, install Faerie Alchemy on your Android or iOS device for free.

The core match 3 gameplay is good, and the planned features sound promising, with a storyline, multiple game modes, a pet system, and multiplayer. Though the game has potential, the current state is what you would expect from a free mobile game. The controls are touch oriented, and those features nonexistent. There is only a single basic game mode along with a rudimentary inventory and crafting system.

Smileybones
Smileybones

A quite addictive game. For now, there is not much more feature than in the free "Faerie Alchemy" to worth the price.

xxx148
xxx148

I feel very sorry for the people that payed the original $30 price for this game. The developers made many promises of future content, then abandoned the game and made it free.

Good job!

Side note:
Don't bother playing even if it's free. Other puzzle games are much more worth your time.

Steph S.
Steph S.

This is a wonderful puzzle game. Already one of my favorites. It reminds me of Tetris in that you move your puzzle piece into position and you match three like in Bejeweled. Additionally, they have added a crafting component to the game. Very fun game.

Ruby the charity goblin
Ruby the chari…

really fun if your into puzzle games but if you find that stuff boring than dont get this game go play something that you do like

ariadneborealis
ariadneborealis

Not just a simple "match 3 or more" game. Think Tetris meets Bejeweled.
Update: puzzle mode has been added and Runepets is now going to be a separate feature. Ghost previews of pieces are in and it helps ( my personal opinion). However, I am noticing that the game will respond very slowly and then kick me out back to the Steam store screen. Not sure what thats about but okay. The crafting is neat enough but a brief explantion would be greatly appreciated. That is to say, explain what each piece does. The music has a Far East/Middle Eastern flair to it that is easy on the ears and serves great for background noise.
I realize this is early release, good quality takes time and some devs have other things to do but even a short " hi everyone, this is where we stand today" would be nice. I still think you should give FVA a fair shot though.

brian
brian

This is one of those horrible games that make no sense, have no purpose, and are extremely addictive. Seriously, set a stop watch when you start this game! The hours creep by without you noticing.

TheVoluntaryist
TheVoluntaryist

Consists mostly of greyed out game options that can't be selected. Maybe some day it will be a whole game. When/If that happens, and it's worthwhile, I will be changing this review. But as for right now, it's absolutely not worth the price tag. There are free flash versions of games exactly like what's offered so far. Save yourself 30 bucks.
(EDIT)
The developer makes excuses on every negative review. "I'm making this game only for people who like it." That is NOT how you give customers what they want. Listen to what the people are telling you they are PAYING you to make this game. Don't just put out some abandoned piece of trash like this, and then tell everyone why it's their fault when they point out you released broken trash. The last time I contacted the developer I was told there would be "weekly updates to fix these issues". That was now over two months ago. Not an update since. This is an abandoned project, or worse, a cash grab-and-run scheme from the start. I can't tell which. Don't give FaeVerse a freaking dime. To support this kind of "developer" is to punish the gaming community at large.

Erbkaiser
Erbkaiser

At this state, FaeVerse Alchemy is already a challenging and fun puzzler that combines features of Tetris and Dr. Mario. If you like puzzle games that will challenge you to keep getting better at them, FaeVerse Alchemy is a good game to pick up.

I will update this review if the other features are completed, but even without them, I already consider this a game good enough to recommend.

JamieBhoy
JamieBhoy

Looks like this will be a great game when there is more content! Can't wait for achievements and leaderboards too, And evem more game modes! Hopefully the dev team doesn't give up on this game and leave it out to dry..

☽ LUNATEE ☽
☽ LUNATEE ☽

This game is challenging.... but I love a good challenge!! I have only played Chaos mode (trying to win at least once for the current available achievement) which I haven't acoomplished yet. (MUST KEEP GOING!! X_X ) ... I'm looking forward to seeing all the other achievements associated with this game and the other play modes.

Ingvar Kamprad
Ingvar Kamprad

Its a good game, especially for early acess, but one thing is that the game says its controller compatable but when I try to use my controller, nothing happerns! I went into the settings, but there was no way to change it. Pls dont say the game is controller compatable untill you actually make the controller do something in your game. Still good game tho.

Cheddar guy
Cheddar guy

This game is far from finished. It currently contains 2 "Game modes", and they are just spin offs of bejeweled like games. That being said, this game has some potential. The crafting of items puts a new spin on the boring gameplay similar to so many others. I would recommend waiting for the game to be completely finished before even considering in a purchase, assuming it ever will be finished.

Scooby4ever
Scooby4ever

Fun game but this game is nowhere finished? Bought it just because i wanted a match 3 game. Price is to high to help it sale so i would suggest a price cut before buying.

Why recomend? Well i think this game have alot of potential. It seems it will have alot of different modes to play. Gfx and music is sweet and fits the game.

At the moments there is only 2 modes to play.

Macabre
Macabre

Update: I just want to point out this review was made 2 years ago...

Final update: after what seems like forever the developer have decided to make the game "Free" which is there way of saying we are giving up but we aren't. After the horrible mismanagement not only in development, but also in the PR aspect I would Highly recommend NEVER dealing with this Developer for anything.

While this game is fun, it is very much unfinished. Many of the promised feature are not there. There is hardly anything in the game right now. This would not be a big deal for me being that it is early access, however there has not been a update or any progress in months. The dev have either secretly abandoned the game, or have a very poor work effort. They constantly claim they want to wait to have something big or finished before they update the game, but in the amount of time its been since there has been a update there is no reason why a large portion of the game hasn’t been finished. So for now even with a 90% off coupon I would avoid this game. Even if the dev released an update at this point I probably would not change my opinion until its actually released with the content promised because at this point that will either be never or in 2050.

Fulya
Fulya

It's still not complete and there are things missing but other than that if you like bejeweled type of games, this will definitely hook you up. I can't stop playing it when I need to pass some time. It's fun and addictive. Can't wait for the finished product. I got it with a coupon but you might want to wait until it's released.

mybaD.
mybaD.

This is a good combine three game. Got it for a dollar. Worth the whole dollar easily. Looks like more features will be added so time can make this a fantastic game. If you have some downtime and want to combine three different items then this should work just fine. fine. just fine.

sara_bear
sara_bear

Ok early access review

1. Nice gameplay... what there is of it. Currently most of the game is locked out.
2. The price 30 bucks, is quite delusional for a bubble pop style game. Yes I used a 90% off coupon and so the 3 bucks I did pay was worth it even despite the locked out by 80% aspect. But Never pay more than 10 bucks for even any bubble pop game folks.

I'd recomend it.. later after more content comes out. And I'd wouldn't buy it without a coupon or a price reduction.

pharmgrinder
pharmgrinder

This is a nice little match 3 game. And it will be great if it gets finished. Right now there are a lot of menu choices not available. Hope this game will continue to get developed, but as it stands now it has basic and puzzle modes that are playable and fun. Nice looking too.

I have it installed on Ubuntu 14.04 and it is rock solid. The only crash I have had is when I tried to link out the the developer's website.

Rascilon
Rascilon

Early Access Review: Faeverse Alchemy is a puzzle matching game similar to Bejeweled but with a twist, that each new time you make a match, a new block type appears. Several game modes are available and it appears the developers are still adding new ones. The gameplay is enjoyable but my major gripe at this point in release is that there are no tooltips or tutorial available to tell you how to use the special blocks that appear, making their use complete guesswork that can make or break your game. This is a frustrating but perhaps understandable omission at this point in development. My minor gripe about the game is it's asking price of $30 which seems high for a game that competes with other casual puzzle titles that are sub $10. The overlay is supported, as is a single steam achievement, making this game ideal for Perfect Game hunters and puzzle enthusiasts alike. This is definitely a title to keep an eye on.

DarkNinja13
DarkNinja13

I got a 90% off coupon for a crafting reward for another game and I figured that, since I am fond of puzzle games, I'd add another to my library - for three bucks, what's the risk? The puzzle game in question is, of course, FaeVerse Alchemy.

The controls are very simple - one mouse button rotates the patterns, the other button drops the pieces and the mouse slides the arrangement from side to side. Basically the overall gameplay feels like Dr Mario from the old NES with elements from Tetris thrown in (three symbol patterns). What's interesting is that as you match alchemical symbols, new symbols get added making the game more difficult than Dr Mario ever was. All in all, I like the game, I like the music, and I like the whole premise of the game.

The only thing I DON'T like? The $30 price tag slapped on this game. Okay Subsoap, I get that you are proud of yourselves for making this game. It's great fun, very stylish and slick looking, and has a hauntingly beautiful soundtrack; BUT THIS IS NOT A $30 DOLLAR GAME!!! It's a $10 game, tops. I'll level here, had it not been for the coupon, I never would have bothered with FaeVerse Alchemy due to it's excessive price. FVA is a good game, but not $30 good.

EternalClimb
EternalClimb

Great atmospheric tetris-alike game what evolve base idea with elements transformation chain, many game modes - contemplative to competitive.

Even the name of the game shows how deeply and developers approach to every aspect of their brainchild.

No surprice hence, artwork, sounds are naturally woven into the overall concept, so does not detract you from the main process, but caressing glance and mellifluous.

Developers of FaeVerse Alchemy took up the implementation of the project with a grand scale. I hope they have the strength and perseverance to develop the project and lead it in the later stages of development and hone all the details.

PS:
as for the price, you can think of a number of games, expect more support at a significantly lower quality.
edit: price has been dropped to ridiculously $3..

Streamerz
Streamerz

Fun but incomplete. You may want to wait a bit before buying it. As it is now, I can't recommand it. We'll see later on.

HumbleFirework
HumbleFirework

Okay. This game is pretty, no doubt - Nice music, and easy to play.
However, there are a few glaring problems.
Keep in mind, it's a W.I.P (the featured screenshots are further along then additional gameplay) And hopefully, when the next update comes out, I'll be able to leave a heartier review. As it stands however, I'm not entirely impressed.
As it stands, it's only a Bubble-Pop game - build a collection and try to keep it from overflowing. There's a few puzzle-modes to try, which is a good challenge, but since the one achievement currently active is actually UNachievable, it lacks in positive reinforcement.
With no ETA on a substantial update, the previous price (29.99) was unthinkable. I managed to get myself a coupon, which brought it to $3. Since then they've dropped the max price to $15, which is fairer, though still much more then I would pay in it's CURRENT state.
It looks like they have some great idea's, and the art is breathtaking, however it has a long way to go IMO, before I can comfortably recommend it.

For the price I paid, I rate it 7/10
Full price, I would rate it 5/10

Cataclysm
Cataclysm

[Early Access]

It's an easy game to learn, but difficult to master. There's a very casual infinity mode which prevents game overs. Other modes keep your high scores and a running total for your games played.

It's easy to play this game if you only have 15 minutes to spare, or if you just want a quick break from another game. Buy it!

Meanwhile
Meanwhile

I can't believe this arrogant developer actually thought his game was worth 30 bucks. I got it for 75% off during the sale, and I still feel like I paid too much. It's barely adequate for a match-three game -- not nearly as innovative (or even interesting) as he seems to believe. Oh, well. At least I didn't pay full price. I know it's early access and all, but even with more features, the core of the game will still be mediocre at best. The interface is weak, too -- working with your inventory is far more fiddly than it needed to be. And the inventory items themselves are a great example of brute-force game design with zero finesse. He clearly just invoked every possible interaction he could think of and made only the most minimal, ham-fisted effort to tie them in thematically. Overall, quite an amateurish attempt. Cannot recommend to anyone. Get Puzzle Quest instead. If you already have PQ, play it again -- even the 2nd or 3rd time around, it will still be more rewarding than this silly mess.

DocCovington
DocCovington

Okay game, nothing special though. Only buy when on sale!

A tutorial page to explain some basics (especially what the icons on the top right corner do) would have been a smart idea. Apart from that, yet another Tetris clone, only without the stressful timer (at least in the mode I played). Several game modes that, again, would have been nice to have explained. This way, you have to google before you can start playing as not everything is self-explanatory.

Bear in mind, however, that this is early acccess and that, hopefully, stuff will be added (like the missing tutorial).

👻 Reippi
👻 Reippi

I dont get why we keep getting these kinda games on steam. On Facebook and such they are fine I guess.
Seriously most of em just reminded me that how much I miss playing Tetris.
I played that game on my gameboy everytime we had to take long train trip to somewhere and never got tired of it.
Gameplay got more challinging the highher you get and it had sum fancy russian music too. It was solid.

Anyway this game aint that bad. Kinda nice music, lotsa game modes (and they are working for some more!)
But still seriously there's tons of these free to play all over the net so why bother with this one that don't strike as anything special?

One other word, if you'r looking for chillout brain puzzles. Give a go to Lyne, I love it!
It's bit different tho. ;)

mostpalone
mostpalone

I'm quite enjoying the game but the amount of content this game has right now is surely not worth 15$ and since the game was release a year and half ago i think there should be a lot more content and basic things like a tutorial or some tips here and there, also the items are a bit confusing sometimes and there's no explanation in-game of what each item does, you either see a guide somewhere or try and find out for yourself. Either way i'll still be playing FaeVerse and i hope they can finish it someday but as of now i just can't recommend it for the full price.

EDIT: Recently the game had some nice updates which added a couple of game modes, also the price tag is no longer 15$ and i think the asked price is totally fair so i'm now giving it a thumbs up.

Cruze
Cruze

To start off, I really wanted this game to be good. It looks simple, elegant and addictive.
Sadly, looks are deceiving. The degree of random events is simply too high. After several games I still had no clue what the different power-ups did, and there is no description given of what they are supposed to do. This got up to the point where I considered the game to be too random and unplayable. A few tweaks could turn this game into something worth playing.
Really not worth the 15 bucks they charge you for it, but I got my copy with a discount coupon (-90%), and I still doubt if it's worth the amount.

EDIT:
After some help from a dev I got around to exploring different game modes, and it's actually a challenging game in some sense. Curious to see where this game is going in the future.
6.5/10, benefit of the doubt.

Suicidal Seagull
Suicidal Seagull

I tried this and rage quit after a little time.

After playing several games and googling, I still have NO IDEA what the different power-ups do and how to play it properly. I also just don't see this game as a PC game, it reminds me of Pet Rescue Saga/Candy Crush mobile and facebook games.
This game has been early access for a well over a year now, according to the other reviews and the updates are very sparse.

Amanda O`Neill
Amanda O`Neill

Faeverse Alchemy plays like mix of Pyou Pyou, Tetris and match 3 games.
So if you dont like any of this you should avoid it.

So here are the positives:
-looks really good
-recently added missions are a nice change of pace and can be really challanging
-gameplay is easy to learn difficult to master

Now for negatives:
-not many updates

Neztral:
-by the look of the menu the seem to have many more ideas because of the icons

For 3 Euro you get you´re moneys worth.
I played this game more than some 40 Euro games.

Marce
Marce

Pros:

- Good for it's price
- A mix between Tetris and Bejeweld
- Nice art style and music

Cons:

- Many game modes are locked.
- Not much maintenance (is an early access game)

wraptile
wraptile

The game has been in early access for ever and still feels like early-alpha.

Other than that it's quite interesting and I hope it gets finished at some point but right now it's not even worth bothering.

Lyzzie
Lyzzie

At the moment, I am very disappointed with this game. It has a lot of potential but It has almost one year and a half that I bought it and stills on early access. The game didn't chance much since then, despite one or two updates and a few achievements.

When it gets finished I will chance my review but for now I can't recommend it.

PoisonedTea
PoisonedTea

This game is good Trust me on that.
It the best tetris insired game that is clearly not tetris that I have ever played.
If you can get this game cheap get it or if you real just need a time waister game.
It game machanic's are fair and it is fun to desion making.

blokkemblokkem
blokkemblokkem

Bait and switch. I challenged the developers on Dec 17, 2014 about the status of this game. That's correct; 2014!

Back then it was $29.99, had TONS of placeholder options dimmed out/unavailable, and was always "about to be added". Of course the devs locked the topic (on page 4 currently of the discussion board for this game, I'm confident it wont make it much past page 5 with how slow their forums move) and went on scamming the playerbase out of their money at a high price point. When challenged, the player was always conveniently blamed for being at fault for being unreasonable/too demanding/impatient. Seriously, just go check out the locked forum post on page 4.

The placeholders that existed back then promised to have loads of content. If you weren't playing during the end of 2014, you probably aren't even aware as a player of the options that were supposed to be added as content during the development of the game, so you're not even witting to what hasn't been given to you. Just by reading the other reviews, it's clear that they chose to "correct" the options that use to be dimmed out for future release by just simply removing them. So now the game is $2.99 because the community is on to them and they want to pull a few more folks in with what really boils down to a mobile app game now.

The irritation levels for the folks that pay $2.99 probably won't be as high for the folks that paid $29.99 or $14.99 when they realize the short lived period of this game, but I wanted to leave this review to show the character and bait & switch tactics that they chose to employ for folks that may not have been around over a year ago.

zeroxxx
zeroxxx

From expensive paid product became cheaper, then free (as of today 5/5/16, there's an announcement of this game becomes F2P). Of course while promising major updates along the way when it was a paid product.

Fishing for customers like this ain't a good business practice. Not recommended.

Barney The Dinosaur
Barney The Dinosaur

What on earth could I tell about this move of yours? I feel ashamed in the place of the dev. Congrats on fooling lots of ppl who were trusted in you and payed 30 euros for this. Then after loads of promises you have done nothing, just made this free to play, and tell the poor souls after 2 years of waiting: sorry, ask steam for refund... *huge claps for you*

Floh
Floh

At this moment something to play if you have a little of free time, but it gets more and more content =)

anniegurl1982
anniegurl1982

looks to be an interesting game just needs some detail added such as what are the things youre asked to use in certain levels to complete that level and how to use it might be helpful to add a small how to thing for first time players because it can be a little confusing as to how to play certain things

2nd Class Janitor - Wilco
2nd Class Jani…

Tags: Casual - Match 3
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Eternal Early Access. Unintutive design. Sort of a triple town/tetris hybrid with odd choice for tilesets. Play Puyo Puyo Tetris instead.

The game was released as a paid product and seemed to have a lot of modes planned, but the dev had problem integrating community feedback and the problem stalled and when free to play.

It takes a lot of pointless concentration to remember which tiles morph into which icons. If you are looking specifically for a game with strange ruleset where you align blocks try Girls Like Robot perhaps.

I hold no grudges but this clutters my library and is easily outpaced by the featureset and addictiveness and ease of access of the competition.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/263460/Girls_Like_Robots/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/209950/Triple_Town/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/546050/Puyo_PuyoTetris/

Call Me Jems
Call Me Jems

This review has now been made free.

LoveAlotBear
LoveAlotBear

I actually bought in during early access. That is when I believed that paying full-price for an early access game helped developers actually make the game. Obviously I was wrong, and the $$$ went to fueling a heroine induced sex tour in Taipei. Days and nights of lady-boy love in heroine dens, can only explain the results of the years of development.

My only regret was helping fund American sex-tourism and the Columbian drug cartels.

Revenant14
Revenant14

I bought this game with a 90% off discount, which probably seemed quite worthwhile at the time, when the price was something like $30, rather than being free. In retrospect, installing this game for free wouldn't be worth it.

The gameplay itself is an okay matching tile drop thing. You get given blocks of two (or three in some game modes?) symbols, alchemical rune-y things, to drop from the top of the screen wherever you want. Whenever three or more of these matching... sigils?... touch one another, they combine to the next sigil up- the coins become leaves, the leaves become blue illuminati symbols, they become orange magma rhombuses, and so on, as you... alchemically combine these elements into more exotic forms, or something?

The trouble with this is that, logistically speaking, every successful match of three removes two pieces from the board- and every move the player makes ADDS two pieces to the board. Therefore, the player has to make one match every turn to whittle down the board at all. Sure, you can technically match a larger group than three, or make some sort of chain/combo, but in practice, it's a losing battle. Every time you combine pieces, the new piece you created starts to appear in the blocks you get given to drop in. Because the board is only six spaces across, this quickly becomes unmanageable- after around the eighth rune shows up, your ability to progress further is almost entirely down to random chance. It's sort of like, well, 2048? Except in 2048, only the two lowest value pieces are added to the board at a time, whereas in this, wham, suddenly a 256 drops on you out of nowhere.

Surrounding this core mechanic are several different game modes. Unfortunately, most of them are basically the same. The worst mode is "Infinity Mode", because it's just the vanilla game- every time you would lose, it erases the bottom two layers of the screen so you can carry on. There is no end goal and no way of losing, just a meaningless score counter that measures your persistence more than any actual aptitude for the game. "Chaos Mode" is better, because it gives you special pieces which can be used to erase parts of the board (why don't these turn up in Infinity Mode?) and actually has a way for you to lose. "Puzzle Mode" is infuriating, as solving the puzzles requires on foreknowledge you don't seem to be provided with on the first run, as well as suppressing the instincts you used for the other game modes, and understanding the seemingly random behaviour of, say, where the final piece ends up when you combine a flat row of four. Very few of the mechanics of the game are actually clearly explained to you anywhere. "Abyss Mode" is barely distinguishable from the other modes- apparently it's just a game where there's a pre-determined random selection of pieces available to you rather than an individually generated set. Whoopee.

There are also somewhere between two and a dozen other game modes and options that are greyed out on the menu. Bear in mind that this game was released three years ago. Don't get your hopes up for them to be added to the game any time soon.

Also important to note- the music. Each of the currently available, grindy modes, has a single background track- a twangy, mysterious forest sound with faint woodland drums and echoes. This is the most hellish part of the experience. Shortly after playing the game for the first time, I knew I would want to uninstall it- it just wasn't very fun, and my hard drive space is at a premium. So, naturally, I felt- "Oh well! Guess I'll just farm the rest of the cards and have done with it!" This was a mistake. The pennies of value in those trading cards are not worth the hours I have had to spend listening to that mysterious forest music as my computer refused to tab away from or minimise the running game. Faeverse Alchemy has one of the stingiest trading card drop rates of any game I've played.

For the record, Faerie Solitaire, which is set in some sort of shared universe with this game (but since FvA plays completely differently and has literally no story or characters, I'm not sure why), is actually much better.

rpr1me
rpr1me

Abandonware. No updates in 4 years.

YukoValis
YukoValis

Honestly how can you trust a dev that abandons a project AFTER people have bought it? Now it seems to be free, which just pours salt on the wound of people who paid.

10%
10%

I remember paying full price for this game and now it's free. Once they had our money they lost interest in updating it. More than half the games I own is practically free now and some of them I haven't even installed them yet.