You play the role of a gem God protecting your precious nest of gems from an onslaught of incoming gem-aholics.  The only way to stop the incoming pests is to use your ability of building towers and using spells to kill every single one of them.

You are given three basic tower types: Earth, Frost, and Fire.  However, the different tower types can only be placed on the appropriately colored patches of ground.  Each of these can be upgraded into two different kinds of specialty towers as they are given levels. Your towers themselves are granted XP for killing said prospectors.

Once you have upgraded your buildings high enough, the specialty towers become available.

Along the way, you are given spells that allow you to terraform the playing field, make your towers go berserk, and call down a meteor strike.  Each spell has its own proper time and place to be used; you'll have to figure that out.

The slight twist to this tower defense is that the prospectors must make it all the way to your gems and then take one away going back through your towers.  In addition, as you complete levels, you are given skill points which have skill trees like an RPG. These skills can give you additional damage, more mana, and a multitude of other advantages.

Depending on how many gems you have saved, you will get an award and if no gems are touched you will get the brilliant award worth a lot of experience.

Accessible game review

The accessibility is a rather standard. They do make heavy use of green and red but most colorblind gamers should not find this troubling since the game often uses text to point you in the right direction.

The first two levels are basic tutorials, which explain the game completely with no use of audio. The font sizes are relatively large and easy-to-read. In addition, the text portions of the upgrade buttons are large and easy to see.

There are multiple speeds the game can be set at depending on your level of skill or cognitive ability.  You can also repeat any level of often as you need to. 

Finally, the game is entirely controlled by the mouse and there are no keyboard shortcuts. Depending on your motion impairment, this game may be difficult or easy. But as long as you can use the mouse easily, you should have no problems.

Overall, Cursed Treasure is excellent tower defense with some new twists and turns. It's also the highest-rated game on Kongregate after only one week of release.  Try your hand at killing prospectors and saving your jewels today.

Comments (2)

James Pruitt

May 17, 2010

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Good game, started a while back and am still playing it.

Daniel Linger

May 20, 2010

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Brilliant!!

Also a convert to the tower defence genre, I thought Gemcraft was damned good, but this is great - even more polished.

Loving every minute of it.

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