Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition Review

Puzzle Quest is a long-running series at this point. It’s come a long way from a Diamond Mine clone that someone stapled an RPG to, and in the intervening years, has had everything from expansions to major IP crossovers with Magic: The Gathering. Our Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition review will let you know if this new collected edition of the original game with all of its additional content is worth ploughing your way through.

What Is Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition?

The original Puzzle Quest on PSP/DS was a pretty interesting title, and Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition is very much the same. It’s a match-3 puzzle game where you have to get 3 icons of the same type together to gain mana and attack your enemy in a classic RPG combat scenario. As you journey through the game, you level up, collect companions, and journey all over the map in your work as a member of the Queen’s Guard. This Immortal Edition of the first game also includes the Revenge of the Plague Lord expansion, as well as the additional content from 2019s The Legend Returns and this version’s own unique class and extra content.

It’s a pretty comprehensive package and, obviously, also includes a big upgrade to the visuals and performance of that original PSP game. Not only are things in HD now, but all of the graphics have been redone to look good when blown up on a modern big-screen TV. There’s also been a considerable upgrade to the sound too, with the slightly crushed and compressed sound effects from the PSP/DS version long gone and replaced with modern, crisp and clear sound effects. In short, it’s a definitive version of a classic puzzle/RPG hybrid.

Adventure Ho! (Don’t Call Me That!)

The story of Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition follows your character as they join the elite royal guard of the land of Etheria. While you start out doing some basic missions to prove your worth, you quickly become embroiled in a war against an army of the undead who are constantly encroaching on the land. You must journey around Etheria to gather companions and aid to secure your kingdom against the oncoming hordes of darkness, as well as become stronger than a god by the time you’re done.

If you’ve already played Bejeweled, then you’ll be mostly familiar with the core of the actual gameplay. You have a grid with 7 different basic symbols, and you have to match the symbols in groups of 3 to generate mana, money, XP and do melee damage. There are 4 different mana elements (of course there are), and these are used to cast spells or use special abilities, each of which requires different combinations depending on how powerful they are. Each battle consists of you and your opponent matching tiles in an attempt to destroy each other.

My Stratagem Is Flawless!

As always, there’s a surprising amount of depth to the relatively simple concept of “Bejeweled, but it’s an RPG. Of course, on lower difficulty settings, you can mostly just blitz your way through the missions without breaking a sweat, but if you want to take on the more challenging fights in the game, there is an amount of strategy that squats like a monolith over the heaps of RNG inherent in the format. As well as trying to earn enough mana to cast your own spells, you also need to try to deny your opponent the mana they need to cast their own spells.

Beyond that, a lot of the tactics in the game rely on the things you can do before you even start. As you level up, you earn new spells but can only slot 5 of them, so swapping the right ones in and out as you hit different scenarios is a must. There are also a bunch of different equipment slots that offer various buffs, and as in any RPG, combining the right equipment together to stack your buffs can lead to a pretty OP character.

Enough Content for Ya’?

Another enticing factor about Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition is the sheer volume of the content. First, you’ve got the original 40-hour puzzle RPG to contend with, then the 10 or so hours it takes to complete the Revenge of the Plague Lord portion, and finally any of the extra content that they’ve thrown into the Immortal Edition of the game, to boot. Basically, you won’t run out of Puzzle Quest to play for a long time, and even when you do, it’ll probably have taken you so long that you can start all over again and have it all feel fresh, if you’ve not gone cross-eyed from swapping all of those coloured tiles.

While the gameplay variety is certainly missing here, the game knows what it wants to be. This is a simple puzzle RPG with the classical mechanics that made the franchise a success in the first place, all with a glitzy coat of paint that prevents your eyes from bleeding when trying to play the game on a full-sized screen. There are certainly many worse ways to play the game, and not even the cliched fantasy storyline can stop this from being a roaring hit.

The Verdict

Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition is the definitive way to play this puzzle RPG classic. Whether you’ve finished it before on PSP/DS, barely dabbled in more recent mobile crossovers, like Magic: The Gathering – Puzzle Quest, or you’re a complete newbie, this is a fantastic entry in the franchise that is sure to make a whole new generation of fans. The updated graphics and sound are a great bonus, but with potentially 50+ hours of content on offer, don’t blame us if you start seeing these shapes when you close your eyes before you’re done.

Developer: Infinity Plus 2

Publisher: 505 Games

Platforms:  PC, Nintendo Switch

Released: 18th September 2025

Gaming Respawn’s copy of Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition was provided by the publisher.