Cursed House 10 - Match 3 Puzzle

It's pretty long (110 M3-puzzle levels) for one of these games. The new widget this time is having veins of coal to burn up before sections of the playfield are freed. The puzzles feature quite a bit of variety with the solutions, and windowed mode features a bigger window than the tiny one used in early Cursed House games. As usual, loads of minigames (HOS, spot the difference, solitaire, and Sokoban). The Sokoban puzzles are a little harder than in earlier CH games, but not extremely difficult.

Difficulty in the main game is all over the place, from easy to challenging and there's no gradient; it's just a random mix of difficulty as you go along. The harder levels are demanding if you're trying to figure out the solution yourself, but never fear as there is a built-in walkthrough for every level if you keep pressing the Hint button on the top right of every level. Some levels can be rendered impossible to finish or else take an extremely long time to get through if obstacles are removed in the wrong order. However, if this happens, the game will prompt you by having a "replay" button appear at the top of the screen. While this feature is usually pretty good at telling you when you've messed up, I did notice a few instances in which the level could still be done and not with all that much effort either - in those cases, the solution is flexible and you just weren't doing exactly what the developer had planned.

The "cursed house" is a castle this time, but otherwise pretty standard looking scene for the series.

Overall, gives fans of the Cursed House series what they expect, except for the replay levels on demand feature, which wasn't brought in until CH11 or 12.

Match-3 game with some interesting puzzles. The minigames are meh. Try to buy it if it's on sale (buying the whole bunch of 15 games cost me a little over €3 each).
But there is one point, one big point for me why I can't recommend this game....it needs constant internet connection or it won't launch. This is the bad form of DRM and for someone like me with takted con a reason to hate it. Especially when I consider that the series is also available on disk here...and that it runs without the internet.

Cursed House! I am glad they are bringing these to Steam.

I'll admit that I am a complete newbie to whatever went before Cursed House 10. I'm assuming that somewhere in the recesses of time were Cursed House 1-9 games. As such, the puzzles initially baffled me. Trying to work out the sequences of attack were difficult. I initially started playing the game with a limited number of moves per level. Total fail. I'm now working my way through in Relaxed mode to get the feel for the game before I try that again. The game is not a mental overkill - you don't need to be Einstein to play it but the game is both challenging and engaging for those of us who love and adore casual games.

And that's a lot of people.