Spellarium 3

I've been revisiting the early games of this series after not having played them for several years (originally at another site). Quite surprised to see how challenging Spellarium 3 is - several levels can be rendered impossible or nearly impossible to finish if you do things in the wrong order! (And there's no "replay" button automatically appearing, as that hadn't been created yet at this point of the series.) A new feature of some playing tiles not replenishing and having to clear all of them out in order to remove a stump obstacle. Otherwise, it's mostly a matter of getting to the colored squares to trip them and then the level will finish itself.

I'm not completely sure how many levels there are, as I haven't finished the game as of the writing of this review, but am guessing there are around 100 levels. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like there are a lot more minigames, even though there are only 3 types (solitaire, spot the difference, HOS).

The story this time is the Dark Elements have wreaked havoc and destroyed a world, but Eric was tasked to rebuild it. Unfortunately, he's still using some unseen workers to do the work, and he doesn't treat them all that well still. I'm glad this got taken out of later games and have to chuckle whenever I see texts in subsequent games where Eric's whining about doing all the work himself. ;)

Some of the game texts have obvious typos in them, but otherwise I had no tech issues while playing.

Hi, Happy that each level was a little difference. As you progress through and complete the game produces and real cool screensaver. Very enjoyable to play, and it is actually quite relaxing for me.