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GemCraft - Chasing Shadows - PC (Steam)
About
The cult classic tower defense game beloved by millions comes to Steam with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows. Against swarms of vicious, demonic avatars, your only defenses are the gems you conjure that, when placed atop towers or into traps and amplifiers, become conduits for powerful magical and elemental attacks. GemCraft combines fast-paced real-time strategy as you deal with waves of incoming monsters, and cunning tactics...
- Platform
- Steam (PC)
- Developer
- Game in a Bottle
- Publisher
- Armor Games Studios
- Release date
- 30 Apr, 2015
- Languages
- Genres
- Action, Indie, Strategy
- Product type
- Digital key / activates on Steam
Supported languages
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Description
Create traps that poison or slow, discover powerful artifacts and unlock new abilities, and stand alone against The Forgotten, a seemingly unkillable archdemon whose endless armies threaten to swallow the world. GemCraft is packed with multiple levels of difficulty, hundreds of achievements, nearly two hundred levels, and much, much more, making it a rewarding, deep strategy game you'll come back to over and over again.
Key Features:
- Conquer over 190 stages with unique challenges and conditions.
- Over two dozen passive skills to unlock and enhance as you level up and increase your power.
- More than 400 achievements that will reward you with more skill points as you earn them.
- Craft and combine nine gem types with different effects to suit your tactical needs.
- Combine and stack multiple tiers of difficulty and challenging battle traits for greater rewards, but also greater dangers.
- Socket fragments you find into your mystical talisman to impart new bonuses.
- Wield devastating spells to decimate your foes or enhance your gems.
- Control the speed of battle with fast-forward or pause to fit your play style.
- Want more monsters? Summon them with wave stones, but beware their greater power...
- Replay any stage you've completed for more experience points or with a new challenge.
- Hold out as long as you can after you win levels in Endurance mode for more rewards.
System Requirements
- OS
- Windows Vista SP1
- Processor
- Intel Celeron N or better
- Memory
- 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics
- Intel HD Graphics or better
- Storage
- 100 MB available space
- OS
- Windows 7/8
- Processor
- Intel Core i3 or better
- Memory
- 4096 MB RAM
- Graphics
- Radeon HD / Geforce GTX grade graphics card
- Storage
- 100 MB available space
News

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GemCraft Legacy Collection
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a month ago
Legacy Collection Demo is NOW LIVE!
<p class="bb_paragraph">Hello Wizards!<br><br>We're so thrilled to let you experience the GemCraft - Legacy Collection for the first time. The demo will let you play the first few levels of all 3 games and remember how awesome they are... or

5 months ago
GemCraft Legacy Collection Revealed
<p class="bb_paragraph">Fellow Wizards!<br><br>The time has come to travel back and begin your journey anew. The first three GemCraft games together in one ominous package. Experience Chapter 1, Chapter 0, and Labyrinth again (or for the firs
Best Reviews
👍 Recommended · Steam player · 17 Jul 2026
I used to play gemcraft as a kid and it was one of my favorite games. I looked it up on steam and at first thought "wow 10 bucks??" but holy moly, only 5 hours in, and its so worth it! this is so well made and a blast!!!
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👍 Recommended · Steam player · 3 Jul 2026
It is a fun challenging game though some of the tome challenges are annoying to do.
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👍 Recommended · Steam player · 27 Jul 2026
Very good and unique tower defense.
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Recent Reviews
👍 Recommended · Steam player · 27 Jul 2026
Very good and unique tower defense.
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👍 Recommended · Steam player · 17 Jul 2026
I used to play gemcraft as a kid and it was one of my favorite games. I looked it up on steam and at first thought "wow 10 bucks??" but holy moly, only 5 hours in, and its so worth it! this is so well made and a blast!!!
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👍 Recommended · Steam player · 11 Jul 2026
you make your game too beautiful ;-;
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