The Long Siege - Match-three and casual tower-offence

The Long Siege belongs to that appealing subset of games that pairs match-three mechanics with a secondary, more tactical genre.

Think Puzzle Quest, or You Must Build a Boat. Even Angry Birds Fight, if you must.

Here there's a little tower offence magic woven in. You must match swords, bows, and magic wands on a grid to spawn soldiers, archers, and mages in the simple 2D battlefield above.

It works very well, with each round taking on a natural ebb and flow as you balance a sustained and varied attack with the need to repair your tower and use your cannon to weaken tough enemy soldiers.

Yes, there's the ever-present issue with these sorts of games whereby it's too easy to miss what's going on above as you fixate on picking out match-three formations below.

But overall this is a charming, well-balanced, and supremely well presented puzzle-strategy hybrid.

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