# How Did You Find Gems Of War? **URL:** \ **Category:** Official News\ **Created:** [April 28, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201 "2017-04-28T07:32:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saltypatra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/saltypatra/32/59750_2.png) [@Saltypatra](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Saltypatra)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 7:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/1 "2017-04-28T07:32:41Z")
Hey players! Lately we’ve been talking about what draws people to Gems of War, so we’d love to know how you found out about the game and started playing. Also, what made you decide to stay with us? For me, personally, my dad convinced me to play and we used to play together before I abandoned him for Sparkle Ponies. To be fair though, Sparkle Ponies is great, and one day I hope to thoroughly trounce him in Guild Wars. _Poll ([view on site](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/1))_ Feel free to discuss other things that drew you to the game below. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ozball](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ozball/32/36110_2.png) [@Ozball](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Ozball)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 7:35am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/2 "2017-04-28T07:35:02Z")
Word of Mouth, but I had also played Puzzle Quest 1 & 2, so there was some name recognition coming from that. ---
**Author:** ![DonBoba](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/donboba/32/25457_2.png) [@DonBoba](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/DonBoba)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/3 "2017-04-28T07:42:44Z")
As i started playing before GoW was popular i wanted to play Puzzle Quest 3. I haven’t found puzzle quest 3 but it was even better. ---
**Author:** ![thesilence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@thesilence](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/thesilence)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/4 "2017-04-28T07:46:22Z")
Read the review in APC and gameinformer magazines ---
**Author:** ![jeno](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jeno/32/20235_2.png) [@jeno](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jeno)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 7:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/5 "2017-04-28T07:49:35Z")
i saw it in one of the top game list in steam in free to play strategy puzzle game. ---
**Author:** ![Taisiakat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/taisiakat/32/75810_2.png) [@Taisiakat](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Taisiakat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/6 "2017-04-28T07:50:18Z")
I actually went and googled for the best magic the gathering app game and GoW forum popped up in the google search. After reading the forum I downloaded the game and …the rest is history. PS it was also the artwork that caught my eye when I was looking in the forum. ---
**Author:** ![MakoSipper](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/makosipper/32/1933_2.png) [@MakoSipper](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/MakoSipper)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:00am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/7 "2017-04-28T08:00:09Z")
Saw on Steam when I was looking for a nice F2P game, remembered when I had played Puzzle Quest, decided to give it a try, and I was sure I would drop it in 1 or 2 hours. _1250 hours later…_ (I voted other, since I wasn’t looking for PQ sequels, just for F2P games on Steam) ---
**Author:** ![yonizaf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/yonizaf/32/1435_2.png) [@yonizaf](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/yonizaf)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/8 "2017-04-28T08:01:21Z")
I was using a website named Playfire, that used to award credit for [greenmangaming.com](http://greenmangaming.com) when you unlocked specific achievements on steam. I was periodically checking if they were featuring games that I owned or that were F2P, so I could play them and gain said credit. When GoW was released on steam, it was featured there, and I had to get the achievement for getting to level 10. Since it was free to play I installed it, and, well… ---
**Author:** ![Eika](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/eika/32/103088_2.png) [@Eika](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Eika)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:01am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/9 "2017-04-28T08:01:42Z")
Noticed it first on PS4, it was a free game so I decided to try it out. ---
**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/10 "2017-04-28T08:13:32Z")
Do other forums count as social media? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@aurora\_x](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/aurora_x)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/11 "2017-04-28T08:43:03Z")
> [@jeno](#): > > i saw it in one of the top game list in steam in free to play strategy puzzle game. me too. (Oh, my reply needs to be at least 10 characters long 😂 so I simply wrote this…) ---
**Author:** ![AngryMidget](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/angrymidget/32/10478_2.png) [@AngryMidget](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/AngryMidget)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:49am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/12 "2017-04-28T08:49:09Z")
I downloaded practically every free game on the xbox one. This was one of them. ---
**Author:** ![turintuor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/turintuor/32/4097_2.png) [@turintuor](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/turintuor)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/13 "2017-04-28T08:53:41Z")
When will it be possible to have in-game polls? Because here there is 0.1-1% of the players… ---
**Author:** ![Malina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Malina](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Malina)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/14 "2017-04-28T09:03:55Z")
It was F2P nad had achievments ---
**Author:** ![Mekkalyn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/mekkalyn/32/21868_2.png) [@Mekkalyn](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Mekkalyn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/15 "2017-04-28T09:18:23Z")
Honestly I can’t remember. My fiancé found it first. I think he found it while looking on steam or the App Store for IOS. I remember seeing an ad on social media around the time, either before or after he downloaded it and got me into it. So one of those three. ---
**Author:** ![CSZ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/csz/32/4784_2.png) [@CSZ](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/CSZ)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:28am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/16 "2017-04-28T09:28:11Z")
Found it while browsing through the App Store. Shortly after GoW I’ve discovered PQ 1 and 2 and played them as well. ---
**Author:** ![ogunther](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ogunther/32/1464_2.png) [@ogunther](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ogunther)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:29am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/17 "2017-04-28T09:29:26Z")
I’ve played all the Puzzle Quest games so that’s what got me to try GoW but it’s been so long now I can’t remember exactly how I found GoW to begin with. I remember I’d recently stopped playing Marvel Puzzle Quest after playing that for maybe 6 months though, as it’d gotten way too sleazy with its F2P mechanics (something GoW has consistently avoided for the most part, which is a big reason why my wife and I are still here, 2+ years later 😺) ---
**Author:** ![efh313](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/efh313/32/34349_2.png) [@efh313](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/efh313)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/18 "2017-04-28T09:43:06Z")
I had just finished a good run with Puzzles and Dragons but hit a power curve wall that just felt wrong. Was looking for the next quick mobile fix. Actually played around in PQ again and stumbled on Gems as a related title I think. Found out it was made by the same developers and that was enough for me! ---
**Author:** ![ogunther](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/ogunther/32/1464_2.png) [@ogunther](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/ogunther)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/19 "2017-04-28T09:48:04Z")
Yeah similar thing happen to me with P&Q (as it does with most freemium games. It’s like fun, fun, fun, fun, oh paywall!, ok here’s a little $, fun, fun, fun, another paywall, fun, fun, paywall, fun, paywall, paywall, fun, paywall, paywall, paywall, f this, uninstall) ---
**Author:** ![efh313](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/efh313/32/34349_2.png) [@efh313](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/efh313)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201/20 "2017-04-28T09:51:59Z")
Exactly!! And since GoW never forced me to pay… I am now VIP 5! 😉 Wish more dev’s would figure that out… or maybe I don’t cause then I might have never found this gem. Pun most certainly intended! 😉 [Next page](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-did-you-find-gems-of-war/23201.md?page=2)