Gem Rush Strategy Board Game1.4.1 - App Store

The Classic Board Game comes to your iPhone and iPad!

This mountain is rich in mystic gems. Combine gems to open up new rooms, providing new ways to dig up gems. Race against other players or race together against the clock to dig the greatest mine in this fast-paced, easy-to-learn strategy game.

FEATURES:
- Leverage more than 60 room abilities
- 20 unique player skills adorned with dwarven poetry
- Competitive, cooperative, and solitaire game modes (1-7 players)
- Online and pass-and-play multiplayer options
- Cross-platform multiplayer (mobile and PC)
- Play a quick game and watch the action unfold, or play an asynchronous game where you only need to take one turn per day
- 4 levels of AI to play with or against
- Faithful adaptation of the Gem Rush board game, programmed by the designer

REVIEWS OF THE BOARD GAME (first edition)
"The gameplay is great, I think it's a super fun game...This is a great tile-laying exploration game, one that I would very much recommend..."
Zee Garcia - The Dice Tower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sFqPxqdgj4

"It's a nice little filler game...it's all about optimizing your turns, making sure you're in a position where you can maximize your options depending on which cards you're going to draw."
Ricky Royal - Box of Delights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h_RxwPD3TA

"A simple, light game...the gives me enough to think about and keep me engaged. I personally like the fact that the game feeds me constantly new problems to solve."
Marco Arnaudo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXzd2r-sOwA
HOW TO PLAY
On your turn, move up to 3 steps in the mine, then do one action.

Building Rooms
Building rooms is the main way to score points! If you move into a room that doesn't exist yet, you have to build it. Spend cards from your hand that include all the gems on the door you're building. (Most cards have 2 gems, and can be spent as either or both!) Choose the rotation of the new room and add it to the mine.

Collecting Gems
For your action, use a room's special ability to draw more gem cards. Different rooms have different rules for drawing cards, so choosing the right room for your situation is key! (If you can't find a useful room, you can always draw a single card instead.)

At the start of your next turn, if you have more than 4 cards, you'll have to discard down to 4.

Winning
In Rush Mode, the players race against each other. Have the most points at the end of the round when anyone reaches the point target.

In Crisis Mode, the players race against the clock. You'll be forced to "burn" cards from the deck every turn, removing them from the game. Reach the target score before the cards are all gone!

Version History Additional AI difficulty level, iOS 18 support 1.4.1 02/26/2025 NEW FEATURES
- You can now view replays of your previous online games on the new "Archived Games" tab of the game menu. Note that you can play single-player games in online mode if you would like them to be archived.
- The Joinable Games tab will now always show at least 1 game to join (if there are no existing games, a new one will be created)
- Bots in new online matches will receive randomly-assigned names
FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS
- If you have no ongoing games, the games menu will default to showing Joinable Games instead of My Games
- Games list has some additional color-coding to help make important information pop
- Fixed some display bugs when loading a game that has already ended
- The pause menu no longer allows you to resign from games that have already ended 1.4 10/03/2021 Additional, easier difficulty level now available.
Rebuilt to be compatible with the latest Apple products. 1.3 04/14/2021 - New replays let you re-watch prior events in your current game and catch up on what happened while you were gone
- Invite friends to private games using lobby codes
- Offline games are automatically saved and can be resumed later
- Automatic gem counts when viewing discard pile
- Bug fix for Improvisation skill 1.2 07/04/2019 - Optional notifications when it's your turn in online games
- Various bug fixes 1.1 05/24/2019 - Fixed a UI bug in multiplayer lobbies. 1.0.2 12/11/2018 - Fixed a bug where sometimes preferences would not be saved. 1.0.1 12/04/2018 1.0 11/09/2018