Evolve: Hunters Quest Lets You Maul Monsters with Match-Three Mayhem

2K Games’ upcoming console game Evolve is a multiplayer affair that’s all about dogpiling. Four player-controlled hunters take on a considerably larger, spikier player-controlled monster. While the hunters technically shouldn’t be more than a mouthful to some of the alien beasts available for play, some pretty wicked weapons balance out natural fire-breathing powers quite well.

Evolve is due out for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Windows on February 10 — but hunting bipedal dragons with teeth like railroad spikes takes a bit of a warm-up, and that’s what Evolve: Hunters Quest is all about.

This match-three / battle game  requires you to make matches of three or more in order to do damage to big alien jerks. It plays quite a bit like GungHo’s Puzzle & Dragons, another game that revolves around allied warriors taking down nasty threats with the power of colored jewels.

Playing Evolve: Hunters Quest earns you “Mystery Points,” which you can use to rank up your player in the console / PC game. How does it work? We don’t know yet. That’s part of the mystery!

Evolve: Hunters Quest is free to download for iOS and Android.

Nadia Oxford

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In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.