Key features:

• Repel the monster horde in more than 100 fields of battle with various conditions and challenges.
  
• Craft and combine six types of gems with different effects to shape your defense strategy or make quick tactical decisions in the heat of the battle.
  
• Two dozen passive skills to unlock and enhance as you level up and increase your power.
  
• Socket fragments you find into your mystical talisman to obtain new special bonuses.
  
• Cast 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.
  
• Enrage the upcoming monster waves to make them more fierce but also give more experience points to level up further.
  
• Unlock a wide range of battle traits, combine and stack them to replay battlefields for more dangerous battles with greater rewards and more XP to level up even more.
  
• Hold out as long as you can in Endurance mode, where you can gain additional endurance wave stones to set your next endurance run even longer.
  
• Fight in Trial mode with a fixed set of gem types, spells, and difficulty settings to test your bare hands gemcrafting skills and unlock wizard stashes with various rewards.
  
• Gain more than 600 achievements that will reward you with more skill points and unlock higher battle trait levels as you earn them.

Feature highlights for veteran wizards of GemCraft - Chasing Shadows:

• A brand new GemCraft chapter with whole new fields and chapter map to explore.
  
• Full HD native game resolution for more detailed and crisp visuals.
  
• Larger battlefields (GCCS: 54x32 tiles, 1 tile = 17x17 pixels; GCFW: 60x38 tiles, 1 tile = 28x28 pixels)
  
• Redesigned player interface, gem types, skills, battle traits, strike spells.
  
• New buildable buildings (lanterns and pylons), more powerful shrines, new kinds of hostile and support structures, new creatures to fight.
  
• Gems get stronger when your mana pool levels up (all gems have the poolbound bonus only white gem component had in GCCS).
  
• Brand new talisman system with fragments inspired by jigsaw puzzles, and a collectible fragment shape collection to transform fragment shapes to fit.
  
• Even more Steam achievements than before, prepare for the achievement hunt!
  
• New endurance mode starting at wave 1 and beginning with short endurance runs that can be extended by gaining endurance wave stones.
  
• Almost all of the fields have a challenging Trial mode with fixed spells and mana regardless of wizard level (similar to vision fields in GCCS)
  
• Linked waves (2 waves start at the same time, i.e. giants can arrive together with swarmlings).
  
• One click gem creation, pre-adjustable gem creation grade, upgrade gems in the inventory with the mouse wheel too.
  
• Enraging gem slot - enrage all waves by socketing one gem.