Crystal Crisis

Crystal Crisis is a head-to-head puzzle battle game that combines color-matching puzzles with the presentation of a fighting game. Steam lists it under Action and Casual, but the core experience is a one-on-one contest where each player works on their own grid. Nicalis, Inc. is both the developer and the publisher, and the store description presents it as a focused take on the head-to-head puzzle battle genre.

The core loop is simple to describe. Pairs of falling Crystals drop onto your grid, and you arrange them so matching colors clear from the screen, which sends attacks at your opponent. Crashes and combos build your Burst gauge, which unlocks special attacks and defensive moves. The game offers 40 unique Bursts that can help you save yourself, disrupt your opponent's board, or finish them off. A wrap-around feature lets a falling pair move past one edge of the grid and reappear on the other side, and you can split a pair so one Crystal lands on the left and one on the right.

The cast is the most eye-catching part of the package. There are 20 playable characters, including Quote and Curly Brace from Cave Story, Isaac from The Binding of Isaac, Astro Boy and Black Jack from Tezuka Productions, and Umihara Kawase. Each character has a stage, a musical theme, unique Bursts, and voice-acted exclamations, and the store copy describes the animation, effects, and sound design as high-quality. The tagline calls the game cute and chaotic, which fits the mix of characters and frantic matches.

Beyond versus matches, you can practice in Arcade, Survival Mode, Tag Team, and Training Mode, or follow the Story mode, which has multiple branching paths. Multiplayer covers local and online play against friends or strangers, and the Crystal colors are fully customizable, including a Colorblind setting.

• Head-to-head puzzle battles can be played locally or online, with shared and split-screen options listed on the store page.
• Forty unique Bursts, charged by crashes and combos, give you special attacks and defensive moves to turn a match around.
• A wrap-around feature lets falling Crystal pairs reappear on the opposite side of the grid, and you can split a pair across the board.
• Twenty playable characters, including Quote, Curly Brace, Isaac, Astro Boy, and Black Jack, each bring their own stage and music.
• Single-player options include Arcade, Survival Mode, Tag Team, Training Mode, and a Story mode with branching paths.
• Fully customizable Crystal colors include a Colorblind setting that makes the pieces easier to tell apart.

Steam shows Crystal Crisis with a Mostly Positive label, which appears on the Taiwan Steam store as 大多好評. Around 70.54 percent of its reviews are positive, and the total is in the hundreds of reviews.

A Mostly Positive label means most reviewers were satisfied, though a meaningful minority were not. With a review base in the hundreds, the percentage can move noticeably as new reviews arrive, so treat it as a general signal rather than a precise rating. Steam calculates these labels from the share of positive reviews and how many there are, so a smaller pool carries less statistical weight than a title with hundreds of thousands of reviews.

All prices here are Taiwan Steam store prices in NT$. The latest price is NT$ 318, which is also the regular price, the highest price we recorded, and the lowest paid price we recorded, set on 2026-10-27. In our record the game has never been discounted, so there has been no sale to compare against.

The game was free to keep on some days, and we have recorded one earlier free-to-keep promotion. Free-to-keep offers are rare and can return or end without warning, so they should not be the basis for a purchase decision.

Our price record is still short, so this verdict is tentative. Because the price has held at NT$ 318 with no recorded discount, buying now is a reasonable choice if you want the game immediately, while wishlisting it costs nothing and lets you watch for any change.

1. Sign in to Steam on the website or the desktop client before making any purchase.
2. Open the Crystal Crisis store page and check the listed price, which is currently NT$ 318 on the Taiwan store.
3. If you want it now, add it to your cart and complete the purchase with a payment method linked to your account.
4. If you would rather wait, add the game to your wishlist from the store page.
5. Turn on Steam's wishlist sale notifications so you hear about any price change.
6. Check back here for the price trend before you decide.

Traditional Chinese is not among the supported languages, so Traditional Chinese readers should not expect it. English is supported, and English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese have full audio support. The prices above are Taiwan-region Steam store prices in NT$ and may differ in other regions. Free and discount promotions can end at any time, so check the official Steam page before you buy.