Jewel Quest is practically Match-3 royalty. The original game hit the PC in 2004, and has since been ported across several consoles and portable game systems. It's even free-to-play on many web-based game sites. Maybe you still tab it out when you hear your boss's feet sweeping towards your office.

Now Jewel Quest is finally coming to mobile phones and tablets. No surprise there, since the likes of has made Match-3 games a pretty hot ticket. Digital marketplaces are currently brimming with Match-3 titles as a result of their popularity, however. Will one of the genre's precursors manage to wrench some attention from the candy-crazed masses?

There's always time for a little Match-3 gaming, and Jewel Quest aims to capture players by giving the original some depth. Whereas the original Jewel Quest doesn't require much of you beyond turning the sandy portions of the board into gold by making matches, the mobile Jewel Quest goes around the world with a story. You play as an archeologist who's trotting the globe in search of treasure and wonder. It doesn't take long before you stumble on both. In the end, however, it's all just to motivate you into solving puzzles.