Arctictopia
Arctictopia is a puzzle-solving game in the Arctic Ocean. Figure out routes and plan your moves to help mama polar bear find her cub on the melting ice.
As the ice sheets melt away, the polar bears' route home becomes even more treacherous…
Features
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10 unique mechanics woven into 150 intriguing levels.
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Immerse yourself in a hand-drawn, picture book-styled (but frigid!) North Pole and as you cross the Arctic Ocean.
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Plan your every step carefully — with each move you make, the ice under your paws melts a bit.
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Relax and take your time puzzle-solving. It’s easy to retrace your steps or try a different level. Chill and enjoy the challenge.
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Adorable cub, seal and puffin.
Read More: Best Hand-drawn Puzzle Games.
Puzzle Challengers
It is a collection of “Mini-games” with simple and colorful anime style graphics.
You can choose from 3 mini-games:
1 Falling shapes
2 Swap attacks
3 Slide portraits
PLAYABLE
From the “Menu” you can choose whether to play in “Campaign” or “Free mode” mode, the options do not exist so you can not change anything.
Whether you choose Campaign or Free , once you start the game you can no longer go back to change games , even if you crush “ESC” you have to continue until the words “Game over” come out
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Read More: Best Hand-drawn Puzzle Games.
Stars received: 1.7/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: game with few puzzles, bad design
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Lamplighter
It’s 1807 and you are a lamplighter, responsible for keeping the street lights of London lit.
Lamplighter is a story-driven puzzle game, set amidst the magical early 1800s when gas street lamps began to turn night into day and provoke people’s imaginations, hopes, and fears.
Key Features:
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Unique puzzle mechanic involves creating regions of light and darkness on a grid, where same-colored regions cannot touch. Solve logic puzzles to keep the streets of London lit.
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Interact with characters along your lamplighting route. As the wielder of a strange and new technology, you have the power to affect people’s opinions.
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Make choices that affect the story’s outcome: Will London accept progress or will fear prevail? You’ll decide through your dialogue choices and puzzle-solving skills.
Read More: Best Hand-drawn Puzzle Games.
Gems of Magic: Father’s Day
Every time a cheerful father and son venture out together, they end up in problems. That doesn’t stop them to take a walk through the mountains! What can go wrong in a peaceful natural setting? Then father takes a tumble. Luckily, he’s fine but he ended up down the mountain while his son is still on top of the mountain!
Help this clumsy but caring dad to find his son as soon as possible. Work your way through numerous levels filled with coloured stones to climb up. Make as many combinations of three or more identical stones as possible to remove all obstacles on your path and conquer the mountain.
Can you meet all level goals and earn three stars in each level? Use various power-ups to complete levels with greater ease. Don’t keep the little boy waiting for too long because he’s pretty lonely on top of the mountain. Enjoy the pleasant atmosphere and reunite father and son as quickly as possible! "
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100 levels full of challenge
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Help father climb the mountain
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Reunite father and son
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Remove all obstacles
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Use various power-ups
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Combine three or more identical stones
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Beautiful hand-drawn graphics
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A pleasant atmosphere
Rogues Adventure
Rogues Adventure (Tiny Adventure?) is one of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam. This one has you jumping around maze-like 2D puzzle levels collecting coins etc. The usual.
They chose to use obsolete retro pixel “art” as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It’s unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
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– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Skip Lake
Short, not too difficult reflection game. Usually these mechanics are used with light rays that have to end up in a certain location; in this case it’s a stone that magically keeps bouncing over water. Difficulty is not very consistent, some puzzles will take some pondering and tweaking and retrying, others will be clear at the first glance.
I very much liked the visuals and the sound effects, and found myself looking for longer routes to listen to the new ‘melodies’. The soundtrack was definitely not for me, and I had to turn it off every single time I started the game. It also did not remember my preference to play windowed and bounced back to full screen every restart. My last little peeve was that you can’t return to the menu or home screen between levels - you have to start or redo a level to get back the menu.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Casual puzzles with a peaceful ambience. Most solutions amount to lining up the most intuitive positions, with a few requiring some more tries. While quite easy, it is fun and rewarding. There are also hidden objects to find which give a bit of story. My only issues: no touchscreen support, so it’s a lot of touchpad/mouse clicking. Also the backgrounds move when you move your cursor,even when you are just moving from the reflectors to the start button on every level, which I found a little annoying. It would be nice to be able to turn this off and have the screen only move when you actually move the cursor to an edge.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Terebron
Terebron is a narrative puzzle game in which you must help Gwlader to solve the mysteries of the Terebron. You must find the vital points hidden within the Terebron, but there will be obstacles to consider.
TWO GAME MODES
-Open levels: The interior of the Terebron is visible. Anticipate the trajectories of your probes, and shoot them to hit the vital points several times or in a precise order
-Closed levels: The contents of the Terebron are hidden. Use your probes to collect information, analyze the results, make your assumptions and scan the Terebron to find the vital points hidden inside.
HUGE POSSIBILITIES
With the numerous elements of the game such as mirrors, prisms or traps, you will face varied puzzles of all difficulties.
A GRIPPING STORY
Follow Gwlader and his companions in an extraordinary journey full of battles, sorrows, and twists in order to find the Dying God.
TraptionBakery
I was after an indie game for grownups which would challenge me but also be addictive and quirky. A pretty tough wish list, and I spent a long time looking before I found this game. It’s fiendish and quirky and humorous and very, very clever… Not sure if I’ll ever beat it, but… No, I WILL beat it - I’m not going to give up :) And it’s too addictive to stop playing, anyway.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
TraptionBakery is an odd title – not sure if there’s anything like it on Steam. Reminds me of some simple, oldschool games where half the challenge was figuring out what the dev had in mind. The tagline on the game’s website is: “intended to amuse, relax, baffle and interest you for many days or weeks.” I’d say: it is amusing, it probably won’t be super relaxing, it is baffling, it is moderately interesting, and it may or may not last you many days. Still, it might be worth playing: read on.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
86
I’ve only played a small amount of “86,” but have really enjoyed it thus far. It’s a challenging puzzler that only relies on symbols and iconography to teach the player the rules of any given challenge. The cartoon art style is effective at translating all information required for the player to solve the puzzles. The strict time limit adds a nice sense of urgency, and the addition of a “notepad” in the game hearkens back to the days of PC gaming where game booklets and manuals had pages of empty space for the player to write down learned knowledge. The $5.00 price tag is more than reasonable for this type of game (I’m reminded of “Frog Detective,” in that sense). I’m looking forward to playing more.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Lighton: Duo
You thought Lighton was tough, well Duo is even tougher and that is evident by the percentage of people who finished this game, a whopping 5.1 % :)) . I don’t mind a hard puzzler but I had to take screenshots of few levels just to see what I did wrong. The new addition to this game is that now you can pull certain objects and have to watch out for metal objects that will electrocute you if the electricity is turned on. If this sounds complicated to you then I can say only one thing…yes it is and I love it. In this one you can undo 8 or 9 moves and I would like to thank the dev for that because without this feature I would not beaten this game :)
– Real player with 41.0 hrs in game
Lighton Duo employs simple mechanics in a series of puzzles which nevertheless manage to be frustratingly challenging. The puzzles in this game range from simple to quite complicated. I liked very much.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game