NecroWorm
Nice ambience with bugs and horrible controls
What this game is: This is a timed puzzle game with a cartoonish side. You litterally are a worm that has to eat his way through a setup in order to solve it by eating every available object (be it a brain, a skull, etc.) in a certain amount of time. You can make your way through one space only once, so you have to make sure not to put yourself in position of crossing your path.
How does it work? It presents 120 setups, on three pages, that you have to solve. Depending on the time you took in solving the puzzle (by eating everything there is to eat), you get from one to three skulls. From there, you are allowed to continue solving other puzzles, unless you want to get a better score (and thus more skulls).
– Real player with 14.3 hrs in game
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I came into Omnom Necropolis expecting a classic snake game, but found that this is more of a hybrid of the old snake game and a puzzler. Basically the goal of each level is to each each of the yucky dead things as quickly as possible without boxing yourself in. As you move you grow with every step (slither?) so you cannot enter the same space twice making it a bit of a challenge. I found that it’s easier if I don’t think too much about it and kind of get a broad idea of how to clear the board then tweak it out from there. This works pretty well except on some of the harder levels where things get a bit insane. There is a hint feature that shows you a completion path, but use it sparingly as it only gives you a quick flash and they are limited. Graphics and sound suit the mood and it looks nice enough: I tested it on my low-end machine and it ran smoothly so that’s nice. I’m slightly bummed that it does not support gamepads – because of this I cannot stream it to my shield or play it on the GPD Win easily. All in all if you like puzzly type games you will likely enjoy Omnom’s different approach to the genre. Plus it’s only 3 bucks. Good game to add to the Halloween playlist.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Alien Escape
Very good puzzle platformer,fun to play and puzzles will give you a decent challenge.
Wish there were more levels and some harder levels too because some mechanics are really good and could be used to make more challenging levels.
All in all a solid puzzle platformer and worth the asking price
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
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I have enjoyed playing this game. Got 6 hours from 60 puzzles. Currently stuck on the (final??) one with the fir balls witch. The graphics and interface are very basic but the gameplay is satisfyingly addictive to keep going puzzle after puzzle. Well done devs for a cleverly simple game.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Sword of Hypotenuse
The bloody truth of the Pythagorean Theorem lies along the Sword of Hypotenuse. Become a squishy tofu ninja and battle your way through the broken Number Line.
Walk, run, skip, dodge, jump, flip, and dive head first into this isometric 3D (+2.5D?) world filled with weapons - and a bunch of squishy Pythagoreans that want to stop you!.. from stopping them. Its umm, ok let’s back up.
So, the Pythagoreans want to reconnect the Number Line, but they’re sorta interpreting information they stole - so you know - kinda sketchy - its a whole thing, you’ll see. Talk to some of the characters, it’ll make sense. No math pop quizes, but you will need to think! There’s some different worlds and different permutations depending on how you break stuff, then reconnect it, then brake it again if you need to.
Find the rare missing Alogon pages from the Sacred Book of Math - err, not the count-y add-y stuff - the fun stuff! Traditional 2D pencil-test animations that help you interpret the story… depending on the interpretation of course!
In addition to the Story Mode you can also just battle your fellow humans in Battle Mode, or have them pop in to help you fight - maybe even as a squishy tofu shield! There’s also a Classic Mode where you battle waves of increasingly difficult enemies - stop talking and ship the game? OK, got it!
So, hope you enjoy it! Good luck fixing the broken Number Line Pythagoras broke. May your booleans always be true!
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Fritz & Chesster - Learn to Play Chess Vol. 1
Learn to think strategically, try out tricky mental exercises and master fun and exciting challenges – all with a generous helping of chess knowledge. These things and more await you on this unusual chess adventure that has already received great international acclaim.
Start playing Fritz & Chesster Volume 1 and join Prince Fritz and his cousin Bianca on their journey through the rules of chess and many tactical motifs.
Once upon a time there was a small country, a very, very small country. And this very small country was ruled by a very wise king. In fact he was the wisest King there had ever been. And he was called “King White”
This is the beginning of a very interesting new product by ChessBase: Fritz & Chesster. It is possibly also the most important piece of software created by the company, for a very simple reason.
Like none of the other products, Fritz, Junior, Shredder, or even ChessBase itself, Fritz and Chesster is one that can recruit new players to the game.
We predict that tens of thousands of children will take up chess because they had access to this program.
Fritz and Chesster does not teach chess in the usual way. It does not set up a board and explain how each of the pieces move. Instead it targets children who have never played chess before in their lives and teaches them the basic rules in a Sesame Street like environment. There are cartoons and stories for the children to follow, and then there are tasks for them to solve interactively.
_Oh ye, Oh ye, Oh ye!
Listen all young heroes well
Whom the chess game doth compel:
Aspiring masters of the game
Come and enter here your name
Then I beg click on the seal
The world of chess awaits your zeal_
Each piece and each rule is explained in a subgame, which you can play against the computer. Many of them are far away from the actual game of chess, but at the same time they give the children full insight into the sometimes daunting rules of the game.
Take for instance the first sequence. Young Prince Fritz has to stand in for a while for his father, King White. Together with his cousin Bianca Fritz embarks on a journey through their kingdom.
On their journey they are joined by Kalaidoscope, a jolly instructor, who tells them all about the kingdom. In each scene the children can click different elements, like the mouse traps in the above picture, funny things happen. It encourages the young users to explore the scenery.
On their trip around the kingdom the three encounter the daunting King Black, who challenges them to a game of chess. But Fritz doesn’t know how to play. Thankfully he is able to learn the game on the rest of his trip.
The first lesson comes when they see two sumo wrestlers fighting in a ring. The wrestlers are too fat to approach each other directly, so they always stay at least one square apart. They move around the board blocking each other off.
If they do it properly Fritz and Bianca can push their opponent off the board. After that they try to occupy chairs before their opponent, and while trying to do so the program explains how they can use “opposition” to outwit the opponent. At the end of this lesson the children have learnt everything they need to know about the king move, including the concept of opposition.
Learning the rook moves is equally entertaining. In a pacman-like game the children learn to move the rook and avoid capture by the enemy spiders. There are sound effects and high-score lists to keep their attention.
The bishop move is learnt by bouncing a ball off a rectangular paddle to destroy toilet bowls (the kind of thing young children find hilarious). Since the ball moves diagonally they are learning to operate the bishop. Mind you, these games might also create some problems. Very often the parents start to play them and compete against their offspring. There can be ugly scenes when it turns out, as it usually does, that the children are better.
The stand-alone chess teacher
The principle of Fritz & Chesster is that you can insert the CD into a computer drive, fire up the program and then leave a child alone with it if necessary. After a few weeks the child will come to you and say: “Can we play a game of chess?” It will have learnt all the rule – we are talking pawn moves, castling rules, promotion, mate, stalemate, everything – and even understand a bit about strategy and tactics.
Naturally you do not need to or indeed should leave your child alone with the program. In fact we have discovered that it is often usually children and their mothers who pick up the game. The fathers usually get hooked on the subgames, battling to keep ahead of the kids.
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Battle of Brains
Pointless. This is too buggy to play.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
It’s a game with puzzles that require average IQ. The puzzles also get repeated. If you’re average IQ and want to feel like you’re smart, this is the game for you. If you qualify for mensa and beyond, this isn’t it.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Peppy’s Adventure
Cool game, basic gameplay but puzzles are fun and varied. Recommended.
– Real player with 36.4 hrs in game
Really challenging and cute game, way harder than it looks but very addictive!
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
SNIKS
sniks is a colorful puzzler with 110 levels in 6 worlds. levels unlock one by one for the most part, but after most are done in a pack, the rest becomes available along with the next one’s first level.
the game has you moving snake-like things made of what I assume is jelly to eat all the fruit matching their color. they have to cover all the relevant food items with their body, it’s not pac-man (nor snake). sniks can go through each other’s fruit and cross their buddies, as long as they don’t bang their heads together. there’s some color combos in play as well (move a red over a blue where the purple fruit is, etc.).
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
A Completionists Opinion
Jelly snakes eating fruit. That sounds fun, I think I’ll get this….. Why is this so difficult? Why is it getting harder????
Value for money: I got a lot of time out of this, but I’m not a smart person.
Story: You are a group of snakes, you eat fruit. Simple.
Art style: Cute and does the job.
Sound track: a few relaxing tunes.
Glitches: None that I could find.
Difficulty of gameplay: Starts off easy… doesn’t stay that way.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
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.
Lost Islands
Good game.
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Pickaxe does nothing at all. I can’t progress past anything that requires flint because of it. I tried to use multiple pickaxe on any form of rock I could find. I would have had a lot more fun if my body was marked on the map after death, I walked forever just to find out my dead body despawned, or maybe just never dropped at all. Hopefully a dev fixes this, I’d like to actually enjoy the game
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Nino Maze LOFI II
Another fun kitten game for my daughter to play!!! She loved it. Congratulations to the developer!!!!
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Very relaxing and fun maze game with an amazing lofi soundtrack! Recommended!
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game