Resynth
sokoban is all about moving crates. music is all about rhythm, I guess. and resynth is all about moving crates, but thankfully not to the rhythm, you can take it as slow as you want, playing it as a regular, mostly stress-free puzzle game, but most of the 72 levels have additional goals besides level completion: move limit and time limit. there’s no numerical indicator for them, just lines getting shorter. ideally, you could switch between this and a more precise one.
– Real player with 11.8 hrs in game
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Fun, addictive puzzle game with nice twist on the Sokoban game. The game gives rotating blocks that create interesting dimensions on paths that force you to think ahead even more. The music you slowly build up by placing the blocks in their place give a nice progression indicator.
Each puzzle, except the introduction ones can be solved with a time constraint and move count restraint, giving even more replayability to give you the challenge to solve it with less moves or faster.
Then once you completed the first page you realize there is a second page with even more mechanics to explore!
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Qube Qross
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You like Picross?
You think you have played them all?
You want a new challenging Picross?
In 3D?
Then Welcome to QUBE QROSS!
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With the Help of Numbers on the outside Walls, you have to place Cubes to complete a Figure.
That may sound easy, but isn’t.
You can place the Cubes with Mouse and you are able to turn your Picross around. That is important because otherwise you are not able to complete it.
The Mouse Controll is easy and fluid.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
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Qube Qross is a puzzle game like a horcrux of Picross 3D, the controlling way is in a more limited way, but I found it fits PC games well, I went through it with my mouse.
Some puzzles in classic mode look cute and humorous, although I prefer the Time Attack mode more, it’s very exciting to go through the short puzzles in such a short time, it’s a bit pity there is no realtime online competitive mode tho, that would be amazing if I can send invitation to challenge my friends.
Overall it’s not bad, I would recommend for people have kids, or when this is at a discount.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Tiles
Its great. I mean, what can I say that hasn’t already been said about it in various reviews? It is a game that takes a wonderful mix of puzzle like planning and assessment of levels with the action packed and skill based movement of running games - especially at the later levels.
Overall, the game I think succeeds because of its general simplicity of design and concept, but in a way that makes complexity able to be built into the level design itself. It may take an hour just working on one level, coming up with one strategy and testing it over and over until you find its a deadend and you need a new route and having to work back with a new strategy, and once you find that working path you want to take, it can take many of attempts before you finally get that strategy down and finish it out.
– Real player with 29.2 hrs in game
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Tiles, for me, is a perfect example of a love/hate relationship. When I first started playing this title, it infuriated me and I was so close to abandoning ship all together. However, with perseverance and a lot of finger cramp, I completed the entire game with most of the achievements (apart from the impossible achievement which is perfectly named). I think if any player gives this game enough of their time, they will learn to love it and revel in its difficulty. There are issues however like the fact that there is only one music track on a loop for the entire game, or the issue that there is no leaderboard for levels on the custom maps. That being said, the level editor is wonderfully designed with only a few additions which I would like to add; and add to the game all together:
– Real player with 28.9 hrs in game
Home Creator
I really wanted to enjoy this game, but found myself very disappointed to find that the amount of items you can use to decorate is very very limited. Also the lack of any info on how to move the camera or place items was annoying but it was easy enough to figure out on my own. It has potential to be good if more objects and wall/floor options could be added but as this game stands right now I can not recommend it. But if your looking for a cheap home decorating game and don’t care about very limited options then this is a good one to choose.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
very limited on what furniture you have & you only have 3 rooms to do.
theres no option page to figure out the controls.
if you want a proper home decorating game stick with house flipper or even the tenants :)
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Themes of Dark and Light
Nice idea and good game. Keeps you coming back to see if you can finally get past that level. Masses of levels still to play and there are more that you can download. There’s also a designer so you can make your own levels. The challenges are quite tricky even for the experienced platformer.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
functional
As it is right now, this is a game for programmers. If you have existing knowledge of functional programming and lambda calculus, and plenty of patience for working with new tools, then this game is plenty fun! If this isn’t you, though, then I would firmly say wait to see what this developer puts out next; if it’s anything like this, it’ll be very interesting.
It is very fun to go through a programming game with such a powerful mini language! After maybe a hundred hours across TIS-100, Shenzhen I/O and Exapunks, I finally get to make function calls, compose higher order functions, and extend a language using itself. It’s just refreshing seeing these front and center, and I think these are good puzzles built to explore it all from the ground up. It stops before getting ‘endgame Zachtronics’ brutal, but this was the right level of challenge for me.
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
I love the overall idea, but the game really needs polishing.
When I was playing TIS-100 and Human Resource Machine, I wondered, since people can make profitable games based on the Von Neumann model, why nobody ever tried making one based on functional language? So I bought this game the moment I saw it, and I enjoyed it!
It is amusing to reinvent
! Y-combinator and Church numerals and solve problems using data structures and recursive functions that I gradually developed during the game. The puzzles should be reasonably challenging for anyone that enjoys learning math or programming. (And probably can lead you to learn functional languages)
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Sven’s SudokuPad
A must-buy for fans of CrackingTheCryptic, or anyone who enjoys Sudoku in all it’s variations
– Real player with 50.0 hrs in game
I bought this as soon as I knew it was out. And my first impression? Puzzle 1: “A Sudoku with only 27 given digits?!” How is this even possible??!?!
Is this the best Sudoku interface ever? Obviously. Any CtC fan will be able to tell you that. Even Simon uses it with Great Aplomb, and he apparently doesn’t even know about any of the shortcut keys.
But the interface is just a side-note. What makes this really special is the puzzles themselves. All handcrafted by Mark (the default puzzles) or, of you use it to play the puzzles from the channel, then by practically all of the best puzzle creators in the world. What they’ve done with this puzzle form in the last few years will literally astonish anyone who only plays the odd puzzle in the newspaper or magazine.
– Real player with 40.5 hrs in game
Synzzball
A very nice Physics game with simple mechanics but hard to master control!
A strong point for the game is the Level editor - you can create what ever you want the limit is your imagination.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Power Pushout
Power Pushout is a turn-based strategy game with martial arts elements set in an epic asian environment. Choose your warrior and master figures and fight with them in a wild battle over the control of the game board. You can either push your opponent off the ground or conquer the opposing towers to decide the game. But be careful that your enemy doesn’t sneak past your troops like a ninja and usurp victory.
MAIN FEATURES
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Defeat your opponent with cool finishing moves, sword assaults and kung fu kicks are on the agenda.
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Choose your warrior and master figures, and combine their Power Points to destroy your opponent’s pieces.
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Use the included map editor to create your own Zen garden. The smart placement system helps you get results quickly under full control.
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You can trigger Earthquakes or add Super Crystals to surprise your opponent.
Super Crystals provide your character with extra power or a greater range of movement.
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Power Pushout offers you four different game modes:
Classic, Normal, Destruction and Football.
Each mode can be played online or locally versus a friend or an AI, which is based on machine learning and smart heuristics.
Soundodger 2
Already I can see how much work has been put into this game- and it is a major step up from the flash version. It works amazingly, plays good, and most importantly: shows some very promising music. I recommend you check this out, and play through it.
I’m so excited to see the future of this game.
– Real player with 153.4 hrs in game
basically Soundodger+ but with a few very good changes:
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it’s way smoother
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additional tiny animations
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3 new cool bullets
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more cool options for the bullet object
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10 different layers instead of one
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prefabs
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bpm snap
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literally seven new effects
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cool backgrounds and large theme creativity
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player settings (which is cool for challenges)
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overall less limits
and I like all of these additions!
– Real player with 99.3 hrs in game