Active Neurons - Puzzle game
This is a fun and engaging game, easy to learn hard to master. Worth more than the asking price; 5/5 would recommend. Honestly a really fun way to spend some spare time for those who are into strategy and puzzle games. Shout out to the dev(s)/designer(s), thanks!
– Real player with 33.8 hrs in game
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Its a casual puzzler.Not enaugh challenge for me,infact 70% of the game is like a tutorial.You can find better titles for this price.I really wanted to like this game because it looks nice,it has nice music and plays well overall.Not for me but I would recommend to someone who is getting into puzzlers.Nice but too easy.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Duru – About Mole Rats and Depression
Tuli leads a simple life in the mole rat colony: she collects food, meets with her friends and paints the best pictures in the colony. All the while nobody but her sees the dark creature that makes each of those activities a near unbeatable task.
Duru is a 2D puzzle adventure about mole rats and depression. It shows how we all can help people affected by this illness.
Set in a West-African inspired mole rat colony you play Tuli, one of the gatherers of the colony. One day everything becomes harder as Bel, an AI companion and the personification of Tuli’s growing depression, joins the party.
While running, jumping and painting your way through the tunnels surrounding the colony you have to find a way to deal with Bel and its manipulative behaviour. Your constant companion moves objects you painted around, eats them and holds you back in which ever way possible. Learn to use Bels behaviour in a way that lets you progress.
In the mole rat colony that Tuli calls her home her friends notice that she’s acting strange. She’s less talkative, is always late and seems not interested at all in hanging out with them. Some of them get tired of her tardiness…
You can always see how Bel twists Tuli’s thoughts, how it makes her not feel worth being friends with. Through exploring the mole rat colony and interaction with the other characters you can find out which behaviours are helpful to Tuli and which just make Bel grow.
Follow the story of Tuli – a story about the struggle with insecurities, depression and friendship, told in a colorful, accessible way.
What awaits you:
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a puzzle adventure in a colorful, West African-inspired setting
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a story about depression told through animation and picture dialog to enjoy regardless of language
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an AI companion that works with and against you
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drawing objects to puzzle your way through a lovingly designed world
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cute characters of the mole rat colony to befriend and uncover their individual stories
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Odd||Even
Avoid this game like the plauge. Infact if you want this game, go get the plauge first. The game does not work on most of the machines that I’ve tried to run it on. The developer I believe has given up on this game, they haven’t been on steam for 99 days.
If the developer reads this, if you don’t plan on doing anything more with it, can you open source it and place it on github so at least I can attempt to get it to work. I’ve never even played a single game.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
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This is a puzzle game about numbers, the game has a tutorial which doesn’t really tell you what to do. The controls are counter-intuitive and gameplay mechanics are hard to grasp. What makes this game even more boring is full absence of music and sound effects of any kind.
Pros:
-Maybe it’s fun if you know how to play it?
Cons:
-Lack of tutorial
-No music
-Cheap graphics
-Technical problems
In short:
Not recommended.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Pathfinders: Memories
Pathfinders: memories is a lovely puzzle platformer, the goal of the game is simple:
Guide the robot from point A to B, but the puzzle here is that you can only memorize the path and only see the grids to guide the robot. While it seems simple, it becomes easily a challenging game, I loved it.
Is something more to love in this game? Yes, there is! I love how cute the robots are, seeing them walking is so satisfying, plus a chilling soundtrack to listen while you’re playing, I can’t recommend this game enough.
– Real player with 22.3 hrs in game
I have a good time playing this cute game where I can challenge my memory. You have to memorize the safe path then draw it when it is hidden. You can use pins and checkpoints to help you but you lose points for using them, so be careful if you aim the high scores. I like that they use scenarios from different people in History, even some unusual like the Mali!
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Droplet: States of Matter
A unique take on the genre, full of heart and matter changing!
My only real complaint is, some of the levels feel simple but that is ok!
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Really unique plat former, lots of fun, and has a great ost as well.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
Professor Rubik’s Brain Fitness
This game is easy to play and has great games that will improve your concentration as well as other mental cognitive functions.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
WARNING!
Ok now that I have your attention: Giving a thumbs up cause it’s a very rare gem worthy of being noticed but unfortunately will only appeal to the most extreme or the most casual players because both can overlook the horrible controls and complete absence of control customization.
This must be a console game ported lazily because the core game is solid with quite a lot of content and replayability and actually has sadistic difficulty spikes. Wait till it’s on sale and preferably if you have a controller.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Super Markup Man
A nice, cheap game with 50 levels of HTML, and 50 levels of HTML & CSS. It doesn’t so much as teach you about HTML and CSS, but it definitely helps with making your code cleaner and giving your mind lots of practice to get into the habit of putting code in the right place.
If the average person were to go into this game with zero coding knowledge, I think they would struggle as the game fails to explain what each tag even does. Although it’s easy enough to figure out if you like to experiment.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
It’s good, but you could learn so much quickly if you could arrange the labels with the mouse. Moving the character is fun for 5 minutes, after that it’s not really convenient.
Having completed some other free tutorials, what I appreciated about this game was the pace. You can really learn step by step and understand subtle differences. The way levels are built force you to take the time to practice simple concepts and prevents you to “jump” too soon to something too advanced for you.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Wired
Its a really good game, very informative - taught me many things. Also has a nice layer of story to accompany the puzzles. :)
It’s long, with plenty of puzzles, but not as long as my playtime suggests! xD
I made it to the final puzzle around the 8-9 hour mark and was stuck there.
Felt like what I was trying should have worked but when I finally solved it, turns out I’d been so close… TT
I’d suggest this:
A) Only autosave if the player is within the furthest puzzle-room reached or,
B) Keep the current save implementation but include “Continue from furthest puzzle-room” for each save slot
– Real player with 25.6 hrs in game
This was better than I expected. It’s a puzzle-platformer with an emphasis on puzzle instead of platformer. This game is intended to teach a little about electricity, so you have to figure out how to wire up the machines properly in order to complete each level. For example, it might take two volts to open one door and one amp to open another door. If you have the machines wired up properly, then the platforming part isn’t that hard. Well, there was one level near the end where I had a little trouble jumping onto the ladders, but falling off a ladder doesn’t do any damage, so I was able to just try again. I got the hang of it after a few tries. On the whole, it was a good game. I’d be interested in a sequel.
– Real player with 19.6 hrs in game
Born Race
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Good things:
This game has some good Sokoban puzzles and other puzzles that require you to think and remember where is what on the level to complete them. I also liked that there is a checkpoint after you open each door as that let’s you make mistakes and learn to do better without having to restart whole level.
The bosses were challenging the first time you meet them as you don’t know the exact mechanic to beat each one of them. After you understand the mechanic behind each boss they become easy to beat. But at least gameplay is fun and you want to finish the game with each hero just to see the ending for each one of them. It is also good that each of 4 heroes have their own goals in mind and personalities and the win sliders show what have they become in the future and how they look while you play them shows what they were good in during early years of their life.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
The game is a lot of fun, bringing different levels and the puzzles are made with a lot of creativity and guarantees fun and the desire to play. The whole story of the game is creative, especially the bosses who are all connected with the theme of reproduction. An excellent game I recommend to everyone who buys and generates the fun
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Zen Cube
This is a fun little gem.
It is inexpensive and has bright colorful graphics.
Like in the description, you have to quickly make the last 2 moves to solve the cube
( don’t expect a full cube simulation here ).
This won’t hold your attention for long, but playing it with cubist friends will help.
It took a while to get used to making the moves. You have to switch faces to get different slice moves
( whether it’s an up/down move or a left/right move ) and then click the arrow in the direction you want.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game