Your Doodles Are Bugged! is a puzzle game for the PC that proves the pen is mightier than the sword...sometimes. What starts off as an entertaining and underused concept for a puzzle game quickly gets a bit bogged down by some bugs, pun intended. But those who have the patience to plow through a long, boring story mode will gain full access to an amazing level creator, easily the best feature this game has to offer.
Shipwrecks. Both unwanted and unneeded, a mast-shredding gale and deadly whirlpool can throw a wrench into even the saltiest sea dog's voyage. Fortunately for you, however, such a catastrophe results in hours of fun puzzles, which is the case in the match-3 game, Azkend 2.
Question - why are video game heroes always the same kinds of people? They're always commandos, cops, FBI agents, detectives, mercenaries or reporters, which for the most part, limits what we can do as them. I for one am always looking for the chance to step into the shoes of a different kind of hero, and Silent Nights: The Pianist promised to let me do just that. Unfortunately, after making that promise, it more or less failed to deliver.
It's always the case, isn't it? You're on holiday, trying to enjoy yourself and forget all the responsibilities you have waiting for you back at home, and then you go and get hit by a freak bolt of lightning and wind up back in the days of King Arthur, with more responsibility than you can handle! I hate it when holidays take that turn.
Special Enquiry Detail: Engaged to Kill is the sequel to the Hand that Feeds, and it offers us another chance to step into the shoes of New York City detectives Lamonte and Turino as they race to solve a series of murders by a serial killer. A young fashion model (and a new bride) has gone missing. It's only after you discover her body that you'll realize she is but the latest victim of the gruesome Engagement Killer. After being assigned to the case, you'll retrace the killer's steps and investigate cases both past and present in an effort to track down the serial killer and stop him before he can claim the life of another young bride.
It's not good when the first thing you do upon starting a game is sigh. The first thirty seconds of Entwined: Strings of Deception definitely had that unfortunate effect on me as I clapped eyes on the intro cutscene's uninspired 3D graphics. I knew then that the most I could hope for during the next few hours was, well, not fun really, but perhaps a modest diversion. How I wish I wasn't so good at making these kinds of predictions.
Casual games developer Big Point is getting into the zookeeping business with its simulation title, Zoomumba. The most notable thing about the game is that it enhances the animal care genre instead of offering anything significantly unique. For what it is, however, it works, with most of its problems stem from minor usability issues.
It's sort of amazing that a company could find an idea like the one explored in Stacking and make it work at all, let alone so well. Stacking presentes a steampunk meets Charles Dickens style world populated entirely by Russian matryoshka dolls (the nesting dolls that sit inside each other). That idea not only gives the world the rich character it so enjoys, but also facilitates quite ingeniously the game's main mechanic.