Kickstarter has proven itself to be an incredibly powerful tool for developers, but it's also brought a few major caveats along for the ride. Primarily, it's cultivated a relationship where the user will often play a role in the trajectory of the game they donated to. With Puzzle Clubhouse, Schell Games has decided to embrace that concept, inviting any and all users to speak up about what they want out of the game.
LogiGun will strike an immediate chord of familiarity with anyone who's played Valve's hit puzzle game Portal. You won't be making any portals, but you will be equipped with guns that allow you to manipulate your environment as you move from one side of bizarrely dangerous rooms to the other, and there's even a passive-aggressive female overseer shadowing your every move and encouraging you to just give up and go home. Fortunately, it shares one other characteristic with the Portal games: it's pretty darn good.
I'll admit it: I have a bias against sports games. In a genre where "revolutionary" entries are most often named simply by putting a new year in the title, and defined by the addition of 'more realistic crowd reactions,' it can become difficult to give supposedly innovative alternatives their due. So know that when I say I'm enamored with Gasketball, there's something quite special going on.
Unmechanical is brilliant. Is that an unreserved recommendation? Alas, it is not. It's a quirky, oddball thing, neither particularly long nor especially challenging. It's a sight-seeing tour with puzzles. I love it. You may not. But you'd be crazy not to at least give it a chance.
Love the addictive nature of match-3 gameplay, but hate that most games degenerate into a mad dash of sliding columns without getting a chance to think? If so, Viral Collapse is going to be perfect for you. And even if you had no problem at all with the fast-paced nature of most match games, you can continue matching at the pace that you love.
I have trouble trusting UFOs. They're constantly abducting things, and it's crystal clear that they could care less about the damage they're doing to our planet. And Hank, the main character of Cowbeam, just might be the worst of the lot. He has an affinity for cows, and he spends his days roaming the galaxy in search of them. Does he milk them or tend to their needs once they're abducted? Probably not.
When asked about what profession people trust the most often, firemen, medical professionals, and police officers almost always find themselves at the top of the list. Good people are great for a healthy society, but what about when trouble is beyond the law? Where are the rogue paramedics, taking the law into their own hands? In FDG's Car Toons!, that's where.
If someone had thrown the term "match-3 RPG" my way five years ago, I would have replied with a quizzical look and a deep understanding that whoever I was talking to was either confused, a moron, or both. Before you think me mad, try to remember: five years ago the world didn't have Puzzle Quest.