It’s a great voxel-based arcade game where the goal is to rescue POWs in your helicopter. The challenge is in controlling your helicopter, ensuring it’s still operation even when under attack, and landing safely.
There’s only two buttons you have to care about: the left arrow (or left mouse button) key and the right arrow (or right mouse button) key. Press them together, you go up. Press only the left; you go left; and press only the right, you go right. The shooting is automatic. The entire focus is on keeping your ship in the air.
I’ve spent many, many hours playing this game. After eight years of owning it, I keep coming back. It has this arcade quality about it that simply addictive. And actually, if this game were released for arcades, it would probably be very popular.
This being a voxel-based game, the graphics remind me a lot of Minecraft. However, this is not a sandbox game. It’s more like a 2.5D game that simply uses voxels. Personally, I love voxels – they have a lot of charm.
There’s no music in this game, and I’d probably find it annoying since the ambient effects are on point. I quite like the helicopter sounds and the faint voices heard on radio.
Now if you wonder why I continue to use Windows for gaming, here’s a simple fact: it’s the only platform that Dustoff Heli Rescue is still available. This game started off as a mobile game. Yet, you can no longer find this game on iOS or Android. And the Mac version is no longer playable since it’s not compatible with the new ARM-based Macs. It might be compatible for Linux via Proton, but so far, nobody has tested this to see if it’s actually the case.
This must have been a fairly successful game for developer Invictus Games because, later on, we got Dustoff Heli Rescue 2 and Dustoff Z. I have yet to try either of those sequels, however.
I’ve had a lot of fun with Dustoff Heli Rescue, and I recommend it. As well, it is pretty cheap. Steam sells it for C$4.65
@gergolippai You can hunt down an APK, but there’s no guarantee it will work on modern devices. The PC version definitely works on modern hardware, though.
Yesterday’s undisputed heavyweight fight was one for the ages.
It’s been 24 years since we even saw an undisputed champion. And this lived up to the hype.
Oleksandr Usyk actually beat the much bigger Tyson Fury. Knocked him down even. It was shocking.
I’m pretty sure we can call Usyk one of the greatest fighters of all time. In 22 fights, he became both the undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight champion of the world.
The only other fighter to accomplish that was Evander Holyfield. But I actually think Usyk is better than Holyfield because Usyk won a gold medal at the Olympics.
And what a day for Ukraine as well! That country needed Uskyk.
Saw a bunch of East Asian Americans running a class (hundreds of dollars) on how women above 40 can benefit from ‘eastern wisdom’ and they’re just listing all the things we just call, well, food. I’ll save you a hundred bucks. Ginseng chicken soup. Lots of mushrooms and vegetables. Cantonese hot desserts (with snow fungus, lotus seeds etc).
It’s a very cutesy game about anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables. Yet, it’s tackling the mature theme, of all things, tax evasion. As the name implies, you have been a very bad turnip, and now you must do a bunch of errands for the mayor in order to set things right.
In terms of world building, this reminds me a lot of Adventure Time. But as you can see from the screenshots, it plays a lot like Legend of Zelda. And what I mean is the older 2D top-down Zeldas, not these 3D versions that most people play nowadays.
My overall feeling about Turnip Boy is that this is basically Zelda, but with a more cutting sense of humour, easier gameplay, and a post apocalyptic story. That’s not a bad thing at all. If you like Zelda, you’ll probably like Turnip Boy.
This is also a good game for children. They’ll love the cutesy characters and the simple action RPG mechanics. Sometimes this game gets a little dark, but it’s not too dark for children.
It shouldn’t surprise you that I like the graphics. It’s got a 16-bit style but has much more colour. And it looks particularly great on a Steam Deck.
The sound design has lots of whimsy. I particularly like the music which is quite catchy, and sometimes gets cinematic.
This was developer Snoozy Kazoo’s first game. They have since released a sequel, Turnip Boy Robs a Bank that was released earlier this year.
While this game got a mixed reception amongst professional reviewers, people who actually bought the game seem to really like it. Based on thousands of reviewers, Turnip Boy has a 95% approval rating – which puts it in rarified territory in terms. Few games get that amount of good user reviews.
I definitely recommend this game, especially if you like Zelda.