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The sun was shining so nicely today that I decided to take a long walk to the zoo and back. But because of that I didn't get to upload any new photographs - so this one here is something different this time: a puzzle that I created a while ago digitally from scratch. Hope you all have a nice relaxing weekend and maybe you're in the mood for some peaceful puzzle time :)
I watched in awe as twilight approached and the moon rose over #Charlestown#harbour. The sight was so beautiful and peaceful that I hesitated and almost missed capturing the scene with my camera. ...
See the larger image here: https://tinyurl.com/yckz4hmb
With EnigMarch coming up soon, I was looking back at all the puzzles I made last time and thought I'd reshare one of my favorites. Why not a logic puzzle that requires outside knowledge?
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
Jan 10, 2023 - Day 10 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 13
Game: Q.U.B.E. 2
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Mar 14, 2018
Library Date: Jan 7, 2019
Unplayed: 1464 days (4y3d)
Playtime: 30m
A couple of my personal guidelines for this project:
I don't read up on the game first. A lot of these games came in bundles, and I figure if I can't remember the game, and I haven't played it, I don't want to end up with preconceived ideas about the game. I never would have played Outlast, for instance. I had no idea what Q.U.B.E. 2 is about.
I'm not going to play/review sequels if I've got the original game. If unplayed, I'll play that, and if played, I skip the series.
It looks like this came in a bundle, and I don't have Q.U.B.E.
Puzzle games definitely scratch a particular itch for me, and knowing there's a solution there, and I just have to find it can keep me playing for hours on end.
Portal, Portal 2, Relicta, Portal Reloaded, most recently: The Entropy Centre. They're all variations on a theme: Solve 3D physics puzzles (or with Portal Reloaded, add "time travel" to the mix).
Q.U.B.E. 2 is another first person puzzle along these lines, and I'll definitely end up staying up too late to solve one of the puzzles within.
Jan 24, 2023 - Day 24 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 31
Game: Black The Fall
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jul 11, 2017
Library Date: Feb 3, 2018
Unplayed: 1816 days (4y11m21d)
Playtime: 35m
Black The Fall is a stressful game. It's very minimalist, both in terms of colour palette, and control scheme.
Part sideways scroller, part puzzle, part stealth game. You are unarmed, and you will die. A lot. Timing is everything, but it's not in a frenetic, bullet-hell kind of way, but in a tense, and drawn-out fashion.
A couple of levels in, you get the one device you can use in the game. It is not a weapon. Even that device leaves me feeling uneasy.
I am genuinely unsure of how I feel about this game. It's challenging. Spotting the solution to a puzzle, even if it's obvious, is satisfying. On the other hand, it's also quite stressful.
The stylised graphics, and the audio design are very well done
I'm not sure this game is fun, but Black The Fall is:
Jan 31, 2023 - Day 31 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 38
Game: Lara Croft GO
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Dec 4, 2016
Library Date: Apr 9, 2018
Unplayed: 1758 days (4y9m22d)
Playtime: 55m
I was never a big fan of the Lara Croft games. I own many of them (not the originals), and most of them are unplayed.
The whole "tomb raider" conceit hasn't exactly aged well for Ms Croft (or Mr Jones, for that matter), but here, Lara Croft is in a turn-based puzzle environment, where the cultural artifacts she's stealing seem to belong to a lot of angry snakes & lizards.
As for gameplay, it's a lot like a turn-based strategy game was mashed up with (the excellent) Monument Valley, and then given a Lara Croft makeover.
...and it works. Intending to only play for 15 minutes, I logged out after completing the second level... 55 minutes later. Each level is broken into stages, and while you're solving puzzles and avoiding critters, you're also trying to keep your eyes open for the collectibles stashed on each level.
For A$13.95, if you like relatively laid back environmental puzzles, it's definitely good value for money (more so if you got it in a bundle like I did), and will scratch that puzzle itch nicely.
Mar 9, 2023 - Day 68 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 74
Game: Cats in Time
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Aug 27, 2021
Library Date: Sep 11, 2022
Unplayed: 179 days (5m26d)
Playtime: 35m
Sometimes you just want to chill with a game. You want something laid back, that scratches an itch in your brain, but still keeps you entertained.
Cats in Time is now that game for me; it's a 3D puzzle game where you're presented with a building containing a number of puzzles, and 10 hidden cats.
The cats have been strewn across time in a number of different environments (the first couple I encountered were Egypt and Greece). The cats themselves are adorable; big fluffy orange cats that trill and meow when you find and click on them.
The puzzles aren't too taxing (at least so far), and I could probably spend the next few hours just rotating buildings and clicking on puzzles while the happy little soundtrack burbles away in the background.
Mar 19, 2023 - Day 78 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 84
Game: Magrunner: Dark Pulse
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jun 21, 2013
Library Date: Aug 26, 2020
Unplayed: 935d (2y6m21d)
Playtime: 47m
Magrunner: Dark Pulse is a 3D puzzle game, with a dark secret behind it that is revealed as you play the game. You must use your mag-glove to manipulate the world around you, to get from one door to the other door on each level.
Unfortunately for Magrunner, it's a victim of time. While obviously inspired by Portal, as I played, I had the sensation I'd played it before.
In the past few months, as I've played through my library, I've played Q.U.B.E. 2, Relicta, and The Entropy Centre. All of them have a similar gameplay loop, it's just that they do it better, because it has not aged well in comparison to those more recent games.
It meant that I largely found the puzzles a frustrating interruption to the storyline - which apparently "confronts the Cthulhu Mythos". After 45 minutes in-game, it didn't appear to have gotten anywhere even close to being in the same timezone as Cthulhu, let alone confronting it, which doesn't bode well.
Mar 21, 2023 - Day 80 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 86
Game: Filament
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Apr 23, 2020
Library Date: Mar 21, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 119m
A couple of long-awaited deals popped up on Fanatical overnight, and if I added a A$7 game to my cart, I got a potential free game.
I am a sucker. For free games, but also in general.
Filament looked interesting, and so I grabbed it, and oh no what have I done?
I put nearly two hours into this addictive little puzzle game today.
Pretty much diametrically opposed to Evil West, this is almost all puzzles all the time.
You control a small robot with a light filament that he pulls along, and the filament needs to be wrapped around a series of light-up poles, without crossing the filament, until the level exit opens, and I cannot stress how it sent floods of dopamine through my system watching everything light up.
Right now Filament is A$5.98 for the standard version, and A$7.08 including the soundtrack, and this addictive little puzzler is:
Heal is 2d puzzle game. You play an old man, walking through an old house, solving a series of puzzles so you can leave the room you're in, and move onto the next one.
There is no dialogue in this game, no explanatory or flavour text, just some icons you can click on, and some puzzles that were not even entirely clear were puzzles at first.
Because I went in without preparation, it took me a little bit of time to assess what it was I was supposed to do.
There are 7 levels, and in 17 minutes I'd already cleared the first two, but I didn't really enjoy the process. It wasn't really challenging, and the only reason I'll complete it is because it won't take long to do, and I'll get some trading cards I can sell off for a few cents each.
The game's intro has you (intro makes it clear you're a man) out to sea in your fishing boat, which gets shipwrecked near a small fishing village, whose previous village fisherman has disappeared under unclear circumstances.
You are pressed into service as the new village fisherman, and given an old boat, and a loan you must repay. The village & villagers are all slightly unsettling.
The game then revolves around catching & selling fish, & dredging the bay to upgrade your boat so you can go further & faster to ensure you can get back safely to dock each night.
Fish are all different sizes & shapes, so part of the game is a puzzle minigame to arrange the caught fish in the most efficient way.
If you don't get back to dock before 6:30pm in-game, weird stuff starts happening, & your "panic" levels increase.
I played Dredge for 3 hours straight last night, because Dredge is:
Apr 11, 2023 - Day 101 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 108
Game: Obduction
Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Aug 25, 2016
Library Date: Mar 22, 2018
Unplayed: 1846d (5y20d)
Playtime: 47m
As Obduction loaded up, it seemed like the kind of game I'd like. Kind of the polar opposite of yesterday's game, Kingdom; it's really pretty... and I found it deeply frustrating.
At its core, it's a first-person 3D puzzle game. I like puzzle games. Right off the bat, the interactions with the in-game characters annoyed me. You activate these projected pre-recorded video bites, and something about them just set my teeth on edge.
When you interact directly with an "in-game" character though, that really broke my concentration. The character appears pre-recorded & pre-rendered, and it's almost impossible to make out the critical info they're saying.
On top of this, interacting with the various devices in the world momentarily locks your view on the object you're interacting with. Consequently, with one of the early puzzles, I gave up in frustration, only to find that I was so close to solving it, and it would have been obvious, had cause & effect not been disconnected by the locked view.
There might be a reasonable puzzle game underneath the frustration, but I'm not sure I want to spend the time finding out.
Obduction also works in VR, so I'm reserving a final rating until after I try VR, but right now, it's:
I had to get that out of the way, because this game went unplayed for a very different reason to normal.
It came as part of the October 2018 Humble Bundle, and the idea of playing it terrified me.
When I was a child, for a few years, my dad used to take us into nursing homes on Sunday afternoons, as he visited people and played guitar and sang hymns for them.
I hated it. I hated the smell, and it frightened me, and I could not explain why.
I've worked in an aged care adjacent role for over a decade; I've spent far more time in the company of folks in aged care than I ever expected I would.
But I understand now what it was I hated; I hated being around old men, because I was terrified of becoming an old man.
I mean, I know you can't "catch" old man, it's just part of living as a man... and for years I found the idea of myself as an old man terrifying, as in "I would rather be dead". (cont...)