Isn’t Groundhog Day In February?
HIGH Top-notch art direction and animation.
LOW Repetitive puzzle elements.
WTF The endearing character models look creepy after a while.
Tag: Puzzle
SwapQuest Review
Pathfinders Wanted!
HIGH Solving every floor of the tower in quick succession.
LOW Grinding the same level over and over again to get strong enough to fight the boss.
WTF I’m supposed to click on the boss to kill it? How could I have guessed that?
The Sexy Brutale Review
Clue meets Groundhog Day
HIGH Complex, beautifully interwoven storylines featuring murder, mayhem, and lovely scenery.
LOW Map memorization is tedious at first.
WTF It can be exceptionally repetitive given the nature of the puzzle-solving.
2Dark Review
Hell Is For Children
HIGH Finally killing that damn girl with the straight razor.
LOW Trying to figure out the inventory system.
WTF The deli menu.
Ellipsis Review
A Leaf on the Wind
HIGH The ‘airship’ level.
LOW Spike tunnels that require impossibly steady hands.
WTF Wait, I’ve got a sprint button?
Vidar Preview
Vidar is a particularly bleak RPG/Puzzler that puts players in the role of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a village a month into an ongoing tragedy. As if the harsh winter weren’t bad enough, a terrifying beast has been awakened in the caves beneath the town, and one of the villagers is taken each night. It’s up to the player to get to know the townspeople, attempt to solve their problems, and hopefully find the origin of the town’s curse in the catacombs deep below.
Road To Ballhalla Review
Going Uphill Fast
HIGH Unlocking the final secret and receiving an appropriate reward!
LOW Thinking I was terrible at a level, then realizing it was a bug.
WTF The Fury Rolled.
Haunted Hotel: The Axiom Butcher Review
The Hatchet Falls!
HIGH A Hidden-Object based fistfight? Tell me more.
LOW Having to go to the map every 30 seconds to remember where the latest ornate key is supposed to be used.
WTF Apparently ‘walling in’ is an option for treating mentally ill children?
HOGuru Reviews – Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova
So take the title with a grain of salt. In the first place, I’m relatively certain that whatever happened in Kisilova, there were fewer sliding block puzzles involved than the game would suggest. Still, the game presents an intriguing premise – people are dying in a remote village, vampires are […]
HOGuru Reviews – Forbidden Secrets: Alien Town
Beyond objects. The bane of my existence. That’s what they’re called here, anyhow – I’m referring to the annoying game that some developers play on their customers, putting in special items on each of their game’s screens, little objects that transform subtly in the background. Find them all for a bonus! […]
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