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26.9 hrs on record
Moving the window shakes the plants.
Posted 28 November, 2024.
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9.7 hrs on record
This is why I like video games.
Posted 23 November, 2023.
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35.1 hrs on record
So long Zachtronics, you will be missed
Posted 24 November, 2022.
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29.0 hrs on record (23.2 hrs at review time)
Not the best, but a decent Commandos-like.

(The broken achievement the game had has been removed)
Posted 21 February, 2022. Last edited 2 December, 2022.
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3.0 hrs on record
The most beautiful game I've ever played.
Posted 25 November, 2021.
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11.8 hrs on record
Update (2022-04): The dev has removed the broken achievement, is now completable :)

Unfortunately has a broken achievement (Exotic Snacks). There's a fix in the discussions, but the dev hasn't responded since 2019.

If they see this: the problem is in GameManager.CheckOuterSpaceAchievement(), it never awards the achievement when you reach the goals. Adding something like this to the end will fix it:
if (this.BonusInt3 >= 3 && this.BonusInt2 >= 2 && this.BonusInt1 >= 1)
{
StatsAndAchievementsManager.UnlockAchievement("AC_LEV7");
}
Posted 29 June, 2021. Last edited 27 April, 2022.
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120.3 hrs on record (23.8 hrs at review time)
A deep bow to Draknek: a gorgous, sleep-eating, metroidvania, sokoban masterpiece.
Posted 9 June, 2021.
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19.4 hrs on record
Sadly has a broken achievement. Fix was reported but dev is not reachable.
Posted 25 April, 2021.
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6.7 hrs on record
Sadly has broken achievements.
Posted 25 April, 2021.
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42 people found this review helpful
9.1 hrs on record (6.3 hrs at review time)
The presentation is nice, but compared to games like Shenzen I/O, TIS-100, Silicon Zeroes, Human Resource Machine, etc. it's just not that good:

  • Puzzles are quite computer sciency (modulo, sqrt, converting between binary and decimal...)
  • The language is fairly limited, doesn't allow for as much creative optimization
  • Easy to cheese a lot of puzzles so leaderboards are silly for those
  • The language is really verbose: check int = 0; jump if true: label;... and why even require a ; after each line if you can't put multiple statements on one line?
  • (Not much discernible story, but I don't mind)

But most annoyingly, the editor experience is below par: only one solution per puzzle, no breakpoints, errors (which are often not very helpful) can't be dismissed with the keyboard, the screen regularly gets out of sync with the underlying text (the cursor is on one line, but you're editing another for example), selecting text makes it invisible, the registers/in/out are hidden by default for unclear reasons, empty lines are counted against you, can't comment after a statement, desired output is only revealed after you made the correct number of (wrong) outputs...

Honestly, I think if the editor issues got fixed, the rest wouldn't be a problem.
As it is now, I can't recommend this game: computer scientists will be bored (or annoyed), people without programming experience will be baffled. You're better off starting out with the titles I mentioned above.
Posted 8 February, 2021. Last edited 9 February, 2021.
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