Quench

the gui and controls are kinda klunky making for a somewhat annoying experience, you usually have several different powers u can use as well as many different groups you can control but u do not have hot keys for it, you have to click each of the things individually, there is also a lack of a mini map or a way to view the entire map forcing u to scroll around to get a good view which is a pain in the ass considering this is a puzzle game the final level seems quite buggy as well, me having been stuck on it for 3 out of the 6hrs ive played this game with issues such as the screen going red, the game randomly failing me even though i clearly have not failed and the boss glitching out and just never getting to a spot where i could attack it the art style and music are pretty good though and the mechanics are somewhat interesting, i liked it enough to play through to the end, though i would not recommend it at its current pricetag, ide say this game would be worth buying if it had a $5 pricetag, not the 18.50 its currently asking for

This is a beautiful, calming, cooperative puzzle game that can be played with all ages. I've really enjoyed it.

This game was really nice and it has a lot of potential. I feel that there are some places where the developer could add to the game to make the experience a lot better. Saying that, I would recommend to buy this game on a proper discount, as this is quite expensive for what you receive in the game. The story is really captivating and I loved playing the game. There are some things that are an issue though: The game gets quite buggy when you travel back after you received seed as a power. My game crashed 3 times. One of the levels where relic blocks off the monkeys and the lions had a glitch and no animal would move. I had to restart that level twice due to this glitch. In some levels it would be nice to have extra powers to use, as I would have loved to clear the whole area before moving to the next part. If you make a mistake or misclick (which happens easier than you would think), you need to restart the whole level and watch the story again before you can start the level. An undo or even a skip story would be nice if you have already seen it. Using lightening to revive your animals is a nice add, however the area of effect for this is so big that by the time the rest of…

The graphics, of course, are beautiful. The storyline is also very pretty and is founded on a basic respect for life, so as someone who doesn't like combat or dark grittiness too much, it was pretty nice to play through. It's also very impressive how the designers make such diverse levels out of the same basic mechanics and as part of the same overall story. I liked the puzzle-solving aspects a lot as well, and the learning curve is very approachable as it introduces mechanics one by one during the story. There were a couple of things that frustrated me. In particular, the commitment to "story-driven" was so strong that in a handful of levels it wasn't really clear what you were supposed to do. The objective would be given in story terms, not mechanical terms. Since many of those were the timed levels, that led to a lot of failed run-throughs that didn't really feel fair, because the objectives weren't clear, and then that also made the graphics feel busy and distracting as I struggled to figure out the rules of the level before I failed again. So I got annoyed on at least three or four levels with stuff like this. It would have helped a lot to have the chance to scroll around an…

This week I decided, against my better judgement, to play a puzzle game. Puzzle games at the end of the day make me feel stupid. I don't like it but I do it anyway because I figure what game can be more difficult than Baba is You? So I delved into this weeks game thinking that I would only be playing for a few hours, then it turned into, at least, a five hours. This week I become the avatar in life and, through puzzle solving, lead tribes of wild animals to safety. This week I played Quench. Quench is a top-down puzzle game developed and published by Axon Interactive Inc. The game released in August of 2019, is on PC and the Switch and still retails for a hot $20. Quench follows the story of Shaman, a young elephant and her pilgrimage. It is known that each generation makes this pilgrimage and this year Shaman is beset on convincing all of the tribes to tag along. The overarching thing here is that the East and West Elder Trees are dying because of an ancient evil that came to life because of greed. An entity known only as Smokebeasts roam the land and destroy anything in their wake, even life. It is up to you to reshape the land and assist the tribes on their pilgrimage to save …

This is a game I like to play when I want to do something calm and clever. There are well designed paths and simple player mechanisms that still allow for a challenge. You play as a spirit who helps several tribes of animals travel across great distances. You're able to use magic to help them move without getting attacked, by healing injured, and by removing the obstacles. It's about timing, clever use of limited resources, and a touching story. Definitely worth what I paid for it.