Aloof
ButtonX · 2021 · Falling Blocks, Match 3, Co-op Campaign, Co-op, Puzzle
PC
Positive92% · 36
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About Aloof
Aloof is a puzzle-fighter like Puyo Puyo Tetris, but plays completely different. In the world of Aloof you summon and defend small islands all the while you build combos against your opponent.
Basic gameplay is shown below. Aloof has more tactics - which we will save for later.
1.0 "Invite a Friend" update!
New feature: Invite a Friend
- Invite a friend into your game and play Aloof together online!
- You and your friend can freely move around between any game mode, like:
- Co-op Campaign
- Player versus Player
- Offline Adventure (versus AI)
Other changes to: Player versus Player
- Now has 23 levels!
- Levels are divided into easy, medium and hard
- Let the computer select a _random_ easy, medium, hard or just any level
Multiplayer modes
- co-op campaign (offline or online)
- friends versus friends (offline or online)
- 1v1 online adventure (online against random people)
- 2v2 online adventure (this is online, but couch vs couch, so you and your friend are on the same couch or play via Remote Play Together versus two other players)
- 2v2 offline adventure = 2 players versus AI (offline or online)
How to play
Basic gameplay is shown below. Aloof has more tactics - which we will save for later.
Summon an island
Stop you opponent from getting an island
Attack with combos
Heal after an attack
Features
It's dangerous to go alone
- Full solo or co-op campaign with puzzle levels, matches versus AI, rescue missions and bosses! (offline)
- Beat the online adventure by defeating 3 opponents in a row, but lose and start all over (online 1v1 or 2v2).
- Or practice the online adventure against AI opponents, get familiar with the levels and tune your tactics (offline 1v1 or 2v2).
- Play against your friends in 1v1 or 2v2 matches (offline).
Your plan at your pace
- Move pieces left, right, down and up! Pieces don't descend by themselves. Take your time to think, and move fast when you can!
- Not happy with the pieces in your field? Just flush them away by holding the flush button.
- You can switch between 2 fields. So you don't need to mess up your amazing combo if something else needs to be done first.
- (and there's no garbage from your opponent)
Keeping online alive
- Play the game while searching for an online match.
- Find opponents all over the world. The game is designed for a high ping (600ms)
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Interesting puzzle game with a campaign coop mode. The difficulty curve is not exactly smooth, with a few puzzles in the campaign requiring wildly out-of-the-box thinking while the rest is pretty standard.6 found this helpful
Worst music in any game I have ever played. I hope you enjoy listening to a piano play a melodic 5th over and over and over and over and over. What were they thinking?1 found this helpful
not worth 79 pence.1 found this helpful
I didn't even get to a battle portion because I found the game fatuous, and dull. To it's credit it has a demo, but I returned it having only paid 50 cents. I really wanted to stick it out to see all that the game could have to offer because it seems to have some neat ideas, but it was just so bad to start with, there was no getting past it. By all means try the demo and see if it's for you, but I really can't recommend this game.1 found this helpful
Very fun little puzzle game that can post a surprising challenge in the later levels, depending on the difficulty you choose. I played the campaign with a friend and we had turned the difficulty up at first because we thought the game would be easy, but then had to turn it back down after getting humbled later on. At first glance I thought that the game was basically "Tetris where you can freely move falling pieces", which seemed like it would be way too simple to beat, but there's a surprising variety of win conditions. I especially loved the "puzzle" levels. Rather than giving you a tutorial pop-up to teach you about some advanced mechanic, the game would give you a puzzle where the only possible solution would be for you to figure the mechanic out on your own. We always felt like geniuses when we'd finally figure out what the game was trying to coax us into learning, which is how a good puzzle game should make you feel. The co-op is also well integrated into the gameplay--it's not like you're just quietly playing side-by-side for 2x the points. You want to talk to your partner so that you're building different shapes, or healing effectively, or sending combos at the same time, …
Aloof does have a similar gameplay to Puyo Puyo, but the goal differs. The game will ask you -more often than not- to draw a pattern, almost like a picross game. The catch being, if you match too many tiles, they will disappear and ruin your shapes. Some levels can be brute-forced but the rest is pretty chill. It gets cheap when it goes on sale, and while being on the short side of things, is trying something different, so I would recommend if the genre is something that you enjoy.
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