Vanishtan

Well this was a nice surprise! Each week when Steam updates which games are on sale, I like to poke around through the games with few or no reviews and are cheap that look interesting to me at all. A couple bucks for the chance of finding something decent is worth the risk to me. It's far more misses than hits, to be honest, but the hits make it worth it. Vanishtan is one of the hits and I'm glad I took a chance on it. I've only played one round so far but I had a lot of fun with that round. As you can tell from the store page, this is a falling block arcade puzzler similar to Puyo Puyo or Columns. Match up four of the same time of pieces and you'll clear them, causing the surrounding blocks to fall, getting the chance to get combo scores. What sets this apart is the unique elemental aspect that you usually see in something like Pokemon or similar games, where fire monsters do extra damage to ice monsters (I don't actually know what affinities are strong or weak against what in Pokemon, it's just a hypothetical example, don't get mad at me if that's not accurate to Pokemon). Here, if you clear a set, if there are any pieces of the type that your cleared pieces are strong…