Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times

Only played halfway, and will try to finish it later. First of all, the control need some getting used to. And the switching between spells feels so unintuitive and like a chore even. The camera works is atrocious and makes me dizzy. During gameplay, there is a bug where if i fall to my death and the character will spawn on top of it and the cycle continues lol. It happens more than once too and I need to reset the area to fix it. The game obviously need more polish in a lot of areas. The upside is I love the concept of being a physics based puzzle game and I love the quirky vibe it brings.

I haven't really had the time or interest for video games too often these days, and I certainly don't ever write reviews for games. But this one has earned it. One of the last major titles I played was Tears of the Kingdom, but I found that game so incredibly disappointing. One of the major reasons why is that, while it offered so many different tools and methodologies to utilize to solve problems, there really weren't that many interesting problems. Many shrines felt like introductory tutorials, and went no further than that. And often one or two approaches solved 90% of problems one would encounter, leaving the game feeling like completing a checklist. By comparison: Rhell's most exemplary quality is that it trusts the player enough to let them have fun and go wild with the tools they are given WHILE ALSO providing progressive convolutions to overcome. There's enough thought and design in the puzzles to present curveballs that stop the same old tricks from working every time to keep things fresh. I know that sounds simple, but for really open-ended puzzle games like this it's actually a really hard balance to strike! Often there's a design temptation to either arbitrarily lock…

Great artstyle, lot of options in spellcrafting and freedom for puzzle-solving, i also like the character interactions.

not too far in as of writing this review but people are sleeping on this HARD

Rhell is an absolute blast. The different ways of solving puzzles are a lot of fun, and on a certain level I'm curious about how others played because there were several spells I just...never used. But for all I know, they were a big part of gameplay for others. And I like that the game has that kind of freedom! The story is good, and there are some typos that I don't think were intended (as opposed to typos that were intended, which there are) but not to a point of being too terrible. The music was surprisingly (and sometimes annoyingly) catchy. All around I had a great time playing!

So much fun