Caveman Caravan

Disclaimer I am friends with the person that made this game. However overall Caveman Caravan is a game I very much so enjoyed, and ill be looking forward to 100%ing it. Runs are very quick and get to the point, and info in the game on how things work is largely available ingame with some exceptions. Games like this can be hard to recommend, given everyone has different likes and dislikes for roguelikes. However the low entry costs makes Caveman Caravan something I can recommend.

This game is capable of turning you into a caveman. Just some weird, overcomplicated Tetris.

Overall I like the game and I do recommend it. It's well worth the price. What does $4.99 get you these days? About two and a half tacos. This is well worth two and a half tacos. Essentially, you need to place your blocks next to the provided blocks in a way that they generate points, which are divided into three groups. You need a minimum score in each point group to advance. The gameplay moves very quickly and you don't need to spend a lot of time on each round/screen. It feels like something between a mobile game and a vintage arcade game, or a trick-taking card game where each round is like a hand or cards. The tutorial dumps a lot of text at you and I'm not sure I fully understand all the mechanics yet. I learned more just jumping into the game, I think. The game is pretty intuitive if you're familiar with puzzle games, but there's some surprises with the more deep mechanics. I'm still not sure how to use all the tools effectively, but it wouldn't be much of a game without any kind of challenge. I like the graphic style, but I like to scale down the window using the provided setting to take advantage of the dithering effects which look way too chunky at max size on my displ…

I don't think the tutorial for this game is very good, and the iconography for the game is too difficult to parse. While you mouse over a tile it does highlight some interactions, you don't get a good sense for how they interact. The symbols don't have a legend unless you go a menu deep, and you can't even mouse over a symbol to see what it means. The game is kind of there but there's so much about it that's not done. The symbols are also so tiny that even full screen they are hard to parse. The hatchet icon is surrounded by white pixels, and even on a darker background, most of the icon is silver, it makes it blurry. So much of the game would be better if you could just mouse over a tile and hold tab, or something so you can see what the symbols mean and do. I get this is inspired by UFO 50 but those games make more active sacrifices of game complexity and information for readability. I want to like this game more because I enjoy tile laying and synergies, but for now I'm putting down a major NO.

This game is delightful, especially once you unlock some of the extra characters. Runs are 12 rounds long and there's a ton of replayability. Feels like a solo board game with adorable pixel art. Really impressed that this is the dev's first game.

A fun quick game with such fun. Was bit confusing at start, but once get going, it is fun to play quick few rounds.it is pick up, put down an back up again