Coffee Pot Terrarium

First Impressions Video: https://youtu.be/8oqrQ0vUpPI Coffee Pot Terrarium is a pretty fun turn based puzzle game. It's all about raising and lowering tiles to drop the evil bee enemies into the water. It is, however, not about coffee, pots, or terrariums. While it may have taken me a bit to really understand the mechanics, they are fairly simple once you know them. The scenarios can definitely be challenging and might take a bit of thinking. Do note, this is really not a turn based tactics game as it sells itself. It's a puzzle game where you throw evil peeps into water. Overall, if you like zen puzzle games, this is the game for you. If it's on sale then it's all the more worth it.

My experience matches that of the other negative review at this time. Most importantly, the tutorial and all of its essential information have been removed from the game and the rules regarding what tiles fall and what paths enemies will take (especially after their initial paths are disrupted) remain unclear even after seeing the tutorial in a video. Consequently, I ended up struggling for a while to figure out what the results of my actions would actually be instead of what action would be best. The game already highlights your character's and the enemies' range of movement and attack if you click on them, so it would have been simple to add a highlight function to show the chain reaction from dropping a tile. But perhaps that was intended to be the real "puzzle" here. Further negatives include: *Tedious gameplay due to its slow and turn-based nature, the lack of an undo button, the number of enemies, and the stakes of making a single mistake *The Wanderer enemy moves randomly and can walk farther than the player in its turn, which messes up the puzzle aspect of the game and makes getting the no damage achievements frustrating *Tiles created by the player have a randomized …

A deceptively simple game that is by no means easy. The art and sound are fantastic. If you like video games, you will like this game.

A slow, meditative pace; unclear mechanics that you have to experiment with to find out how they work; and a loss condition that makes you restart from the beginning of the level. Any two of those things would go pretty well together, but combining all three makes for pain, and not in a good way. Also, the mouse controls are kind of unpleasant. When it works out though, sometimes making just the right chain reaction of falling floor tiles can be quite satisfying.

[b]Of the ~4 hours I played, probably an hour of that was due to how slowly the game plays.[/b] [i]Coffee Pot Terrarium[/i] has decent puzzle gameplay and graphics, but it's not worth the cost to your time. [h1]Time wasted[/h1] After your turn, the enemies move one-... ... ... by- ... ... ...one. Moving one-by-one is fine, but they move way too slowly. It also doesn't seem so bad at first. But the problem grows worse the more you progress. Many levels have 6+ enemies, so imagine how fun it is to sit through every move. Also, remember that this is a puzzle game. Let's say you make a mistake on your 10th move. You get to sit through all of that again! [h1]No tutorials[/h1] The game mechanics are not directly explained. You have to find them out. Oddly, the game used to provide tutorial text, but that was removed at some point. (For the old text, see review [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/rph133/recommended/444020/]here[/url]. One difference: the text says you can only raise a path of up to 6 tiles long. However, that limit was removed in the game's [url=https://steamcommunity.com/games/444020/announcements/detail/917994333316549877]CPT Update #1[/url].) Letting the use…