Grooveyard

A beautiful puzzler. Very creative design and polished gameplay. The basic concept is this: - each level is a 2D grid where your character must go from point A to point B on the grid. There are obstacles/traps and other stuff on the grid. - the character moves according to a predefined pattern such as: move right for 3 tiles, then jump, then after 2 tiles change direction (ie move left), then after 4 tiles another jump, etc. So all the moves are automatic and you don't control them. - you have a certain number of blocks that you can put on empty tiles to force it to move a certain way, or block a passage. - your goal is to find the correct block placement so that with the predefined move pattern it will reach point B. It's really simple to grasp as you start playing the game (which means it's great design) and offers a lot of depth. It's well balanced in terms of difficulty, I would rate most levels medium+ and some levels hard. Each level has a hint which is a small sentence very cleverly written, like it's kind of a small riddle in itself, it doesn't show you any block placement but it helps your thought process. Kudos to the developer(s), I'm always looking for new …

The puzzles feel a little fiddly at times but the presentation and tunes are top notch

The game has a great hook, where you have to arrange the environment so the skeletons can safely reassemble themselves. There are some clever puzzles in this one.

This is literally a walking simulator. Level 6-7 is so hard that I give up. Hints are basically useless. Even telling the fewest steps, or the intended direction(two ways-jumping first at 90 degree or at 180 degree, and I figure the former wrong at first), matters most esp to the last level. WANT MY WASTED EXPERIMENTING TIME BACK.

[i]I received a free key from the developer.[/i] This was a unique puzzle game for me. At first it looks like a platformer but it isn't really - the skeletons move by themselves based on pre-programmed moves, and the puzzle is placing the floor pieces so that those actions will make them move where you want them to. So no platforming skill required. The interface was good - you can count the steps and see when the skeletons will jump/turn/etc., or just press play and watch them go (which is what I did). There were a lot of interesting and challenging puzzles, and there's 3 levels of completing for each one depending on how many floor pieces you use. I usually don't like optimization but I think it worked well here. There was also a cute story to go with the game. Each level is you rescuing a skeleton, and then they have dialogue afterwards. There was a hint system but the hint was a text blurb - sometimes they helped me but a lot of times I didn't understand what the hint was supposed to be. Overall a fun and unique game!

Pretty cute and a clever concept!