Leaf's Odyssey

Leaf's Odyssey is an okay puzzle game. I'm glad someone made a [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/314330/DROD_Gunthro_and_the_Epic_Blunder/]DROD[/url]-inspired game, but I wasn't impressed. Aesthetics: I really didn't like the aesthetics, and personally preferred DROD's aesthetics by a very large margin. Level progression: I really really disliked that all puzzles were mandatory. The game may be map-based, but progression is essentially fully linear; if you get stuck for good at a level, that's it, unless you're willing to look up the solution. The initially open map becomes claustrophobic very quickly; despite a design full of keys and locked doors, the dev didn't make a single puzzle optional (at least until one reaches the green keys). What's up with that?_? I ended up looking up a *lot* of the puzzles here, particularly at the end. Either due to getting stuck, or due to eventually getting outright exhausted with the game. In addition, in contrast to DROD, this game is pure puzzling, with zero breathers. DROD's story wasn't necessarily great, but it certainly had the right idea to add narrative breathers in between the puzzles. Level design: The objectives & philosophie…

An amazing "DROD-like" game with many QoL features. Has simpler player mechanics than DROD itself but the puzzles are very well made and it felt good to solve almost all of them.

If you want a tough-as-nails DROD-like "stepping game" with rewarding puzzles, a clear care for UI, and a focus on monster behavior interactions, this is the game for you. (It really is tough, though.) P.S.: eyes are the best

This was a fun but very hard sokoban game. Easily on par with the most difficult in the genre like Stephen Sausage Roll. And the solutions can be a bit precise - it's very easy to get the order of operations wrong and then have to tweak the solution. But still very fun.

What a great game! The difficulty curve is just right so the puzzles always feel approachable, and most puzzles take not-too-short and not-too-long to solve. The hardest puzzles are maddeningly difficult; my record was being stuck for two and half hours in game time on one puzzle.

Really enjoying this - satisfying, self-contained puzzles that build upon previously discovered creature interactions (captured in a very handy journal, I'd never remember it all otherwise). Pixel art is adorable.