Mofukeshi!

Mofukeshi! is a really cute little tower defense puzzle game, and I liked how quickly its simple rules started to make sense. I play as a young witch defending a castle from an invading army of fluffy Mofu creatures, and the whole thing has a playful presentation that makes the battles feel more like a colorful puzzle than a serious strategy game. I was immediately interested in seeing how much I could do with the limited tools available to me. The main mechanic is built around controlling where the Mofu move on the grid. I can knock them into neighboring lanes, line up creatures of the same color and then clear them together, which gives the game a nice puzzle element. I enjoyed thinking ahead because simply attacking whatever is closest is not always the best choice. Getting the creatures positioned correctly can create much more useful clears and help me control the incoming crowd. The castle defense adds another layer because I also have to watch its weak points. As the witch, I can use magical orbs for attacking enemies or blocking their path, so I have to decide whether I want to remove threats immediately or spend my resources slowing them down. I liked this combination be…

Cute tower defense hybrid. You move your little witch, and either push the monsters, or attack them, when you defeat one, all others of the same color that were touching explode in a chain. As you defeat them, you get costs to either build turrets, or walls that take 5 hits to destroy. After three of your movements/attacks, the monsters take a turn. The ideas are basic but mixed well. The only weird thing in the monsters can only enter your castle thru the X spaces...so the ones that get to the end of the other rows just sit there harmlessly...so you really only need to defend the X rows. There's only 3 levels, and 3 objectives to complete for a perfect win. A playthrough is very quick. Ideas here could definitely have been expanded, but this was a nice way to spend a few minutes.