Natural Disaster: A Butterfly's Guide to Mass Destruction

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"Natural Disaster: A Butterfly's Guide to Mass Destruction" is an amusing premise for a game that's somewhat let down by some unusual artistic choices and lacklustre technical implementation. In this game, which, bizarrely (and frankly a bit annoyingly) is presented with a "Stereoscope"/View-Master 3D picture viewer filter, you control a butterfly that flaps around. The objective is to trigger a series of events which cause a catastophe... a loose play on the whole "Butterfly Effect" thing, I suppose. In terms of visuals, this features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. …

was aight

took me just under an hour to complete all pathways, puzzles are not too difficult to complete but sometimes get a bit confusing with the scenes. All are a bit funny, was a good play!

Once you realize what it is you are supposed to be doing, it is a quick fun little romp to see all the chains through to their end. Flipping scenes is an important tactic... remember those buttons!

A delightful game! Very creative and unique. Sometimes the controls/interactions aren't the cleanest, but if you are looking for a shorter free puzzle game, I know of none better.