Panic Pump - Can you save them ALL?

WARNING: This is a TIMED game! And the time you're given to complete the level is very short. So if you don't finish within the time limit, you automatically fail the level. Honestly, I don't like this game. I didn't care for the cutesy graphics or the children screaming. Guess this is targeted for a younger audience. The difficulty ramps way up after only a few levels. I hope the children this is intended for are very fast. The controls are also very annoying. Try to slide a token out and you end up rotating the entire cage. Also, the game is not complete yet. There are grayed-out areas in the menus. Why isn't this listed as Early Access? After all the problems, I removed the game from my computer. Time is too short and precious for this kind of frustration.

"Panic Pump - Can you save them ALL?" is what looks like something intended to be a mobile app that found its way to Steam instead. It's a little difficult to describe the gameplay, but I'll try. For those familiar with the safecracking boardgame, "Downfall", you'll be familiar with the idea there's various dials with notches that hold the little tokens... it's a bit like that. You're presented with a cube. Each face of the cube has a series of pipes and rotators. Each rotator has a number of notches. Balls are released into the pipe system on a metered basis. To complete each puzzle level, you must fill each rotator/dial with a ball. Obviously filling up the first in the series of rotators won't fill the following ones, so the game is a bit like a platespinner as you quickly take each ball, push it down the pipes, match the colours of the balls in each rotator, and finally do all this properly before the time runs out. Whew! So you can see from that convoluted explanation that this is a little convoluted as far as puzzles go... and puzzle games really shouldn't have such steep learning curves. Now you couple this with the frustrating time limits, making this more of an a…

Randomly picked this up for $0.49. Actually has some surprisingly engaging puzzles.

Weird presentation, but the puzzles and rotation based levels are cleverly designed. If you like time based 3D puzzle games, this is definitely worth the price of admission. GG!

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