Perchang

A great little game, with a cute backing track whilst you slowly descend into more difficult physics-based puzzles with a twist. The game almost feels a little RNG in parts, like when manipulating fans, or using bouncing balls, and that can get frustrating, but overall a great experience.

Although I apparently had no idea what Perchang would be going into it I was pleasantly surprised. There's some issues with the gold medal times which is unfortunate because some of the bonus stages are locked behind, but for the sale price of $1.59 this is a very fun gadget game. The sole components of this game are timing and reflexes. Since the description calls it "a puzzle action strategy game" I expected puzzle and/or strategy but it's just putting the ball in the hoop. Perchang is like one of those 'Perplexus' mazes in a ball, and just about as fun! There around 80 levels in the game which all have some sort of fun mechanic and many made me smile even in failure just seeing how the stage is set up and many of the interactions are just fun to play around with. That is until you start trying to go for gold times. Gold time is pretty much not messing up and getting all the balls in the hole precisely. For most of the game this is a good challenge but in the later levels it becomes quite the slough. This is especially frustrating when a level is actually impossible to get the gold time (stage Gold Run 6: Classic Seesaw Action). I suspect this is because Perchang is a port of a…

Alright I want to leave the developer some love because I hate to see a polished well-executed game languish on Steam with insufficient exposure. Overall, great little mix between light puzzle-solving and precision timing. The object of each level is to use a small number of interactive objects to guide the balls from their starting chute to the output funnel. Generally levels are solved in two stages: first, figuring out how to actually move the balls to their target, and second by smoothly and quickly executing the manoeuvres to achieve a high rank. It is in this latter area where the game stumbles somewhat. Simply passing the game's 60 levels within the time limit should not be too taxing for casual players, but the timing margins to achieve gold rank are so tight and so often based on luck in some of the later levels that you enter into a tortuous cycle of restarting over and over and hoping that the last ball goes down the funnel 0.1 seconds faster this time. This is where the game stops being fun and just becomes frustrating instead. That quibble aside, this game looks stylish, plays smoothly with an inoffensive soundtrack, with generally great level design; definitely rec…

Quick Score: 4/5 Notes: Game gets a lot of bonus point for originality. There are for sure some highly frustrating stages, but overall was a pretty fun playthrough. 100% took 6 hours, although the very final bonus stage is bugged and you can't actually complete it.

This game is a good time. Mellow, precise and polished. The graphics are really neat, movement is smooth, and each level gives you another challenge you need to finesse your way through. Enjoying it.

I like the style of this game and the puzzles are pretty fun