Rekindle

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A cute and challenging little game! There were a few bugs/glitches, and I broke the game right before the last section by wandering through a wall and off the course, but was fun enough to try to blaze through the levels again

It's pretty good, the puzzles can be quite challenging, like where I wish there was a hint option...

"Rekindle" is a student project from the University of Utah. It's a reasonable enough Sokoban like box pusher with quite a lot of content for a student project, some passable graphics and some interesting puzzles, if you like that kind of thing. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. 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. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam…

[h1]Before I played Rekindle, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Just don't play this.... the English translation is poor and the puzzles themselves are confusing as there is no hints and basically no practice understanding the mechanics, either you somehow push things around till you pass or you fail out.