Roterra 4 - Magical Revolution

3d jigsaw/path-building/perspective manipulation puzzler series with a fairytale setting. the first two games are mobile-only, I was told it'd be too much work to adapt the controls to pc. would be fair enough, except I went in release order and controls are identical in all the games. in fact, this one has more (and much worse), so it's a fishy excuse to say the least. my reviews are largely the same as well, covering the whole series. despite the store page requirements, playing on win7 is possible. the unskippable intro (great start) is followed by a mobile tutorial with tapping (even better), part of the first of [b]35 long-ass levels[/b] unlocked one by one. later stages can take 20 minutes or more but there are checkpoints and [b]quitting saves checkpoint progress[/b], so there's that. can't replay an earlier level without losing progress on the current one though, which is stupid. since it's 3d and you're wandering a world made of cubes, [b]there's a lot of tedium to simply see what all the sides have[/b], then more to make them appear the right way on the right side. another unfortunate inclusion is [b]trial & error[/b], gotta keep rotating colored pillars and entering so…

[b]TLDR[/b] A casual and mildly interesting labyrinth puzzle game, ruined by an awful desktop port. [6/20⭐, 5h🏅, 2/5💡] [b]Context[/b] Roterra 4 is a casual labyrinth game where the players has to rotate pieces of the map to build a path for the characters. From what I can tell, this is the 4th entry in a series of mobile games. And this is the origin of the game’s major fault, as it clearly isn’t prepared to be played in a desktop. [b]Writing[/b] There’s not much that can be called a plot here. The game seems to follow a king, a queen and a wizard searching for a crown. It seems that the king and the queen are allies and the wizard an enemy, but even that is dubious since in some levels they all seem to collaborate. [b]Aesthetics[/b] Visuals are simple, low-polygon and stylized. They are decent enough for a game of this nature. The soundtrack is generic and a bit cheesy. There is no voice acting. [b]Gameplay[/b] You control characters through a labyrinth-like 3D grid, while at the same time manipulating the path that the characters travel on. This is achieved by rotating the cubes that make up the path. These cubes can be rotated in all directions, which is a bit annoying: si…

I didn't play it for a long time, but enough to see how the game works and to get a feel of the puzzles. In short, if you like puzzle games and don't mind the very dated PS1 3D graphics of the game, this might be an interesting game, but even then, the price seems a bit too high, since that are cheaper and more interesting puzzle games here on Steam. I'll mark recommended just because I use not recommended exclusively for unplayable and terrible games.