ScaleBox

Difficulty : 4/5 (Very Hard) Global : 3/5 (Very Good) My website : [url=https://anokturnus.review/]The Review Principle[/url] Curator page : [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44695991-Anokturnus/]Anokturnus[/url] ScaleBox may look like an easy and small game at first glance, but oh was I wrong. Do you like hard sokobans? Thinking with portals? The concept of ScaleBox is pretty simple, you and the boxes you push can grow bigger or smaller when entering portals. However, this leads to a lot of implications that render the game very challenging; I think I’ve never seen the grid-based aspect of a sokoban game being exploited like that. ScaleBox has a very smooth difficulty curve, each chapter purely gets harder and harder while always keeping the main route balanced so you can always progress. Even in later chapters, you’ll still get pretty simple puzzles thrown in the mandatory puzzles, the very challenging ones are pretty much always optional. So let’s talk about how the game works exactly. The goal of each puzzle is simply to correctly fill all required cells with a box. Do note that a 2x2 box is too big for a 1x1 cell for example, you need to place exactly what’s req…

This is a hidden gem. There's lots of deep mechanics to explore, and the game does a good job of training you to get familiarized with them. It's all about scales and portals, and a lot of the levels involve building contraptions. If sokoban engineering sounds fun to you, get on it.