Spectrubes

Spectrubes is boring, not challenging and hard on the eyes. Not recommended

This game is one of those rock hard torturous puzzlers that you love-hate. Simple in concept, and brutal in its execution. "all" you have to do is move move your pieces to a home square. I have spent the evening mashing "r" and screaming at the screen, arrrrghhhhh (while insisting "I can beat this one! I can beat this level!". Also, the soundtrack is pretty decent.

Fun and challenging puzzle game for the mean-time.

Ehh... so by all means, I should like this game, because this kind of puzzle game is right up my ally. But... I don't. It's nothing to do with the graphics or music, it's that the puzzles don't seem particularly well-structured. As in, while a lot of puzzle games center around specific tricks where, once you've solved that, you've solved the puzzle, Spectrubes keeps the puzzles going for longer than they really should be. A lot of the challenge comes from trying to position the characters right, but that's more frustrating than fun. ...At least, for the early puzzles anyway. Maybe it changes later on? But if it does, I'm not really interested in sticking with it to find out.

Spectrubes is a retro-pixel/8 bit puzzle game. Control a number of blocks that move in different ways depending on which keys you press (if you press up, some cubes might go up, others down etc). Each press moves each cube simultaneously, adding to the challenge of the puzzles. While the puzzle concept is decent enough, the retro pixel graphics are jarring and unattractive, making the game come across as lazy. Also, the game is very simplistic and could be run in a browser. Adding to the technical deficiency, the game resolution is fixed and there's no proper HD support or control customisation. The $3 price tag is very high considering the calibre of this shovelware, it could be run in a web browser. For those reasons I cannot recommend this game.

Tags: Casual - Twitch & Arcade Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Dos Style maze navigation puzzles with two protagonist management handled through shared controls. Smoothing setting in options makes things blurrier. Mechanics involve getting one of the two stuck in scenery while you navigate the other, and trial and error them to final tile exits. Gets old fast but much less frustrating than you would expect thanks to the fairly decent Xbox360 pad support with D pad. The music was alright but not sufficiently retro for the aesthetics. The smoothing options in the settings only made everything blurrier.