Recent reviews by Faylyn

This is a decent puzzle game for $5. While it has alright puzzles and hidden items with somewhat slow and annoying camera, it's maybe 2.5 hour for a first play-through and even less for a second pass if you missed achievements. Definitely not worth anything close to it's full cost, so I don't recommend unless on sale and even then it's just okay and not great.

Really great game! It's like playing through a choose-your-own-adventure novel that's centered around various aspects of one big mystery with a great trio of child characters leading the way (think Goonies with choices). The main character Luka is relatable and brave, but also a kid in a hard world and the writing reflects that. His friends Rolo and Beck have a great dynamic with him and the crazy twists and turns. All the side characters had fun expressive writing too and I loved going around the map seeing what all the townsfolk were up to between story beats!

My only real drawback was that I could have use a small recap when we jumped to another branch, but it's a minor issue.

Beacon Pines is a great story to dive in and voice all the characters with you partner while you both guess at the mystery!

Such a delightful puzzle game! Piecing together little bits of environmental, wardrobe, and dialog to identify the misfortune of the entire crew was great fun! The storytelling is awesome and several moments made me gasp!

Excellent game, 9/10
(-1 point from no sprint when your going multiple decks of the boat looking for clues on a single person)

I loved this game! Deciphering how each language works, the sentence structure, and meanings was so much fun! The system works really well to enable you to figure out each word. There were a few points where I wish there were a few more uses of a word (especially in the 4th area), but usually everything flowed quite nicely.

Definitely recommend if you're someone like me who took the time to decipher the text in Tunic but wished it was more ingrained with the game itself.

My only con in an otherwise great game was the sewer maze in the 3rd area that I spent way too long on making an map IRL. There's probably a guide you can search for that won't kill the momentum of the game.

I love the Fruitbus! Picking up fruits, designing my bus, and exploring the land are such a joy and a perfect escape from all my recent anxiety! Had an issue where the camera would reset (though that might have been from my very high camera speed), otherwise everything ran fine!

The soundtrack is also full of bangers! My husband even mentioned "This song make me want to be on the Fruitbus!"

What an absolute gem! It's a lovely and short point-and-click experience! Such a neat way to explore paintings that I could never name but have probably seen in an art museum, all set to relaxing classical music!

Sure the game is several object finding fetch quests and mini-puzzles, but the whole thing is so soothing and calm! And astonishingly free, so give it shot!

Overall, a solidly good picross game with plenty of puzzles (both main game and community). While there is no way to error check puzzles, I enjoyed the logic of fixing my own errors over being penalized and failing a level. With so much content, this has been my most played picross game by a wide margin.

Pros:
- Almost 40,000 puzzles between main game and community
- Simple UI where numbers grey out after check placed
- Cannot fail levels due to errors
- Can customize your background colors to your comfort

Cons:
- Portion of the community levels are low effort, especially 5 x 5 puzzles
- No way to check errors, though main game puzzles do have guides
- Number only grey out from the sides
- Cannot manually grey out numbers

What a cute little puzzle game! The puzzle consist of building a sushi box through various pieces and special blocks. I found most chapters would give you a couple tutorial puzzles for a new special block, then ramp up to hard puzzles. Until the last few levels, which were quite difficult and took a bit to think through.

Accompanying all this is a super cute story about a cat family with a great relaxing soundtrack! Easily recommend this at it's affordable price point and was a nice little 4 hour experience.

Like their previous game, I'm split on this game, but leaning more positive and with different issues. The game environments and story were nice, but the loop for most of the music and the music transition between spaces was really intrusive. The puzzles were difficult to figure out and the hint system didn't really help, but was better than not having one like the previous game. It's pretty short (under 2 hours) and I often had to check the solution to understand the logic of a third of the puzzles. Overall, I had fun with this one, but I was on the fence with my review. 6/10

I'm split on this game. Clearly, they worked hard on this and the rooms look very nice with great music. But there's a lot of cons here. The puzzles either easy or incomprehensible (looking at you Eye Chart). The game is short - I finished in just over an hour. The story is cringe-worthy. The game is trying, but just doesn't hit the mark for the price.