The best puzzle-based top-down pixel art comedy collectathon adventure based in a retro futuristic formica punk science mansion ever made! Solve hundreds of puzzles with variable difficulty settings as you move through a comedy-mystery storyline.
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This charmed the hell out of me. It never would have occurred to me to combine the Sierra Dr. Brain games with a Rareware-style collectathon, but it works and it's really fun.
This is mostly about solving puzzles to collect batteries (and other objects) to get further into a mansion to collect more batteries. The puzzles are mostly from the standard library - you've got your Towers of Hanoi, you've got your cryptograms, you've got your slider puzzles (well, no game's perfect). There's a few new ones too. This is the first game I've played with Punnett Squares and chemical equation balancing.
Difficulty is customisable for most puzzles, and you can spend hint chips to get partial solutions (or full solutions if you spend enough). There are enough batteries that you can outright skip puzzles if you're not a completionist. This is a really generous attitude to puzzle design which is perfect for a game like this.
The game's not perfect - it's a little buggy, some of the music is challenging to listen to for a long time, and some of the reference humour is eye-rolling. But damn it, it's got heart, and it's fun, and some of the other jokes are really good, and the endgame sequence is one of the best I've seen in a puzzle adventure game. It's bonkers. I love it.
This is mostly about solving puzzles to collect batteries (and other objects) to get further into a mansion to collect more batteries. The puzzles are mostly from the standard library - you've got your Towers of Hanoi, you've got your cryptograms, you've got your slider puzzles (well, no game's perfect). There's a few new ones too. This is the first game I've played with Punnett Squares and chemical equation balancing.
Difficulty is customisable for most puzzles, and you can spend hint chips to get partial solutions (or full solutions if you spend enough). There are enough batteries that you can outright skip puzzles if you're not a completionist. This is a really generous attitude to puzzle design which is perfect for a game like this.
The game's not perfect - it's a little buggy, some of the music is challenging to listen to for a long time, and some of the reference humour is eye-rolling. But damn it, it's got heart, and it's fun, and some of the other jokes are really good, and the endgame sequence is one of the best I've seen in a puzzle adventure game. It's bonkers. I love it.