I typically want I had the thoughts for puzzle games. Alan “Draknek” Hazelden’s catalogue of deceptively laborious brainteasers look bleedin’ pretty, however I merely can’t be screaming at my monitor with strangers within the workplace. After fixing lunar prepare dilemmas with Cosmic Express and instructing us that A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, Draknek And Friends are returning with A Monster’s Expedition – pushing over timber to discover a water-logged museum of human break on Steam and Itch.io later this yr.
In all of the confusion surrounding the apocalypse and subsequent rise of cute fuzzy monsters, bridge-making appears to have vanished from the cultural consciousness. Fortunately, a tree will do the job simply as properly.
A Monster’s Expedition (Through Human Exhibitions) appears to be an island-hopping open-world train in Sokoban – that hottest of block-pushing puzzle archetype. Plopped into an ocean crammed with tons of of islands, your little backpack-toting bigfoot might be flattening timber to traverse new paths for some puzzle-driven exploration. Thankfully, the timber have been pre-weakened by consultants, and are very simple to push over and roll round.
They’d higher be, since you’ll be knocking round loads of timber. A Monster’s Expedition guarantees “simple but deep mechanics”, so I’d count on to see the depths of tree-pushing explored somewhat than, say, the game introducing absurd new mechanics like grass-munching or leaf-blowing. It all appears fairly Stephen’s Sausage Roll, if not fairly as outwardly intimidating – although probably a good bit extra academic.
See, A Monster’s Expedition is a few form of puzzle-based faculty journey for the supernatural. Solving puzzles places you one furry step nearer to discovering a misplaced relic of “Human Englandland” – whether or not that’s an outdated purple postbox, or the, uh, reverse mermaid demonstrated above. Perfectly well-researched and correct reveals, I’m assured.
A Monster’s Expedition units off on Steam and Itch.io later this yr.
Disclosure: Former RPS-er Pip Warr is doing all of the phrases for A Monster’s Expedition.
