After being robbed of two of one of the best little puzzlers on cell, Monument Valley builders Ustwo Games are lastly making their PC debut with Assemble With Care. Arriving on Steam later this month, Ustwo’s pastel-painted restore ’em up has you dissecting individuals’s junk – and their private issues – earlier than placing all of it again collectively once more. In this economic system, who can afford to be an engineer with out doing a bit counselling on the aspect?
Ustwo’s earlier games being a fairly large deal over on telephones, Assemble With Care was an apparent choose for Apple Arcade’s launch lineup final September. Now, they plan to take their gadget disassembler to desktops on March 26th.
Assemble With Care places you within the eyes of Marie, a kind of travelling tinkerer who’s arrived within the city of Bellariva to assist people repair up their stuff. Through a beautiful, tactile interface, you’re tasked with taking aside a bounty of previous 80s tech – clocks, cameras, tape gamers and the like – to work out what’s improper with the factor, repair it up good, then put every part again collectively, good as new. It’s painted in a splendidly heat pastel palette, framing a narrative that means it’s actually individuals wot are damaged, y’see? There’s no taking aside your neighbour and placing him again collectively once more, thoughts.
Those multi-platform rascals over at Eurogamer took a take a look at it throughout their Apple Arcade round-up – not notably taken by Assemble’s storytelling, however enraptured by the easy pleasures of disassembling junk.
“As a piece of storytelling, this is absolutely fine,” Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan admitted. “As a study in the wordless pleasure of fixing stuff, though, it really sings. Monument Valley asked you to look afresh at the tricksy surfaces of the world. Assemble with Care is more concerned with what lies beneath.”
Admittedly, there’s a enjoyable irony in a game about repairing damaged tech making its debut on a {hardware} platform that’s traditionally been fairly hostile in direction of DIY repairs. Moving to Steam will probably lose the bodily motion of deconstructing a telly together with your fingertips, however what PC proprietor hasn’t gotten down and soiled with a screwdriver? Welcome to the house pc, Ustwo – we’ve acquired sufficient damaged rigs and patchwork restore jobs to maintain you busy for many years.
Assemble With Care unpacks on March 26th on Steam for £5.79 / $7.99.
