Busway Islands - Puzzle
- April 20, 2023
- Rising Moon Games
Get on SteamBusway Islands is a puzzle game about organizing roads and rails across a large archipelago. Your goal is to create a safe and efficient route between bus stations, ensuring that all passengers are picked up along the way. Challenge your logical skills with 35 unique and captivating challenges, while enjoying relaxing sound effects and having fun with challenging puzzles in a minimalist and relax…
Nintendo Switch
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game offers a relaxing and enjoyable experience with beautiful graphics and addictive gameplay.
- Puzzles are challenging yet accessible, providing a good balance of difficulty that keeps players engaged.
- The controls are easy to understand, and the game saves progress, allowing for a stress-free gaming experience.
- The level progression lacks a consistent difficulty curve, leading to uneven challenges throughout the game.
- There are issues with controls, particularly the unintuitive tile rotation method, which can lead to accidental level restarts.
- The game is relatively short with only 35 levels, leaving players wanting more content and variety.
- music7 mentions
- 43 % positive mentions
- 43 % neutral mentions
- 14 % negative mentions
The music in the game is generally described as relaxing and chill, contributing positively to the overall presentation. However, some users find the background music in "Busway Islands - Puzzle" to be harsh and intolerable after a few levels, contrasting with the more soothing tones of "Railways Islands - Puzzle." Overall, while the music enhances the aesthetic of the colorful diorama-like towns, it can be inconsistent in quality.
“Music is chill, graphics are simple and very pretty.”
“Good enough presentation, relaxing music, colorful little diorama-like towns.”
“Good enough presentation, relaxing music, colorful little diorama-like towns.”
“My second much smaller complaint is regarding the BGM. In Railways Islands - Puzzle, it was relaxing, but in Busway Islands - Puzzle, the tone and pitch of the bells in the music are very harsh on the ears. It is not relaxing, and after 5 levels, it's simply intolerable.”
- graphics7 mentions
- 43 % positive mentions
- 57 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The graphics are described as pleasant and simple yet visually appealing, complemented by smooth animations. The game offers a variety of customizable settings, including resolution, graphics quality, and various visual effects, enhancing the overall aesthetic experience.
“Pleasant graphics and animation.”
“Music is chill, graphics are simple and very pretty.”
“Separate volumes, resolutions, windowed mode, some languages, v-sync, graphics quality, shadows, MSAA, SSAO, HDR.”
- stability3 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game's stability receives mixed feedback, with users noting a few glitches and a limited number of levels, resulting in an overall rating of just one thumb up.
“It is only one thumb up though, not a lot of levels, and a few glitches here and there.”
- replayability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game offers approximately four and a half hours of gameplay but is criticized for having no replay value, suggesting that once completed, there is little incentive to play again.
“About four and a half hours of game time, and zero replay value.”
