- September 2, 2021
- Rising Moon Games
Sokocat: Dungeon
Platforms
PC
Windows
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Sokocat: Dungeon is a puzzle-based video game where players control a cute cat navigating through 50 challenging stages. The objective is to collect treasures, unlock skills, and avoid various traps while enjoying the captivating graphics and charming soundtrack. Simple gameplay and gameplay variations ensure an engaging and fun adventure full of surprises.
- Cute presentation and charming graphics make it appealing, especially for beginners and children.
- Offers a decent number of levels (50) that provide a mix of easy to moderate challenges, making it enjoyable for puzzle enthusiasts.
- Some innovative gameplay mechanics, such as the ability to rotate the board, add a unique twist to the traditional Sokoban formula.
- The game is criticized for being an asset flip, lacking originality and proper crediting of asset creators, which raises ethical concerns.
- Controls are unresponsive and cannot be customized, making it difficult for some players to enjoy the game fully.
- The presence of fake positive reviews and poor sales figures indicate a lack of genuine interest and quality in the game.
- gameplay9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
The gameplay is characterized by a generally low difficulty level and unbalanced design, with sokoban puzzles that lack memorability. While the introduction of new mechanics like the boomerang and traps adds some variety, they do not significantly enhance the core experience, which remains focused on block-pushing. The isometric 3D perspective complicates navigation unnecessarily, leading players to revert to a simpler 2D approach for effective puzzle-solving.
“Great elements and good gameplay innovations.”
“The dungeon adds some new mechanics, such as dart traps, spike traps, and a boomerang to remote-activate switches, but these mechanics actually play a relatively minor role, and this is still a sokoban block-pushing puzzle game at its core.”
“I'm effectively using the degrees of freedom that were granted to me to make my own retro-active design decision and play the game as close as I can to a 2D, top-down sokoban -- because that's all that's required to support core gameplay, and because it works better for puzzle-solving than any of the isometric perspectives, where occlusion is often more of a problem.”
“Unbalanced but generally low difficulty with generally unmemorable sokoban puzzle design -- you get a 'boomerang' that you can use on some levels to flick switches, but very rarely does this mechanic really stack up to increase complexity; ~2 hours play.”
“We're left with a game that is paradoxically both under-designed -- because not enough thought has gone into the early stages of design to craft the right 'container' for the intended gameplay -- and over-designed -- because the tactic was instead to pile up truly novel, truly innovative, ad hoc workarounds.”
“I'm effectively using the degrees of freedom that were granted to me to make my own retroactive design decision and play the game as close as I can to a 2D, top-down sokoban -- because that's all that's required to support core gameplay, and because it works better for puzzle-solving than any of the isometric perspectives, where occlusion is often more of a problem.”
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