Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

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What a charming, charismatic and well-made game! Coming from Braid's artist, I could not expect anything less. This game takes a simple machanic and explores it, expanding in a way that only indies have courage to do nowadays. These guys definitely knew what were doing. The story is very good, it might be childlike but it also hits with mature and thoughtful ideas here and there. Each character has a unique personality; we find kindness, but also envy; there's community sense, but also a lot of selfishness. The final part of the story seems like a metaphor for our real world. There’s a clear message in this game. Something to do with life outside and the searching for a meaningful journey. A simple message and still very important. One that we all need. I caught myself taking screenshots several times as if I was highlighting the text. The game is not hard. Actually, it often requires a move you know how to do, but you're not used to. So it requires some kind of a “click” in the mind and then you realize what it’s about or how to figure that out. How much your mind's up to accept it defines how long it will take to solve it. It saves the best puzzle for the final path imo. But I wish I could have 1 more beast fight between the last one and the ending. Anyway… I really enjoyed it!

Great game! Love that the puzzles involves moving tiles around in the world to solve. It’s a fun mechanic!

It's a good time! The puzzle gameplay feels much more intuitive than I expected. Only gets difficult with optional puzzles for the most part. Great sound design and pleasant music. The world/lore are more intriguing than the story itself, but it's not like the story sucks. Fun characters and art style.

Loved the game, great story and art! The puzzle mechanics were explored well, and it never got too hard (in fact, it could have gotten a little bit more challenging for me). Perhaps there's some optional puzzles I'll have a look at. Overall the game is pretty short, but that's not a bad thing. This way, the puzzle mechanic doesn't overstay its welcome :-)

A cute puzzler with a great hand-drawn style and a really solid gimmick to pitch, but it doesn't do enough with its mechanics to stay compelling for terribly long. I think it might work better as an arcade style game rather than a straightforward adventure, making the puzzles into short contained levels and keeping the dialogue to a minimum to let the mechanics speak for themselves, or even a dungeon crawler that makes each floor into its own puzzle. There's a lot of room for this to tighten up and fit into a more focused experience, and I hope the idea is explored more someday!

https://youtu.be/KXuQZ79_Gv8 Color and splashed with humor this take on sliding block puzzles is a delightful refresh of a classic mechanic.

An incredibly cute adventure/puzzle game that makes consistent new use of mechanics and has plenty of optional puzzles for those that want to try their hand. I'm absolutely charmed by this game, it delivers on the promise of the trailer and more.

Fun puzzles!

Enjoyed it a lot, very refreshing puzzles!