Dale Hardshovel HD

This review is going to focus more on the developer than on the game itself. I have been adding games to steam lately from older Indie Gala bundles and started noticing that I was getting duplicated keys for games from this developer. Noticing in several discussions for each of the games that others were having similar issues and posting about them, I decided to add the developer just to ask about the situation and what was going on. The developer actually accepted my friend request and I sent a message asking about why this was happening and with multiple games. They then removed me from their friend list with no contact or explanation what so ever. It seems to me the better way to address this would be to point the customer in the right direction to fix the issue or at least explain that it has been quite some time since the bundle was released, so we decided to shut off all inactivated keys. I wouldn't be happy with this answer but at least they would have given me some explanation. So I leave this review here with hopes it will save someone looking at this from creating a giveaway for these games only to find out the dev has shut down keys. I can tell you there were 3 games from 3 different Indie Gala bundles that all came back duplicated at this point. I'm not quite sure I understand why game developers would do this and then completely ignore the customer afterwards. They have to know we will stop buying games from them if they steal from us.

Very simple puzzle game, controled by only one input: swiping a finger across the screen

This is a real puzzle game. It is simple in mechanics, but some levels really make you think.

一款融合了消除的解谜游戏 玩法上是通过左右移动场景里的道具，以此将至少2个以上相同的道具相连后进行消除 当场景里的所有道具全部消除后即可通关 需要注意的是一些道具数量只剩下一个的话，是算作失败的 解谜难度不算太低，关卡也会逐渐引入新的玩法，比如一些移动的平台 游戏不贵，虽然质量确实不能说非常优秀，但也还算对得起价格

Interesting puzzle game, with simple mechanics and levels that really make you think.

The Dev seems to have abandoned their games and keeps selling to monetize from them without fixing their issues. Quite a profitable scam...

This is a simple puzzle game where you need to drag various objects to sit next to other objects, but unlike Bejewelled there's a set number of objects and the dragging must be done in set order to solve each puzzle and eliminate each "jewel". It's a tablet port and little effort has been made to make it fit properly on PC. It's fullscreen but the resolution is fixed. Lack of fitness for PC and lack of customizability makes this hard to recommend.

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같은 모양끼리 부딪히게 해서 없어지게 하는 퍼즐게임. 모양이 홀수로 있을 경우는 동시에 없애야 하므로 머리를 좀 써야되고 재미있는 퍼즐게임이라 생각했으나...57스테이지에서 움직여야 될 블록이 움직여지지 않아 클리어가 불가능. 모바일로도 있는 것 같은데 거기서는 잘 작동되는 듯 하다. 버그수정 요청도 했으나 개발자는 최근에 다른 게임을 만들었지만 이 게임에 대해서는 관심을 끊은듯...

The story is about Dale Hardshovel, an Australian archaeologist. While working in his study, he gets a visit from his daughter (Daisy). She has an old roll of papyrus that needs to be translated for her exhibition. The papyrus intrigues Dale, who then checks his archaeologist-network and discovers that the inscription is the belonging of an ancient brotherhood from Egypt. The only key to the translation is the mysterious Bloomstone. Now, the problem is that the secret is hidden in the Big Pyramid, guarded by Anubis, an ancient Egyption deity. Dale has to solve 100 puzzles and to collect all the missing pieces of the Bloomstone. He will discover that there is much more to the challenge when getting further on his quest. The aim of the game is to match items together to make them disappear. When all items are gone, you progress onto the next level. I tried it a few times and must say that it requires a lot of thinking and pondering to solve the puzzles. Fortunately there is a hint-system in place if you are really stuck. 🙂 Some of the more recently released match-three (and similar) games are easier than this one, but for those looking to twist their brains a bit, thinking of how to solve puzzles, this game is highly recommended. PS: Have played this game on another platform too (AmigaOS 4), so have played for more than apx. 2 hours as recorded here on Steam. ;-)