Duckthing's Rolling Rooms

Cute & short, each puzzle is a nice quick bite. Not sure if there's a snappy genre name for the type of puzzle platformer where you rotate rooms 90 degrees at a time, but this is one of them. Combine platforming with room rotation to deliver your character to the goal, which becomes more difficult as some stages remove guard rails from the edges and you risk falling into the abyss. Each zone introduces a different mechanic twist, such as locked doors that require you to push a key block up against it, pressure-plate switches that only work in 1 orientation, and jelly blocks that are stuck to a surface but can be pushed left and right when that surface is horizontal. It's a puzzle game foremost. While platforming is part of the equation, it's pretty mild. It's not a twitchy high-motor-skill, fast-reaction-time action game, so if you like puzzles but you're worried about landing your jumps, you'll probably be fine. I initially tried to play with controller, because it really seems like that type of game, but the only controller I had handy was a PS4 pad and most of the inputs weren't recognized (PS4 is hit or miss on Steam so I'm used to it) and the keyboard button prompts remained on screen, so I ended up playing on keyboard after all. I'm not sure if there's support for other controllers. The game has undo states (inexplicably mapped to the "9" number row key), but despite the tile-based design of the stages, you move freely around stages rather than having discrete "moves" that the character or objects snap to, and so I found some of the undo actions disorienting enough that I just restarted the whole stage (which is fine, because they're small enough that it didn't feel like a lot of lost progress). Also on the subject of tile-based stages, I had several occasions where I needed to push a block into a position and then slip through a vertical opening between the block and a wall, but found that the block was just a few pixels too close to the wall (or similarly, stacking two blocks slightly misaligned and then "bumping my head" on the few pixels of overhang). These were minor frustrations and weren't particularly common, as much of the time you're moving blocks with the rotation mechanic, and falling blocks are necessarily made flush with the surface that they fall to. Ultimately my complaints are minor relative to my enjoyment of the rest of the game. Overall, it's pretty charming and fun. Teeth / 10