Fossil Hunters

Fossil Hunters is an action-puzzle game where you explore underground levels with your trusty pickaxe at the ready to clear away sand and dirt, hopefully unearthing fossil pieces which you can then assemble into complete skeletons. By dragging the fossil pieces around and aligning them to a grid, you unlock the elevator to the next level - and any extra completed fossils mean kaching kaching for you! The game has a lighthearted adventure feel, with hidden secrets, environmental hazards, and no pressure from enemies or timers -just very cosy, satisfying exploration and the freedom to make a looooooooooooong fossil if you want to. And I did. I usually play with keyboard and mouse, and I have to honestly say that the controls are quite hard to grasp when playing that way. The game is developed with a gamepad in mind, and since you can't remap controls, the game is genuinely unplayable without a controller. X and Z aren't the best buttons to hard-map primary and secondary actions to, especially if you have to hold X and then use WASD to move around dragging items. So I dusted off my golden PS4 controller, took an embarrassingly long time to get my game sound to come through my headset instead of my controller's speaker, and got to playing. And boy, am I glad I did! There’s something addictive about running around, dusting off pieces of dead dinosaur and puzzling them together into their true shape or some other monstrocity. Is it respectful to the dinosaur? Probably not, but what is it going to do about it? I’ve encountered a few weird quirks and bugs in my short time playing, such as - I must have mispressed something and suddenly there was a player two! Only that was me… using my keyboard. Another time, a sound effect got stuck, looping through a clicking sound indefinitely, which was fixed with a reload, so nothing game breaking, just annoying. All in all, I had a lot of fun digging around and dragging about some fossils! Another addition to my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45179128-lydocia/]cute, cosy and quirky[/url] curator page.