Goblins and Grottos

A difficult, and sometimes frustrating puzzle game that rewards you for keeping with it At a glance, this seems like an action game, with the usual script flipped and you're playing as a bad guy. Though the premise stays true to that, it is decidedly NOT an action game. This is 100% a puzzle platformer, and a pretty unique one at that. You traverse through a series of dungeons in an MMO. Your goal is to chase down some pay to win jerk who killed your father. Along the way you encounter many locked doors, platforms, and traps. This leads to many hidden paths and goodies for those who don't want to just stick to the basic path. The big selling point of the journey is that you can kill other heroes along the way. Being a puzzle game, most of this will be via traps; opening trap doors into spike pits, dropping boulders on their heads, and so on. But there's room for creativity, such as making them chase you into a bit, occasionally getting grenades to throw at them, and even making the idiots kill one another. It's satisfying every time you pull it off. However, there's one really frustrating aspect of the game that seems to turn it off to many people: the physics. While the controls are pretty tight, sometimes things can get screwy, like being crushed by boxes you push, the hit box not registering on wall or chain grabs, or just the enemy AI going insane and ruining your traps. It's not game breaking by any stretch, but these frustrations DO hold back the fun sometimes. If you like puzzle platformers, and are looking for one with a bit more of an action undertone, this is the one for you. Just be aware the game physics WILL ♥♥♥♥ you off sometimes. But at least the devs pretty consistently update it.