Helper Cat

Overall this game had some solid sokoban puzzles in it and it's a $1. I do feel that it needs some time on bug fixes and some specific puzzles require a little rework if the developer wants to turn it into a game with greater value. I will list the bugs I found at the end in spoilers formatting as they can be used to exploit the game. For puzzles needing a little rework, I thought the crate/button/gate mechanic was interesting however it was never implemented in an interesting manner. Usually they were all just where you needed them to be and the most obvious way to move the crate to the button was the correct method. Instead of inspiring creative thinking it just wasted time. The crates should be part of the puzzles and could be thought as almost the same as a potion but with a more obvious end goal of where it specifically belongs. I also believe that the crate and the button could have been introduced earlier in the game. The crate could've been implemented as a movable obstacle and the button can triggered by a potion sitting on it, so you work in that a potion is needed to get to another section to get other potions to complete the puzzle. The levels with multiple sets of puzzles lack continuity between the individual puzzles. They are basically just two separate levels that you have to complete back-to-back. The issue with this is that it makes experimentation take a lot longer as players have to solve the first puzzle repeatedly just to get to the second puzzle where they may have been struggling. This can be alleviated by either creating continuity between the two puzzles, making them separate levels all together, adding a checkpoint system, or an undo button. Bugs: Menu controls are a bit wonky where a mouse is required on the level select screen, but you have to use the keyboard on the main screen. [spoiler] I haven't been able to get it to trigger consistently but sometimes the level will be considered complete if a potion had moved through a box at one point. So I could move a potion through box a into box b, then put potions into blocks c and d, and the level would trigger as complete even though box a was empty. [/spoiler] [spoiler] Watching the credits acts as a trigger for completing the last level and this includes the credits on the main menu. So a player can unlock all levels just by looking at the credits. After this steam achievements acts pretty odd where just entering a level considers it completed. [/spoiler]