Map Map - A Game About Maps

A game about maps was probably a questionable choice for someone who can get lost in front of their own house xD Map Map - A Game About Maps is a charming little indie game. Although for me personally, it definitely wasn't as relaxing as it first appeared. You explore 20 different islands, searching for hidden treasures, marking specific locations on your map, and sometimes even putting entire pieces of an island back where they belong. There's also a cute little story with lovely characters surrounding the search for a great treasure. At first, I really enjoyed simply exploring the islands and solving the smaller puzzles. It was cozy, satisfying, and exactly what I expected. Then the game slowly decided that orientation was a skill I should apparently possess. Later areas give you fewer obvious landmarks and require you to rely much more on clues and your own sense of direction. I understand that's the whole point of the game, but especially in the swamp, the strange paths eventually turned my peaceful exploration into complete confusion. That said, I still recommend it. I had a lot of fun with the parkour challenges, the game works well, and I can absolutely see why people who enjoy navigation and puzzle-solving will love it. It simply stopped matching my personal taste after a while and I can't really blame the game for that. If you enjoy puzzles, exploration, and testing your sense of direction, you'll probably have a great time. Unfortunately, I can get confused after turning around once in front of my own house... so maybe a game about maps wasn't my smartest decision ^^

A cozy and surprisingly math-y game about drawing maps and plotting things on said maps. The game drip-feeds you tools as you travel from island to island. You are essentially forced to learn the basics of triangulation, by eye-balling and measuring distance by frolicking, before you're inevitably rewarded with tools that ease the burden. Every new tool is a blessing, and is (of course) given to you right at the moment where your current tools (or lack thereof) are being pushed to their most frustratingly limited limit. The game doesn't hold you hand in any way - you are just presented with a problem and some tools, and it's up to you to figure out how to utilize them. And, if you care about precision, it gets difficult pretty fast. The graphics are simple and functional, and I appreciate that. I don't much care for the story, especially because it doesn't make a whole lot of sense WHY you have to plot the things you do on a map. Why do your crewmates need you to find a thing (that they've most of the time clearly already found themselves) and plot it on a map? And how does that somehow help you figure out where the next island is? I really dig the mechanics, but the narrative hasn't really presented me with a convincing reason as to why I need to do cartography. Map Map is yet another game that successfully takes a - on the surface - rather boring-sounding occupation and shows the simple joys of it. Despite my small grievances, I really do enjoy it. The game is quite new, so there are some QoL missing that I really hope they will fix soon: - The drawing compass is incredibly annoying to center. Why can't it just spin around the tip-end? I really don't understand the logic behind this decision. - Furthermore, rotating the drawing compass is also weirdly stuttering, and it's often difficult to get a precise angle. - A one-size eraser is just really annoying when you have lots of detail. - I REALLY(!!) need an eraser that only removes graphite, but keeps the ink intact. It feels maddening that I can't do sketches and calculations on the map without risking ruining what I've already drawn. - I kinda wish I could ctrl+z, but I get that it doesn't make sense in-universe. But, man, it would ease my headache when I inevitably rotate the compass and accidentally draw a line through the entire thing... Soooo much time in this game is spent on circumventing these small annoyances. It's essentially a game about PRECISION, but the tools are just so needlessly janky and frustrating that it sours the experience.

Petit jeu de "course d'orientation" : une ile avec une carte très réduite, un objectif à marquer et c'est parti. On compte ses pas, s'oriente par rapport aux caractéristiques reconnaissable et on essaye vaguement de retrouver où on est. Il ne renversera pas votre quotidien, mais il fait ce qu'il fait bien. Il y a un petit ventre mou avec la zone du marais qui m'a un peu moins amusé, mais ça reste une bonne petite découverte.

Map Map is a wonderful cartography puzzle game that is nothing short of engaging all the way through. Each level provides you with new tools, tougher islands to map, and interesting mechanics that really push your ingenuity and sense of direction to the limit. You're simply given a set of cartography tools, thrown onto an island, and asked to figure it out. I am thoroughly impressed by how the game is able to continually innovate and present new challenges throughout its entire runtime. Quite frankly, I'm surprised I can't think of too many more games like it. Maybe a few quality of life things would help, and some puzzles are trickier than others, but this is an easy recommendation for anyone who likes cute, charming, and challenging puzzle games. I could easily see them making an Obra-Dinn-level game in the future, and I eagerly await their next work.

Esse jogo é legal, no sentido que ele se propõe, confesso que a primeira vez que vi sobre esse jogo, achei que teriamos muito mais elementos de cartografia do que realmente temos nesse jogo. Então isso me decepcionou um pouco Também o jogo não é recompensador em suas side quests, que é desenterrar baús, é até legal achar uma pista de baú e veriifcar aonde exatamente ele está, mas a recompensa por si só é achar, adicionar marcadores num geral não é bem recompensador, seria legal de fato achar algo, ter alguma curiosidade sobre o mundo do jogo ou alguma carta, qualquer coisa nesse sentido O jogo entrega o que ele promete, mas não vai muito além disso, mesmo pra um cozy game, ele vai deixar aquele gosto de que poderia ter algo a mais Recomendo jogar o jogo, mas informo que o sentimento de querer jogar passa um pouco rapido demais Jogo leve deve rodar em qualquer PC, jogo bonitinho, se puder usar a expressão diria que é "fofo", é bem feito e tem um carinho por tras, facil de aprender a jogar, e recomendo muito para crianças mais novas (5-8 anos) que estão começando a jogar agora, é bom exercita o ingles rs

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I love calipers.

Magnifique, j'ai adoré, je conseille, allez-y les yeux fermés, jeu super chill sur la cartographie et les trésors en accompagnement, une histoire sur l'amitié super choupi (friction + réconciliation). point bonus pour l'intonation des voix super bien travaillés.