Ratico Puzzle Adventure

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 5/10[/url]. Sokoban, but viewed from a three dimensional perspective. It also has minor gameplay elaborations such as obstacles that you clear by eating them (just walking through them, really). It features full undo, but is otherwise quite spartan. The three dimensionality is not used to any advantage at all visually, and lacks any of the charm that hand drawn or pixel art would have provided. Also there are strange choices like you don’t immediately win the level after all the goal objects have been pushed to their destination, but you have to wait some actual wall clock time. Also the animation is super choppy and exaggerated so much it actually makes it somewhat hard to tell which direction you’re moving in. What a poor choice. I get the sense that someone put a decent amount of effort into this, but didn’t do anything to see how well it landed with other people. Also the interface for choosing levels is mystifying until you realize that everything has to be done by using the arrow keys and enter button. No mouse control, and not enough intuitive conventions or visual feedback. On one hand I certainly didn’t feel like playing this for more than 20 minutes. On the other hand it’s not objectively awful and there probably are some people who would like it, people who really love Sokoban I suppose. I’m giving it a thumbs up but I’m strongly wishing for a neutral option instead.