Sokocat - Islands

A great sokoban game that can give a really good challenge in the later levels. The "Islands" in this game refers to the micro scale puzzles that are separated by level height and distance, requiring strategic use of platforms and rafts to traverse. This is quite a clever setup, as (in my opinion) the best sokoban puzzles are those in tight, restricted environments, giving the player enough logical space to reverse engineer the solution from the ending positions. A minor annoyance with this game is the inability to recall the last couple of moves. Because of the physics of this game, blocks can be pushed off the island to drop them to a lower level. Often, this is used to great effect by considering where is the best place to drop a block to accomplish the goals of the puzzle on a different level. The problem, however, is that sometimes you can accidentally push the block off when you don't intend to, or even push it off the puzzle map altogether and into the water, forcing a complete restart of the stage. At this point, the multi-puzzle nature of each stage works against itself, as you now have to redo all the previously accomplished puzzles in the same stage to get back to where you left off. Accidentally pushing blocks into the wrong place or off into the water can occur regularly due to the rotating camera. Oftentimes you will need to pan around the puzzle to see the different levels and trigger points. At diagonal viewpoints though, the control gets a bit iffy, and "forward" is no longer necessarily the same button (All this could have been solved by using the number pad keys, allowing 8 directions of movement that would have made it very clear what direction you were moving). There's also the odd bit where the game causes my laptop to really heat up. I'm not sure what computations the game is running, but it really should not be heating up as much as a graphics heavy FPS or RTS game. All that said, Sokocat Islands has some great puzzles inside, and I've enjoyed my time playing them. Highly recommended!

Its a simple, but solid game with a good challenge. Has a relaxing vibe, but with only one music for all the levels, it can become a little monotonous when stuck in a level after several retries. One thing the game is missing is a [i]undo last move[/i] button. Even if it was a limited resource, like once per level, it would be helpfull for the clumsy players like me who whants to move to one direction but press the wrong button.

Si vous avez aimer le jeu Catherine キャサリン, Kyasarin je suis certain que vous appréciez ce genre. Relaxant mais stimulant intellectuellement.

Fun, little, block pushing puzzle game. Very cute graphics. Had a decent amount of really challenging puzzles(at least for me). There's a help system that will show you how to get through each level, in case you get stuck(or just want to play for the achievements, I guess), and I had to use it twice for hints, and twice when I got really stuck. Would definitely recommend! 100% in about 9 hours. (Doable in less than an hour using the help function, but I don't see why you'd play this in the first place then.)

This game is fun, well, sometimes I get mad because it's a little hard, but I like playing it! It makes me think outside the box!

※2025年8月追記：アップデートが来てリマスターされたそうなので久々に起動したら、GPU負荷がずいぶん減ってファンがフル回転しなくなった。旧バージョンの最大の不満点が改善されたので、赤から青評価に変えておく。フルスクリーンとウィンドウモードの切り替えに関しては相変わらず挙動がおかしいが、モニタの解像度を勝手に変える系統のフルスクリーンではないのでまだ我慢できる。操作も改善された気がするし、猫の姿も旧版よりは見えるようになった気がする（どちらに関しても旧版の事を正確には覚えていないので曖昧な書き方になってしまうが）。 ゲームはちょっとギミックが付いた倉庫番。斜め上からのビューなので猫の姿が見えにくいし鳴き声も無い。斜め上からのせいで時々操作方向がわからなくなる。猫は海に落ちないがブロックは落ちる。 オプション周りの動作が安定しない。ウィンドウにしても勝手にフルスクリーンに戻るから腹が立つ。小さなゲームなのにGPU負荷が大きくてGPUファンがブン回るので長時間やる気がしない（これが一番嫌な欠点）。安い動物ゲームにはめったな事では赤評価を付けないがこれに関しては不満が多いので赤にした。

高難易度のパズルゲーム 操作キャラがかわいい猫なので購入。 ゲームはブロックをすべての赤マスに移動する簡単なルール。 ステージが進むと昇降リフトや移動足場が出てくる。 グラフィックやBGMでゆるいゲームかと思いきや、割と早い段階で難易度の上昇に気づく。 ステージには起伏や複数の島もあり、よく考えて動かないとすぐ詰んでしまう。 それでもリスタートは一瞬でできるし、１ステージがそれほど広くないのでストレスは感じない。 自力でクリアできないステージも、ヒント機能を使えばクリアできる。 値段も激安なのでおすすめ。