Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory

The Good: -Good pacing in game. -Actually makes you think (in some levels). The Bad: -Difficulty curve is uneven, many levels are just too easy and others are more difficult all of a sudden. -Short, not a lot of variation.

Grabbed this because it was - A) on sale, and B) dropped trading cards. Seemed like an easy way to use up steam funds and break even. But wow, the gameplay actually takes some lateral thinking to get around the puzzles in the game! It's very casual compared to platformers like vvvvv, 140, or spelunky, but this game takes a simple mechanic of tiles changing as you move past them, and works with it to create an interesting, curious, yet fun and laid back puzzle platformer. Well worth the $1.74 it's currently selling for in the November sale. Check it out!

A puzzle platformer with weak puzzles and obnoxious platforming mechanics. Altering the map around you sounds neat but quickly becomes tedious. The annoying platforming side of the game feels wrong and the graphics look kind of stretched in full screen. Overall this puzzle game is too rough for me to enjoy.

Short puzzle platform game. The puzzles are simpler than, let's say, Toki Tori, yet you'll struggle with some stages. You can beat it in 3~4 hours, but if you're going for all 20 achievements it will take you a lot more. The "no dying in a whole world" achievements are a pain in the ass. It's innovative, definitely a blow of fresh air to the platform video game genre. Cute and colorful, this game is for everyone. The music is decent, but the credits theme/music video (which you can watch on the store page) is very nice! Some people are experiencing problems with cutscenes not playing on full-screen mode. To fix it, go to options, switch to windowed mode, and switch back to full-screen mode.

This game is great for kids, especially by: -Difficulty: A good challenge for novice players. -Graphics: They're animated, basic and cute. -History: It's simple but entertaining and enjoyable. -Levels: Cool, colorful and funny. I want a sequel of this great game, I love it so much and I describe it as a 10/10 :3 Thanks Turtle Cream for this <3

A lot of indie developers torpedo their platformer by making it too hard, but making a game too easy can ruin it as well. There's nothing wrong with easy games on their own, they just need something more to keep players hooked since the challenge isn't going to be carrying the weight. Sugar Cube definitely tries with its mix of clever puzzle mechanics, but never really puts forth anything to keep you playing. And considering you can clear the whole thing out in an hour, it's really hard to suggest it for more than just an afternoon diversion. You play a suspendered little sugar cube man intent on escaping the candy factory before being processed into something edible. This means platforming through 90 screens of blocks, traps, and switches to reach freedom. There's a very standard assortment of spikes, springs, conveyors, and monsters to make your way around, split across five areas which keep mechanics compartmentalized. At the end of each area is a boss that you don't fight, you just skirt past to get to the exit. It's exactly what you do in every level, get to the exit, only with a bigger monster. All of this is old hat for the puzzle platform genre, so to sweeten the deal the developers added a flipping mechanic. Every level is set against a grid of tiles which your cube guy flips as he passes. Flipping tiles can reveal new platforms, new switches, new spikes, or disappear any of them. This puts an extra layer of strategy over every move you make, because you might only get one shot at a platform before you flip it away. Levels take advantage of this with platforms to ascend with sequential flipping or mazes of solid blocks to flip paths through. Later into the game you'll also find items that let you flip the entire level at once. It's a clever twist, but not one used to the fullest. A lot of levels simply come down to jumping on platforms in the right order or finding the one section of wall you can flip open to pass. Each screen is small enough that the solution is pretty obvious simply for lack of options in the space provided. There's also a button you can hold to NOT flip tiles you pass, which shuts down a huge number of threats you could present via flipping. Honestly a lot of levels can be waltzed through in seconds if you just remember that button exists. There are no puzzles here that I would consider brain-bending at all, and even the special collectibles (few that there are) are trivial to pick up on your way to the solution. I'm a sucker for cute games and Sugar Cube is definitely adorable, but the art style is basic in a way I don't really appreciate. It's all plain shapes with no details or shading which makes it look like a cheap Flash game, and the noticeable lack of animation frames on everything doesn't help in the least. There are some pretty glaring technical issues as well, like cutscenes not playing in fullscreen and the game straight-up crashing if you alt-tab away. If you bother to stick with this one it'll only last you an hour or so anyway, so between the lack of challenge and the rough edges, I don't see much reason to sample this little morsel. Did you enjoy this review? I certainly hope so, and I certainly hope you'll check out more of them at https://goldplatedgames.com/ or on my [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/audish#curation]curation page[/url]!

An extraordinarily goofy puzzle platformer. I honestly liked many of the puzzles, but it was a relatively limited game in terms of controls, none of the puzzles were all that difficult (except for when you had to time running under bosses) and several of them seemed like I cheated past 2/3 of the puzzle, and the graphics were more weird than good. On the other hand, the story and cutscenes are sure something. I'm almost tempted to give it a thumbs up for trying to tell a serious story about the suffering of your average, everyday sugar cube, but in the end it comes down to it being a little on the mediocre side and only 90 minutes long for the $7 price point. Do watch the cutscenes on YouTube or something, though, if the thing I said about the story amuses you.

Ниочем. Удалил с акка несколько лет назад, и вот мне это опять выдали. Спасибо, я уже сгонял на толкан.