The Court Of Wanderers

good

Brilliant puzzle game that strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and challenge.

You indeed never know what you will find behind each door in this game. It is surprising how open this game becomes after the intro puzzles, in an very interesting way. The mechanics are simple, but their combinations will unravel your brain's potential in some puzzles. I am a bit deep into it so far, still, new combinations and mechanics still surprise me. The way the mechanics interact with the terrain, and how the terrain interacts with each other and with gravity is a lot of fun and can lead to some clever secrets.

A lovely sokoban game! It follows the usual model of having one primary mechanic (rectangles that rotate around activation squares) and a small number of supporting objects that have complex emergent interactions. The game's hub worlds each contains a few lobbies, each with several puzzles loosely themed around similar kind of object interactions. There are also sometimes small puzzles embedded directly within the lobbies. I found the puzzles very crisp and clever! Compared to other sokobans, I'd say this game is light on arranging objects in tight spaces; the focus is on configuring movable objects so that they can rotate to the right place, and on setting up unusual and interesting interactions. I'd say the puzzles are about medium difficulty. I like the simple but readable art style. The verticality of the design stands out to me; the puzzles and hub areas often have objects at different heights, and many of the puzzles involve climbing up or back down again. I still have some late-game puzzles to finish! Reviewing now to boost the game during the current thinky game showcase. Would definitely recommend!

Definitely a harder (but not unreasonable) sokoban. It's a little rough around the edges, but the clever puzzles more than make up for it.

fantastic game!

Great puzzle game with some mechanics capable of ballooning in complexity with seemingly-simple setups. This one does get very challenging at the end. Often times, the hardest part isn't reaching the goal, but doing so in a way that lets you make your way back out of the level. I did end up caving to look up a couple solutions in the end, though the solutions ended up being perfectly fair within the established mechanics. Overall, this definitely holds its own among the Thinky Games universe.