Tunnet

Tunnet is a great little game about very basic networking principles and optimization. The atmosphere is creepy and enjoyable while not being outright horror. The game plays well and can play into the "must optimize" need like other factory games. It isn't long, but that's alright as the story ends when it should. Only problem is for ultra-wide. There's no aspect ratio correction and FOV options which means I have to play it in windowed mode. It's fine for traditional 16:9 monitors though.

At first I thought this would be another "work simulator" type game, but it's actually a delightful puzzle game, with some great retro esthetics. The final puzzle absolutely stumped me, it's such a tangled mess of wires. At times, the "horror" mechanics were grating, and I wanted to get back to expanding my network, but you can turn hostile monsters off in the settings if you want. The leaderboard is reminiscent of Zachtronics games, and you are encouraged to learn the tools and mechanics to improve your score (but there's no rush, and it pays to explore rather than obsess over optimization). By far the standout feature is the retro visual and sound design, it's a great example of the style.

It's a real slog with no payoff. You learn a whole automation system just to never be challenged on using it well, it's extremely repetitive both moment to moment and in terms of the kinds of environments you encounter, and the plot just kind of happens out of nowhere having nothing to do with what you've been doing in the gameplay. I wanted to go back and collect whatever achievements I missed, but in several areas I'm now being killed by something invisible for reasons I can't understand.

For the cost of a meal deal at Dunkin this game is worth it, it had me drawing out optimized sub net architectures and that was pretty fun. Personally though, I didn't love the game loop I found myself in. I feel like this game has a very strong core mechanic that should have been focused on more, because everything else just felt annoying to deal with when I just wanted to get back to making an optimized system. Still, very worth it if you have 8+ hours to kill and a notepad

This is such a gem of a little game and I find myself coming back to it regularly whenever I find myself looking for something to play but don't know what I want to play. As others have mentioned, the monsters and final boss are just kinda meh, but the actual networking aspect of the game is great. It's not so complicated like factorio where staring at it for too long will melt your brain, but not so easy that it's completely braindead. It finds a nice balance between the two and it even finds a way to where you can slap things together and make it work, or hyper optimize your network so that all packets are going where they need to go. If you're looking for an interesting game with light/medium puzzles with a hint of horror, it's absolutely well worth the asking price. To the dev, if you're reading this. I really hope you continue your work on this game. I'd love to see more endpoints, more POI's. I'd also love to see a dedicated light object not connected to the network, object snapping, and a final drill upgrade that lets you place flat metal surfaces and maybe even some unique tiles to help with organizing your network. I saw on your website that you're working on a new game as well and I'm looking forward to checking it out.

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You can set the monsters to friendly, or at least non-interactive. Comfy game, until it isn't. You can do a better job than [ISP NAME] in a fraction of the time and with an aggressively competitive rate of pay. Net traffic go brrr.