With Tiny Biomes, eastasiasoft and Double Mizzlee have introduced us a mild puzzler that’s higher at serving to you sit back than it’s at offering a problem. That may be OK generally, however this recreation nonetheless wanted a bit extra effort.
You possibly can see from the screenshots just about every thing you get with Tiny Biomes. It’s that mind teaser the place you must spin blocks so as to create a stream from a place to begin to an endpoint (or endpoints, as is usually the case right here).
You’ll usually see this as a mini-game in different puzzle adventures, or it will probably stand alone as an arcade motion recreation with a higher sense of urgency. Tiny Biomes asks the premise to face alone with out that urgency, and it solely does the job should you’re prepared to dive deeply into it.
The issue is that the final gameplay is just too simple. That path is already set, you simply must spin blocks to attach the tubes. You do that by choosing them and tapping A. Advance the stream block by block and also you’ll shortly attain the tip. Subsequent stage. There are three biomes to play by means of, every containing 50 puzzles. That creates an issue.
The start puzzles in every biome are far too simple. And by starting, I imply greater than the primary half of them. You possibly can simply work by means of 25+ puzzles in just some minutes with out coming near dropping a star score.
Issues get more difficult—and due to this fact enjoyable—because the block depend will increase. The extra you must spin, the higher the possibility you’ll ship the stream off within the flawed route. All puzzles can ultimately be solved with trial and error, however you’re judged by the quantity of strikes you’re taking to finish them.
So, nice. Issues obtained good on the finish of the forest biome. However once I moved on to a different, I used to be again to the ridiculously simple content material and a grind of about 30 ranges earlier than issues began to get enjoyable once more.
You possibly can bounce between the biomes at will, and I counsel you do this—5 or ten at a time, then a change in surroundings.
That’s a lesser downside, too. The totally different biomes incorporate totally different colours and obstacles, however the background and music stay the identical. It’s all nice sufficient—the mild animations and music create a calming environment—nevertheless it all will get fairly redundant fairly shortly.
And with no leaderboards or achievements past the already simple to acquire three-star score, there’s no actual incentive to maintain at it.
All that mentioned, I acknowledge there’s room for cozy puzzle video games like this. Generally mind teasers ought to do exactly that—tease, not overwhelm. At that, Tiny Biomes succeeds, and it does it for under $5.00. These on the lookout for a mild puzzler to loosen up with earlier than mattress will discover it right here, let’s simply hope it doesn’t take you lengthy to go to sleep.
