> be me, looking for a casual puzzle game
> stumble upon "Bob Came in Pieces" on Steam
> game's about Bob, spaceship crashes, parts everywhere 🚀
> sounds like fun, should be easy right? 🤔
> ohnope.avi
> start playing, puzzles involve reassembling your ship
> kinda like space LEGO but with physics 🛠️
> excitement turns to frustration real quick 😩
> controls feel like trying to thread a needle with boxing gloves 🥊
> physics overreact to every move, like a soap opera drama 📺
> ship reacts to every tiny adjustment like it's in zero gravity 🌌
> graphics and sound are decent, misleadingly promising 👍
> achievement hunter mode on, check achievements 🏆
> 80+ achievements, most have <2% completion rate 😲
> realize this is not just a game, it's a torment device for perfectionists 😖
> trying to get time-based achievements is like defusing a bomb with a sledgehammer 💣
> puzzles require building ship, supposed to be thoughtful 🧩
> more like throwing parts together and praying to the physics gods 🙏
> level 4, pull mechanic is introduced, absolute nightmare 😱
> objects either won't budge or fly off like they're late for a meeting 🚀
> mfw I spend more time fighting controls than solving puzzles 😑
> supposed to be relaxing, turns out to be a test of patience and sanity 😓
> get it in a bundle, felt like I overpaid 💸
> Ludosity usually makes good games, but this one’s a puzzling exception 🤨
> can’t recommend unless you enjoy pain 😵
> still haven't finished, probably never will 🚫
> Bob Came in Pieces? More like Bob Came in Frustrations 😤
> game is a good concept tragically lost in bad execution 🗑️
> not a bad game, not a good game, just not for me 🚷

Title: Pitch Meeting for "Bob Came in Pieces"

Producer: So you have new frustration for me?

Screenwriter: Yes, sir, I do. It’s about a spaceship named Bob that crashes and the player has to put him back together piece by piece.

Producer: Oh, puzzles! That sounds fun and interactive!

Screenwriter: Yeah, fun is a word you could use. Or you could use words like infuriating, bewildering, or why-the-heck-is-this-happening-to-me.

Producer: Oh, those are much less fun words.

Screenwriter: Yes, sir, they are. So the idea is, you control this spaceship, right? And you have to navigate through levels picking up pieces and solving physics-based puzzles.

Producer: Oh, physics puzzles are tight!

Screenwriter: Well, actually, they’re not tight at all. They’re extremely loose. It’s actually a massive inconvenience.

Producer: Oh really?

Screenwriter: Yeah, the controls make you feel like you're trying to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer while balancing on a greased-up bowling ball.

Producer: That does sound challenging.

Screenwriter: And every little adjustment you make to the ship sends you careening into the nearest wall or obstacle. It’s like the laws of physics just had a big old party and forgot to invite Bob.

Producer: So what's the deal with this Bob guy?

Screenwriter: Well, that's just it, he’s... a spaceship.

Producer: Oh, spaceships are tight!

Screenwriter: Sure, but this one can barely move straight. Players have to constantly tweak and rebuild Bob to get through levels designed by someone who clearly hates joy.

Producer: Hates joy, you say? Very profitable.

Screenwriter: Right, and there are also achievements, but they're so hard to get that it feels like the game is mocking you personally.

Producer: Mocking players is tight!

Screenwriter: I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about that tight thing.

Producer: Alright, let me get off of that thing.

Screenwriter: Anyway, there's also this pull beam that lets you move objects around, but it’s about as cooperative as a cat when it's bath time.

Producer: Oh, very cooperative!

Screenwriter: ...No, the opposite of that.

Producer: Oh, uncooperative. Got it. And how do we wrap up the game?

Screenwriter: Oh, unclear. Maybe with a screen that says, “Congratulations, you somehow managed to have fun,” followed by maniacal developer laughter.

Producer: Oh, developers laughing is tight! So what do you think the headline for this game will be?

Screenwriter: Something like, "Bob Came in Pieces: You Will Too."

Producer: Wow wow wow. Wow. Well, it certainly sounds like a game!

Screenwriter: Yeah, and it might as well happen.

Producer: Well, okay then. Let's make a game that's as frustrating as it is puzzling, because why make things easy when you can make them memorable?

Screenwriter: Whoops!

Producer: Whoopsie
Producer: Well, it sounds like a lot of fun! Honestly, it could really shake up the puzzle game genre!

Screenwriter: Absolutely, it's going to redefine frustration in gaming!

Producer: Wonderful, let’s ship it! Who doesn’t love a little challenge, right?

Headline: "Bob Came in Pieces: The Game That Left Players More Baffled Than Bob Himself"

System Of A Down - Chop Suey

Wake up (wake up)
Grab your mouse 🖱️ and fix up your spaceship 🚀
Hide the parts to face another level (hide the parts to face another-)
Why'd you leave the thrusters off the module? 🤔
Here you go, create another puzzle, you wanted to 🧩
Grab your mouse 🖱️ and fix up your spaceship, you wanted to 🚀
Hide the parts to face another level, you wanted to 🎮
Why'd you leave the thrusters off the module? You wanted to 🤔
I don't think you trust
In my physics-based puzzle frustration 😤
I sigh when gamers deserve to play 😢

Wake up (wake up)
Grab your mouse 🖱️ and fix up your spaceship 🚀
Hide the parts to face another (hide the parts to face another level)
Why'd you leave the thrusters off the module? 🤔
Here you go, create another puzzle, you wanted to 🧩
Grab your mouse 🖱️ and fix up your spaceship, you wanted to 🚀
Hide the parts to face another level, you wanted to 🎮
Why'd you leave the thrusters off the module? You wanted to 🤔
I don't think you trust
In my physics-based puzzle frustration 😤
I sigh when gamers deserve to play 😢
In my physics-based puzzle frustration
I sigh when gamers deserve to play 😢

Developer (developer) 🧑‍💻
Developer (developer) 🧑‍💻
Developer (developer) 🧑‍💻
Developer (developer) 🧑‍💻 (What is this a Steve Ballmer remix? /s)
Developer, into your hands I commend my high score 🎉
Developer, into your hands 🙌
Why have you frustrated me?
In your levels frustrated me 😫
In your physics frustrated me 😖
In your controls frustrated me 😡, oh
Trust in my physics-based puzzle frustration
I sigh when gamers deserve to play 😢
In my physics-based puzzle frustration
I sigh when gamers deserve to play 😢


In the quiet of cosmic expanses,
Bob floats, a jigsaw scattered in the infinite.
Each part, a fragment of a whole once soaring,
now a silent testament to brokenness in the dark.

Amid stars and void, he rebuilds,
piece by reluctant piece—
a metaphor for our own reassembling,
where we mend what life has torn apart.

Each component locks with a click,
echoing in the vast loneliness of space.
It’s a gentle reminder that wholeness
might just be a series of well-placed fragments.

As Bob drifts, piecing together his purpose,
we reflect on our own scattered selves.
Is identity merely gathered,
or is it something we craft with intent?

His journey, a slow dance of persistence and hope,
mirrors the struggles we face,
each victory a step toward understanding,
each failure, a lesson in resilience.

And as he nears completion, whole once more,
under the watchful eyes of distant suns,
one question lingers like a star’s dying light:

In gathering our pieces, do we find ourselves, or do we create something new?[/b]

feel so old I think I'm on kongregate

Controls are hard to get used to, sometimes only 2 things work at once. Some hidden pieces are impossible to find without a walkthrough.

Bob Came in Pieces is a simple cartoony 2D puzzle/platformer/physics/moon lander style game where you must navigate a moon-lander style vehicle across various platformer maze levels. The gimmick is that you can upgrade/modify your vehicle to add various thrusters and things.

The premise for the game is okay, and the game has support for 4K graphics and widescreen (although the game assets are fairly low resolution, at least they aren't retro pixel). Unfortunately the game maps PC gaming peripherals (HOTAS, Pedals, Racing Wheels etc) as if they are console peasant childrens toy gamepads. This makes the player move constantly in one direction and makes the game completely unplayable. There's no way to turn this off. The developer would have picked this up with basic testing on PC.

Because the game will be unplayable for many, I can't recommend it.

This is probably the worst game I've played in my entire gaming history spanning 20+ years. Firstly, the trigonometry and geometry calculations on particle collisions wasn't even done. The programming was done by a 5 year old with no beta testing what-so-ever. Frequent crashes, freeze ups and level resets. Frequent cases of the "ship" bouncing from one side of the map to another with no controller input. Cases of where the "ship" simply moves from one area to another, and I'm not even in the same room. Numerous instances where environment borders completely inhibit the movement of the "ship" forcing either reset of last "save" point or complete level reset. I'm happy to simply finish off the achievements and then followed by a complete uninstall. If I had some say, I would force the developer to refund the entire purchase of all copies of this game to all users and then promptly ban them for life from ever selling another product on Steam. Atrocious programming all round. Mathematics was not this developers "any" point.

A cute little game. Controls are a little ackward, and the gameplay is a little boring. It isn't totally bad. If you're looking for a cheap casual game, this is for you. If you're looking for a challenge or a exciting gameplay, just skip it.

Just an exact moblie port.

I think Ludosity is an amazing game company. All of there games are fun and enjoyable, has good mobile games and even the free games are really good especially Iji. There was only one game I haven’t played for a while which was the game in question, and.....It’s middling.

I’m just gonna talk about the gameplay since the graphics and story are fine. I’ll be honest, the gameplay was fine when it started, the controls were fine, the ship building was a good way to get people thinking about the puzzle and some of the later levels were pretty good. But there’s one mechanic that really bugged and really got me frustrated during my playtrough and that the pull mechanic. the object you are very either very stubborn to move or are so light that they get out of your grip. Now I doubt this would bother me if this was after later when you get better engines but you get this pretty early one and the first few levels you use it are so frustrating I wouldn’t blame anyone for giving up during level 4.

I like their games but I can’t recommend this game for everyone. If you like Physic puzzle, maybe you’ll enjoy it but approach with caution.

5/10

Tags: Sidescroll - Survival & Questing
Additional Tags Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: Proof of concept grade title. Not terrible not very entertaining either. No Xbox360 pad support lowers the value a lot. Outcompeted.

Review: A flawed little sidescroll exploration that does not fully support controllers. Ship can be navigated with pad but all menus and shortcuts for restart or accessing shops is keyboard. It has some resolution options and fullscreened correctly. It looks cute if a little basic and the sound design is pleasant. You navigate simple environments collect ship parts and mod your ship to leverage your ship and the engine's physics to solve the next series of puzzles to reach futher levels, unlock more parts, rinse and repeat. The ship floats around and the momentum makes it a little clumsy if charming to control, it definitely does not feel like a platformer. Game supplies a restart button because it is easy to get the little ship stuck. The story is extremely thin and quite frankly barely worth a mention at all. Entertainment value overall is a little dubious but it is not outright trash.

Note: This is a first impressions review to weed out titles that are obviously broken from the get go, it may not reflect the full quality or lack thereof, of this title.

Bob came in Pieces (Peace) is a small indie game based on gravity ând ingeniering, you have to create your robot, upgrade it to use it as an explorer like a platformer game, resolve gravity/static/mechanic problems. The concept is interesting on the paper but kinda boring in the game (for me).

• Gameplay: 4/10
  
• Graphics: 5/10
  
• Music: 5/10
  
• Story: 5/10