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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 10.4 hrs on record
Posted: Mar 11 @ 10:41am
Updated: Mar 11 @ 10:44am
Product received for free

8/10

An excellent sokoban in which you don’t push boxes, but clouds made out of your… 100% organic oddly odorous outbursts.

What is it: A puzzle game in which you must eat all the food but avoid at all cost all the gaseous consequences of your ingurgitation. You’ve just been hired as a food critic by the mysterious Cornelius L., and your first assignment is sampling all the spicy tacos at La Pimenta Gastronomic Fair. But the thing is that your family suffers from an illness called Fartus Fartalis, eating spicy food makes you produce deadly gasses. Literally deadly! If you engulf anybody in your fatal fumes, they die! People die, flowers wilt, food rots, so you have to be careful and manage your flatulence to avoid all disasters. But lucky for you, through years of practice you’ve become a master airbender, you can wave your arms in such an intricate way as to be able to push around pockets of foul air without dispersing any unwanted smells. Can you waft your way through the entire exhibition without killing anyone (other than a few unlucky plants), and maybe even find love?

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The unique premise makes way for interesting mechanics. While in normal sokobans the goal is usually to put boxes on specific target spots, here the goal is to get the “boxes” out of the way, keeping them away from people and food. As gas, you can easily push multiple clouds at once, and you can even compact them into super stinkers. Each type of food makes its own type of gas pattern, with three foods to experiment with. Although not too many, the extra mechanics keep the game fresh for more than a hundred levels, with some really tricky puzzles near the end.

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Peppered throughout there are some dialog levels, adding more to the story, and there are a few different characters you will encounter on your journey, guards, luchadores, an old gardener, and a few ladies. Overall, it’s a well rounded game with unique mechanics, good puzzles, a funny story, good looks and sounds, ideal for those who want a little more in their puzzle games than just puzzle solving.

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How hard is it: Easy to moderately hard, ★★★☆☆. The levels are small enough that you’re never left to wander through a much too big solution space.

How long is it: 119 levels, 3-6 hours, with some optional levels. You can skip as many levels as you want, and you can unlock all the levels at once.

Level design: Great. Pretty unique levels, with humorous names that sometimes give you a clue, although a few of them are variations on the same theme with just a few items shifted.

Quality: Good enough. Unlimited undo, though not through restarts. Good level select. Progress reset. Basic controls, works with keyboard and controller. Lovely pixel graphics and music, and lots of foley sounds. A decent story, quite funny dialog. A few audio and video settings. No cloud saving yet, but the devs are working on it. Good achievements. Small, fast and responsive.

Worth the price: Yes.

Most positive aspect for me: Unique mechanics.

Most negative aspect for me: Too short, I need more!

What would make it better: Custom level editor and workshop support. Undo through restarts. Configurable controls. Cloud saving.

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2 Comments
robilar5500 Mar 12 @ 11:00am 
Being able to clear a crowd with flatulence would be a handy talent indeed. I appreciate that the game uses humor to its advantage.

Excellent review!
Two Clicks Mar 11 @ 12:38pm 
Genius concept. Though looks like a showcase than a complete game. Great review. :steamthumbsup: