Partial Control

[b] IT´S LIKE A TOP DOWN PUZZLE-ORIENTED SUPPER HOT [/b] This is an insanely interesting idea, it´s like a turn based combat puzzle game, and it lives or dies by it´s gameplay and game design, so let´s talk about it: You are a robot in a room with other robots that want to murder you (and each other) with the various devices and weapons lying around. To make things worse, you don´t have complete control over your character and can only give it one order at a time and have to wait until it completes it or someone else does something that forces you to change your plans. Other than that you can either hack the enemies brain for a short stun or move some things around, but these cost "energy" which is very limited. This has some interesting gameplay implications, you can´t just try to grab the nearest weapon and go to town, you are forced to consider the possibilities, realize what your enemies are going to grab, who they are targeting, and make a plan with that information, all...

Partial control was a surprisingly rich and refreshing experience. It's a tactical semi-turn based game where the goal is to keep your cyborg alive. The action in the game happens in real time, but pauses at specific moments to let you make limited modifications to the field, yourself and the enemy cyborgs. The graphics in this game have a simplistic cyberspace feeling to them which works well to give the game it's unique atmosphere but is otherwise unremarkable. Where this game really shines is in its gameplay. If you've played many tactical games, you will know that the solutions can sometimes feel a little bit scripted, you are expected to do certain things a certain way to beat each level. This was absolutely not the case for this game. It requires you to use a combination of chess-like prediction and creative problem solving which I don't think I've ever encountered in a game before this one. Every level can be tackled in many different ways while still remaining surprisingly...

I am totally in love with this game. Part puzzle, part turn-based. There is a lot of strategy involved to win every battle. Keep your robot alive by using items and eliminate the other robots. Try the free demo. You will not regret this (if you are into these kind of games). I believe there is even an endless mode.

awesome concept, cool theme, I'm loving it!

Partial control is a weird yet fascinating indie game, in which you play as a character who can only decide on their move in very specific moments (hence the name). In this review I want to address a few specific things about the game, I might make a more full review later on or not. [b]Gameplay[/b] In Partial Control, each room is a puzzle. But, not necessarily a puzzle in the traditional sense, where there's a clear cut solution- but rather... some sort of a strange, adaptive puzzle, where you come in with an assumption and might have to change your decisions according to what happens, or if you end up failing and trying again. I think this form of freeform puzzles can be alluring and interesting. However, it does have some shortcomings in that you can get "stuck" (with no solution anywhere in sight or the number of tries you have in the post-campaign mode). This is not an issue that is exclusive to this game, however, it's also something you can see with games like Into the Breac...

A unique tactical puzzle game. Many funny moments when unpredicted behaviors happen. Highly recommended.

The kind of a game I like to have in my collection for when I want something simple and unchallenging on an intellectual level. The gaming equivalent of a beer. Recco.