Princess Castle Quest

Not a bad game per se, but I also think it has enough weaknesses to justify both either a good or bad review and since i'm such an hipster I wanna leave the only negative review of this game so far. So what's the problem actually? The game itself does nothing innovative and I suppose that was never the main draw. It's basically just a collection of tons of different puzzles, you've seen in eons of 2D games. Mostly Sokoban based but the mechanics never hold back to not introduce any cliché of a puzzle that someone ever has done in a videogame before. Sometimes the different elements get combined, but often times they just introduce one (well known) concept after another and the execution of that... well it varies greatly depending on the level. My favorite idea was the inclusion of portals simply because they did it consistently throughout the game, you can push blocks through portals, there is an projectile weapon to create new ones, you can extend pistons indefinitely and since t...

This defines a Hidden gem. You won't see many puzzle games like this. The game has a good learning curve where you can learn each gimmick the game has to offer and then do the optional puzzles.