TASUKEMONO

$7.99

Release Date:: May 31, 2023
Developer:: Iigelsoft
Publisher:: Iigelsoft
Platforms:: Windows Mac

Strategy Indie Casual Family Sharing Single-player

About This Game

A new style "strategy-like" puzzle game!

"Tasukemono" is a turn-based puzzle game.
A blind girl lost in the forest is looking for her mother.
Control cute "humanized" animal characters and navigate a human girl to help finding her mother!
This game consists of short multiple stages. You can save and restart at any stage.
Simple and easy playing style. But you will encounter multiple obstacles and enemies and advancing deep into the forest is not a simple task!

How to play

Use the animals' "movement" and "skills" commands to guide the automatically moving girl to the goal. After setting the action of the animal, you can make everyone advances one step simultaneously by executing "advance time" command. You don't have to rush, think each animal's next action very carefully!
Your adventure begins with 2 friendly animals, "Irenu" (dog) and "Kuuma" (bear). As the stages progress, you will meet more unique characters. Become a friend with them, and help the girl together♪

Casual play style
Your progress is autosaved at the beginning of every stage, or you can also save manually during the puzzle mode. Want to retry the current stage? Of course you can do so anytime by selecting "Retry" in option menu!

Gallery
There's a gallery mode. By picking up a piece of paper hidden somewhere in the forest, you can unlock and see special graphics in the gallery mode.

Characters
There in the forest live cute animals and try to help the little human girl! Each has unique character and skills. Let's join the party and experience their adventure together! Be careful, though, not every animal loves human...

Notice
Mild pixel art bloodshed expressions are used. You can switch these expressions on/off from the option. If you turn it off, the bloody expressions are disabled and pop expressions are used instead. Please use it if you don't want see even slightest bloody expressions.

General info
Title: Tasukemono
Genre: Puzzle
Game engine: RPG Maker MV
Play time: 6 ~ 10 hours

Screenshots

User Reviews

Very Positive

13 user reviews

92%

Positive

User #264254 english

3 hrs at review

Recommended

short, simple but gorgeous puzzle game. it's not very difficult to get through but it does a solid job presenting its world and characters and its mechanics are fun to play with across its short run time.

User #516784 english

4 hrs at review

Recommended

A very cute pixel art puzzler, mixing turn based elements with problem solving-- kind of like a turn based Lemmings. You control a group of animals to guide a child to the level's exits. The pixel art is just absolutely vibrant and the characters are adorable-- a lot of maps have such detailed tilesets and their only purpose was for cutscenes which is crazy. Made in RPG Maker MV-- there are a few constraints that are there like things slowing down a bit while waiting for animations to conclude, for instance. The game does lose a bit of steam by the end but I don't regret the time I've spent with it at all. I loved the warm, fairytale-like story, with that dash of darkness sprinkled in. I hope to see more from this team in the future.