Recent reviews by techknight

Fun, short game with some clever mechanics. Came here after playing the excellent Strange Jigsaws. For the record, I cheated on the sliding puzzle because I despise sliding puzzles. :D

That was great! Excellent bit of brain-stretching fun.

Clever, creative, and fun. The game is full of small details that reward exploration. The feel of controlling a fly is great: I appreciated things like the "bounce" from colliding with an object.

Love the world-building and the audio. Clever blend of auto-typing and light terminal use.

Great concept! I had a good time clearing all of the puzzles. Most of them you'll get on the first try, but there are a few stumpers in there. I think I had the most fun with three-starring the last row of car puzzles. Also there are maybe too many pin-pulling puzzles for how easy most of them are?

The one thing that really stumped me was how players are meant to "properly" unlock the million coins achievement. By the time I'd three-star'd everything I was somewhere around 225k? 250k? There are bonus challenges but nothing substantial enough to merit continued play after that.

There's lots of wonderful footage showing the friendship between Alexey and Henk. The whole package is excellent. I don't mind the lack of NES and GB Tetris, as those are at least finally re-released via NSO.

However, it put Tetris Forever in a weird place, because on initial release, that NSO update hadn't happened yet and there was also no indication that additional material would be coming to TF. Now that we're post-NSO update and have a first TF content update, I think that puts the whole thing in better standing.

(Basically I think that the secrecy of these details before release may have hurt the initial launch of TF.)

My only complaint here is that having thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing, it leaves me wanting even more and deeper technical details, and behind-the-scenes footage. 😅

It would be nice also to get some additional weird games playable like Spectrum-HoloByte's Faces...tris III and Wordtris. It might also be worth digging in to the legacy of clones: surely the influence of 1997's TetriNET is worth at least a brief mention, regardless of being unauthorized?

It's great! Just a nice, chill puzzle game. I like this way to play over the previous Wilmot game, which got kind of stressful.

Great on Steam Deck, great for audiobooks. Very relaxing and satisfying.

Still have about 15 games left to try, but I've already added more than a dozen to my favourites. I love the idea of going through a pretend company's entire back catalogue, and UFO 50 executes that idea incredibly well. (About the only thing I'd want added in a sequel would be a timeline with fake documentary footage and design documents similar to Atari 50, etc)

I really, really appreciate a short, focused game filled with colour and character.