Recent reviews by Vakola

If you enjoyed Zachtronics games, this will be another comfortable and enjoyable logic/puzzle game, with a nice story layer on top for context. Overall it's a fun experience, with the player being taken deeper into the complexity at a perfect pace.

My only complaint is that the story feels unfinished, the game feels like it stops just when things are getting good. I would have liked to see more complex puzzles after the current end of the game, and a more concrete conclusion to the story. It feels like the last couple of chapters got cut on the way to ship the game.

A wonderfully organic city-builder, where you are challenged and rewarded for creative designs and building layouts. A really enjoyable, relaxed experience.

If you played the original, this one is a monumentally more polished, accessible and fun version, with lots of new stuff added on.

If you like logistics games like factorio/satisfactory, this offers all the complexity but a far more rapid an easy to use building/rebuilding/erasing system, making the whole experience a joy to mess with.

Either way, strongly recommend! :D

Solid and enjoyable tower defence game. If you enjoy these sorts of games it's worth a look.

This is game design theory distilled down to an extremely pure, fun and addictive form. While on it's face it looks like a poker game, it quickly becomes a far deeper exploration and reconstruction of the mechanics of poker and deck building.

An absolutely fantastic city builder / management game, with a very engaging vertical building focus that I haven't seen anywhere else.

I can only hope this game improves, but as it stands, it's not worth playing. The central mechanic of body swapping doesn't really add much, and the overall gameplay is dull and uninspired.

Add to that a lot of strange choices, such as matchmaking being entirely aborted if someone doesn't choose their equipment before a timer runs out, disbanding the match and kicking you back to the long matchmaking queue. This may seem like an edge case, but given the long matchmaking times, it's likely someone is going to be AFK when a match is finally made, so even when you do make a match, it's a roll of the dice whether it's aborted or not.

And when you do finally get into the game, it's a counterstrike clone with a different paint job. Only one game mode, plant the bomb, nothing that leans into making interesting use of the body-swapping mechanic to really make their gameplay stand out.

Utterly charming, playful and overflowing with character. This is an experienced packed full of creativity, imagination, and most importantly a whole lot of humour.

If you're a fan of City builders/management games, or logistics/transport games, but you want them to have a staggering level of depth, detail and control over every element, then this game is for you. :)

Damned awesome gameplay and a live service game that is fun, well designed and respectful of the player.