CUBOTS The Origins

A nice casual game with mechanics that make you think twice.Needs a frame limiter though

This could have been a really good game, but the design is half-assed and the gameplay is shoehorned on top of a clunky (and completely unnecessary) physics engine. While I was playing, I was imagining all the ways the game could be made simpler, and how it would have been much better if the developer had held to a minimalist design philosophy and relied on simple rules rather than dumping the game on a physics engine and throwing everything out of alignment. Something with the aesthetic of a "retro" game. It turns out that the game I was imagining playing while playing this game, already exists. It's called Sokoban. I hate Sokoban. It's tedious and distinctly un-fun. It's not a genre I'm into. I do know the difference between a good and a bad sokoban game, however, and this game is definitely in the bad category. I didn't immediately realize this was a sokoban game, because of the lack of crates to push and the rather large play area, but no, really look at it. You're pushing around blocks and trying to avoid getting them "stuck". I know that's not a very good description, but if you know what a sokoban game is, then you sort of know what I'm talking about. I guess you could say that this game is a "sokoban-like" built on a crappy physics engine.