Gentoo Rescue

Puzzle games of this sort have always caught my interest (Baba Is You, Can of Wormholes, Snakebird, ...), but I never committed to any of them enough to get very far. So, I haven't approached Gentoo Rescue with the knowing eye of a genre veteran, and I had to develop general "sokoban-style" skills in parallel to learning this game's particular systems. But for unrelated reasons, I [i]did[/i] commit to finishing this game, and I feel like it was an excellent pick for cutting my teeth on some more serious solving. This is specifically because the puzzles are tightly constrained. When approaching a puzzle, I almost never felt like I had a huge bucket of strategies to sort through. Rather, a lot of puzzles look pretty simple, and every time I got stuck it felt like I had tried all the moves that the engine would allow, only to finally discover and correct the one bad assumption I'd been working under. In that sense, I felt like the entire game was just a big, rolling tutorial, and every level was designed as a lesson laser-focused on exposing some specific wrong idea about its systems. At least, it felt that way until the post-game. Once I had really internalized all of the systems (I hesitate to say mastered..), there was still a steak dinner's worth of puzzles left to go, and approaching them with that fresh competence was my favorite part of the whole experience (and exactly the kind of fun I was looking for when I committed to this game in the first place). I focused on Gentoo Rescue for a couple months, and I think I've had my fill of challenging puzzle-gaming for a while. It first piqued my interest when I heard about it from a Thinky Games Youtube video in which the developer talks about using puzzle solvers as a development tool; I'm grateful I stumbled across it. Big, big ups to Mr. Jagriff for putting together a wonderful game. P.S. I want to give acknowledgement to the small handful of "gimmick" levels. A few (I think always optional) levels have a particularly easy solution but behave in a spectacular or quirky way, showcasing the engine's more dramatic capabilities. Usually the main challenge is reaching these levels in the first place, and they were always a sweet reward that put a smile on my face. So, special thanks for that.

Super fun and challenging puzzles.

庞大的关卡数、精妙的逻辑反推解密、恰到好处的提示、密集的Eureka Moment、平滑的难度曲线、逐步解开的知识锁、递归、关卡间的互通互联...... 难道它真的是完美的？

Beautifully crafted puzzle game. Many of the puzzles are optional and each has an interesting, unique idea at its core -- this plus the very tastefully implemented hint system make this a great choice for casual puzzlers. But for the puzzle sickos like myself there is also lots to love: countless interactions to discover, super difficult secret levels to find, and great end-game meta puzzle elements.

Very creative puzzles, a lot of depth, crazy endgame! Extremly underrated game. I really like the hint system, it keeps the game self contained (you don't need to google for help, the game itself helps you if you want), and they are not like "press left, right, Q, up", they instead make you think in the right direction "What must be the last move?" or "Where should the blue pengin be?" etc. I found all of the super hard puzzles to be entirelly optional, so the game can be pretty entry-level. But if you want to 100% you will need to solve some *reallly* hard puzzles, but these puzzles are usualy only accessble after beating "Replication" (the last "world"). Some spoiler details about the game: [spoiler] The idea of a journal of item and penguin interactions sounds crazy, but with the amount of stuff this game it's actually needed, specially for the endgame puzzles. Importing and exporting add insane amount of depth to the game, Extraction bent my mind in a really good way. [/spolier]

One of the best puzzle games I've ever played. The level designs are astonishingly tight. The game guides you into discovering all of its elements and their interactions, then has you put them together in so many interesting ways.

不是，从来没见过一个游戏的知识锁是靠猜的，并且没有任何引导（两个物品放同一个场景算是的话）。夸这个知识锁的电波是多跟作者同频