Tower of Nod

In a sea of indie roguelikes, this was the only one during next fest that actually caught my attention. It's fun, really unique, has a very high skill ceiling, etc. I haven't even beaten the first floor yet but given the cheap price and the sheer fun of the game I can definitely recommend it. Basically a cruel game of tetris where you need to create platforms for yourself to climb to the top of a room. You can earn...

6 found this helpful, 2024-10-28

Have you ever seen a tetris roguelike platformer before? I know I didn't. The mechanics are well implemented, and the game is more than challenging enough to force you to experiment with them and find solutions. It's what they call emergent gameplay. The infinite replayability probably isn't quite there, but there's plenty of stuff to discover to keep it interesting until the point of beating the game. With some...

3 found this helpful, 2024-10-29

This game is a unique mix of some very familiar and time tested mechanics: Tetris, platforming, and rouge-likes. It's a very lean game with little to no bloat, and it has a surprising amount of character/charm given the simple visual style. The game play is very dynamic and for lack of a better term, has a sort of emergent feel to it. By emergent I mean that mechanics often have a dual purpose and react as real...

2 found this helpful, 2024-12-03