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All of the critically acclaimed puzzle games seem to be sokobans. I have no idea why sokoban is so popular; I find it very tedious to move blocks around manuall
by rjh29 6mo ago
All of the critically acclaimed puzzle games seem to be sokobans. I have no idea why sokoban is so popular; I find it very tedious to move blocks around manually, especially if I already know the solution and I'm just making it happen. For me games like Artisan of Glimmith, LOK Digital, Tiling Town and Lingo are the most fun, followed by deductive games like The Roottrees Are Dead and The Case of the Golden Idol.
- airforce1 6mo agoThis one is critically acclaimed and is not a sokoban: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/oo/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/oo/
- Jtarii 6mo ago>All of the critically acclaimed puzzle games seem to be sokobans Wouldn't really agree considering: Antichamber, The Witness, Talos Principle, Manifold Garden, Portal, Zachtronics, Tunic, Blue Prince, Return of the Obra Dinn, Seance of Blake Manor, a bunch more I could list.
- acbart 6mo agoTunic is such an incredible experience. If you ever enjoyed the original Zelda and its manual, you simply must play tunic. It captures something incredible. And it has some amazing twists.
- ozonhulliet 6mo agoBut it's hardly what I would consider a puzzle game.
- loopmonster 6mo agoYou could consider it a jigsaw puzzle game.
- sunrunner 6mo agoI'd say it's either an action-adventure game with some mystery, or a mystery game with some action-adventure, depending on the player.
- a13o 6mo agoTV has the “puzzle box” genre and this is a much better fit for what Tunic is
- frgturpwd 6mo agoExactly, I am quite surprised by this thread. I always thought sokobans were just one of the niches of puzzle games (one that I am not quite a fan of, to be honest... I find it just okay.)
- cvoss 6mo agoA good sokoban should not be busy-work. Well designed puzzles should be pithy and not require a lot of running around. The distance between discovering the solution and executing it should be very short.
- GuB-42 6mo agoThat must be a specific niche. I enjoy puzzle games and the only sokoban game I can think of is Baba Is You. Though many games, including games that are not primarily puzzle games have a sokoban-like puzzle at some point. The puzzle game that reaped all the rewards this year is Blue Prince, it has its sokoban moment, but as a whole it is definitely not a sokoban game.
- rjh29 6mo agoStephen's Sausage Roll, Can of Wormholes, Patrick's Parabox, A Monster's Expedition (and spin-offs), Baba is You, Void Stranger, Isles of Sea and Sky, Maxwell's Puzzling Demon. All of these are highly reknowned. By "critically acclaimed games" I should clarify I mean games acclaimed for their mechanics and general mind blowingness. For whatever reason sokoban enables some crazy logic stuff that is harder to find in other puzzle games.
- ericdykstra 6mo agoThe Artisan of Glimmith is so good! Biggest surprise of the year for me so far.
- rjh29 6mo agoAbsolutely! Really good value too, thousands of puzzles.
- jareklupinski 6mo ago> I find it very tedious to move blocks around manually, especially if I already know the solution and I'm just making it happen thinking about how calvin's dad would explain every video game is either sokoban, or chess