Saturday Morning Gaming: Sizeable
I saw a cute little zen puzzle game called Sizeable. It looked cute and fun and relaxing. And, most importantly, it was 90% off… just a buck! I don’t need to know much more than “it’s a zen puzzle game” if it’s just a dollar. Sold!
So I got it and quickly found that the idea is that you’ve got a little diorama that you can spin around and manipulate. Here’s an early level:
See? You can spin it around 360 degrees.
And there is a bunch of stuff in the diorama that you fiddle with by making it bigger or smaller. Here’s what happens when you make the moon smaller:
See? The tide goes out.
And if you make the shipwreck at the bottom of the sea smaller, you reveal a battery.
And if you put the battery in the socket for the lighthouse, the lighthouse turns on.
You’re supposed to find three little columns to go to the next level but the level isn’t *DONE* until you also find the turtle hiding somewhere.
It’s not a hard puzzle game. I probably haven’t spent more than 5-10 minutes on any given level.
It’s just pleasant and zen and relaxing.
And only a buck.
So… what are you playing?
(Featured image is a screenshot from Sizeable’s shipwreck level.)
I’m playing a lot of Civ 7 right now. There are some legitimate complaints about the UI and the AI but honestly I think this is the best Civ on release since 4 at least.Report
Yeah, there are a lot of things I like about it… appreciate that the systems are simplified into big ‘chunks’ e.g. Food, Gold, Culture without the tiny micro-management of VI. I like Generals too.
But yeah, a lot of odd choices for the GUI and interface.
My meta-concerns are that while the systems are good and chunky (vs. micro management) we seem to have lost a connection between building things and feeling the improvement in the gameplay.
Plus, I don’t really feel like I’m in a race… so far I just build almost everything in a single age and try to hit the major objectives, best I can. Feels extremely plodding without any real meaningful choice or sacrifice or gamble.
Lastly… I *like* the ‘clean-up’ moving from age to age, but I really feel that they made a very, very bad decision forcing us to chose an entirely new CIV (wtf) for each age? The ‘correct’ approach here would have been to have you chose how you wanted to play Rome in the next era: MedRome1, MedRome2, MedRome3… and then Modern Rome has options depending on choices in Medieval Rome.
I feel like the last one is a pretty big miss… but so far the bigger issue is that on Average difficulty I just seem to plod along building all the buildings and not really needing to specialize or have a significant grand strategy.Report