Dungeon Slime: Puzzle's Adventure Reviews

Recommended! The trailer explains the core mechanic of the game which is pretty simple. Goal is to get your slime through the very skinny exit. The only controls you have are 4 direction keys (or on your controller). Take all the time you need to figure out your next move. A couple more keys to restart or exit the level. There are a couple of mechanics introduced as you progress: sharp barriers/walls which instantly kill your slime if it touches them, movable blocks that slide until they hit a wall when your slime slams into them, buttons (onto which you can kick a movable block) that disables sharp barriers. There's no undo, which is probably fair because the levels aren't long if you know what you're doing. I say probably fair because adding an undo button would make the game too easy. The only frustration is if you die (by touching a sharp barrier) or get into an unwinnable situation later in a longer level, when you restart, you have to try to remember (or partially rethink through) the first (up 10-20 on longer levels) moves to get back to the place you at least thought was the last good state before you made a wrong move from which you couldn't recover from. There is a "hard" difficulty level which I did not test out, but adds a move limit counter but otherwise gives identical puzzles as "easy". I presume if you exceed the count before getting to the exit, you fail and have to restart the level. I decided at the outset that I didn't want to deal with that additional restriction so played all the levels on easy. It's not a long game. I believe just 21 levels if I recall. It took me 3.3 hours to complete on "easy". Achievements are unlocked as you progressively complete levels. So in that way I got all but one achievement, which is to complete the game on hard. Good enough for me! I think you have to complete a level in order to access the next level, but I did not try to skip any levels so I can't say for sure. Bottom line is this game is fun, challenging but not too difficult, cheap, and just the right length to not wear out it's welcome. I also thought the art and animations were top notch. I got this game at 60% off which was ridiculously cheap. It's worth it at full price. As soon as I completed Dungeon Slime, I saw there is a sequel, which seems to have more mechanics and fancier graphics. I immediately bought the sequel as it was at the same ridiculously low sale price.