GraviFire Reviews

Surprisingly tough and surprisingly good for the price

A masterpiece of puzzles. Well balanced game difficulty. I just love it.

GraviFire is a simple game, but it surprises by bringing interesting puzzles with good art and music. It's definitely worth it :)

Puzzle game with very interesting mechanics and charming pixel art. Game is a bit short, with only 50 levels. Difficulty isn't that hard, enough to make you think, but the lack of an undo button can get pretty annoying, and I feel that it adds some artificial difficulty, but the game is still pretty doable with patience. Having said that, it is pretty cheap, and is unique enough for me to be worth a buy.

Ah the feeling of a puzzle game pretty nice and thought out just like what your going to be doing with this game because it is a puzzle slider game which I find to be quite the blast and just a pro tip watch out for the lasers.

GraviFire is an interesting twist on block-pushing puzzlers, but its lack of undo is an absolute dealbreaker. The game's easy levels are irrelevant and forgettable, and the challenging ones often aren't fun because you can't try stuff out due to the flabbergasting lack of undo, combined with instant restart upon hitting obstacles like lasers. This gets genuinely frustrating in the later, bigger levels. Besides, the player character's movement speed is really slow, which is fine if you're solving the level for the first time but also gets frustrating when you're trying to re-tread known ground. Not every game needs undo; but this at least requires a design with no fail states. For instance, SNIKS didn't suffer as much from its lack of undo. Needless to say, GraviFire does not fulfill this requirement. The final 10-ish levels are more difficult than the earlier ones, but mostly by way of being huge, which is a very disappointing way of doing so T_T. There was even one level where I reached the final section, only to realize I'd have to either solve this section entirely mentally, or beat the level via "corpse runs" and restarting over and over; or I could look up the solution. I did that for a few levels which didn't look intrinsically difficult, just infuriating to solve without undo. The level progression is terrible. It's a linear progression, i.e. you only ever unlock one new level, combined with a hacky "skip level" button (which has a limited number of uses and doesn't recharge). To make matters worse, that "skip level" button treats the level as beaten, so if you want to eventually beat all levels yourself, you have to manually remember which levels you've skipped?_? Plus manually navigating between levels is a pain which requires 5+ button clicks. If this game had an undo feature, including undo past level reset, I might have recommended it. As-is? Not a chance.

GraviFire is a simple, straightforward puzzle game with entertaining soundtrack and cool visual. It's challenging, especially on high levels. Well worth its small price and good for players who are just a little bored of everything else.