A Way Back Reviews

Great stuff. No complaints.

sooo adorable ❤️🐧💙💛

Pros [list] [*]Chilling music [*]I discovered a new genre -- socoban [*]Playing as an adorable penguin. Cuteness exploiting? Not at all -- if penguin gets replaced with something else the game wouldn't get worse [*]Penguin with ukrainian flag -- is game set on Vernadsky Research Base? [/list] Cons [list] [*]Not found yet [/list] Summary: I'm not a fan of ecology and such other things, but this game is enjoyable for me. I could write this comment in ukrainian, but I want to spread this game further. Post your review if you have this game -- make the last one more popular.

Nicely made small sokoban with a penguin theme. 40 levels without much filler. Undo, reset, level select all in good order. There are different kinds of trash that you have to kick to the right bins in a frozen landscape. The ice in this game doesn't have a slide mechanic, instead it breaks after one use. I found this less frustrating than similar ice based games where your blocks slide all over the place. Here they just move one space when you kick them. Good little puzzle if you like sokoban. Also the satisfaction of cleaning up the landscape. Warning for achievement hunters, there was one achievement for getting stuck in a corner that I couldn't seem to trigger.

Nice little sokoban puzzle game with cute art. You play as an adorable penguin cleaning up trash by kicking them into trash bins. I consider the core mechanic of the game to be this subtle trash-kicking mechanic which doesn't mean much on its own, but comes into play when used in conjunction with the sub-mechanics you encounter such as differently-shaped trash that needs to go into bins that match their shape or thin ice tiles that break once something that moves on top of them leaves them. The mechanics are nothing special compared to some other sokoban-style games, but the puzzles are still decent and it was enjoyable to solve all 40 levels, even if they were a bit on the easy side and only took me 3 hours to complete. Regarding the pricing of the game, I do feel like it's more of a USD $5 game instead of a $7 one in terms of gameplay, given the relatively low number of levels and easy difficulty, and thus short playtime, but I would still consider the $7 price tag 'fair' as the game has pretty charming and clean art, though it's not exactly the best value for money, so you might want to wait for a sale. For comparison, Slidetracked, another minimalist puzzle game released just a month earlier than this game, only costs $5 while having more levels and more unique mechanics.

This is a small puzzle game from Ukrainian developers. Chilling soundtrack and cute penguin included. Puzzle seems to be easy, but quickly get pretty challenging. Find it pretty good to train your brain during holiday season.