Arctictopia Reviews

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Stop the ecocide.

Sadly cant get pass lvl 1 on MacOs :< Edit: After recent update I can play on Mac.

There is no planet B. A cute casual winter puzzler with adorable art. Highly recommended!

Very good casual puzzle game. Interesting mechanics, especially the later ones which can work in unexpected ways. Your goal is to get mama bear to her cub, but in some levels you have the optional challenge of 'visiting' your puffin or seal friend by hopping onto the ice pad they are sitting on. Some levels have both friends present, while others only have either one of them. If you visit your friends while successfully solving the level, you get rewarded with badges bearing their likeness which are shown attached to the level icon on the level-select screen. You need a set number of badges to unlock the later areas of the map. One interesting thing to note is that while it is always possible to visit both friends in a single attempt, You can still get both badges by visiting each in a separate attempt. There will be no distinction shown on the level-select screen, though I wished there was some indicator that showed whether you collected both badges in one go or separately, as it is obviously more challenging to collect them in one go. As a seasoned puzzle game player, the overall difficulty was easy enough for a smooth and relaxing experience, but still challenging enough to make me think a bit. Some of the trickier levels took me multiple tries and had me scratching my head, but they never stumped me enough to put the game down for long. There are 150 levels in total which took me a bit over 7 hours to complete. While the game was originally released on mobile, this PC port is well done. It has full keyboard controls, though it would have been nice if you could use your mouse for the menus. It also has QoL features such as an unlimited undo function and the option to speed up animations. The animations are smooth and pleasing to the eye, but I can understand some players wanting to just blitz through the puzzles. My only real complaints are that the Steam achievements still don't work and that the game doesn't have multiple save slots nor cloud saving, but these issues have nothing to do with gameplay itself. All things considered, the game is WELL worth $5. Update: Steam achievements are NOW WORKING!

This is a hidden gem among all the so-called indie games. Apart from being educative and reflective, this amazing game has brought me a lot of fun and the opportunity to "exercise my brain" to boost my brainpower. As a busy entrepreneur, I still want to find time to play this game.