Taqoban Reviews

Unique and smooth groove tropical music with bongos and steel drum. I'm not usually big on puzzle games -- but this is really cool. You can move entire blocks of levels (each puzzle is made of 4 quadrants, and you can zoom out to move entire quadrants around)... so it's a puzzle inside of a puzzle. The game forces you to go through each of the 11 tutorial puzzles 3 X's (33 puzzles) before you can do normal play (Solo & Coop). It's easiest to go back to the menu after each tutorial and redo the same puzzle you just did, 3 X's (because it's fresh in your mind how you just did that puzzle). Depending on your puzzle solving abilities this may be 1-2 hours of game play. When I got to the 32nd and 33rd puzzle, it wasn't registering that I completed it -- despite this error, it did unlock "SOLO" and "COOP". This game would be quite difficult for children, but in COOP mode, there are two characters, and so the puzzles require strategizing together verbally, and it's WAY easier because one player can stay in a different quadrant and the teamwork is COOL! I was able to do Local Couch COOP with an Xbox Core Controller + an 8BitDo Pro 2. In conclusion, I feel this game is definitely worth $5! I am going to see what other games this developer has created.