Puzzle Station 15th Anniversary Retro Release Reviews

KOTIJÄÄTELÖ NEVER FORGET <3

good memories.

Makes me miss my childhood, this was one of my favorite games. I still love the music :D

lapsuuden peli. tuli rassattua pienenä vidysti... jotta täyttää arvostelun kriteerit kirjotukseni niin voin todeta että peli on koukuttava ja pelin ulkonäkö saa aikaan tarpeen poksauttaa kaikki palikat! (ja suomalainen/5) My Childhood game. Spend many many hour with it.. But if i must say something about it: its very addictive, game's look gives you the need to destroy every block on screen. Also this is finnish game so it receives extra-credits from me.

Amazing. I remember seeing this a really long time ago. im really gald I they brought this to steam. this is a fun game. trust me you'll like it unless you're not good at puzzles.

Despite the short amount of hours poured into this game (admittedly it can take a few hours to 100% complete everything), it still holds a place of my childhood with PC games. While I have played the demo countless amount of times from RealNetworks' Demo Disc (which contained over 40 demos including Team Fortress Classic strangely enough). This game, along with the PC version of Lego Racers 1 and the other games featured on that disc (Aironix and Dweep to name a few) is what defined the late 90s to me. I was too young back then to have my mind blown away from the majority of First Person Shooters back then (eventually Half Life did came to mind when the PS2 version was featured as a demo). But as far as PC gaming went for me, this game was one of my favorites.

This is quite a bipolar game. On one hand the Arcade mode is all about high-octane-act-before-thinking action that dishes out heart attacks with inpunity. On the other hand the puzzle mode is chill af

A piece of Finnish game history from the 2000's. Originally sold through an ice cream truck. Interesting enough gameplay loop and fun VFX considering the times. Hard to say if it's worth 4€ or not, but it's a time capsule nonetheless.

------- ------- Possible-medical-fore-warning: There has been some reports + newer-reviews mentioning something about the "current-built" of this game "flickering" quite a alot on some of the machines. While this doesn't make this game unplayable (as of writing this), some people might experience nauseating or any similar effects. Personally, I do indeed see some consistent flickering. But I don't exprience any medical-side-effect, at least not yet. Technical-fore-words: It is fair to warn right away that this is indeed a very "as-it-is"-release of the originaly year-2000-build of this game, which is also mentined on one if the first pre-title-images. So there are no build-in tweakings in options-menu for windowed-mode, resolution-changes, or various other "modern" tweaking-options aside wheteher you want to turn of the sounds or not most importantly. That being said, you're going to get one of the least amount changes suffering re-releases on Steam, only chnage being that it works on (at least most of the ) moderm machines. You're also unfotunately forced to use another 3rd-party screen-capturing / shotting-software since due the age and un-modified nature of this game, the Steam-overlay won't be working (at least by default). -------------- -------------- As for the game itself, "Puzzle Station" is the non-product-placement "off-spring" of Ninai Games (before Detonium Interactive) of "Drop Mania" (which eventually was "remade" as "Super Drop Mania" for Gizmondo by "Fathammer"; then there's of couse the "Rampage Puzzle Attack"-variant also by "Ninai Games"). Like the title suggest, this "Drop Mania"-variant is much more puzzle-heavy for the most part. But considering the simplistic nature of the game-mechanics (link 4 or more of the same color-blocks to "poof"-them), I for one can forgive this even if sometimes I'd like to just watch pretty explosions "without thinking" (I.E. playing without swapping the blocks with Ctrl-button). So, is the game worth buying? Well, puzzle-game enthusiastics, especially those who are looking for some older titles, this is quite a good and solid one to their collection. That's pretty much all I can say about this game, for now. And who knows, maybe we'll see an actual new "Drop Mania"-game in future on PC. ---------------- ----------------