Bofkin Island 2 Steam Charts & Stats

[h2]Good puzzles in a bloated and creatively bankrupt world[/h2] Remember The Witness island, which was shrunken to the point there was close to none empty space left? This game is the opposite, it is an island that is too big for the real substance it does have, with relatively big chunks of virtually empty land. Which is a problem, because you will be running around a lot, gathering clues for puzzles scattered around the map. The puzzles are admittedly decent, and not easy at all, but everything else just blows frankly. As I said, the world design is just uninspired, I have seen 15 year olds making better designed worlds on Roblox. Very few landmarks, no eyecandy, no interconnected pathways across regions or different biomes/areas. It is one continuous landmass, you can go from any point A to any point B in a straight line. Can't pin/stamp locations on the map, which could have been super useful. There is this weird photography system shoehorned into the game, where you can 'capture' the Bofkin creatures, which you can sell at the shop to buy upgrades and keys to unlock chests with further clues. The money making meta is running Bofkin bounties and delivering letters between the same 3 NPCs with 2 lines of dialogue. This is very bland and boring imho. Either flesh it out properly, or cut it, but this progression system just doesn't work and reminds me of the most basic Roblox games. This whole “catch ‘em all” system is just a side activity that is not integrated into the puzzling aspect of the game at all, they seem to exist side-by-side, which might be the reason for the bloated island. If you want to make a pokemon game, make a pokemon game. If you want to make a puzzle game, make a puzzle game. If you want to do an innovative fusion, you better do a damn good job. On the technical side, the game runs good, and there is no jank with the movement. I gave this game a fair shot, progressed into the game significantly, but had to DNF, bc simply the games remarkably unremarkable design couldn't hold my interest.