Explomania Reviews

Nice, relaxing game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GmHvfQRWow

good game and fun, but where is the workshop ? 7/10 (for the moment)

Annoying controls and glitches stopped me from being able to enjoy this. Seems like it would be a neat game if those issues were dealt with. However as it stands now, it's tedious to play to the point that I would say it's not even worth its cheap price.

[b]TL;DR: A tedious turkey with clunky controls.[/b] It's like [i]Crazy Machines[/i] with 1/10 the variety; graphics are bland, mouse/kb handling is abysmal. Fine-tuning your gadgets is fiddly and annoying. You cannot even press your mouse button to start/stop the simulation, you MUST use space. Seriously? I don't get it. You'd think any gamemaker who ever played games himself would at least get the controls right. Classics of the physics puzzle genre often had the additional fun/creative element of granting players the freedom to find their own wacky solutions that were not at all what the puzzle creator had originally intended, but still did the job. But to have that effect, such games offered a multitude of physical objects and contraptions (magnets, cannonballs, balloons, wind machines, batteries, water floaters, lasers, candles, ropes, scissors, weights...). This game does not even come close to that. Recommended? Hell no, because infinitely better games exist in the genre, and have existed for decades. Many old browser games (free of charge) can run rings around [i]Explomania[/i], despite running on the inferior (and now obsolete) Flash.

I do not understand all the negative reviews at all... The game is easy enough to navigate with the keyboard and mouse, it performs really well, and the puzzle are relaxing and not too complicated. How I could go wrong by buying this game for £0.57? I have no idea, but maybe some genius can explain that to me. For that kind of money it is really WORTH TO BUY a wee relaxing puzzle game.

Another game from pack. For this price is very good. Little but very funny

This is a fun little physics-based puzzler. It takes between 60 and 90 minutes to complete, and features some very chillled puzzle action. Getting the pads just right to finish the level can be done in a number of ways, and it's satisfying when you get it right. For £2, around 90 minutes of gameplay is about right. The game is actively being improved by the developers, and is just that little bit different that makes it a fresh challenge.

Seems ok but controls are not intuitive - can't easily delete objects, aiming tools sometimes works, sometimes doesnt. Music is decent but feels like a indie/kickstarter music. With a bit of improvement could be a great game. Graphics and sound effects are good.

Abandonware. Doesn't work. At level 11 a flying ball is required, but the flying ball doesn't fly. Looking at the forum page it looks like they introduced a bug in an update a few years ago and never fixed it.

It's similar to lemmings but with one ball and modificators. A like it! Nice graphics too. But sometimes works simulation little bit different.