Leave a Review Creaks
Captivating
This game really pulls me into its world with it’s fantastic sound design and detailed artwork. The best types of games are the ones that you start playing, lose track of time, and find yourself wondering how 2 hours went by when it seemed like 5 minutes.
Creaks is definitely one of those games, and despite its relatively simple gameplay, it does a good job of adding onto concepts that the player is familiar with, and increasing the complexity of its puzzles along the way so that the player isn’t disengaged.
There is a very interesting world to explore here, and I love the concept of using “furniture monsters” as enemies, so that the player can also use them as platforms to reach previously inaccessible areas when they are “docile”. A lot of wordless world-building goes on too, when the player encounters set-pieces of bigger monsters on the outside of the mysterious house the game takes place in, affecting the landscape around them. It provides a good reason for the player to keep exploring the house, wondering what will await them around the next corner. Another fantastic addition to Apple Arcade!Show lessL8rG8r400
Good difficulty level of puzzles (bug?)
I think this is a really fun game if you just wanna sit down and do a bunch of puzzles, with some light world building peppered in. Trouble is, with no hint system, I’ve hit a puzzle that I can’t work out (3rd puzzle of the tower with the bird head,) so now I guess I’ll just stop playing. Plus, since many new Apple Arcade games have been released with bugs, I can’t tell if its that I can’t figure the level out, or if it truly is impossible. (You lure the robot dog to the pressure button, but then when you sneak behind him on the ladder, he *always* notices you and runs off the button, and you can’t run fast enough to solve the puzzle and escape.)Show lessorange amaranth
I really wanted to like this game.
I don’t usually write reviews but this game was such a let down. It seemed to have all the right ingredients. A new puzzle based game with great graphics. Unfortunately after 45 minutes of just climbing up and down ladders running from robot dogs I had to stop. The game is not fun and is actually frustrating. I really don’t know where this game is going but had to stop. The graphics and sound are great. But my advice to the game developers is pick up the pace and have something halfway decent happen early on to prevent boredom of climbing up and down ladders and switching on lights. Or at least some sort of story line that hooks you and makes you want to figure out what’s going on like the storyline in Neversong.Show lessBucksw
