Seize a cup of tea, maybe a deal with or two and put aside an hour for Cat Pipes. You’ll come away all the higher for it, having taken in a calming little puzzler that, while a bit tough across the edges, nearly will get away with it. Largely due to a low asking worth.
Cat Pipes is a comfy, minimalistic puzzler during which you need to rotate quite a few pipe tiles with a purpose to feed your little feline buddies. Try this, creating pathways for that meals throughout some 45 ranges and also you’ll have accomplished every little thing on supply in Cat Pipes, earlier than stepping away, in all probability to overlook all about it from there on out.
There’s little doubt that Cat Pipes feels a bit tough – however that doesn’t imply you shouldn’t get your claws into this one. From the primary menu display screen you possibly can change off the sound results or music, and you’ll head on in to ‘Play’ the sport, working by 45 phases of pipe twisting. There’s additionally a ‘Tutorial’ obtainable from that menu. However, my god, does it fail to let you know something – actually something – in regards to the recreation, the mechanics, the controls or something of the like. I’d go as far to say that it feels damaged, however if you happen to sit there and click on by the weather a couple of occasions – notably after you’ve performed Cat Pipes – you might nearly perceive what it’s making an attempt to convey. A tutorial ought to set you up properly for what’s to return although, and this fails to do this on a number of ranges.
Fortunately you gained’t actually need to fret an excessive amount of in regards to the intricacies of Cat Pipes as a result of that is about as easy a puzzler as you’re more likely to get. Left to take a ‘pink’ supply tile, your job is to populate the remainder of the display screen with that color, creating pipe pathways with a purpose to feed quite a few cats, scattered throughout the land. A easy hit of the A button will twist a tile, counter-clockwise till it sits within the orientation you want. Join it as much as the tile subsequent to it, and proceed that pattern – that’s about all there’s to Cat Pipes.
Beginning off comparatively merely, not often does this one go anyplace close to mind-melting ranges. The closest we obtained to even having to restart a degree was that of Stage 17, with a display screen filled with tiles and pipes main to numerous routes. It’s about the one degree we spent quite a lot of minutes on too, powering by the remainder like there was no tomorrow. Even people who add in little portals fail to ever change into advanced; in truth, they really feel simpler as gaps imply that a number of routes are condensed down.
We loved it although. The calming visuals will be switched by quite a few hues if required, while the stress-free soundtrack bubbles away within the background. It’s all laid out properly sufficient too, and while often a few of the backgrounds appear to merge a bit an excessive amount of with the puzzles themselves, obscuring key tiles, for probably the most half, it’s all okay.
‘Okay’ is the important thing phrase right here, as a result of while all of it capabilities because it ought to – apart from that tutorial – there’s hardly a factor that would go mistaken with it. There’s not an oz. of fats on what has been created by Tribus Video games and Afil Video games, leaving you to chill with that tea and people treats, as you progress from one stage to the following, ticking off ranges, listening in on the ping of the Xbox achievements as they flood in.
Unusually although, it in all probability wasn’t till round that seventeenth stage during which I really started to grasp the whats and whys of Cat Pipes. After all, that tutorial could have lined these bases if it was higher geared up, however in a little bit of a quirk, it’s fairly tough to ever see these little cats that want feeding. Maybe it’s one other concern with setup, however lots of the phases really feel such as you’re simply shifting pipes in direction of clean areas, the cats hiding away, in all probability sleeping. We’d have killed for these little felines to be extra distinguished.
Other than that, Cat Pipes is a neat little puzzler that can enable you the prospect to whereas away an hour or so, a night maybe if you happen to get caught on the odd puzzle. However that’s about all you’re going to get from it. Is that sufficient to warrant a £4.19 asking worth? Fairly in all probability, and it’ll little doubt be cheaper than these treats you might be stuffing in your face as you play…