Freshly Frosted Review | TheXboxHub

Easy sufficient to understand inside seconds, complicated sufficient to have you ever taking part in for hours on finish. Freshly Frosted is a scrumptious delight.

The puzzle scene is stuffed with choices. You’ve bought these video games which is able to decide you up and spit you out and not using a care on the earth, while others attempt to drag you in, solely to fail to land the addictive wants required.

Freshly Frosted is totally different. Delicately created, it’s a puzzler which is able to preserve you totally relaxed, as you go about making an attempt to resolve the exams put in entrance of you, immersed greater than you might ever think about by the tipping and tapping of a soundtrack which enhances the motion.

However let’s maintain up and get again to the place we must be. Freshly Frosted is an in-house creation of these from The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild. A sport during which you might be put in control of a donut manufacturing facility, it’s as much as you to create the conveyor belt techniques wanted to be able to preserve the manufacturing facility transferring and to fulfil all gross sales.

It begins merely, with an oven unit that throws out plain donuts (of assorted shapes as issues progress). Preliminary ranges could have you making a conveyor from that oven, on to a supply counter, whisking your candy sensations off to the neverland for the parents of the earth to get pleasure from.

From there, complexity is slowly filtered in. Machines are added that coat a glaze onto your treats, after which sprinkles, cream and even a cherry on high. Making a snake-like system which winds its means via every of the phases, passing the machines so as is your job. It could appear sophisticated, however the first few dozen phases that the QAG crew throw out actually are pretty easy. 

However then it ramps up. Duplication is available in, as does using single bits of the belt techniques to shift quite a lot of donuts; donuts ready in line for an area to be made. Machines that push donuts from one conveyor to the subsequent are then built-in, alongside path splitters, fastened conveyor techniques and extra. However removed from these ranges changing into irritating, they merely heighten the state of sticky flux that you’re in. Granted, a couple of of the 144 which might be out there develop into taxing affairs, however for probably the most half Freshly Frosted is a thoughtful puzzler. 

With the ability to skip puzzles helps alleviate any points, while a touch system must be utilised earlier than you ever get that far. Your finish aim is to finish a field of a dozen puzzles (or at the least, as close to as rattling it full) earlier than having the ability to transfer onto the subsequent, the place additional mechanisms and donut varieties are dropped in. It’s sophisticated by the truth that some supply counters will solely settle for particular donut varieties, with a operating whole of what’s wanted for this manufacturing facility to run impeccably all the time out there within the high left of your display. 

A gorgeously serene soundtrack hammers away with each beat of your donut machines, and an equally slight, softly spoken narrator quips as each stage performs out. Is any of that wanted? Probably not, because the puzzles that Freshly Frosted has as its spine are greater than sufficient to maintain anybody taking part in, nevertheless it’s all very good to have nonetheless.

Creating these lengthy snakes of conveyor belts is straightforward to do, with a straightforward to deal with maintain of the A button and motion of thumbstick or D-Pad, dropping items in place. Admittedly, issues can and do get complicated within the larger ranges, significantly when a number of donut varieties are utilizing the identical piece of monitor, as you hope to ship them across the manufacturing facility a number of occasions, however keep targeted and all of it simply appears to return collectively neatly. And when it doesn’t? Resetting all the board is a single button press away, or you possibly can amend particular person items of monitor simply as simply.

We’ve been taken in massively by the number of ranges present in Freshly Frosted, not often needing to name on the ‘Impatient Mode’ which helps push you thru the sport at pace. I suppose it may very well be identified that the soundtrack does get a tad samey after some time, and which will want to be muted after a couple of hours, however on the flip aspect, we’re sitting right here with our most interesting donut machines operating as we kind, nonetheless feeling each final beat.

A joyous puzzler that fortunately places you in a zen-like trance, Freshly Frosted is stunningly candy. When you think about the sheer variety of ranges and fairly low asking value, that is one which try to be taking a chew from pronto.

Freshly Frosted could be downloaded from the Xbox Retailer