Do you want trains? And delightful animation? And canines? And puzzles? And video video games? After all you do, which is why you’re going to love Railbound as a lot as I did.
Launched this week on PC, Mac, iOS and Android, Railbound is a puzzle sport that provides you a cute little practice separated from its cute little carriages, and asks you to get everybody reunited as shortly and cleanly as attainable. You, as a disembodied railway engineer, have to put a restricted variety of tracks in a means that not solely will get the carriages again to the practice, however extra importantly will get them there so as.
Railbounds’ trailer explains what I’m speaking about:
This sport is great. The puzzles are good and taxing, and ramp up in complexity at simply the correct pace, nevertheless it’s the presentation that units it aside. The trains don’t simply transfer, they lurch. You don’t simply put tracks down, they pop on touchdown. All the things is cute and enjoyable and has an actual sense of tangibility to it, as if we have been messing with a board sport, or a chunky kids’s toy.
There are over 150 levels to get by, most offered like a linear marketing campaign however some current as unlockable options to those. And it’s the timing factor to the puzzles that makes the distinction right here; merely getting the carriages attached is usually no massive deal, however getting them related in the correct sequence generally is a nightmare, requiring every kind of trial and error.
Fortunately issues by no means get actually irritating; it’s really easy to return a step or restart a puzzle, and every little thing is so vibrant and cheery and playful—helped by its laid-back soundtrack—that you may spend an age getting every little thing flawed however nonetheless feeling nothing however pleasure.
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Whereas the sport is “out” this week, there’s additionally much more content material coming later in 2022, with the builders promising “new worlds with a brand-new mechanic” (semaphores) together with “accessibility fixes, together with a colorblind mode”.
