(CriticalIndieGamer) Let’s face it, robots are awesome! What’s more, you can get them to do anything you want them to – so long as you have a strong set of robotics and programming skills, of course. As technology progresses we can buy robotic cooks, pets, and, if you are so inclined, you can even buy a “pleasure model” to keep you warm on lonely nights. But what happens to robots with slight irregularities or operating malfunctions, surely they don’t just destroy them or throw them away? Well, they do! Odd Bot Out puts you in the dinky metal shoes of one such robot that wasn’t tall enough to make the cut, but is hasn’t given up. You’ll lead your imperfect pal to freedom over 100 different levels and work together with a whole bunch of other broken machines that are in limbo below the robotics factory.
TouchArcade: One man, 1000+ design sketches and 1 years round the clock sweat and tears, has produced an intriguing puzzle platformer that's blown me away in terms of ingenuity and uniqueness. You can see why Apple chose to feature the game; the magic comes from the lego style constructions with blocks, characters and other objects. Each level is short and smart, providing just the objects you need to make it to the exit. Blocks and characters can be stuck together or pulled apart, and everything in game can be stacked on top of each other, or stuck to the side of other objects to increase their abilities and usefulness. It makes for varied solutions from fewer objects, requiring true problem solving skills.
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Odd Bod Out is a physics-based puzzle game with a simple enough goal ' get your bot to the room's exit. The exit leads to another room, of course, and you'll need to get to the exit for that one, too. And so it goes for a total of 100 rooms, until the little bot finally finds freedom. Freedom from what? Well, the bot is literally the odd bot out, rejected from a bot assembly line for being just a bit too short and unceremoniously kicked down into a pit to await recycling.
Proves that even in today’s world, more can always be done with less, with single focused design making it easy to jump right in – and out.
Full review by Grayson Hamilton on Popzara
