Chris Donlan finds creativity blooming even in the darkest dungeon of Buzz Monkey’s latest.
Dungeon crawlers are synonymous with brutality. Block Rogue, however - which takes out the loot, the monsters and the endless levelling and stuffs puzzles back in their place – is a decidedly sweet experience. It’s sweetness that shines through the quirky scraps of story and piecemeal encouragement you receive as you travel from one room to the next tackling the randomised challenges, and it’s sweetness that you glimpse in the pudgy, early Schulz-influenced face of Ilbin, the game’s football-headed hero, who’s determined to pick his way through the catacombs.
Pocket Gamer: Some day in the distant future, you will find yourself cleaning out your garden shed. Unwieldy boxes will fall and inanimate gardening tools will try to murder you.
But it's okay: you've trained all your life for this moment by playing reams of Sokoban games on your smartphone. One of which is the simple but effective Block Rogue.
AppSpy - If you're after a whole lot of puzzles to eat up your spare time, look no further than Block Rogue as it gives you more than just a checklist to complete.
148apps - Ahh, block pushing. Since the beginning of time, or at least the beginning of game development, whenever a game has wanted to say that it has puzzle elements, it has relied on the block pushing puzzle to add that to their feature list.
