LumbearJack

Channel your inner Ted Kaczynski and declare war on industrial society! Destroy cars! Slap people! Blow up buildings! In Minecraft! I mean LumbearJack!

I like this theme, the game is just simple and FUN, similiar to Donut County. This game is great compable with pen-tablet, very satified and well made. You'll see the objects break alone the chop lines. Bear, chop, break aparts. No remap for keys.

Simply moving your character around feels like a chore, the chopping action to get rid of the garbage feels far to unforgiving and precise. I don't know, it feels like this game could have been great if the basics of moving and attacking actually felt good, maybe add some comedy into the game, and some good upbeat music. Unfortunately without these things the game just feels like a drag.

If they had stuck with the core of "bear bashes human garbage, cars and whatnot" with light puzzles when you help animals and they help you navigate levels in turn, it would have been great. But they had to put in terrible minigames every few levels. I gave up at the zoo tennis level where you're supposed to hit explosive balls to land at animal cages to break them, but the balls move incredibly slowly and it feels like you're constantly getting in your own way trying to figure out what damn angle or speed of approach is needed here. It's so badly made it doesn't feel solvable and I've only played for an hour. Otherwise, the presentation is great and the story is the kind of simplistic take that doesn't need dialog to work. If you're OK with a clunky game, get it at a deep discount for about 5€, but no more than that.

This adorable little game could easily be the entry point for anyone who has never played a video game in their life especially if they already are an environmentalist or someone in their life might want to turn them into one. The puzzles are never difficult and there is no penalty for taking your time it has no fail state and anything that you do need to do that requires timing you get infinite attempts. With this I'm referring to the minigames of tennis and golf. In both cases it's to move timed explosives from one place to the next. To get the only real criticisms out of the way early there is a slight input lag perhaps especially when it comes to the ax and other swinging which takes some getting used to at least, for the aforementioned parts. Turning the camera also feels slightly awkward and I think it would have been doable to simply program it to move as you do since this isn't really a game where the player gets that much out of moving it independently. If nothing else maybe there could have been a setting to toggle whether it moves when you do. Given the length you'll want to get this on sale. This is one of those cases where it could have had a longer lifespan if it featured a level designer complete with online sharing feature and maybe some difficulty settings. I don't think those would have been difficult to get in there, for example you could add a time limit to each level. Maybe you say that the player has to redo an entire level if they spend too many movements getting to the end. As it is this doesn't really have anything to offer for people who only play video games for a significant challenge. And I'm not saying that as a criticism because that clearly wasn't what they were going for just as a heads up. Everything in this is wonderfully cutesy. You're always helping and receiving assistance in return from other critters and it's hard not to get invested in completing a level when it starts with one of them in some form of distress or trouble.