Pushover is a clever little game. You control an ant and your aim is to push over all the dominoes. The dominoes may be moved (all except the trigger domino) or sometimes dropped. There are regular dominoes which simply falls over, other dominoes explodes, splits in two, vanishes, creates bridges, falls with delay and more. All these different dominoes makes the puzzles varied and, as you might have guessed, the difficulty on the levels range from easy to hard. Hurray! The trigger domino must be the last to fall. When you succeed you will receive a password and may continue to the next level. Visually Pushover features colourful early 90s VGA graphics. If you’re into that you’ll feel right at home here. The graphical themes in the levels change from time to time to keep things fresh. The animations are all right, nothing too fancy. The sound effects are simple and effective. They’re there without making a big deal out of it. Music is nice enough. Not fantastic but it doesn’t bother me either. If you do get tired of it, just blast up the stereo with some quality music. There is a time limit on the levels and I am normally not a fan of time limits. The fun in a puzzle game like this is solving the puzzle, not worrying whether you’re thinking and moving fast enough. But ok, it is what it is. If time runs out, the game lets you continue playing and once you’ve figured out what to do it’s only a matter of time of doing things fast enough. Another thing that I find a bit annoying is that there is a no way to skip the intro when you start the game. If you like your little grey cells to be challenged I have a feeling you might actually love this game. It’s a relaxing game (ok, can be frustrating if you’re completely stuck) and the kind of game you load up with a cup of coffee (or tea, or whatever you like) and have a go. Pushover is a great puzzle game. Highly recommended!
I never played this game back in the day but I remember looking at the reviews and advertisements in the computer magazines and thought it looked interesting. So when I had the chance X years later I decided it was time for me to finally check out The Humans. Every level is a puzzle where you must use the humans that you’ve been given for that specific level to accomplish a given mission. Often the goal of the level is to reach a specific location. Other times you need to kill dinosaurs or rescue people who’ve been captured by other humans. There are a couple of other tasks also in some of the levels. When you finish a level you are given a password. There are quite a lot of levels. As you’d expect from this kind of game the difficulty range from easy to very hard. If you do get stuck you could always check the Longplays on Youtube (I had to on to or three occations..). So when I finished what I thought was the final level another level was presented to me. Turns ot that the game also includes the add-on pack, called Insult to Injury, which consists of 80 new levels. Expect some challenges! The graphics in The Humans is pretty nice (the game came out in 1992). The music is quite enjoyable. It’s mostly cheerful and motivating. One thing that I miss in this game is an overview map, so you can check out parts of the level that you can’t see. This often leads to unnecessary mistakes and often that means starting the level from the beginning again. The game would also benefit from a little more variation in the gameplay, that’s the reason why I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 5. So basically this is a puzzle game with some action element. If that’s your kind of game give The Humans a try!
