Containment: The Zombie Puzzler

It's a simple puzzle game and fun twist with zombies

Containment: The Zombie Puzzler - Short-lived Fun

Review:
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler offers a unique twist on the puzzle genre with its zombie-themed gameplay. However, my experience with the game left me wanting more, resulting in a lackluster 2/5 rating. While it provides a brief burst of entertainment, it quickly loses its appeal and fails to incentivize continued play.

One of the most disappointing aspects of Containment: The Zombie Puzzler is its short length. I managed to complete the entire game within a mere 30 minutes, which left me feeling unsatisfied and underwhelmed. The lack of content and depth prevented me from fully immersing myself in the game and exploring its potential.

Moreover, the game did not provide enough motivation for me to continue playing beyond the initial completion. The absence of compelling achievements or unlockables diminished the replay value significantly. It felt like there was no reason to invest more time into the game once the initial objective was achieved.

While the core puzzle mechanics in Containment: The Zombie Puzzler are engaging initially, they quickly become repetitive and lack the necessary complexity to keep players engaged in the long run. The lack of variety in puzzle types and the absence of new challenges hindered the overall experience. It failed to evolve and offer new surprises to keep me hooked.

Visually, Containment: The Zombie Puzzler adopts a simple and minimalist art style. While it may be appealing to some players, it does little to captivate or impress. The sound design is equally unremarkable, lacking the impact and immersion that could have enhanced the gameplay experience.

In conclusion, Containment: The Zombie Puzzler offers a brief burst of puzzle-solving fun but falls short in terms of content, replay value, and overall depth. Its short length and lack of incentive to continue playing hinder its potential for prolonged enjoyment. While it may serve as a casual distraction for a short while, it fails to provide a truly captivating and engaging experience.

Rating: ⭐⭐
Short-lived Puzzling: Containment: The Zombie Puzzler offers brief entertainment but lacks depth, replay value, and long-term engagement. It may serve as a momentary diversion but fails to provide a lasting and compelling gameplay experience.

Extremely fun puzzler with a good sense of humor. Takes a minute to get the hang of things (learning how to set up combos), but once you learn it and how to unlock all the different items, it becomes a FANTASTIC experience where you will be mowing down zombies

A small simple casual tile-matcher with peculiar janky mechanics, anti-humanistic narrative and stylish narration. Art-style is grubby, but it mostly works. Campaign being divided in chapters, which require you to go back to the main menu is unwarranted. Also you can't bring the options menu during the mission. To change the sound volume, for example.

The game works fine in UWS UHD Surround out of the box.

I need a sequel. This game, for a puzzle, can get in your head! The music builds as the zombies take over. This isn't a completely normal casual game... it is sooooooo good.

Containment is a great causal puzzler with solid gameplay , enough variation to keep it interesting and no "glitches/problems in my almost 15 hours of gameplay . Unlike bejewelled and similar " 3 in a row " puzzle games Containment uses the idea of surrounding zombie type pieces with the defenders of the city to defeat and clear the area/game round .

Speed is a major factor as zombies will infect your people taking away pieces you need to make plays . Add to this special attacks in the forms of destructible surrounding , devastating grenades , snipers , bomber runs as just a few of the ways to fight back the ever growing zombie hordes . This was a short , but fun game at it's sale price of $1.99 .

What a unique puzzle game. There’s bosses, there’s a variety of map areas, there’s an attempt at a story. The 4 different types of humans each have their own bonus feature you can use against zombies. You can even use objects in the environment to your advantage. And if you’re too slow then the zombies will start eating you. It’s all very interactive and fast paced. A fun game that I enjoyed more than I expected to.

8/10

Sophie’s Choice

Games are great, I love them all, from hard core strategy through to frantic FPS action, but if I had to pick my least favorite genre.... well... it’s like asking a parent who their least favorite child is, it’s not an easy question to answer and you’ll almost certainly get the generic “I love them all equally” reply.

That’s the easy way out; the problem is that it almost certainly isn’t true.


Gaming Bones

Deep down we know the answer, even if we don’t want to admit it to ourselves, but I’ll be brave, I’m going to take a stand for absolute honesty.

My least favourite genre is probably the puzzler, that’s not to say that I haven’t sunk plenty of hours into playing them over the years, but they just don’t grab me like other genres do.

They’re just too shallow, too casual, they’re fine for killing time on my phone or tablet during a commute but when I’m at home and looking for a gaming fix it’s rare that you’ll find me sitting in front of my PC playing Peggle or Tetris.

That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy puzzlers, but when I’ve got the gaming itch and enough time to indulge it properly, I like a little more meat on my gaming bones.


Monster Connoisseur

Monster movies are great; I love them all, from werewolves and vampires through to undersea kraken and outer space aliens, but if I had to pick my absolute favourite movie monster genre, it’d have to be zombies

I’ve exposed myself to so much zombie culture over the years that I can’t walk through a shopping centre or mall without thoughts of Dawn of the Dead playing through my mind.

Could the undead break through those glass doors? How long would the cakes and cookies in Starbucks stave off my hunger? Would I really be lucky enough to be in a mall when the zombie apocalypse strikes?

These are the sorts of questions that keep me up at night but rarely do I have the same thoughts about other supernatural beasties. If I’m out at night and there’s a full moon, I don’t check my pockets for silver bullets.
On the rare occasion that I’ve seen a bat, I don’t reach for the crucifix and the garlic.

Werewolves and Vampires don’t stalk my waking thoughts but zombies... the “what if” of the undead apocalypse is always there, shambling beneath the surface of my mind.... but enough of my problems...


Apathetic Fanatic

Seemingly random questions at the start of reviews are great, but why am I sharing my aversion to puzzle games and my unhealthy zombie obsession?
It’s because these particular personal preferences have presented me with a dilemma.
You see I’m about to play through a game called “Containment”, a zombie themed puzzler which means I should both love it and be completely disinterested at the same time...


Survival Flavour

Containment certainly takes an interesting twist on the puzzle genre, instead of having colourful gems, blocks, fruits etc. to play with, here your puzzle pieces are zombies and survivors.
The survivors themselves come in various different flavours from chainsaw wielding punks to gun toting cops.
Each level presents you with a block of these survivors and some zombies mixed in for good measure. If you do nothing the zombies will infect the survivors around them, turning them into zombies too!

This encourages you to play through quickly, spend too much time mulling over your decisions and your group of survivors will turn into a shambling horde, so expect some frantic and rushed decision making as you play.


Shuffle Around

The game mechanic itself is a fairly simple one, you swap the positions of the different survivors by clicking on them, and your goal is to reposition the survivors in such a way that a zombie is surrounded by the same survivor type.

So if you’ve got a zombie that already has a couple of redneck survivors standing next to it, you’d quickly want to scan the closest survivors for more rednecks, if there are some close by, you’d start clicking on them to slide them into position around the zombie.
As soon as our red necked buddies have the walker surrounded, they’ll take it down.
That’s one less to worry about, time to move on to the next.
It’s a simple rinse and repeat formula that makes this, like most other puzzle games, quick to learn, initially addictive but ultimately a little repetitive.


Touches

There are lots of nice touches in Containment.
Different survivors have different attack animations when they take down a zombie, it’s a fairly simple thing, but this variation really does add to the experience, you’ll find yourself looking forward to taking a zombie out with a group of survivors you haven’t “experienced” yet.

When you complete a level, instead of the screen fading to black then loading in the next challenge, the camera will move away from your last victory and rush through the city until it focuses on the next group of survivors waiting for your point and click salvation.


Migraine Free

With regards to the aesthetics, it’s refreshing to play a puzzler that isn’t all bright primary coloured eye candy and flashing lights.
Containment knows its setting and has a palette appropriate for its post apocalyptic theme.
Everything is pretty good looking too in its own top down, mostly static kind of way.


This isn’t just any puzzle game...

This is a refreshing entry into the genre and one which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would.
It avoids the migraine inducing bright cheeriness which infects most other puzzlers, it’s gritty, it gives a nice “end times” vibe and if you’re in the mood it can be genuinely fun to play.

Is it the sort of game that will make me want to rush through my working day to get back home and play?

No, puzzle games don’t do that for me, too shallow, remember, but it is a fun distraction in short bursts and one which I’ll definitely load up again.


This is a post apocalyptic puzzle game.

If puzzle "match up" games are your thing and you’re looking for something a little different in the genre, then Containment should fit the bill.
It’s a stylish, quick hit, post apocalyptic puzzler and there aren’t many games you can say that about!

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This is one of the first games I got on Steam, and the first one that I got achievement completion for, which has left it with a soft spot in my heart. It's an enjoyable game, and I would recommend it though it is not without its flaws.

The story isn't the best (though better than you might expect from an Indie puzzle game) and gameplay does get tedious pretty fast. There aren't many elements to the game, and after they're all introduced things do really slow down quite a bit. It doesn't really hold up to multiple playthroughs, but it is a lot of fun once.

If you like casual games, puzzles, killing zombies or are looking for an inexpensive game to hunt achievements in, this could very well be a good game for you.

If you like matching games and if you like zombies, then this game is for you. The premise is very simple but the gameplay is very fun. I love killing zombies, but sometimes I don't feel like running around to do it. This game is an interesting puzzler. I enjoy this as a casual game to rest my brain from all my all pointing and clicking :). There is a sense of urgency since the zombies can kill the survivors, turning them into zombies. With each map, the only soundtrack you get is a pulsing heart, which hightens the sense of "must kill them all before I have too few survivors!". Using certain survivors to kill zombies will cause loot to fall. You can have bio-suits, missiles, grenades, lightning bolts, and mystery items to help you fight. This game is worth the price and it is an enjoyable little game.

A very fun little puzzle game, though the difficulty is kind of all over the place. You will blow through 5 of em in no time, just to hit a wall for a few tries, just to blow through 5 more like nothing.

I wasnt expecting a lot when I picked it up and was pleasantly surprised. Not a very long game though, so pick it up on sale.

7.5/10
Decent little puzzler with an amusing bit of tale-telling to it. Not just the usual match 3 , the mechanic is about creating barriers of matching pieces. There are a good few item drops, which you keep between levels, adding to the tactical depth. Also there are a lot of environmental elements which you (or the enemy) can use. There are not too many levels, and each one seems to have been carefully hand-crafted, rather than just thrown together randomly. If you like puzzles, get it at 50% off, or cheaper.

Two words: I'm impressed. The object of this puzzle game is to surround zombies with a chain of similar survivors to eliminate them. If you don't act fast enough, the zombies will begin to infect others. You can earn weapons along the way to help you out (grenades, snipers, air strikes, etc.) and, believe it or not, there are boss monsters to fight. I have only two complaints. 1.) The board is a bit cluttered to look at sometimes, and I occasionally found that I had a hard time finding the missing link in my chains. 2.) The graphics aren't exactly state of the art. Those two things aside, I say that it's worth the $4.99 price tag.

Containment is a witty lil puzzler...... I like it more than most casual puzzle games, it is fun to kill zombies.. this game is better than solitare,battleship,monopoly,tetris,or any dumb game you play to kill 10 minutes... for 8$ i have to say, this was a cool idea and theres lots going on in later levels to make it a tough puzzle of doom.. 8/10

It's no secret that I love puzzle games and I have a soft spot in my heart for zombies. This combines them both. Straightforward game play mixed with a scaling difficulty and fun story made this very addictive, very quickly. Have completed the campaign, yet to tackle survival mode. Also a huge plus, VERY easy on my computer's memory so easy to play while multi-tasking.
Also like how you can leave in the middle of a level and come back to your last check point easily.

It's not your typical puzzle game, which is good since I'm not much on puzzle games. It starts a bit slow, and I was kind of confused on everything that was going on, and trying to match colors around zombies to "contain" them. At some point though, it all clicked and I got pretty good at it. You keep hoping for that next item drop to take out a row of zombies, or that next sniper bullet to stop contamination before it begins. Three Acts, five stages each, getting progressively more difficult and frantic as you go. Good graphics, great sound, and a puzzle concept that grows on you the more you play. You'll want to keep going just to finish the story. I give it a 5 out of 10 for game concept, and a solid 9 out of 10 for implentation of a unique concept.

Containment is a really, really short game, and since not much changes throughout, it will bore anyone who does not like arcade/puzzles like this. The final boss is aggravatingly random, though most of the game is just fine in that regard. Only worth $5 if you really like this type of game.

这不是一个3连消游戏，需要让相同的人把僵尸围起来才能把僵尸干掉，不用考虑步数，只要抓紧时间，刚开始节奏还比较慢，可以悠然自得的来布局，到后面僵尸吃人的速度可不是闹着玩的，道具和环境互动也很有意思，僵尸要杀，但是人类的牺牲有时候也是必须的，游戏居然还有杀掉5000个人这样的成就。。。据说是从iphone上移植的，怎么iphone上好游戏这么多啊。。。

Relaxing puzzler- with zombies. Containment, rather achieving containment is where the puzzle element comes into play, and once achieved, your selected players that are containing the zombie(s) are slaughtered in a variety of ways depending on which npc's contained. Special weapons drops are dropped and unique to each npc, for instance, soldiers will drop grendades. You can have up to 3 special weapons at a time and in later levels you can't get by without them.

The end of the game has a bug in the last chapter that's been reported and a patch is in the works for it. If you're into zombies and puzzles this game may appeal to you.

For this price you can't go wrong. But will it keep you interested the entire time ? No, it will not. The game can be finished in 2,5-3 hours, which is good value for this price, but halfway through you've seen pretty much the entire game already. It differs from other puzzle games in that you have to surround zombies to get rid of them instead of lining up stuff of the same color.
Also, it looks basic, there's no real story (obviously) and the sounds are minimal.
The gameplay is enjoyable for only a short period.
You might want to grab it when it's even cheaper, but that's for you to decide.

[Rating: 68/100]

Very cool puzzle game, great sound effects, graphics and gets challenging, if you love zombies and puzzle games this is a great combination of the 2 and at a price thats great value for money. 9/10