Разработчик: Playrock Studios
Описание
Thanks for taking the time to check out the Steam store page page of ‘Ripple’, a minimalistic logic puzzle game.
Features
- There are over 50 unique levels to complete!
- Easy to learn, hard to master - are you the true Ripple master?
- People new to the puzzle genre, or seasoned puzzle veterans get their brain challenged.
Steam Features
- Steam Achievements, the game has 10 achievements.- Steam Trading Cards, the game features trading cards, emoticons and backgrounds.
Trading Cards
Emoticons
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.8 GHz / AMD Athlon XP 1800+
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce FX 5200 / ATI Radeon 9200
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
- Additional Notes: Needs a screen aspect ratio of 3:2 or higher
Отзывы пользователей
okish.
I played close to an hour of this and it isn't fun. Some of the cheap puzzle games on steam are actually quite good sometimes, and something I check out after a long day.
This is kind of dismal. Graphically, it looks OK. Kind of a slightly better mobile game, just with no dumb ads or IAPS. If Steam let you put ads in games, I bet some of these shovelware devs would try that too. Not to say this is the worst offender on Steam. There was an effort, just a lackluster one.
The goal is to make all the tiles blue, but there's not much puzzling going on. As others pointed out, brute force is possible. There's only 50 levels, and not much to come back to. If you want a much better alike puzzle game that's also cheap and has more content/replay value check out the Quell series or LYNE, both which effectively outclass this.
Even as a free game it wouldn't have worked.
Ripple is a 2D minimalist mobile-app like colour flipping puzzle game. Click on one square and the adjacent squares change colour to match. Click in just the right ways to change all the squares on the puzzle grid to the target colour, and congratulations! You just blew thousands on a gaming rig just so you can pretend it's an iPhone.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality vector art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the mediocre 2D visuals.
The game features extremely lazy, minimalist "art", of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.
The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.
This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).
Regardless, for all intents and purposes "Ripple" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Ripple has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is for completing the 10 easy/tutorial levels in the game, very trivial to accomplish, and only around 4 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show only 4 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. The game doesn't demonstrate any true popular appeal with gamers, most likely due to the reasons raised in this review.
Ripple is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
cool little puzzle game
No profit out here :(
I didnt find this game to be fun. It felt more like confusing school homework.
If youre into puzzles an strategy games, maybe this one is more for you.
3/10
good
asd
I like games that you can finish.
Plus, trading cards etc..
not what I expected....and not really funny
Love the challenge. Pretty simple and fun puzzle. Only thing that kinda threw me off is getting the achievement to play the game for 2 hours. But that is just a free token for me and get those nice looking trading cards.
meh but i like trading cards
Not good.
Highly repetitive, but that is not the issue, timed achievements are bugged and why is this causing my pc to flex so much, even the audio sometimes crackles.
If you want a puzzler with similar graphics, style, and similarly priced but with more content try Hook.
Nothing else than brainlessly repeating the same tactics over and over.
This game could have been so much more.
The actual enjoyment I had was when I got the final achievement.
GdsF
Brain get bobo 8/10 cans of Monster
My Brain hurts...
Nice, but it's a little bit hard at more advanced levels, and sometimes i ragequit :DD
Pros:
- Trading Cards
- Cheap
- Controls are good for a puzzle game
- Cool as a screensaver with nice color scheme
Cons:
- Gameplay feels very generic
- You'll get bored of playing it after around 15 levels (there's 50 of them)
- Some puzzles too easy, or too hard. NO GUIDE ON YOUTUBE <:(
- Achievements are way too sarcastic (there is literally an achievement called "I'm Loving This"... *sarcasm*)
- Doesn't bring anything new to the table
Recommended for:
People who just want to create badges, or collect some trading cards, only when the game is on sale.
Anyone else should skip it and play better games instead.
NOTES:
I got this game for 66% off via a coupon for creating a badge, and i think it's worth only that.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Playrock Studios |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 57% положительных (21) |