Mushroom Quest

It is no Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker but I still enjoyed myself for the brief time it lasted. One or two puzzles I brain farted on but for the most part it is pretty simple. A quick break kind of game.

Incredibly well made game. I played it from beginning to end and was very happy with what I got out of it. It's an actually fun, (sadly short, but still fun) puzzle game that's fun and cute. Would recommend to literally everyone who likes to have fun with puzzles as it's now one of my favorites!

A quick and nostalgic puzzle game. I'm a sucker for the pixel art style and am always happy to see newer games using this style. Some levels may be hard but that's part of the fun, I definitely recommend taking it slow and enjoy the vibes. It's a good game for puzzle enthusiasts and retro fans.

Its relatively short, but good for what it is. Got it on sale for 44 cents. Reminds me of the old Chips Challenge game from the 90s, which I always liked. I hope there is more released in the future. Thumbs up!

At 60 cents during the Steam sale this is a worthwhile game. Clearly, it is coded by a single developer (or should I say at most one is needed) given the minimal graphics and repetitive music that I quickly turned down. Reminds me a bit of Chip's Challenge except the overall strategy is simpler where you mainly need to figure out the right order and direction to push blocks. However, there are some clever levels worth playing, especially the last of the 30 that can be a bit tricky. Some levels are far too easy, so I would say there are only about a dozen decent levels that require any degree of thought. The game could definitely benefit from more levels and overall game play. However, it was an enjoyable hour, so I recommend it, but only if you get it on sale.

It's a very cute and fun game. As you get half way and towards the end, the puzzles aren't too easy or too hard. There are definitely head scratchers, but nothing so hard you won't be able to figure it out without guides. It's not long, and play time is just good enough before it overstays its welcome. I played this a couple years ago I think, but I want to support the dev with a good review. If you want more you can check out the sequel to this game called: Mushroom Savior.

I bought this game in a bundle, never expecting to play it. This afternoon I decided to play it, and even though it was not that difficult, it was a good experience considering that I didn't expect anything out of this game. Probably not for you if you're looking for your "head scratcher that needs 30 hours per puzzle" but you can spend a good hour if you have some spare money

Do you like Sokoban games?

Cause if you do... well, it's a sokoban game. You push blocks into holes, onto switches, and out of your path. The entire game's a strength puzzle from pokemon. Basic mechanics, decent puzzles that aren't ever bullshit but can be tricky on occasion.

That's all there is to say, really. It's not genre defying, it's just a fun game to burn an hour or so if you're bad at video games like me.

I didn't expect much, but figured I'd try it since it was cheap and on sale. This is now perhaps my favorite puzzle game. It was a lot more fun to play than it looked, and unlike other puzzle games I've thought were decent in the past, I actually managed to complete all the levels instead of tiring of the game partway and moving on to another program.

Level difficulty varies from the easy to more challenging, though admittedly they are not strictly ordered from easiest to hardest. It's more of a random mix where you might get a hard or easy one as you progress. But the game had an element of challenge to it that kept me coming back more determined to find the solutions. It's a relatively short game, but overall I'd say I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Very short and easy. I really love the art style this game has.
Will be playing the sequel "Mushroom Savior" eventually.

I wish I could give a sideways thumb. I ended up rating it yes because it's a cute little easy hour of sokoban with a nice soundtrack, worth picking up on a sale if not at full price, but again, I wish I could give a sideways thumb, because there are some SERIOUS design problems with this game.

First off, like other reviewers have said, basically all the difficulty is fake. The puzzles range from trivial to easy, but the fact that there's no undo button (so you have to restart if you die or accidentally press a box against a wall) and some real-time-based hazards (the trapdoors) artificially inflates the time required to beat the game. The game looks like it was ported from mobile, so I assume the absence of the undo button was originally paired up with an ad whenever you restart the level, but as a paid PC game this element is orphaned and weird.

Second off, there's a SERIOUS lack of polish. For instance, not only is there no continue button, it doesn't even save your scroll level on the level select screen; there's only 5 screens but the animation to scroll a screen down lasts like 3 seconds which is TEDIOUS

Third, there's literally no way to tell which holes are actually coloured tiles waiting to be enabled until you press the button, which impairs the player's ability to make plans. Also as another person pointed out there are trivial unintended solutions for a lot of levels

I rated thumbs up because I want to see another game with these graphics but better design

I expected of this game to be at least a nice Sokoban clone, sadly it is not.

First of all, after launching Mushroom Quest I've heard a familiar music from 12 Labours of Hercules. Uhm...
Then I started playing the game that finished up very quickly due to the very low difficulty and only 30 levels.
At least the retro graphics was okay.

Honestly, even if its price is set to only $3 it is overpriced in my opinion.
The amount of content is incredibly low same as the satisfaction of finishing the game.

Can only recommend on sale, given how short/simple it is.

Short game - but cheap enough. Fun little levels. If you've played any Sokuban type games before most levels won't be too much of a challenge, but makes a quiet change of pace. Easy to get 100% achievements for completing the game if that matters to you.

This is not puzzle game, "puzzles" in this game are very easy and straightforward. My playtime is 50 minutes and I finished all 30 puzzles. That is less then 2 minutes per puzzle avarage, so you get the picture how easy it is. I honestly feel cheated.

Mushroom Quest has good puzzles. I completed it in an hour so it would be nice it there were more of the same, but it is reasonable value for money given the low price.

Good puzzle game. Litte short. I got it on sale so the price is OK.
Well full price 2,49€ isn't that bad for a nice evening hour of entertainment.

Some levels are ridiculous. Really stupid to have them in the game.
Others (something like four or five levels) are really really challenging and take 80% or more of the time you play all the thirty levels.

Mushroom Quest is a game that showed a lot of potential, but falls into 3 main traps that puzzle games often do. Note that it's not a bad game, it's just very easy, very short, and manages to have most of its difficulty be fake. I'll address each of these in turn along with what could be done differently. I'll also be comparing to similar games, like Abraxas Interactive PUSH and Chip's Challenge, the former of which I helped playtest, and the latter I've sunk thousands of hours into making and playing community content.

First off: the difficulty. Mushroom Quest has very few mechanics. You can move, hold one key at a time, collect crystals, and push blocks. Blocks fall down and fill pits, and can hold down three colored switches which toggle the state of floor/pit and floor/wall combos. There are also timing based trapdoors. That's it, that's all the mechanics- but as PUSH showed, you don't need many mechanics to make tricky puzzles, you just need to arrange them in interesting ways. And Mushroom Quest almost does this, but fails due to the designer having tunnel vision on the solution intended. I've fallen prey to this myself, and it can be a hard trap to avoid. However, more than 20% of the levels in the game have unintended solutions that completely skip steps- or extra pieces that are unnecessary for solving. I'll use two examples here: level 23 and level 26.

Level 23 looks like this when broken: https://i.imgur.com/luLPLaP.png
The intended solution is to mmove blocks on switches and create a bridge to the right side, but as you can see you can just... bridge over there.

Level 26 has a crystal near the start that looks like a small ordering puzzle- go across the pit to reach it before moving the block off of the red switch. Unfortunately, the green switch that must be pressed later opens up that starting crystal, removing any puzzle for the start. And since Level 30 relishes in this sort of ordering, it's strange to see it overlooked here. https://imgur.com/a/6uxT9p8

Level 17 is also very basic and introduces a new mechanic- couldn't this have been earlier? By far the most interesting levels were 18 and 30, and I was eager to see where else Mushroom Quest went... when it ended. It would have been a challenge to use the limited mechanics in new and interesting ways, but a *level editor* would be a great boon here- let the players up the difficulty! A level editor would also solve the length issue. I solved all 30 levels Mushroom Quest has to offer within about 20 minutes. I went back in to grab a couple screenshots for this review, increasing the playtime. I wasn't expecting it to be a long game, but I would have liked some better brainteasers! There are a lot of ways to shuffle blocks that weren't even explored here- no traditional sokobans despite having all the mechanics for them! None!

And that leaves my 'fake difficulty' comment earlier. As you probably noticed in the Level 26 screenshots, there's no indication of what's under a block and no indication of where pits will be replaces with floor on holding down the correct switch color. This results in some trial and error in determining which tiles are affected. This is trivially fixed by shrinking the size of the block slightly to allow the tile below to be slightly visible, and by creating an outline in the pits where they get toggled. Fortunately, outside of I believe 2 places you never get stuck in a position where you must guess or assume something that may turn out to be incorrect, but it's still an annoyance.

Another annoyance that only came up when referencing levels is that the level select is abyssmal. No level preview, no catchy name (PUSH fails worse at this with no level select at all, but the levels themselves tend to be more memorable due to their ideas) and a choice of 6 numbers per page with a slow scrolling speed that doesn't even remember the last level selected. If this game gets a content update in the future, I hope that the scroll animation on the level select is removed at the very least. This feature gets a small pass due to the game being short, but not if that complaint is fixed.

I will revisit Mushroom Quest if it gets a level editor or a content update, and will probably change this review from a weak "not recommend" to a weak "recommend". There's just not enough content here compared to other, similar games on the market. Chip's Challenge (1 and 2), PUSH, and Rainbow Hero all come to mind.

It's nothing new, a puzzle game about weighing down switches and correct key use, however it's art is (asfar as i can tell) all original work, and is cohesive with itself, the puzzles we're progressivly challenging enough that it kept me engaged
so a positive review for this, If ya like simple puzzle games, this ones quite good
little pricy though get it on sale if ya can

Cute little game. Here's first about 10 minutes if you all wanna see gameplay :D https://youtu.be/dH5zq-1sxvg