Recent reviews by Martoon

Puzzles provide nice level of challenge, without being trivially easy or hard to the point of getting stuck. One nice feature is the "Solving Tip" button, which will give you a nudge in the direction to look. If you click it again, it gives you more specifics, explaining its reasoning (so it will actually teach the player how to solve puzzles).

Charming, relaxing, and fun.

It funny.

Nice, simple arcadey drift controls. Just straight up, 2D top-down racing fun. Haven't had a chance to try multiplayer yet (but the AI's are good opponents), but I think this would be a lot of fun with friends.

Brilliant, novel concept for a game, and it really delivers on the promise of the concept. Levels just keep introducing cool new things to do with the core mechanic of the game, and new ways you have to think to solve the puzzles. All of the levels are equally playable as solo or co-op, and the co-op is enormous fun.

Many games with a new, novel mechanic don't actually work well in practice. The idea might seem cool in concept, but the gameplay ends up being tedious, unintuitive, or repetitive. But every level in Toodee and Topdee is genuinely fun and satisfying, and keeps showing just how many clever things the designer can do with the concept.

Absolutely recommend this game to fans of puzzles, platformers, and lateral thinking.

Amazing retro goodness with modern sensibilities. Perfectly captures the feeling of old-school lo-res visuals, but with the dynamic juice you can only get with modern hardware. The color palettes for the different areas are beautiful, and there are a lot of them.

The game has some challenge, but whenever you fail on a stage, there are always different approaches to consider, so it doesn't get stuck in that "git gud" slog of endlessly repeating one section with no improvement.

There are a variety of different weapons, and they're all fun to use and provide their own advantages. The really interesting thing is that while you can only have one special weapon equipped, each of the weapons you've gotten in the current run (and haven't sold) is on the ground as a pickup, so you can deal with some enemies, fly over to a different weapon, and swap it out. Much of the strategy is in deciding which weapons to repair and upgrade between levels, and which to sell (so you can spend the money on upgrades for the weapons you keep). This makes for a really compelling game loop as you try different combinations of weapons on different game levels.

The inertia-heavy controls are a little different than many games and can take a few minutes to get used to, but when once you do and get into that kinetic flow, it feels really good. Like ballet with guns.

The developer actively takes in player feedback, and has made many improvements to the game based on that.

Same type of relaxing, can't lose gameplay of the previous games. A little shorter this time (I completed it in about 3.5 hours), but still well worth the money. I kind of like the idea of shorter, more frequent releases.

Really solid room scale puzzle game. If you like room escape puzzles, you'll love this. Getting on the train and moving between locations gives a real sense of progress, without any motion sickness (since you're on a large vehicle moving in a straight line).

A little short, and, as with most VR games, a few awkward physical interactions. But clever puzzles and a compelling setting make this well worth the price.

Puzzles are really inventive, requiring some lateral thinking (without being impossibly difficult), and never tedious. It's not just rehashing the same puzzle tricks over and over, like a lot of puzzle games do. There's lots of really satisfying epiphany moments.

Painting mechanic is easy and intuitive, and works well with both mouse/keyboard, and analogue sticks on a game controller.

One of the best games I've played, and definitely one of the best puzzle games. Highly recommend.

Really nice score chaser with a surprising amount of depth from the emergent complexity of the different upgrade interactions.