Video games & Devices – All about kamibox’s hypercasual, puzzle Okay/

GAME: Okay? by kamibox

GENRE: Hypercasual, puzzle

PLATFORMS: iOS, Android

To summarise puzzle video games within the cell market, most of them rehash numerous sport mechanics that make you pop bubbles, crush candies, break bricks, minimize ropes, shoot birds, match patterns, search gadgets, reveal gadgets, merge gadgets, use gadgets on the fitting goal, merge numbers, shoot numbers onto different numbers to create BIGGER numbers… you’ve most likely seen all of it.

None comes near the originality and ease of kamibox’s oddly-titled puzzle sport Okay?

Okay?’s gameplay is easy: clear the board with one line.

In different phrases, you pull your finger down on the display to purpose the ball, and let go to shoot. And in a single shot, you could clear the board of all white shapes sequentially.

Although it seems easy, the sport has a stunning quantity of complexity and content material. Some ranges name for some experimentation in your half, so anticipate the degrees to problem you to assume exterior the field. For example, flicking the ball to the outer bounds can reset the extent or loop it again by means of the opposite facet. And better of all, every stage is completely different — and we’re speaking a staggering 300 ranges unfold between the primary and user-submitted puzzles!

The sense of delight you get from the sport’s minimalist nature is additional enhanced by way of music as suggestions. Which means, anytime the ball hits an object, an instrument performs; white blocks play piano notes, black shapes play snare drum notes, yada yada. And if you hit all of the shapes in a sequence efficiently to complete a stage, you’ll hear a stunning Do-Re-Mi tune play.

Along with the aural expertise, the tiny traces of tactility make the sport really feel stress-free. Pulling the ball again so as to add energy performs a stretchy sound akin to a pressured elastic materials. And if you purpose the ball elsewhere, its line of trajectory wiggles like a paintbrush when moved! Every thing is visually and functionally easy, designed to carry that sense of “touchy-feely” satisfaction.

The trace system is the one odd factor of the bunch. You get one by watching an commercial. But, no nice variety of adverts you watch will supply a touch that’s any completely different from what you beforehand acquired. So in case you’re hoping to get somewhat extra context on the best way to clear up a selected stage, you received’t discover it.

There may be additionally the balancing to handle. Usually, hints should merely nudge you in the fitting course. Nevertheless, on this sport, they both give the answer away instantly or unnecessarily fire up extra confusion in some ranges.

VERDICT: Nonetheless, Okay? is a brain-teaser brimming with the “little moments” I miss seeing in cell video games, utilizing them to create an oddly rewarding expertise that by no means will get previous. I might readily give it a ten out of 10. And hope that you’d undoubtedly give Okay? a go. Okay?