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A Monster’s Expedition is a tree-pushing puzzler from the creators of Cosmic ExpressTimber!
Timber!
I often wish I had the mind for puzzle games. Alan “Draknek” Hazelden’s catalogue of deceptively hard brainteasers look bleedin' lovely, but I simply can’t be screaming at my monitor with strangers in the office. After solving lunar train dilemmas withCosmic Expressand teaching us thatA Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, Draknek And Friends are returning withA Monster’s Expedition- pushing over trees to explore a water-logged museum of human ruin on Steam and Itch.io later this year.
In all the confusion surrounding the apocalypse and subsequent rise of cute fuzzy monsters, bridge-making seems to have vanished from the cultural consciousness. Fortunately, a tree will do the job just as well.
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They’d better be, because you’ll be knocking around plenty of timber. A Monster’s Expedition promises “simple but deep mechanics”, so I’d expect to see the depths of tree-pushing explored rather than, say, the game introducing absurd new mechanics like grass-munching or leaf-blowing. It all seems quiteStephen’s Sausage Roll, if not quite as outwardly intimidating - though potentially a fair bit more educational.
See, A Monster’s Expedition is some sort of puzzle-based school trip for the supernatural. Solving puzzles puts you one furry step closer to discovering a lost relic of “Human Englandland” - whether that’s an old red postbox, or the, uh, reverse mermaid demonstrated above. Perfectly well-researched and accurate exhibits, I’m assured.
A Monster’s Expedition sets off onSteamand Itch.io later this year.
Disclosure: Former RPS-er Pip Warr is doing all the words for A Monster’s Expedition.
