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Endure The Swarm pits your sokoban skills against endless, horrible insectsAlso, you are a miserable shut-in
Also, you are a miserable shut-in
Image credit:Ternary Games
Image credit:Ternary Games
Endure The Swarm, which launches on Friday 8th December, takes that most abstract and respectable of game genres, the block-pushingpuzzler, and fills it with ghastly, flesh-eating insects. There’s no amount of pesticide that can stay this tide, nor (sadly) is there the option to stand on a chair screaming and waving a broom. Rather, you must call upon your mammalian mastery of spatial reasoning to survive. The insect hivemind, you see, is incapable of grasping the complexities of block positioning.
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Endure The Swarm
Endure The Swarm is the work of Ternary Designs, an indie studio otherwise known for the Zachtronics-inspiredMeltdown: The Complete Guide to Reactor Maintenanceand the disaster simHeat Death, which “allows the player to see how long they can survive in a dying galaxy”. I detect a certain… grimness of outlook, though in fairness they are also the creators of relaxing puzzler A Stroll of the Dice.
There’s ademo for Endure the Swarm on Steam. It runs a bit scruffily on my non-gaming work Thinkpad - at one point, the character got stuck on some geometry and I had to start over - and the early levels are simple to a fault, but I like the concept enough to pass it on. If it leaves you hungry for more sokoban, see the brilliantVoid Strangerand the forthcomingIsles of Sea and Sky.
