Lara Croft GO

The port for the PC version is not putting an effort, so at first try it took a bit of outside instruction to figure out how Lara even moves, as controls were not explained and swiping is not very intuitive with a mouse.

But once that hurdle was crossed, this turns out to be a really lovely turn-based puzzle game with some delightfully twisty mechanics: having a backtrack option would have been nice when sometimes an accidental false move means the puzzle level must be restarted but the game came in good-sized chunks, inviting every now and then to solve couple of levels more.

Lara Craft GO is a puzzler initially released only for mobile but ported into pc shortly after. Its surprising to see that its quality is actually high. They dont just slap the lara croft name into some half assed project, i feel that this good enough to standout on its own.

The brilliance of the puzzles is that the basic mechanics are very simple. You move one square at a time, but so does the world around, creating whats is an turn based puzzler. The game begins easy enough, teaching the player graudually the mechanics, but soon gets very challenging. Since Lara can only kill foes from the side or behind, her placing is vital in these puzzles, some of them are really brain teasers. Unfortunatly, i feel that they get to complex for their own good towards the end. I always feel that a good puzzle is one that can be solved in 30 seconds if you know what to do, and towards the end that surely is not the case. Still it remains enjoyable all the way, and you can always ask for the solution, preventing you from getting stuck for too long.

I also like the clean and minimalistic art style, including the actual story.

Very solid game, recommend to anyone who likes puzzle games.