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jp's Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure (PC)
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| [October 4, 2025 05:47:12 PM]
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When I picked games for my critical game design seminar this semester I really wanted to avoid a "typical" sokoban game and this one seemed to have enough of a twist that it wasn't really a block-pushing puzzle game, but rather something different. And it is!
I've played 4 1/2 hours and I think I must be 1/3 of the way through? Or maybe a bit less..I'm not entirely sure since there's lots of optional stuff that you don't quite realize is optional, or that you skip over without realizing. At least that's what I learned during discussion... In that sense it's less puzzle game and more "adventurey" (true to the title). On the other hand, I'm not sure I see any significant features or aspects to call it a "role-"something game. Sure, there's a character (fixed/pre-determined), and you adventure around, but there's no inventory, no progression, no agency in the conversations. There is a lot of reading (from the conversations) and there's some nice humor un there...but not really any role-playing...
The gameplay's a bit hard to describe, easier to see and show than to tell, but it's a game where you never move the character, rather the character is nailed to the floor and you slide the floor around - in horizontal or vertical rows/columns. You slide the entire row/column - and they wrap around the edges of the rooms, which are all basically rectangles in different dimensions. The trick is that there's a bunch of rules and interactions that make this harder to accomplish. For example there are objects that block movement (it's like they're floating above the floor so don't slide with it), but you can slide items (sword!) into them to destroy them, and stuff like that. Rather than pick the next puzzle you basically have to navigate the world, opening up new locations, and so on.
I'm not sure if I'll go back to it, but it's definitely an interesting thinkygame that's sokoban-adjacent. Good stuff.
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jp's Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure (PC)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Sunday 14 September, 2025
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