The scenarios it conjures are surprising to the end, and you’ll want to play it through a second time to fully get to grips with its moving story. It follows the journey of a young boy carrying a blue offering bowl, and you’re acting as his guide, manipulating images to offer him a path through a mysterious world. Piecing the puzzles together is never frustrating, and even wrong solutions will lead to some wonderful moments. The sequel, Alphabear: Words Across Time, is more of the same-albeit it with a few new features that make it better than the original.Īn enchanting puzzle game about arranging hand-illustrated tiles so that they line up, revealing a new angle on the scene in front of you.
Its bears were cute and its mechanics deceptively smart. Playing as either commando Bill Rizer or Lance Bean, you find yourself on an island near New Zealand taking on an alien race intent on destroying the earth. Letters gradually revealed themselves, and the sooner you used them in a word, the higher your score. One of the first games to introduce two-player simultaneous gameplay, Contra was a revelation when first released.
Alphabear was an adorable puzzle game about placing tiles on a board to make words, clearing new space for your army of bears to occupy.
