Chambers of Devious Design

Very light hearted and silly themes betray a decently strategic and layered competitive board game. You also have to be in the right mindset as seeing your perfect piece get taken or having your board be cut off or stranded can be quite frustrating. Also as the last single player stage shows (slight spoiler) if your opponents team up against you, it can be VERY difficult. I had to lower the difficulty (which requires resetting the entire chapter for some reason) just for that last battle. Every other chapter I was able to handle the hardest difficulty without too much of a struggle. The AI is decent but doesn't do any long term strategizing and has to get lucky. Which it very well can, but only so often.

Yes, this is like a zillion times more entertaining than Tetris. I mainly bought it for the 4 player CUSTOM game mode it has. Because even though board games are nice, obviously having them on computer comes with a plethora of advantages. Probably going to pickup CRAWL as well, a very different type of game yet from all indications just as WILD for 4 player local (or Parsec online) parties! I have only played the campaign, and I must say it is EXCELLENT! (4 difficulty levels +40 missions) So this is a super stellar game for anywhere from 1-4 players IMO. Add to the fact that the dev team only consisted of two I believe, and that just makes this one of the very best indie games out there. HIGHLY recommended :) I streamed it at the highest res it could go (2K?) yet if you wanted to use Magpie freeware you could upscale any of the resolutions you like to 4K+ if you have the hardware for it.

In my ~30 years of gaming, there is a very short list of games I consider masterpiece level quality, and this is one of them. While for most games I have a laundry list of things to complain about, I actually can't even think of one complaint for this game. If it looks like your type of game, go for it. I've only played the single player campaign, but doing so has made it quite obvious that the multiplayer mode would be fantastic as well, assuming the match setup is done well. I wasn't tracking time, but I estimate the campaign (on normal difficulty) took me about 20~30 hours. First time I've accidentally done a legitimate all-nighter in a looong time.

There really just didn't seem any reason to do anything. All I did was put pieces together not knowing what I was doing and with no goal.