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[More_Badass]

Yankai's Peak is a slick and deceptively challenging puzzler from Kenny Sun, who you might be familiar from his previous games Yankai's Triangle and Circa Infinity. Your goal is simple: maneuver around claustrophobic tight grids, pushing other triangles onto their correctly colored tiles. It's a more minimalist Sokoban, with a greater focus on movement as a core mechanic; while you can simply flip side over side, you can also anchor a vertice down and rotate around it, giving you other means to push triangles around. Learning the subtle ruleset among increasingly complex stages makes for some challenging puzzles even in the first section.

The simple moveset that hides surprising variety, the Sokoban-inspired mechanics, and the tight stages that revolve heavily on positioning and movement have reminiscent of the kind of brainteasers found in Snakebird and Stephen's Sausage Roll.

http://yankaispeak.com/
Currently $1.99 in launch sale
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yankais-peak/id1139603153
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXuonmgysDk

YANKAI'S PEAK. is a love letter to PYRAMIDS. A colorful PYRAMID-pushing puzzle game about the beauty and joy of being a sentient PYRAMID.

- Pretty cool gameplay.
- Over 130 handcrafted levels.
- 7 PARTs each exploring a unique multifaceted mechanic.
- Meditative sound design.
- No IAP.
- Taptic feedback (iPhone 7+).
- A sick intro.

 

[Msyjsm]

Coming Someday to Android / Steam I Guess.

Well, then I'll get to play it someday, I guess.

A shame, because it looks like a lot of fun, and I'd gladly blow a few bucks of my Google Opinion Rewards wallet for it.

 

[More_Badass]

Well, then I'll get to play it someday, I guess.

A shame, because it looks like a lot of fun, and I'd gladly blow a few bucks of my Google Opinion Rewards wallet for it.

His other games either came out on Steam first or on Steam/mobile around the same time. I wonder if he focused on iOS this time because that's where he got the most profits

 

[toythatkills]

Surely mobile's "Snakebird-tier" puzzler is Snakebird!

I watched the trailer for this since I couldn't make sense of the images, and I'm not sure how fun it looks. I assume you'd get used to it but a lot of the interactions beetween triangles looked weird.

 

[More_Badass]

Surely mobile's "Snakebird-tier" puzzler is Snakebird!

I watched the trailer for this since I couldn't make sense of the images, and I'm not sure how fun it looks. I assume you'd get used to it but a lot of the interactions beetween triangles looked weird.

I mean as a native/exclusive, versus a port

Yeah, there's a tight ruleset of interactions that take some practice to make sure you understand them properly

 

[volterra]

Bumping because Yankai's Peak just released for Android here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sun.pyramid

Quite good so far, if you enjoy abstract puzzles.