![]() ![]() ![]() Shifting a tile’s overlay to an adjacent space to reveal what’s hidden underneath really never gets old in Gorogoa. The magic starts when you figure out how to remove a tile’s overlay and when you see the worlds hidden underneath other worlds. You can turn on a hint-like system that shows you which areas can be interacted with, but you can easily figure out what you can interact with even without that aid. Once you start, you see how the game is broken into four panels in a grid that can be rearranged and zoomed in and out or shifted right and left. ![]() Gorogoa doesn’t really have a tutorial, but it doesn’t need one either. If you enjoy metaphors, Gorogoa will definitely please you. Left to its own devices, my imagination was constantly going into all kinds of directions, interpreting and reinterpreting the game’s visuals. It’s definitely the kind of story you can interpret in many ways, and that’s part of the game’s magic, at least to me. Gorogoa‘s story is tricky to explain because it is as vague as it is mystical. Gorogoa is the work of a single person, Jason Roberts, and tells an intriguing story of a young boy who seeks to gather five items associated with what looks like a South American deity that appeared outside his window. And if you have friends who like to debate whether video games are art, send them Gorogoa just to add more fuel to the fire. Add to those smart interactions some truly gorgeous, hand-drawn art, and a mystical story, and you have a puzzle game that everyone who enjoys the genre should definitely grab. I knew Gorogoa gave players the ability to interact with the overlays of the various illustrations, but I didn’t expect it to do so in such inventive ways. Gorogoa gives players the ability to manipulate four panels, but the ways those panels can be manipulated are very clever and offer some surprises that I really enjoyed. Once in a while, though, you get some innovative puzzle games that introduce some intriguing ways of interaction, and Jason Roberts’ Gorogoa ($4.99) is definitely one of those special games. Puzzle games are a dime a dozen on the App Store and most offer only slightly different iterations of the same ideas. ![]()
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