Cuboid is a pretty innovative puzzle game. You play as a Cuboid (no surprise!) and you need to progress through set levels that hover in space. Unfortunately they are often narrower or shorter than your 2 by 1 block. Therefore you need to rotate, twist and move to the right places in order to reach the finish of a level. It’s different to most other games in the genre, and refreshing to see something other than Bejewelled or Tetris rip-offs come to the market.

 

 

Cuboid has a reasonable number of levels to start off with (with the potential for more as DLC), but it’s a number that is far less than many other downloadable puzzle games. However, you won’t be rushing through Cuboid’s 50+ levels any time soon.

 

Whilst the first 3 levels help you get into the game and how the mechanics work, after that, it all gets a little more difficult. In fact, really difficult. By the end of beginner level 5, I was really struggling to complete the levels, and they were taking at least 10 minutes each to figure out. I can’t even do after level 3 on expert. You really need to plan several moves ahead.

 

 

However, I did find the difficulty bar a little too high- a better or longer tutorial, or some more really easy levels would have really helped in my opinion, as I found the game to get pretty frustrating quickly, at which point you get so stuck that it’s not so rewarding when you finish a level, just a relief. The first levels also just don’t give you quite enough time to get used to the control scheme, so you can find yourself falling off the map through a move that you weren’t expecting.