Creaks: My favorite puzzle game is now available for only €6.99 in the PS Store

Creaks is a mysterious puzzle game in which you explore a surreal looking house, meet strange characters and try to figure out what’s going on there. The story of the pretty hand-drawn game does not need any words. Currently, you can grab the Machinarium and Samorost team title on PlayStation Store for €6.99 grab. If you are a Game Pass subscriber, it only costs you €5.99. But beware: the offer expires on July 7th.

This is what awaits you in Creaks

It’s all about this: Something is going on in the room of the nameless protagonist – who can look so wonderfully amazed. First the lightbulb catches the eye, then a piece of the wallpaper comes off and behind it he finds access to an extremely strange house. There we have to puzzle our way through room by room and secretly observe the strange inhabitants. Are they hostile or friendly, what are they arguing about, and is there some major threat on the horizon?

How the puzzles work: We are dealing with classic switch puzzles. However, these are implemented creatively, since different creatures are involved. In the beginning, for example, these are extremely aggressive metal dogs that – we’ll tell you at this point – are afraid of light. We have to take advantage of this in order, firstly: not to be bitten in the butt, and secondly: to lure them to the places where we need them, among other things, to trigger floor switches for us so that we can move on.

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As the game progresses, the puzzles not only become more complex and require more steps, but new creatures are constantly being introduced, which we must first find out how they react to us so that we can use this to advance our progress.

You can watch it in trailer form here:

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Creaks – Hand-drawn puzzle game is coming to PS4 this summer

Cool collectibles: By the way, you can also find small mini-games in the pictures, which are stylistically based on old mechanical machines. Overall, Creaks will probably keep you busy for five to seven hours.

While Creaks is “just” one of those neat little games that you can play over a weekend, I would actually call it my favorite puzzle game because I just love everything about it: the mysterious atmosphere, the quirky characters and the wordless narration Story that is simple but works really well for this kind of genre. Everything together looks very lovingly designed to me.

The hand-drawn world and the structure of the puzzles are also exactly to my liking. Anyone who has played Machinarium or the Samorost series already knows the humorous and creative way of the development studio Amanita Design. If these titles have met your taste, then you will most likely also like Creaks.

I also enjoyed the learning curve in the puzzle rooms. The tasks build on each other, require logic and become increasingly challenging, but never so difficult that frustration would have arisen.

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Do you already know Creaks? Or maybe the studio’s other games? Will you hit the sale?