Foursaken Media’s Puzzle to the Center of the Earth is coming out this Thursday, October 23rd. You’ve played puzzle platformers before, but this is quite literally a puzzle platformer, where making matches of at least three blocks is necessary to move the protagonist around the levels, with a limited number of matches able to be made per level, and secrets to help dig up. As well, certain formulas of matches can be made in order to do things like blow up a whole heap of blocks at once. And all this is in order to find secrets and get to the bottom of the level in one piece.
While Spelunky has been name-dropped in comparison to this, it’s more thematic than anything roguelike-inspired in nature, as it’s a level-based puzzle platformer. But still, it’s a very interesting mixture from a developer that loves to mix up existing concepts, and there’s a lot to be excited about with the release this Thursday. The game’s going to be free-to-play with what Foursaken Media is claiming to be a Candy Crush style of lives system, but with IAP for unlimited lives, and various boosts. If you want to play it early, the developers are having a giveaway on our forums.
