Candy Crush and its mind-blowing success has spawned an endless see of candy-based games looking to grab even a tiny piece of that money-printing pie, and as such it’s hard not to kind of dismiss any new puzzle games built around the theme of candy. In Puzzlepops!, an upcoming logic game from former designer at Halfbrick Layton Hawkes, the candy theme came out in a very organic way. The game’s very first tutorial level is a simple puzzle introducing the mechanics to the player, and the resulting completed puzzle ended up looking like a lollipop. Despite Candy Crush indirectly deeming all candy-related puzzle games as casual fare, Puzzlepops! is an ingeniously designed logic game that will test your intelligence and skill in a way that matching candies never could.
As you can see from some of those later levels shown in the video, Puzzlepops! is a really hardcore puzzle game. As more and more elements get introduced, each level starts to require lots of forethought and careful action in order to be solved, and I really dig it. Puzzlepops! is pretty close to being finished and Hawkes hopes to have it out sometime next month, so logic puzzle fans keep an eye out for this one.
