Thickety Creek 4+

The usual high standard graphics and interesting locations, and the Hint feature seems greatly improved in that it actually gives hints that are useful at your point in the game, plus the option of further help in the form of a solution. However, there were less puzzles to solve and a lot more trudging round trying to find stuff to add to what’s already in your satchel so it will work. Also, this is the first Fire Maple game where I’ve had to be slightly mean to a sentient being in order to progress, which detracted from my pleasure in completing the challenge.

I love these games and really enjoyed the others that this developer has made. This one was good though not as good as some of the previous ones. The artwork is still beautiful though I preferred the designs in the predecessors. Again, the puzzles are pretty whacky and don’t always make sense but I thoroughly enjoyed working them out anyway! Hoping for more where this came from.

I am a huge fan of fire maple games - i have played each of them countless times and the puzzles have been great. I’d say grisly manor 2 topped the lot. It was superb.

Thickety Creek feels rather short and samey and lacks any really interesting puzzles. This ends up with trudging backwards and forwards around similar levels without really feeling like you are being rewarded even when you solve something.

Having said that there is a shocking shortage of these type of games so I do want to put the developer off! Keep em coming but focus on what made the previous games great!