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#96





Years of release: 2011
Beaten?: Mostly

Pushmo is a warm blanket of a puzzle game. It was there for me at an exceptionally boring time in my life - back in 2012 I had a quarter of college in which I had an hour layover nearly every single day, so when I didn't have homework to do (or that I didn't feel like doing) I had to pull out my 3DS and kill some time. I had two go-to favorites during this period of my life - one was the GB game Kirby's Pinball Land, which I somehow wrung like a good 30 hours out of and I don't remember if I ever properly beat it but it was really fun? The other game was Pushmo.

It's a game about pushing blocks. Uh, sort of. It's really more about pulling them? Frankly, I don't know why it's called Pushmo, it should be called Pullmo, but that's neither here nor there. You need to push and pull these blocks in and out to climb them to reach the goal, and that's about it. It sounds and looks simple at the start, which is why it gets really startling later on when the puzzles actually start to become a serious workout. I put a good 30 hours into this in my off periods during school, and I'm pretty sure there were times I dedicated almost my entire time to failing to solve a single puzzle. It's really hard, but it never feels too frustrating, since it's so easy to understand. There's only so many ways to proceed, and if you keep trying different things eventually you'll have a breakthrough and figure out the way you need to climb to the exit.

I enjoyed the followup Crashmo as well, never played Pushmo World because portability was kind of a big draw for me here and I didn't really desperately need more Pushmo puzzles. Damn solid puzzle game though that's threatened to be lost in the shuffle of newer 10's games. Seriously, I had to be as thorough as possible when trying to remember games I've played this decade - the activity log feature on the 3DS is an absolute lifesaver. Thanks activity log!