Yes, this is a pretty short game. BUT the level of creativity and charm that goes into their games. People complain when they spend a few dollars on a game - but it’s nothing! Think about the number of hours that go into making something like this. Machinarium, Botanicula, and Samarost 3 are some of the best and most delightful games I’ve ever played. And they make me smile! How many games can do that? We live in such a jaded world. It’s lovely to see this kind of ingenuity and ingenuousness. I’m ok spending a few dollars to live in Amanita’s playful imagination even briefly.

The first one was too short. The third one was too long. But just like in Goldilocks and the three bears, this one was just right. I was totally surprised when I got to the third part of the game. I thought that since I had rescued the dog, that was the end of the game. But no. Your fuel gets low and you crash into some other planet and boom! Four extra levels. I bet whoever plays this game will want to try some of amanita’s other games. Like botanicula, chuchel and mechanarium.

Totally LOVE the Samorost games, and I have had them on several of my iPhones, but I’ve not had them on this one. So I went to the App Store to see if I could still get them and I saw that I could still download them from iCloud. But when I went to get Samorost 2 and redownload it, it wanted to charge me again. Same with Samorost 3, wanted to charge me again. Why is that? It did let me redownload 1 without any problem. Just curious, please answer!

I love the Amanita games because they are charming, intelligent and just plain fun. Games like Samorost and Botanicula have a non-gruesome and fanciful appeal to both kid/ parent teams and seniors just looking for some humorous brain stimulation. It seems that 98% of escape puzzle games are aimed at adolescent males, offering up either violent action or demonic forces. I am NOT an adolescent or arrested development male, but I DO have both dollars and time to spend, and can’t wait for the next idea spinning out of Amanita. What IS next, team?