Last year, Cipher Prime followed up their auricular puzzle game, Auditorium, with yet another puzzler, Fractal for the PC. Long story short, Gamer Limit enjoyed it. Short story long, the game featured simple yet challenging puzzles set to a mellow soundtrack. It stole the hours from under your oblivious feet.
The game is back and this time it’s for the iPad in the form of Fractal: Make Blooms Not War. After getting caught nearly numb pushing hexagons to an fro for who know how long, one must say that it’s as much a match made in heaven as a game and platform can get.
For those who haven’t played the first game, the premise is simple — push hexagons into a grouping of 7. This is called a bloom. Create blooms for points and fill your bloom quota to progress to the next level. Like the devil, the challenge is in the details.
Fractal: Make Blooms not War is a puzzle game available on Mac, PC, and iPad that involves pushing hex shaped tiles to match six of a kind. The beautiful visual style and interesting gameplay make for a compelling combination.
GDN - Like many puzzlers, Fractal’s gameplay is extremely addictive once you get the hang of it. Instead of lining game pieces up in columns, rows, or other pre-defined shapes, Fractal requires you to create “blooms” in order to score points. A bloom consists of a hexagon shaped group made out of seven or more hexagon game pieces. If blooms are chained together, they make for massive score bonuses.
GATT GamerX: Every once in a while an indie game comes out with just the right stuff to make it a good quality game. That is exactly what Fractal is in a nutshell; Created by Cipher Prime Studios, Fractal is a push-color puzzle game, dissimilar from anything else that I have played. In order to score points you have to create “blooms” which are basically a honey comb shaped figure out of the same colors. Sounds easy right? Well by mid-game and three colors in you may hit yourself in the head for being a single push off from beating the level.
