Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King Demo

Puzzle games are designed to be challenging and intriguing, otherwise it wouldn’t be too much fun to tackle riddles that are too obvious, or can be solved in a matter of seconds. However, something that’s too frustrating might turn players away, which means that it’s quite difficult to come up with the perfect combination of difficulty and fun.

Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King is a third-person adventure game in which you have to use multiple characters to solve puzzles and get through the story one chapter at a time. As the name clearly implies, you play as various goblins, and each goblin has his own set of skills and abilities that allow him to tackle certain challenges, which makes each level different.

As such, the demo puts you in the role of Tech, who is obviously very skilled with everything that has to do with technology. The first task is to get out of the prison you are thrown into, and you have to use everything in that cell in order to come up with a solution. Granted, there’s a manufacturing machine in there with you, which is capable of producing dynamite, so it’s not like the guards make it tough on you.

As simple as you might imagine it to be, the game is actually quite frustrating, but not because of the puzzles. Instead, the tutorial you receive in the beginning is incredibly vague and short, not to mention the fact that the interface is very unintuitive. On top of that, the gameplay has serious flaws  when it comes to how you interact with objects, which is yet another reason you might not get along with the game.

The graphics are nothing to write home about either, since they are actually very rudimentary in every aspect. Even the animations are hilarious and clumsy, but that’s not usually a problem if you can have fun with the rest of the game. Hence, you can easily be captivated by the puzzles and forget all about the graphics, but unfortunately this is not the case here.

When it’s all said and done, Rayon Riddles - Rise of the Goblin King is not a bad idea, but it has one too many issues at the moment to be characterized as a pleasant experience. It might be your thing if you are able to get over the gameplay annoyances, but most gamers will probably give up after a few minutes.