English Country Tune Demo

Sometimes, it’s not enough to play a mediocre puzzle game and satisfy your thirst for a challenge, because most games out there barely put any stress on your brain. However, there are a few titles that can cause you to go insane, due to the incredible difficulty level and the sheer number of possibilities you find yourself faced with at any given time.

English Country Tune is the kind of game that doesn’t look like much at a glance, but it rapidly becomes a burden on your mind and sanity. As such, after you get acquainted with the mechanics and the controls, the puzzles become increasingly more difficult. Not only that, but a variety of skills are required to see the solution, because the perspective is skewed as well in most cases.

In essence, the main goal is to successfully move some spheres into the boxes available on the map. While that may sound simple, the fact that the maps are actually three-dimensional cubes and you can move to almost every facet makes even the act of traveling from point A to point B tricky. More and more gimmicks are added as you manage to solve the puzzles, just to make sure that you are never in full control.

While movement is indeed important, it is also good to know that the spheres respond to your impulses in a rather unusual way. Hence, they are actually weightless, but they move depending on the direction from which you push it. This way, the outcome of your actions is not always sensible, which makes it even more difficult to properly figure out how to approach the problem.

Thankfully, the game includes everything you need to make the experience easy to handle, such as a reset button and even an undo function. If you think that’s cheating, your opinion is definitely going to change after the first 10-15 puzzles, because going back a couple of moves is of no help if you do not figure out the exact path you must follow.

All things considered, English Country Tune is actually a bit too difficult for most tastes, especially since it distorts your perspective and gives you no real basis for the physics. Hence, you really need to put a lot of effort into the puzzles to solve them.