RUSH Demo

RUSH is a simple and yet complicated puzzle game from the developers that brought us another hit called Tori Tori.

RUSH is difficult to explain without any visual help and that it usually a good sign. Simply put it’s a puzzle because users need to figure out what to do in order to finish the level. That’s much easier said than done as RUSH is not as simple as it might appear at first look.

In fact, the developers from Two Tribes are known for their really difficult and intriguing games. All of their games are unique and don’t subscribe to the existing genres. Making something unique is not the same as making something successful, but in the case of RUSH, the two seem to coincide.

The idea behind the game is pretty simple, and it resembles a little bit with the old Lemmings series. Imagine that instead of Lemmings you have cubes that role around after certain rules.

Players need to figure out how to direct certain cubes to their appropriate colors. They have to go around obstacles and to avoid hitting other cubes. The concept is no complicated, but each new variable makes it much harder to finish the level.

I started to play some of the levels included in the demo, and they are marked as easy, but that’s not the case. If these are the easy levels, how are the difficult ones? I only had items like conveyors, redirect tiles, and stoppers, and it was already really complicated.

Everything happens in 3D, and you can rotate the level completely. In fact, it’s necessary since not all the corners of the level are visible. The good news is that once you start the simulation, you can see what to modify, and there aren’t any kind of penalties for making mistakes. The game also points out where the simulation fails.

The engine works beautifully, and everything is very smooth, even when there are many items on the screen. The demo doesn’t have many levels, but the later ones are difficult enough to keep players busy for a long time.