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Dungeon of Elements is pretty much Dr Mario with some extra elements, as far as I can see. Mostly, you get into battles in dungeons with elementals of 4 different types (and thus colors), which you can defeat by joining 4 of the same color - using capsules with alchemical formulations. You can also get weapons that can be used to defeat them directly. There is more to the game, but quite frankly I really couldn't bear to keep going till those parts showed up. For whatever reason, I thought it would play a little more like Puzzle Quest (which I did enjoy a lot), but for me it really fell flat. Really not recommended.

Eets Munchies is a puzzle game. It is currently in beta, I believe. The game goes in the tradition of Lemmings and so many others since. You must guide a character using some objects that are available on each level. In Eets Munchies case, you also have objects the you interact with, such as a whale that will suck Eets in and throw him on an arc. Graphics are very good, and sounds are adequate. I didn't particularly enjoy the gameplay - but then, this is a game genre where this is common for me.

Gunpoint is a puzzle/stealth game. I have reviewed a few of those, including Stealth Bastard  and Mark of the Ninja , but Gunpoint feels quite different. You are an spy who can take on different missions, and have a few gadgets. You can jump really high and stick to walls, but the most unusual game mechanic cames after you buy a gadget that allows you to rewire items in the game. For example, a wall switch might control the lights. But you can make it control other lights, doors, turn off cameras... And you can rewire things from afar, so that other people can trigger them unwittingly. You can also jump into guards (OK, that is a common platformer mechanic) and knock them out. It is also possible to jump through glasses. You also have upgrades points and several extra gadgets you can buy. The tutorial is well planned and explains most of what you need. There is also a very well done Load Savegame system, that allows you to go back several sets of seconds or restart th...

Puddle is a physics-based puzzle game. It mostly revolves about rotating your world so that as much liquid as possible reaches the exit. Water-based physics games are nothing new. I remember seeing my first in the early 90s. It was clearly a reflection of Lemmings, and you had a bunch of pieces that you could use to make the water reach the exit (obviously the water physics was quite simplistic - the drops mostly behaved as spheres). That was fun. Puddle isn't. The simplistic puzzle scheme mostly involves rotating to get past heat traps (that evaporate your water), jumping past obstacles and pushing switches. The graphics, physics, sound and music are adequate, but I find the gameplay to be no fun. Not recommended.