Sunbird Studio has officially launched Prickle for Android and iOS. It’s a grid-based Tetris-like puzzle that heavily draws inspiration from Sokoban puzzles. You follow a hedgehog family and help them reach their destination.
Help a Cute Prickly Family in Prickle
The game has you diving into the charming world of DadHog. He’s a dedicated hedgehog father who needs to gather up his scattered hoglet children and guide them home safely. It’s a maze where every move needs careful thought.
The dev has created a Prickle, which is a Tetris-like shape formed as hoglets stick to DadHog and each other. Once a hoglet attaches, it stays stuck.
Each level becomes progressively harder as the Prickle grows and becomes more unwieldy. Manoeuvring the growing mass through tight hedge corridors and obstacles is not an easy task. It requires clever rotation and path planning.
Prickle includes 48 levels spread across four seasons. Summer eases you in with straightforward navigation, but Autumn introduces acorns that latch onto the Prickle, bulking it up.
In Winter, puddles appear. While DadHog can’t swim through them, his hoglets might have to. Meanwhile, Spring brings blossoms that consume leftover acorns.
It’s a 2D Minimalist Puzzle
The most appealing aspect of Prickle is perhaps its visual style. Every character, maze, and even menu text has been hand-drawn using Godot and Krita. The result is a pen-and-paper art style that’s so cute and charming.
The visuals are solely in monochrome, but you do get an option to add subtle colour accents. There’s another option to swap the visuals from black-on-white to white-on-black. There are other subtle details that amplify the game’s charm. Like DadHog dozing off if the game is left idle for a few minutes.
On that note, catch a glimpse of Prickle right below.
You can check out the game on the Google Play Store. The full game costs $4.99.
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