Croquet Conundrum
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Croquet Conundrum is a small puzzle game about hitting a ball through pipes to traverse a world of interconnected islands.
The game is entirely playable with your mouse, although there are keyboard shortcuts for some actions. Should you wish to reset your save file, press the undo button ~50 times in a row while the map is open. Should you wish to preserve it, do not do this.
Credit goes to Riley Woodward for making the music for the game. I recommend checking out his other stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/@rileyw6142.
I'd also like to thank my family and friends for supporting me while I developed the game, and the Cascadia Hobgoblins for giving me useful feedback and motivation to finish the project. One person can make a video game, but they can't do it alone :)
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What do you do on an ending level? the wicket doesn't do anything
I see I guess you do this on purpose
I got the "you can exit from the same pipe you entered" from wayyyy after I got it in Title
Thanks for reporting that, I'll look into it
What a clever and difficult game! Best puzzle of the year.
Finally finished everything, really cool game and fantastic puzzle design!
Great game! Made for an enjoyable evening play session. Smart use of theme and constraints to find surprising depth. The hint system is really innovative and a perfect fit for the game. The alternate endings are challenging, fun, add a nice meta layer in terms of how levels connect, and really show off the clever design skills repurposing existing layouts.
Awesome game, I enjoyed it very much! As others have said, the hint system is so cool (and very necessary imho lol).
Here's the full map of the completed game in case people want to know how much they have left to solve (spoilers obvs.)
https://imgur.com/a/29HUdko
where are the other 3 endings i only found ending 1/4
If you open the map you should see a lot of question marks showing puzzles you haven't been to yet. Now that you've gotten ending 1, you have all the information you need to reach all of these locations. Figuring out how to get to them is a puzzle of its own though, so don't give up!
If you get really stuck, you can always ask the hint system "What is my goal here" to see if there's more to a level than you think.
Tricky puzzles, good vibes. Congrats for finally releasing!!!!
Love these carefully created puzzles! You can tell the dev put a lot of time into these!
OMG YES IT'S DONE
CONGRATS!!
i played the demo and really liked it, looking forward to this one!
simples mechanics and BIG BRAIN puzzles. i'll play again for sure. great game !
I love it! The hint system is probably the best I've seen!
Truly a quirked up puzzle game. 10/10 will play again