Treasure of Egypt

Treasure of Egypt – Can you enter the tomb of the pharaohs by solving the riddles?

Do you enjoy solving puzzles? In particular, do you enjoy solving riddles dating back to one of the greatest and earliest civilisations? Then you will be pleased to know about the Treasure of Egypt.

This game is a fiendishly difficult sliding puzzle style game where you have a set number of moves and have to work out which way to move the pieces in turn to end up with the sequence displayed. I have to admit it took me a good while to work out the first puzzle and in truth I believe this only happened as I’d managed, unsuccessfully, to do it every other way!

Unlike many, if not all, other puzzle tile-sliding games, besides the classic stylised artwork, the game doesn’t use uniform sized tiles. This means that you have a few different sizes and shapes of tile to work your way around. For instance, you have a puzzle with only enough space for two small tiles to fit into, but you may have a dozen small tiles, two double tiles and one large tile which takes up the space of four tiles. Needless to say it becomes quite a complex procedure to work out which way to slide the tiles to have them end up in the right position at the end.

Add to the mix that you’re getting timed on how fast you can work out the puzzle, you don’t just play for unlocking the next tricky problem to solve, but for pride as well as a record breaking time.

It would be an almost impossible task to memorise the final positions of the tiles. To help you in your task, you can rely on a skeleton who’ll show you the way things need to look at the end. The only issue I have with this helpful, and slightly decomposed assistant, is that it visibly stands in the way of some of the tiles, obscuring your view of the end result – oh, and it keeps telling me I’m cursed whenever I’ve failed in my countless number of attempts.

The controls are simple, move the cursor around to highlight the tile, press the OK button to select it and then press the direction in which you want the tile to move. If you don’t want to move that tile and wish to deselect it, simply press the OK button again and it will allow you to freely select the tiles again.

As simple as this procedure is, I accidentally kept highlighting the wrong tile and causing myself to undo the move I just did only to repeat this process again. This error crucially costs moves and very swiftly your chances for successfully completing the level become slight to none.

Overall, this game is fantastic for anyone who needs something a little more challenging than what’s currently available on the market. This game gives you a really difficult puzzle to solve and then when you do manage to do it, you’re rewarded by not just another puzzle, but an even harder one for your troubles.

Rating 89%

Positives

Very challenging puzzles to solve

Appealing graphics

Simple controls

Negatives

Very challenging puzzles to solve – may deter the more casual gamer

Controls could easily cause critical mistakes and without an undo option, can make the level very frustrating