78 Macworld • February 2022MAC GAMING
before you drown. Sometimes your
escape route may also branch off
in different directions – one level
may contain doors that lead to two
separate levels that you have to
explore in order to find a weapon or
tool that will allow you to go back and
solve a puzzle in an earlier level. A key
feature of the game is the ability to
collect ‘mutagens’ – items dropped
by the monsters that you defeat,
which allow you to heal yourself, save
the game at certain points, and also
upgrade the weapons that you use.
All those features mean that you’ll
have to use your brain, as well as your
trigger finger, to succeed, helping
to bring the old-school platform
format a bit more up to date. It’s good
value too, at just £6.99, and the 2D
graphics don’t need a super-fast Mac
to run smoothlyPUZZLE GAMES
- Bridge Constructor:
The Walking Dead
Price: £7.99 from fave.co/3DHVME6
Bridge Constructor was first released
back in 2013, and challenged players
to build bridges across various
types of landscape and terrain, and
then see what happened when the
bridges faced the stress of hundreds
of trucks and cars passing over them
each day. It’s not exactly mass-market
action game material, but it did well
enough to spawn a couple of sequels
- and that’s when things started to
get a bit interesting.
The Medieval sequel put you in
charge of a city under siege, building
bridges to carry your troops and
supplies, and traps to trick the
invading enemies. There was a Portal
edition that combined bridge-building
with multi-
dimensional
puzzles, and
a Playground
edition for
younger children.
And now the
developers at
ClockStone
have produced
a bizarre mash-
- up that has