Death Estate, a packing-puzzle city builder! Build roads, then try to place as many houses that can fit for ghosts to live in.
(Instructions in-game, but also described below)
In the first phase, build roads by click-and-dragging on the grid. When you're ready, click Done.
In the houses phase, ghosts will come in and request peculiarly-shaped houses for you to place. Drag-and-drop the houses onto the grid to place them (must touch a road and not intersect other houses). You can click "Rotate" or right-click to rotate the house, or click "Skip" to skip the current ghost's request.
Game is over when you've run out of skips or there are no where to build. Points are based on the number of tiles covered by houses.
Feedback
Ohhh surprising take on tetris and building games! Like the fact you have to build the road first and then play tetris on it. Is quite fun and I can imagine this as a casual game, it has potential. I enjoyed it.
DantePretty good puzzle concept ! The way it's spinned fits well with the theme.
Gameplay wise the game has depth and replayability from different road shapes.
Controls are very easy and intuitive.
UX/UI is also well done, the animation of ghosts and skeletons coming in or leaving is great !
Really good job overall, if I had to find something negative to say about the game, maybe you could have added pre-made levels with a fixed road each time, and include the current mode as a scoring/sandbox mode.
Really awesome idea and great fitting pixel art visuals.
The game idea is very simple yet has a lot of depth to be explored. There is a lot of replayability, which is great.
In the first time you place the roads, you dont know really know what for. Maybe a simple description "you will place ghost houses alongside the roads" would help that abit.
Overall really really cool game, I enjoyed it a lot. Awesome job!
Great fun little Tetris like puzzle game. The idea is new, and I enjoyed it. It has replay value, and I want to beat my score of 55%. I tried to fill the whole canvas with roads, but that left me with 0% instead of 100% (which is a good thing). It makes you think about how to best build the roads too.
I tried it on both mobile and desktop. It was a bit difficult to see where I placed the houses on mobile, I sometimes placed them in the wrong place because of it. The finger was hiding the building, so maybe a magnifying glass or similar could help know where I place the buildings.
The sound effects works well. I wish we had some music, but I know it's difficult to fit everything into 13k with the given limit.
Hang by a threadGood FX, graphics are ok. Game is really fun, a puzzle game like a tetris sometimes, I made a spiral road to try improve the space, i was not a bad idea :)
Tindeath55% is the best I got, looked like I had more than that!
Clever idea, a nice take on tetris.
Simple and effective graphics, addictive.
Soul JumperA different take on the Tetris type "fit the shapes" genre, very cool!
Putt Till You Die
Don't Die To GhostsReally fun gameplay, easy to understand. Played through twice, and got a score of 158 the second time through. Fun to think through the strategy. Nice sound, nice graphics and colors. Great job!
There Can Be Only DeathReally liked this original puzzle game. Funny way to integrate the theme :D
I played multiple times to try and beat my score so that's a good sign! Would love to find out the best strategy for how to place roads, tried a few different ways but I'm sure I can optimise better
Great game with great repeatability potential. I played twice times and reached 77%. The sound effects are quite nice. They sound so sad when I reject them. The gameplay is very straightforward and there are good instructions too.
Planet BIt's like Tetris and Sim City... what's not to love? I've played this for quite a bit and enjoyed every minute of it.
Love the graphics. The ghosts look so cute!
Hell Inc.This game was super cute! It's a puzzle mechanic that I haven't tried before, and I really enjoyed it. It's barebones but I can see how it can be built upon in the future.
Merchant of DeathSpectacular puzzle game. Intuitive controls, crunchy sound effects and a clear win state. I've played through a few times now trying to beat my high score. Really enjoyed it.
Didn't like making the ghosts sad :(
I like the visual style of this game. Sound effects were good. I wasn't sure what the point of building the roads was. Or how to build a good one. The game felt a bit slow.
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