Review of Stacking by Lucien21

You play as Charlie the smallest member of the Blackmore family. They are a family of chimney sweeps during the American industrial revolution. The family is tricked by an evil moustache twirling Baron into slavery to pay off their debts and it’s left to you to rescue the family one by one.

The game has a very cartoony 30’s asthetic and is portrayed as a silent movie. The characters are all based around Russian matryoshka dolls that stack on into each other in sets.

As the smallest matryoshka doll in your family set you can wander the world, but ultimately can’t do a lot. So you can “stack” into the next size doll and upwards until you are a large character of 6 dolls. Using which ever doll is the largest you can use it’s skills to solve the puzzles within the game.

All of the puzzles have multiple solutions making for great replayability. Need to clear out a room you could use a character to fart in a vent, or seduce the guard and sneak in and slap the beejesus out of the waiter.

Gameplay video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWh2o…eature=related

I loved it. It did feel a bit drawn out towards the end, but it was a lot of fun.