Developer: ClockStone
Steam Deck Compatibility?: Verified
Rrp: £6.99 (Gog.com, Humble and Steam)
The second in the Bridge Constructor games (for there are several) this time the developers have pivoted the game to be more friendly toward younger audiences. In the last game you were given a budget for materials on each level and you couldn’t go over it. In this one the budget is more of a suggestion and all of the materials are available right away, allowing the player to experiment to their hearts content.
To go with this aim toward a younger audience the graphical style has been changed to be much more cartoony than the previous game. The tutorial has been changed with this new set of players in mind too as the language is simpler and repeated more often through tutorial text boxes that appear.
There is a reason to try and stay within budget though well actually two reasons. The first is that doing so will reward you with the badge for that. There are 5 types of badge; Crossing with cars, Crossing with vans, staying under budget, one for the bridge not reaching a certain stress level and finally one for sticking to a specific set of materials. The badges don’t do anything really other than net you Steam Achievements so for me they really didn’t appeal. The other reason is the leader board, there’s a global leader board and those who have spent the least on all their bridges get to the top. Again, I’m not one for leader boards so this didn’t motivate me.
I’d say this is a good game to try and teach younger people physics in a fun way. But it failed to hold my attention for long.
