‘Is This Seat Taken?’ Creates Puzzles From Seating Preferences

Is This Seat Taken? is a puzzle recreation the place you might want to assist the shapes discover the perfect spot regardless of their complicated seating particularities.

I’ve seen fairly a couple of, primarily cellular, puzzle video games about sitting individuals in the suitable locations. Usually, it’s one thing primary like shade, however Is This Seat Taken? takes the thought of seat placement and provides complicated requests from the assorted characters in order that they get the seat they need. These seats aren’t simply in automobiles, but additionally at venues throughout occasions and within the cinema.

The premise is fairly easy; you should have a bunch of individuals initially of a stage who’ve completely different needs or issues they’re doing. Within the cinema, for instance, some persons are consuming popcorn and can make a large number. On the bus, somebody may need forgotten to bathe and be a bit smelly. Typically, the those who want sitting are children and a few adults received’t wish to sit close to them.

These completely different necessities want fulfilling to get essentially the most quantity of thumbs up on the finish of the extent. Getting excellent scores can unlock extra ranges to maintain enjoying in. It’s fairly satisfying to plug individuals into the right locations and see their faces gentle up!

Together with individuals having their very own particular wants, there may be additionally a narrative that follows by means of the degrees. Is This Seat Taken? has little tales to the beginning of a few of the ranges, typically being a one-off exhibiting the brand new location, and different occasions feeding into a bigger story about an aspiring actor who’s a little bit nervous and a little bit misplaced. They’ve not seen actors who’ve had the identical bodily form as them earlier than. I discovered myself invested of their lives and wished to see in the event that they ended up making it to the massive display as nicely!

Is This Seat Taken? is presently in improvement, however within the meantime, you possibly can seize the demo from Steam.

About The Writer

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Huge Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a deal with smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of all the recreation jams happening on the planet, judges many jams and occasions.