A Good Snowman

Draknek

About this game

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is an adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

* Adorable graphics by Benjamin Davis (Cosmic Express, Sushi Snake).
* Featuring an enchanting original soundtrack by Priscilla Snow (Voyageur, The Silence Under Your Bed).
* Lovingly-crafted puzzle design from Alan Hazelden (Cosmic Express, Sokobond).
* No in-app-purchases or ads.

Awards:

Top 10 apps of 2016 - TIME magazine
Best Character Design - Intel Level Up 2014
Official Selection - Develop Indie Showcase 2014
Official Selection - Screenshake 2015
Official Selection - BAFTA Inside Games Arcade 2015
Official Selection - Different Games Arcade 2015
Official Selection - Fantastic Arcade 2015

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely fantastic puzzle game. Certainly worth the cost, even though it's not super long. Full of cool ideas, relaxing, just the right difficulty to never get to the boring side of frustration, but enough that you feel you've learned something each time you make a new snowman. In the end part of the game after all the main rooms, there is a big change of perspective that requires you to resolve all the rooms with different goals, making you understand it all 100%.

It's mostly a great game. But the way things are (or aren't) communicated to the player is in my opinion not clever but a mistake. There are for instance the butterflies - the meaning of which I had to look up. Or the dream sequences - which I again had to look up. Also, the endgame reminds me of the one in "The Witness" in that unlike the initial part of the game, it's not primarily challenging but just incredibly cumbersome and time consuming.

Cute! Puzzles are really good, too; years later, when filling-in forms which are supposed to help me find good games, I still use A Good Snowman is Hard to Build as an example of a game I like, but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any other game like it out there.

What's new

* All-new audio in time for Christmas
* Enable cloud saves
* Allow playing music/podcasts while playing
* Fixed issue with progress sometimes not being saved on final level
* Fixed various crashes
* Fix bug where statue would show wrong completion percentage for dream world
* Other small bugfixes