100 Floors

Title: 100 Floors
Platform Played On: iPhone
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Date Played: May 2012
Time Played: 1 hour
Completed (Y/N): Yes
Score: 3/5

Opinion:
100 Floors is a clever puzzle game designed to take advantage of iPhone's capabilities.

100 Floors is a very simple game, constructed of what seems to be stock images and about 3 different sound clips. Dont panic though, that's totally fine... the graphics and sound are just barely good enough to get the point across and to be honest they are of least importance. What is cool and impressive though are the puzzles themselves. 100 Floors consists mostly of logic puzzles, where you are given a couple of objects and sometimes a hint. Your goal is to use these objects in a clever way in order to open the door and go up to the next floor. A lot of the puzzles have you manipulate the phone in real life in order to solve them, and I found myself amazed a couple of times at the cleverness of the puzzles. I found few floors at a time sessions with 100 Floors a lot of fun. It is a perfect "I am waiting in line" type of game.

That being said though, 100 Floors suffers from numerous problems. The biggest problem with it is the fact that there is very limited feedback as to what you are supposed to be doing, or whether what you are doing is correct or not. Yes I do understand that the idea is to figure out what you are supposed to be doing; however there needs to be some sort of feedback that what you are doing is the correct thing or even that it is doing something at all. There were several occasions where I had to use an object on a piece of background by hammering on them many times. When I do that, there needs to be some sort of feedback letting me know that its doing something. Otherwise after hitting the object a few times I think that its just a piece of background art and give up.

100 Floors is free, you do get non intrusive ads scrolling on the bottom of the screen trying to trick you into clicking on them. 100 Floors, is simple yet entertaining diversion from all other games, and a good bathroom buddy. It will make you use your iPhone in ways no other app will and at times even make you feel proud of yourself that you have figured it out. With being free 100 Floors is a must check out.


PS - As of this writing there are 51 floors. I imagine there will be many times more in the future.