During Summer Games Fest, we got to be the first people to play the upcoming puzzle adventure game Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure from the 4 person studio Furniture & Mattress and Netflix on mobile devices. Honestly, this clever little puzzle game fits perfectly on the mobile platform. This was an absolute delight to the developers to hear since they weren’t looking to put the game on mobile until they started working with Netflix.
The game itself throws you into immediately when you start it up. You literally start playing at the title screen to get a feeling for the puzzle mechanics. The game has you play as a young girl named Jemma who has the ability to move around the world via the power to move the world in rows and columns. You can move by swiping the screen to move a space horizontally or vertically or you can swipe and hold to move quickly. She’s not the only thing that moves when you do this as other items or characters in the row or column will also move. This can cause havoc in the town such as making one character fall off a ladder or move specific items like a sword to take out an enemy and progress.
The developers describe Arranger as a puzzle game where, yes there are puzzles, but puzzles are more of the vocabulary of interacting with the world but the game is more of an adventure game. They were adamant about not wanting the game to have fail states. Thus, Jemma takes no damage from enemies and there are assist options in the game to allow for you to skip puzzles. With the game being 5-10 hours long, these options are sure to let players who just want to experience a delightful little game without getting frustrated by combat or difficult puzzles.
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure is set to release on July 25.