

Then again, perhaps I’m just bad at the game. I’d spend half an hour creating my magnum opus of the bridge building world, only to watch it fall down faster than a straw house next to a huffy puffy wolf. Poly Bridge has 10 levels giving you the basic rundown on the skills and materials you’ll need, from basic triangular wooden support to hydraulic drawbridges, and I found myself revisiting these levels a lot more than I should have needed to. Whilst a common feeling of perplexion is experienced in most puzzle games before you reach that ‘light-bulb moment’, I don’t know whether it has done enough of a job of explaining its mechanics, and that ultimately ended up in frustration quite a lot. My main issue with Poly Bridge is that I spent most of my time with the game thinking ‘what am I doing wrong?”. A dangerous game of Kerplunk with severe consequences. Many a time did I find myself ever so slightly over-budget, anxiously removing wooden support beams one by one only to then watch my questionable construction buckling under the pressure of a camper van. You can even slow down and speed up the simulations if needed, a feature I used frequently in order to identify the pin-point weaknesses in my structure. The gameplay is similar to Mario Maker, in that you can switch seamlessly between the grid-based building mode and playback, watching your machinations play out before your very eyes. One day we’ll hear about the Switch’s online infrastructure…
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A largely successful port of the PC version, Poly Bridge on Switch does miss out on the Steam workshop community, but that isn’t any fault of the developer. Much like the last game I reviewed, Mom Hid My Game!, there is an elegant pointer system for those who wish to scrutinise their masterpieces on the big screen. With over 100 levels and a sandbox mode (that allows you to really get creative with the tools provided), there’s a lot to get stuck into here, and it utilises the Switch’s fancy new capacitive touch screen by allowing you to pinch and zoom your way to victory.

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The trial and error difficulty curve may lead to frustration, but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it.Ī niche puzzle game, Poly Bridge is one that fits the Switch console well, in that it is easy to drop in and out of, and benefits from sharing with others.


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