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| Publisher(s) | Draknek |
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| Engine | OpenFL |
| Platform(s) | Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a 2015 puzzle video game developed by Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis and published by Draknek. The game was released in 2015 for Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, and iOS.
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a grid-based puzzle video game that tasks players with helping a featureless monster to build snowmen. Snowmen are built by stacking three snowballs of decreasing size. Rolling small or medium-sized balls over snowy ground increases their size. Building all snowmen in a room unlocks adjacent rooms which are all part of a hedge maze. [1]
Players can undo one move at a time or reset a room. [2]
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build was created by UK-based independent developers Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis. [3] [4] Its prototype was developed using Puzzlescript, an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine, in 2014. [5] The commercial release was written in Haxe and OpenFL [6] and released for Linux, OS X, and Windows-based personal computers on 25 February 2015. [7] A version for Android and iOS mobile devices was released on 9 December 2015. [8] [9] A Nintendo Switch version released on 2 September 2021. [10]
| Aggregator | Score |
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| Metacritic | 93/100 [11] |
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build received "universal acclaim" from professional critics, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic. [11]
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build won the award for "Best Character Design" at Intel Level Up 2014. [12]
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