Apple Arcade review #42: Down in Bermuda

Down in Bermuda is a 3D puzzle game, or puzzle box, where you have to jump from island to island and solve a bunch of different puzzles to progress. Puzzles include finding orbs by searching the island through rotating and zooming the camera and panning around; sliding tile puzzles; and other mechanical logic puzzles where you push buttons and pull levers.

I’m not a fan of puzzle games, but if you’re into that, this is very polished and pretty. I am, however, puzzled by the narrative. You’re playing a pilot who crashed in this archipelago (in the Bermudas, I presume) thirty years ago. But when you meet the old pilot, he’s still trying to figure out a pretty simple sliding puzzle on the tiny island where his aeroplane crashed, and he also seems to not have noticed any of the other structures on the island, even though he’s been there for THIRTY YEARS. What was he doing this whole time? And there’s a big, friendly, talking turtle inside one of the stone buildings, so if the pilot had actually bothered to do a bit of exploring in the THREE DECADES on the island, he could have enjoyed some good company. It’s honestly quite annoying.

All in all: puzzles. If you like ‘em, go for it. There wasn’t much here for me, except for the burning desire to rewrite the plot and provide some explanation for why that idiot pilot just sat around for THIRTY DAMN YEARS doing absolutely nothing at all.

Link: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/down-in-bermuda/id1446828836