Stacking shuffles onto PC via Steam
Double Fine's charming Stacking is now available for PC through Steam, for only $9.99 thanks to a launch discount. It comes complete with the matryoshka doll puzzler's trampy DLC, The Lost Hobo King.
Double Fine's charming Stacking is now available for PC through Steam, as was promised. Thanks to a launch discount, it'll only cost you $9.99 for now. It also comes complete with the matryoshka doll puzzler's trampy console DLC, The Lost Hobo King.
The launch discount is good until March 13. The regular price will be $14.99, same as on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3--but console players had to spend an extra $5 for Hobo King.
Double Fine is also celebrating the launch with a Steam sale on a bundle of Stacking, Costume Quest, and Psychonauts for only $19.99.
As with Costume Quest PC and the Steam re-release of Psychonauts, Double Fine is self-publishing Stacking. It was published by THQ on consoles but, as DF has explained in 2010, publishers "don't see enough financial reward" in bringing its games to PC. Evidently, Double Fine is doing just fine by itself--even aside from its wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for a new adventure game.
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Double Fine's charming Stacking is now available for PC through Steam, for only $9.99 thanks to a launch discount. It comes complete with the matryoshka doll puzzler's trampy DLC, The Lost Hobo King.-
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The idea is that you are controlling Russian stacking dolls (marmurska (sp)). You are the littlest one, but you can "jump" into dolls one size larger and continue that way.
Each doll has a unique ability which you can use if that is the outermost doll. One has the the ability to fly up, another can charge and scatter NPCs, others can lure other dolls with its sexiness, one doll can fart, etc. You need to use these to solve various challenges across a number of levels ala an adventure game. In early puzzles you only need one doll, but other puzzles might require you to plan ahead, collecting dolls with specific abilities in a specific order in your "stack" so that you can complete a puzzle. There are several major "set piece" puzzles on each level, which were purposely designed to be solved in three specific ways (eg an early puzzle requires getting your main character into a room guarded by watchmen. Either you can take control of a doll that is allowed into that room, lure the guards with a sexy female doll, or fart into the air shaft that clears out the room and letting you into it). Other puzzles are less open ended but often have multiple paths.
Basically, the idea of the game was to take the point-and-click adventure, but by using dolls, they become the characters, your inventory, and your "verbs" at the same time.-
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Nothing like DOTT or Monkey Island, but it has good humor in it.
You're playing as Charles Blackwell, the youngest of a family of dolls; all but Charles' mom are taken by the Baron to work, so you have to set out and rescue them. You met a hobo that helps you around and most of the unique NPC have interesting stories but there's no deep plot to it otherwise.
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It's Double Fine, so the shack answer is yes.
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