Kuru Kuru Kururin

Kuru Kuru Kururin is a puzzle game where you play as the titutar Kururin, a bird-like little dude who sets out to find his missing brothers and sisters, lost amongst a variety of different locales. His craft – the Helirin, a long, stick-like vehicle that is constantly rotating, at odds with the narrow, corridor-like paths that make up each level. Kururin’s gameplay premise is simple – in the main story, you have three hearts per level, and you must reach the goal of each maze-like locale without losing them all. Touching any walls, with some minor exceptions, will deplete a heart, forcing you to time your movements through the maze so you can ‘bend’ around corners and deftly avoid obstacles. At its heart, it’s a very, very simple game, but from its humble, relatively simple beginnings emerges a genuinely engaging, tough-as-nails puzzler, where single mistakes can rapidly cascade into a failure in mere seconds.