Creating seating preparations may be fairly anxious; the empath a part of me strives to search out the proper seat for each particular person even when it’s a virtually inconceivable activity. If it’s for a giant, significant occasion, I get much more anxious. Once you discover the proper place for everybody, although, it’s much more satisfying than a terrific jigsaw puzzle. Chasing that feeling is what Is This Seat Taken? is all about — and it does so in a low-stakes and enjoyable manner.
In Is This Seat Taken?, your aim is to position people who find themselves tiny geometric shapes into the proper seat that meets their wants. In a bus stage, for instance, a triangle character could wish to sit close to a window and never close to anyone who smells. Once you place that triangle by the window, they’ll be completely happy. However drop a smelly sq. close by and the triangle will get mad till you discover them a greater spot or transfer the sq. someplace else. With restricted seats and varied must bear in mind, the phases can rapidly turn out to be fairly difficult.
Fortuitously, the sport does rather a lot to verify there isn’t an excessive amount of stress concerned. There’s no timer, so you’ll be able to take so long as you wish to attempt to discover everybody their seat. The shapes are fairly charming, which helps me from getting too aggravated with them even when they’re significantly tough to seat. And when you don’t discover a option to make all people completely happy, the one “penalty” is that you just received’t get sufficient factors to get the gold stars used to unlock secret ranges.
Along with the per-level puzzles, you’ll additionally observe the story of Nat the rhombus as she pursues her desires of turning into an actor. It’s a light-weight, breezy story that offers the sport an excuse to take you to completely different locales and cities. However I had extra enjoyable pondering the backstories for the numerous different characters you need to seat. What film are a father or mother and little one seeing at a movie show? Why did a sq. in line on the airport overlook to bathe? Why does one character have a crush on one other? I appreciated making an attempt to fill within the blanks about what they had been all doing, particularly after I wanted one thing else to consider after I was caught.
By the point I completed the primary ranges in Is This Seat Taken? — my playthrough was about six hours — I used to be able to be performed. You’ll make repeat visits to the identical sorts of areas, so a number of the novelty began to put on off. And I’ll admit that generally I wanted I may simply inform the characters that they need to take care of sitting subsequent to anyone enjoying music on the bus. However now that I’m performed, I’m already beginning to miss my cute form buddies. Typically all of us simply need a spot to take a seat, and I’m glad I may give them some assist.
Is This Seat Taken? is now out there on PC, Nintendo Swap, and cell.
