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New Release: Back To Bed

Back To Bed, a surreal puzzle game with an isometric perspective, was just released with full MFi controller support!

Puzzle games aren’t hard to find on iOS, but Back To Bed brings a high level of polish to the table that absolutely makes it worth checking out. Gameplay seems inspired by games like Lemmings and Star Wars Pit Droids; your goal is to guide a constantly-walking sleepwalker through a dreamscape using obstacles to prevent him from falling off the edge of the level.

Back To Bed new release MFi controller preview
Dali meets Escher in an Isometric puzzler

There is a decent amount of similarity in presentation between this game and the recent classic Monument Valley, and comparisons between the two are going to be unavoidable. But there is more to the story than a simple case of “new game copies things from older classic”. In fact, Back To Bed is apparently an expanded version of a game the developers originally demonstrated in 2011, a full 2 years before Monument Valley’s release. The developers of Back to Bed then took to Kickstarted to successfully fund the expansion of Back to Bed into a full game – a process that was completed in March of 2013. One month later, Monument Valley was released to critical acclaim.

Anyways, that is not to say fans of Monument Valley won’t enjoy this game – they probably will. As will fans of puzzle games in the same vein as Lemmings. If the idea of a combination of those games sounds interesting to you – and it should, because it’s awesome – give Back to Bed a download.