Turba is a fun little game on Steam that combines the puzzle gameplay of
something similar to bejeweled and the music of...well whatever music
you have on your computer! I love other games like this including
Audiosurf and Beat Hazard. This review was originally posted on January 10 2011 on my Gamespot profile.
There are 3 game modes. Freeplay which is a game mode you cant lose in. A
row of blocks simply just disappear from the bottom and you continue
until the song is over. Ascend is when the blocks are rising to the top
of the screen and you have to score points while preventing the wall of
blocks from reaching the top. The blocks in ascend mode appear one by
one. Then there is descend which you also cant lose but the blocks come
from the top to the bottom.
What adds challenge to the game is that depending on the tempo of the
song, the blocks will come fast or slow or in some cases just stop. How
affected the blocks are by the song depends on the difficulty. The only
problem I have with this game is that, that is all the songs do. They
don't add anything extra like in "Beat Hazard" with a pulsating
background.
Overall the game is still really fun to play and it also has 20 Steam
achievements and leaderboards. I got it in the Steam Christmas sale for 2
dollars and 50 cents but the game is worth the price it is now as well.
4.5/5
