Shape Escape

Shape Escape

Shape Escape is a twist of the old Sokoban game.  Your character is this cute little gray elephant.  You use the arrow keys to push around colored drums and make them fall into the same colored holes.  Once that occurs, both the drum and the hole disappears.  To make the game a bit more of a challenge, it has a bit of a “maze” type board layout.  The game gets more complex as you contine as you end up with both drums and blocks.  And if that didn’t complicate things enough, if you push something into the wrong colored hole, it gets stuck.  You have to start the level over.

If you do not want to use the arrow keys in the bottom corner, you can turn on an option to overlay large arrows on the game board itself.  The game is very responsive to input..sometimes a bit more responsive than I expected and I would end up moving a block too far.  For this reason, I recommend that you play some in practice mode until you get accustomed to it.

The game has almost 200 different levels and costs $2.99 in the iTunes store.  A free/lite version is available to check it out.  If you do happen to make it through all the levels, you can always go back through and try to beat the stored personal score of how many moves it took you at each level.  If you like Sokoban type puzzle games, I recommend giving this one a try.  The changes to that familiar concept will be refreshing and provide you with many hours of game play.

If you would like to see the game in action, here is a YouTube video of the next version of Shape Escape.