Way back in the fall of 2012 developer Black Pants Game Studio released their debut title on iOS, a logic puzzler called About Love, Hate, and the Other Ones ($1.99). It was a story about two characters, one named Love and one named Hate, who accidentally transport themselves into a strange world by pressing a big red button. To be fair, who wouldn’t press a big red button if they came across it" At its most basic, the game is about getting either Love or Hate to the big red button at the end of each level with the ability to swap which character you’re controlling on the fly.
These levels are filled with other strange characters too, literally the Other Ones in the title, and while playing as Love you can command an Other One to walk towards you, and while playing as Hate you can repel an Other One away from you. While there can be some variations to these basic mechanics by way of the special abilities of the Other Ones, you’ll generally need to direct the Other Ones in a level to positions that allow either Love or Hate to safely make it to the big red button each time. The logic puzzle design is solid and the game is charming as all heck with its character designs, animations, sounds, and little animated cutscenes.
That’s a lot of words to talk about a game that’s not even the game I’m trying to talk about for this specific Game of the Week post, but in spring of last year Black Pants released a sequel to About Love, Hate, ...