There’s nothing quite like being blown away by a game you’ve never even heard of before. Or at least one you think you’ve never heard of before. For me this week that game was QV – The Dimension Painter ($4.99), a game that launched on Nintendo Switch to some decent acclaim just about a month ago. Looking into the developer izzle a bit more and, as it turns out, this is something of a follow-up to a 2016 mobile game they released called simply Dimension Painter, a game that I actually posted the thread for in our forums back then. It seems that on some level I DID know of this game already, albeit in a different form and practically in a different lifetime.
Whatever the case, I wish I had paid a bit more attention to the original Dimension Painter several years ago because the mix of mechanics used there and in this newer QV – The Dimension Painter version are really great. One of the main elements is reminiscent of Sokoban. You’ll be pushing boxes around, often onto switches that will open gates to allow you to progress in a level. There’s also these special stones you can either turn into a regular doorway to walk through or turn into a portal, and coupled with another stone turned into a portal somewhere else on a level, you can instantly travel between the two. These are used in a way that’s very reminiscent of, well, the Portal games.
Your character also wields a gigantic paintbrush and there are inkwells strat...