The Game:

Glowing Sokoban is another Unity game from Falco Games, and created by Flying Stone Production. you can see a mixed bag of Steam community reviews HERE. Installation includes five shortcuts installed to the desktop, four of which ((i.e. FalconLine Online Games Website & FalcoGo WebGL Games shortcuts)) can be deleted. The unzipped giveaway file includes a read me and a free standing game executable. When booting up the game you are first presented with a selection of other free games that you can download by clicking on each respective image (racing, billiards, chess, FPS, zombie games etc), however when I clicked on these I received a warning from my Heimdal security (apart from the kill a zombie game).

From the main menu you can adjust the graphics between low, normal and good. I initially played four levels then closed the game down. On restarting I had to start from the beginning again. I repeated this to level 7, then restarted, but again had to start from the beginning, so there appears to be no save feature in the giveaway version. The graphics are basic, but the puzzles are challenging enough once you've progressed past the first few, (which are very simple). The playing arena is divided into a grid of blue and orange squares. The aim of the game is to move blue circles to the orange colored squares in as few moves as possible. To make it more difficult, smaller blue squares/rectangles have been strategically placed around the grid. You cannot move your circles over these squares. To move a blue circle you use the WASD or the arrow keys to move up down left and right using the orange circle. In the top left of the board you can see the number of moves you've made and the number of pushes. You can also restart the level using the R key.

You can see a couple of videos of game play, the first showing a brief glimpse of the first 54 levels and the second the first several full levels HERE & HERE (русский).. The videos are from the Steam version which differs slightly from the giveaway version as it includes a 'how to play' section in the main menu plus the level number and a help button are included on the game board. All three of these are missing from the giveaway version. You can buy the game via Steam for £0.79/$ 0.99 HERE.

Overall a worthwhile download, especially if you like the sokoban genre. Sokoban (倉庫番) is the Japanese word for Warehouse keeper; where the player represents the warehouse keeper and pushes boxes around a warehouse. :) Unfortunately I don't have time to continue playing the game, so cannot verify the 10 level limitation on this version of the game. it looks like a different version to the one sold via Steam due to the differences mentioned above.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting Glowing Sokoban to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try whitelisting the setup.gcd file. In the almost 12 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If Glowing Sokoban doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums).