Lenimals turns pathfinding into a puzzle you build before you press play
PadoGames' pixel-art puzzler asks you to lay out jumps, dashes and stops in advance, then watch three animals walk straight into your mistakes.
By Hana Mori, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The animals in Lenimals do not take instructions mid-run. You place your tools, you press Play, and then you watch, which is either a very calm puzzle premise or a recipe for a lot of restarts, depending on how good your planning is. The pitch from developer PadoGames is specific: a rabbit, a bear and a wall-climbing monkey move automatically once you hit Play, and your job happens entirely beforehand. You drop Jump, Dash and Stop markers along the route, then step back. The screenshots back this up directly. Several show translucent ghost icons scattered across a level, little pale outline...