Parents' Guide to High Rise - A Puzzle Cityscape

While this geometric puzzle game's deceptively simple gameplay makes it fun, it also makes that fun run out after a while. In High Rise - A Puzzle Cityscape, you seem to be a city planner who's tasked with placing buildings on a five by five grid. Except that for some reason, putting a building next to one of the same size and color, or combinations of them, causes them to combine into a larger building. The bigger the blocks, or buildings, the more points you earn, with even more if you combine more than one building at the same time. Now, you don't have a choice of what building to place next. It may not even be a building that you're given, but an arrow that removes a building. Either way, you can't skip what you're given and you have to play it. But that's part of the challenge, since the game ends when you run out of space.

As clever as this puzzle game may be, though, it doesn't have much in the way of variety. Clever only gets you so far. The field is always five by five, and the only options are to turn off the music or sound effects, or to change the game's general color scheme, though this has no effect on how the game's played at all. There's no variety offered if you manage to play for a prolonged period of time, either. That's why, after playing High Rise - A Puzzle Cityscape for a while, you'll move on to deeper puzzle games.