Metrico

METRICO doesn't have a clear story. You choose to play as a man or a woman, both of whom are represented by simple, icon-inspired characters. The game's images and the puzzles are designed to resemble infographics, which are graphic representations of information such as the results of a survey or study. The backgrounds are flat with clean lines and subtle uses of color. There are pie charts, bar graphs, and line graphs at each turn. You're basically traversing a series of infographic puzzles to complete the game. What makes Metrico interesting is that the puzzles react to your input. You may find a bar graph where the bars increase or decrease each time you jump. Others may shift as you walk forward or backward. The goal is to get to the other side of the obstacles by taking advantage of the results of your actions. This may mean carefully timing your jumps, walking forward and jumping back, or remembering to step down off a block rather than jumping. Each level is easily reset if you make a mistake, so you can keep on trying and experimenting until you get it right. As you progress, the controls and obstacles get more complex, meaning that you'll also have more ways of interacting with the environment. Using your camera, tilting your device, tapping the front touchscreen, and touching the rear touchscreen all are introduced as techniques for progressing through the world.