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  • Bridge Constructor
    Bridge Constructor

    13 hours playtime

    26 of 54 achievements

All cars in Bridge Constructor can now come back home :)

Trucks will have to wait and don’t think I’ll ever be able to help tanks :\ I have this little problem in the game where I can see red all those parts that are likely to break but I don’t see any green for those that are stable. So, once I prevent the bridge from collapsing I basically have no clue if I’m actually improving its stability.
Other than this, Bridge Constructor is a nice puzzle game you can play in few minutes session or even longer ones.
Base game revolves in Camatuga, an archipelago composed of 5 island, each of them with 6 mandatory bridges to fix (more “to create from scratch”) and 2 optional. You will need to solve all the mandatory bridges to unlock the following area but you’ll also need those optional ones if you want to unlock the various achievements (vehicle of choice can drive an ALL bridges in island in question).
I went and checked the first add-on called SlopeMania the first time I got stuck in Camatuga. It contains a set of 3 islands (Tiltin Islands) each with 7 mandatory bridges plus 1 optional. The main feature of SlopeMania (as you can guess from its name) is that start and end points aren’t always at the same level, forcing you to create, precisely, slopes =P
Furthermore, there are two themed areas: Winter World and Easter Islands, the former with 7+1 bridges, the latter with just 5.
These expasions areas are more easier, mostly centered on slopes and collecting items along the way (you won’t need their optional levels to unlock “Complete all optional levels” achievement, another sign that Camatuga is the real/original/base game and these area got added later).

Spent also a lot of time trying yo unlock “Storm Warning” (A vehicle flew at least 5 grid units into the air) but wasn’t sucessfull. Took me less time to complete christmas and easter islands than failing at this =P

So, in total, you’ll find 77 bridges to construct, for 3 different levels of difficulty: cars, trucks and tanks (easy, medium and hard). You can skip the cars part if you want and try straight with trucks, as truck-safe is automatically car-safe too, but you’ll need to make all bridges in Camatuga car-safe to unlock the tank (and tank will only be available on truck-safe bridge anyway).
A bit different for the expansions, where tank unlock is bridge independent (which means you can have tank on bridge even if you haven’t solved the others yet)


Enjoyed playing this but I’m moving to Beaten because they released a paid DLC so I can’t 100% it even if I unlock all the rest (all the more with that little bug mentioned at the beginning feels like a not-so-fun experience). I’ll play something from the theme instead :)
Who knows, maybe I’ll take a look at some guides someday to let those trucks and tanks finally do their job =P

~7/10


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