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    Turba

    Game » consists of 1 releases. Released Apr 03, 2010

    Turba is a match-3 puzzle game that is influenced by the music the player chooses. All of the games puzzles are generated based on the track you select.

    leafhopper's Turba (PC) review

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    A fun mix of puzzle and music.

     Turba is a fun little game on Steam that combines the puzzle gameplay of something similar to bejeweled and the music of...well whatever music you have on your computer! I love other games like this including Audiosurf and Beat Hazard. This review was originally posted on January 10 2011 on my Gamespot profile.

    There are 3 game modes. Freeplay which is a game mode you cant lose in. A row of blocks simply just disappear from the bottom and you continue until the song is over. Ascend is when the blocks are rising to the top of the screen and you have to score points while preventing the wall of blocks from reaching the top. The blocks in ascend mode appear one by one. Then there is descend which you also cant lose but the blocks come from the top to the bottom.

    What adds challenge to the game is that depending on the tempo of the song, the blocks will come fast or slow or in some cases just stop. How affected the blocks are by the song depends on the difficulty. The only problem I have with this game is that, that is all the songs do. They don't add anything extra like in "Beat Hazard" with a pulsating background.

    Overall the game is still really fun to play and it also has 20 Steam achievements and leaderboards. I got it in the Steam Christmas sale for 2 dollars and 50 cents but the game is worth the price it is now as well.

    4.5/5

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    Other reviews for Turba (PC)

      This is ain't no Lumines 0

      Turba is Latin word meaning crowd. Other than the online leaderboard there is no other relation to world Turba in this indie puzzle. Game-play for this silly titled game is lifted from Bejeweled where three blocks are matched to make way for more blocks. Difference with Turba is that the game boards are generated randomly based on the music file loaded in the beginning of the game. This might sound like a perfect combination of Bejewled and Lumines. Unfortunately Turba is way more of the casu...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

      Give it a pass 0

      The Concept: Once again, this game also tries to do something new with the genre. In this case, the concept is to make a match-three-or-more puzzle game with levels based around your music. Multipliers and combos can be built up by triggering the groups of blocks in time with the game's tempo. The Good: Supports most open media formats (.mp3, .ogg, .wav), as well as Audio CDs. It also has individual leader-boards for songs over going by song-length. The rising-and-falling blocks puzzles wo...

      0 out of 0 found this review helpful.

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