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lilithkismet rated Turn Chase

A browser game made in HTML5.

Turn Chase is a turn-based strategy game with simple graphics made in Pico-8.  Move your green square to the target while either avoiding or defeating turrets and pursuing orange enemies. There are 28 levels to beat on Normal, Hard, and Expert levels of difficulty, as well as in-game achievements that award you with extra skill points when earned. It's a surprisingly engaging game, requiring changes in strategy/skill point allocation depending on the presented obstacles and difficulty level. It will take 6+ hours to completely clear all levels at all difficulties.  I've rated it 3 instead of 4 stars due to some bugs that I encountered - the game awards you skill points for beating lower levels more than once, which apparently isn't the way it's supposed to work. Once you've maxed your skill points, completing subsequent levels will cause it to get stuck on the skill points award page and will not register the level as complete. It was a pretty frustrating issue to run into at 97% clear with no way to progress but start over from scratch. The other issue isn't a bug but perhaps a limitation of the Pico-8 engine; the larger levels can become very slow to complete because each orange enemy square takes its time when making a move, and you need to wait for each one before you can move again. This is a problem even when all the orange enemies are locked behind  a turret or a gate and not actually moving - the game still noticeably slows at it "checks" each one for the ability to move that turn.