It’s time to build a new puzzle series for developer ClockStone. After creating six entries in the Bridge Constructor series, the team will trade in its steel girders for plastic pieces in Lego Bricktales later this year. Announced by publisher Thunderful Games via a trailer earlier this week, Lego Bricktales is an instruction-free, physics-based puzzler that will see a mini-figure hero exploring brick-based dioramas and solving problems of the Lego folks who live there via free building challenges. It is coming out on at least PC in 2022 (other platforms have yet to be confirmed).
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LEGO Bricktales is a brand new physics-based puzzle adventure.
Build you way through different biomes, solve puzzles to help people in need and return your grandfather's amusement park to its former glory.
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Lego Bricktales splits into two distinct halves that might seem familiar to fans of other games featuring the popular building blocks. Players will first tackle a set campaign with blocks themed around their surroundings. Classic themes like pirate ships and the deep jungle are evident in the announce trailer, and it’s easy to imagine what might need building in those scenarios.
Once a level is completed the first time, players can go back in via Sandbox mode and toy around with more advanced creations using the full scope of the game’s building blocks. Just like how many like to break a movie’s story wide open in traditional Lego games, it remains to be seen how ClockStone introduces off-the-wall gadgets to a Medieval kingdom.
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While the structure seems familiar, the overall gameplay is a far cry from what gamers usually expect from Lego games. It continues a gradual expansion for Lego’s gaming efforts into territory beyond the platforming action provided by TT Games in forthcoming releases like Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
Bricktales seems like a direct response to building games like ClockStone’s own bridgebuilders as well as more advanced creation-based experiences like Kerbal Space Program and Besiege. The Lego brand may be late to the party in this way, but it has unique brick designs and nostalgic charm on their side, and that may be enough for Bricktales players when it comes out.
