Creaks é um jogo simples de puzzle, com uma narrativa que não é o forte. Sua direção de arte é impecável, sendo todo desenhado a mão, com cores meio pasteladas, mas o principal são os puzzles, eles são muito bem feitos e inteligentes, nenhum deles é pensado para se quebrar muito a cabeça, dando uma sensação orgânica, sem saltos lógicos. A experiência jogando, foi prazerosa a todo o momento, todas as suas fases são visualmente únicas e contam parte da história, que se passa em uma construção imensa cheia de pássaros, vale muito a pena.

Um ponto mt foda é a trilha sonora dinâmica, que enquanto vc vai resolvendo o puzzle mais ela vai se intensificando e adicionando mais notas, te mostrando que o caminho certo é esse.

Os colecionáveis desse jogo são ridículos de bom, são quadros tds diferentes um do outro que contam a história de uns pássaros, alguns tem minigames interagindo com eles.

Sights & Sounds
- The hand drawn + watercolor visuals are very charming. It's a great looking game
- The music is alright. While not bad, it certainly isn't all that memorable
- Counter to that is the sound design, which was actually quite good. The ominous titular creaking of the giant crumbling edifice you're exploring, the thunderous stomping of the creature that's stalking you, and even the subtle sounds of footsteps and light switches all contribute well to the game's gloomy tones

Story & Vibes
- It's not all doom and gloom, though. Creaks does a good job of breaking the tension with occasional doses of humor. There's nothing laugh-out-loud funny going on, but the occasional chuckle is appreciated
- There's not much of a story. You're just a guy living in a small apartment who climbs through a hole in the wall to discover a strange world full of monsters and puzzles. So basically Silent Hill 4
- That isn't to say that Creaks lacks a narrative. You are trying to help the residents of the large building defend against the giant who keeps bashing up their house, but the whole story unfolds passively as you progress

Playability & Replayability
- The puzzles in Creaks are pretty good and just difficult enough during the later stages to be satisfying. Just take your time, pay attention to the environment, and don't be afraid to experiment
- In some of the longer puzzles where it's possible to die, the game does a good job of providing checkpoints. It was a nice little quality-of-life touch
- Most of the puzzles revolve around positioning, sequencing, and timing. Nothing revolutionary, but still fun
- Be sure to poke around for secrets if you're trying to 100% the game. None of them are too deviously hidden (I only missed a single one by the time I finished). Fortunately, there's a chapter select after you beat the game that allows you to go back for any you passed up

Overall Impressions & Performance
- Amanita may only make one type of game (puzzle adventure games with amazing visuals, minimalist storytelling, and heaps of atmosphere), but they're damn good at it
- Creaks is an ideal Steam Deck game. I played most of it while dealing with air travel. It did a good job distracting me from the cramped 737 seat

Final Verdict
- 7/10. If you're already into Amanita games, this will definitely appeal to you and is definitely worth playing. It's not quite as heartfelt or complex as Machinarium, but it's still a good time with some clever puzzles. Nice to look at, too

Creaks was a 2D platform adventure brimming with imagination. Its puzzles were satisfying—transitioning from screen to screen, all while outsmarting pesky furniture that kept coming to life. It was a prime example that dialogue isn’t required to tell a story, the environment and characters charming in their own way. The most striking thing was its beautiful hand-painted visuals that depicted a crumbling mansion in a subterranean world.

There wasn't a great deal of variety as most puzzles involved manipulating light in some way, but I liked it and found it relaxing for the most part, outside of the moments where the trial and error puzzle solving got frustrating.

A fun puzzle game that never lingers too long on a single gimmick. Creaks struck the right balance of having satisfying puzzles that never frustrated me too much.

Really nice art too. But that's to be expected from the Machinarium developer.

Obtained Platinum trophy

This is a very charming puzzle game. The player must traverse this massive structure while dealing with the monsters that stand guard. The game introduces a number of creatures, each behaving in unique ways that allow for fun puzzle design. Many puzzles have clever solutions that made me feel smart for solving them. That said, the game never gets too difficult. I would have appreciated it if the final puzzles increased the challenge, but that's a personal preference.

I love the setting of this game. The player descends though a beautiful structure, and each of the rooms have unique features and decor. I love how you can see other levels in the game, even if you're in a separate one entirely. Things like that really make the world seem unified. The dynamic music is also great. Having the music change once I solved a puzzle is always a treat.

the puzzles are pretty competent: not too difficult, yet explore some interesting consequences of the combined mechanics introduced. nothing overstays its welcome. if anything, i wish there were a little more puzzles with some of the mechanics.

easily the best part of the game, at least for me, was the music. there's no melody i could hum from this game, even now just after completing it, but i am a complete sucker for its dynamic music. as you get closer to the solution with each puzzle, the music swells a little bit more with new instruments or backing parts culminating in a nice swell beat drop of sorts that makes solving each puzzle shoot up my brain with "yippee i did it" juice.

the art is very cool and i like how contiguous a lot of its architecture is. there's screen transitions, but its clear there was a very cohesive world designed with intention.the way the gameplay melts perfectly into the cutscenes and back shows how visually dynamic some of these spaces are. the player movement is on a tile based system, but it feels smooth, and you can't easily tell just by looking at it. despite that, it's perfectly readable and without any confusion about where you can walk.

there's some secrets here and there in the form of these little paintings. some just serve as cute little unique looking visuals with some music, but some are interactive with nice minigame aesthetics that were honestly some of my favorite parts of the game.

ultimately, i enjoyed my time in this furniture world. the wordless story was fine and servicable for what it is. nothing too crazy, but does not need to be. there's some "aha" moments to be had, and its an enjoyable experience overall. not the most mindblowing game i've ever played, but i am glad i did.

Another solid game from Amanita Design. The puzzles here felt harder than the usual for them, but I'm aware I'm not great at puzzles about handling many variables by moving in, effectively, a grid, like Sokoban and so, so it could just be that.

The middle third of the game is also composed of repetitive and context-less puzzle rooms, where you play with mostly the same mechanics without a narrative incentive to keep doing it, which made that portion of the game considerably slower to get through than the beginning or the ending, which was delightful.