D-Cube Planet is a simplistic puzzler with you playing Lilliput, an alien who has crash landed on D-Cube Planet, to get to continue his journey he needs to collect the parts of his spaceship that have been spread all over the planet.

 

The game is set up very similar to the block sliding puzzles from Zelda. You have a group of tiles that can slide, moving Lilliput in between them all to reach his prize. The tiles come is a few flavours, basic cubes can slide in any direction, others have arrows depicting which direction they can move in and gray ones just can't be moved.

 

 

To make things trickier D-Cube Planet has a set amount of moves to complete in each level before it's game over, there is no reason for this other than another restriction to gameplay to lengthen the play time, sadly though all this does is wind you up as you have to re-start every time you make a mistake. There are two medals to earn in each puzzle depending on how many moves it takes you reach the ship part, but other than a getting a shiny medal it does little else.

 

The presentation is reasonable with a large main character who has the look of a green one-eyed turd monster and there is also a colourful but lifeless background. There is a small issue with the static camera as at times you can't always see behind other blocks clearly, other than that though there aren’t too many problems in this area.

 

D-Cube Planet has around 40 puzzles so there is plenty for you to play through if you have the patience. Be warned though, the game gets very hard later on.