Nuts
February 4, 2021
Gear up your research caravan, boot up your GPS, spread out your map and head for the depths of Melmoth Forest. As a rookie field researcher, you’ll place cameras during the day, and watch the footage at night, tracking the movements of a scurry of squirrels. Where do they hide …
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Critic Reviews (20)
Graphics
80.0
Gameplay
80.0
Story
80.0
"NUTS is an adorable walk through a forest of tranquillity. The gameplay is fun and unique, and nicely paced. The game doesn’t feel too hectic or too slow, and the specific requests from Nina players must achieve for each level …"
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70.0
Gameplay
85.0
Story
85.0
"Games like Nuts don&s;t come along very often. A compelling storyline and intriguing puzzles combine to create my favorite gaming experience of 2021, so far. Don&s;t let it&s;s simple demeaner fool you. There is far more going on under the …"
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70.0
Gameplay
65.0
Story
70.0
"A unique art style is marred by underdeveloped gameplay and inconsistent story beats. Nuts had the potential to be something really special, but can&s;t quite see the forest through the trees."
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60.0
Gameplay
75.0
Story
85.0
"Embrace the bucolic life as a grad student tracking some squirrels across a forest in this unique narrative puzzler."
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60.0
Gameplay
92.0
Story
85.0
"NUTS offers a unique and memorable experience that kept me completely hooked in from the get-go – who would have thought that tracking squirrels would be so fun? Whilst I have no doubt that its peculiar gameplay premise and slow …"
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70.0
Gameplay
85.0
Story
90.0
"With its interesting story and unique art style, Nuts is a narrative puzzle game worth exploring a forest of squirrels for."
Read original review"Everything in NUTS revolves around discovery. Discovering what these strange, fascinating squirrels are up to; what secrets are hidden in the ancient Melmoth Forest; discovering the past, as well as the future. Short without feeling short, simple without feeling simple, …"
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50.0
Gameplay
60.0
Story
60.0
"Nuts is an interesting game where the story fairly quickly overshoots the gameplay in scope."
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30.0
Gameplay
85.0
Story
75.0
"Busting a nut-based mystery such as this one involves two parts: clever thinking and intuition. NUTS is a beautiful game, in aesthetic, design and atmosphere"
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65.0
Gameplay
70.0
Story
30.0
"I feel like I was completely duped by its misleading trailer. The concept does have potential, but they didn’t go dark enough or weird enough with it. The story never gets terribly interesting and it leaves you with a lot …"
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85.0
Gameplay
70.0
Story
85.0
"NUTS is an interesting title, with different ideas, but it may not be for everyone. Strange puzzles and amazing visuals accompanied by a detailed storytelling. Its playability can become a bit dry, something that is compensated with the rest of …"
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70.0
Gameplay
65.0
Story
80.0
"NUTS is a story focused adventure game, with a heavy emphasis on exploration and developing lore. As a recently hired employee, you will traverse the wilderness and collect data about the endangered squirrel population. As data is collected, the world …"
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72.0
Gameplay
64.0
Story
71.0
"With a focus on the mischievous little woodland creatures, the squirrels, this is a pretty unique adventure you&s;ll undertake as a wildlife observer of sorts..."
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20.0
Gameplay
70.0
Story
90.0
"Springwatch fans who crave mystery may enjoy this slow-burning minimalist adventure"
Read original review"Developed by a team working remotely, NUTS is a unique and surprisingly effective experience for what seems to be, at first, a mere squirrel-photographing simulator. The attention and care put into each and every aspect of the game are tangible, …"
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75.0
Gameplay
30.0
Story
20.0
"I cannot, in good faith, recommend a game that I could not finish thanks to game-breaking bugs. Looking past that, on the grounds that said bug can be squashed in time, you have a great concept that is just poorly …"
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85.0
Gameplay
60.0
Story
30.0
"The overarching story within NUTS is probably worth experiencing on its own, despite the repetitive gameplay. It’s reasonably well written and is just about compelling enough to hold your attention for its 2-3 hour duration. There’s nothing here that you’ll …"
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45.0
Gameplay
35.0
Story
85.0
"The visual design harms the experience, and there are frequent framerate stutters and hiccups while playing the later levels. I enjoyed the premise and the ideas the game presents, but within this context the Switch version does not do the …"
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