Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure Review

What an awesome and unique puzzle game where you go on a puzzle adventure, but you move the world when you move around and solve many puzzles that way. It takes around 10h to complete and has many missable achievements.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: 10h
Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: I wrote this achievement guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: Yes, many achievements are missable. However, the game has a handy-dandy system to skip puzzles which makes playing through the game a second time a breeze. In my guide, I listed the achievements per area so you hopefully don’t miss out on any.
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: Not sure, I didn’t use the system that let you skip puzzles in my first playthrough. So I don’t know if you use that on a puzzle that is attached to an achievement, if that achievement still unlocks or not.
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

What an awesome game! It made me feel super smart, while also with moments super stupid. In Arranger you move the area you walk on and solve puzzles that way. And they are round, so if you leave an area at the top, you’ll return at the bottom. With this mechanic, you’ll solve many many puzzles in this awesome adventure game. You’ll never fight with weapons in your hand, or open locks with keys in your pockets. The items lay around on the floor and it is up to you to move them toward the objective. It takes a bit of time to wrap your head around it, but it is so well done and unique.

What took me the most time to get used to is that you can move items from within buildings outside by just moving them along with you. I also have felt stumped on some puzzles for a while, especially in the later areas and in the optional dungeons. What helped me when I was stuck was to remind me which info I had on solving the puzzle and what am I unsure about or what am I missing. There were like 1 or 2 puzzles I solved by luck by just moving around. However, there always is a solution, you just have to see it.

The story in Arranger is interesting and funny. I love that they added a story that made sense and also made fun of that your character is the only one who moves around in such a weird way. You’ll meet a lovely bunch of interesting people, from good to evil people and from clumsy to skilled people. The variety and the amount of characters you’ll meet is crazy for such a short story, but they all fit in and made sense to be there.

Another thing that I love about Arranger is the kind of achievements. Sadly it has missable achievements, which I’m not a fan of, but it has unique achievements. Achievements that make you explore the world a little more outside the main story. Achievements that make you do silly things (especially looking at the achievement for stealing a golden toilet). It is also nice that the game has a system to make replays so much faster by having the option to skip a lot of puzzles and dungeons. It took me around 10 hours to unlock all the achievements.

I give Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure 4 out of 5 stars.

This review for Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure was written on 25 July 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 36 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.