Chuck’s Challenge 3D 2020 (v2022.06.09 & ALL DLC)

A purple alien with the power to bend time and space stars in a puzzle adventure built around careful planning and quick reactions. Chuck’s Challenge 3D 2020 comes from Chuck Sommerville, the designer associated with the influential Chip’s Challenge, and it carries that same love of tightly constructed obstacle courses. Woop must reach an exit portal in each compact, colorful stage while surviving traps, hostile creatures, and increasingly devious environmental rules. The mood stays playful and cartoonish, but the puzzles can become properly ruthless once several hazards start interacting at once.

Each level asks players to read the board, decide on a safe route, and manipulate its moving parts in the correct order. Woop pushes blocks, collects keys, activates switches, crosses water, races through lava, and uses special movement options to bypass barriers that initially seem impossible. Enemies turn many rooms into timing challenges, since a correct solution on paper can still fail if you move at the wrong moment or let a creature cut off an escape route. Progression steadily introduces new devices and combinations rather than simply making layouts larger, so later stages reward memory, experimentation, and a willingness to restart after an avoidable mistake.

Its biggest strength is the mix of old-school grid puzzle design and a more approachable 3D presentation, giving each board a clear physical sense without losing the precision of a classic logic game. A built-in level editor extends the package considerably, allowing players to create puzzles and share them with the community for others to rate and solve. That creation tool makes it more than a fixed campaign, especially for players who enjoy dissecting puzzle mechanics as much as completing stages. Fans of Chip’s Challenge, Sokoban-style block puzzles, and compact action-logic games find plenty to enjoy here, while newcomers should expect a friendly look hiding a demanding brain teaser.