The Plucky Squire Reviews
The Plucky Squire is a fun romp through 2D and 3D locations, but its boss fights, puzzles, and combat may be too easy for long-time gamers.
The Plucky Squire is a beautiful storybook adventure filled with brilliant wordplay-packed puzzles and clever dimension-hopping mechanics, but it drags on a bit too long after it's already used up all of its best ideas.
An ingenious puzzle-platformer that takes players from a children's book and out into the wider world around it.
While it could serve to offer more of a challenge and some quests feel a little rote, the times when The Plucky Squire twists genre convention and blends 2D and 3D puzzles are a sparkle of imagination in the genre.
The Plucky Squire makes for a fascinating interplay of 2D and 3D puzzles, battles, and diverse minigames.
The Plucky Squire's inventive puzzle-platforming looks to the past and future of the medium
Quite the well-written yarn, indeed.
An altogether fun action adventure with some charming, and occasionally brilliant, 2D to 3D platforming and puzzling. But don't expect to flex your own creativity, even if it gives you the tools to do so.
Performance issues on Switch, at least at launch, bury an amazingly clever and charming adventure that we would wholeheartedly recommend otherwise. The Plucky Squire is certainly playable on the Nintendo Switch, but in no way can we recommend picking it up here if you have other means to play it. The fact that the Switch-branded trailers looked so great and that advance review copies weren't available on the platform - despite them being sent out for other systems - indicates that this version of The Plucky Squire needed much more time on the drawing board before release.
The Plucky Squire is a game oozing with charm and positivity, and the clever word and book based puzzles will keep you gripped from start to finish.
The Plucky Squire is both a familiar and predictable, and gorgeously ambitious and creative title. At its best, it's a dimension-hopping romp with excellent meta-writing, standout set-pieces and mini-games, and undeniably creative puzzle mechanics.
Charming, gorgeous and tonally perfect, The Plucky Squire is easily one of the indie highlights of the year.
The Brave Squire is one of the indie surprises of 2024, a great game both in form and in substance, with original ideas (such as entering and leaving the pages) and a superb staging. You can reproach him for tending to repeat ideas, but everything he does, he does very well and with a good dose of fun along the way.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
One of the central focuses of The Plucky Squire's story is that it's a tale that inspires hope in all of the children who read it. I'm hopeful that this game will inspire any would-be developer who plays it, because it's a true expression of what's possible through gaming.
A stylish, distinctive, and intriguing action-adventure platformer. It's not challenging, long, or mechanically deep, but it oozes magic from every 2D or 3D pore.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Plucky Squire combines 2D action-adventure with 3D platforming for a 4th wall breaking good time while serving as a family-friendly love letter to the art and literature that creatively inspires us.
The Plucky Squire is an exceptional experience that I would recommend to most gamers. While the build-up is a bit slow and the story portions break up the gameplay a little too much, the title is still a worthwhile experience.
Although the game was a lot of fun and I enjoyed the actual gameplay elements of it, the story just didn't grab me. Initially, I was also deterred by the massively contrasting art styles and the finicky menus. Overall, the game is a pleasant experience, appropriate for gamers of all ages. If the story had some more flashy dramatics, it may have pulled me in earlier. The Plucky Squire is very evidently a product made with a lot of love, and you can tell that from the level of polish it has.
The game looks great, especially the 2D parts and their animations. While it's geared toward kids, it's still a fun game for adults, too.
Review in Italian | Read full review