Buy Leo’s Fortune

Nice and short (2,1 hours for me) casual platformer with stunningly beautiful 2D art, great music and voice acting. Platforming feels quite OK, considering you're a tribble-like ball of fur with no legs and you often have to float. Aside from movement you've got two buttons - one will puff you up, allowing you to jump, float or press switches, and the other one forces you downwards. There are 5 chapters, each with 4 levels and 1 bonus level that you can unlock by gaining enough stars in the four regular stages. Three stars per level - One for getting all the gold, one for not dying and a third one for beating a set time. If you just want to casually get though the game you shouldn't encounter any frustrating parts as the game autosaves your state when you touch basically any stable platform. Finishing the story unlocks a Hardcore mode which apparently lets you start the game again but with just one life for the whole game. Rating: 4 golden sloths.

I'm so glad I finally decided to buy and play this game. It has solid platforming and a very relaxed feel to the game.

-PROS-
- Controls are solid (use controller)
- Art Style is beautiful, for a low cost 2D title is doesnt get much better than this.
- The game has well executed difficulty, it raises as you get further into the game and a nice even pace.
- Okay amount of levels and around a 2HR gameplay, but you can back through to get more of the achievements and better your times. This game is surely worth playing multiple times.
- Many checkpoints, makes game easy to play and not Rage about having to restart a level over
- The puzzle areas are mostly easy to solve, nothing too difficult or puzzling. (yeah, puns are funny)

-CONS-
- I ran into a few glitchy areas where I would sort of get stuck, but nothing too serious.
- Playing with keyboard is not that good, but that can be said about many platformer games.
- It would of been cool if there were a few more levels, game is kind of short.
- I wish I would have known about this game sooner...

There isnt much more to add, it's a quality game that looks and plays well. If you are into platformer games and want something you can finish in one night, then I highly recommend buying this.

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+ Beautiful art
+ Well designed levels
+ Good amount of checkpoints

+/- Collision detection is sometimes hit and miss

- Too short
- Easy

[Rating: 71/100]

Leo’s Fortune is a puzzle platforming game developed by 1337 and Senri LLC. The Swedish made game was originally developed for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and the Amazon App store in early 2014. It got later ported to Steam and PS4 in September 2015.

Gameplay in Leo’s Fortune is sublime. I am not normally a fan of the puzzle platforming type but the slick movement and clever way the puzzles are put together, makes play absolutely wonderfully. Leo is a cute little ball of fluffiness – you are able to squelch yourself to a smaller size, or puff yourself up which also in turn makes you jump and float. A lot of the game play uses a lot of momentum type physics meaning some of the maps you can be doing at quite a quick pace. The puzzles in Leo’s Fortune aren’t so difficult that you aren’t able to figure them out within a few seconds; the game doesn’t present many obstacles which prevent you from completing the level; it’s the Star rating system which offers the most complexity in the game – you are rewarded with 1 star for completing a level, 2 stars for not dying on the level, and 3 stars for completing the level in under 4 minutes (usually). Each set of four levels require you to have 5 stars in total to move onto the next block. It works as a sort of gating system, meaning you may have to replay previous levels in order to move on.

Leo’s Fortune has some really gorgeous looking graphics; although the game is only 2D, the world in which you are playing in is so amazingly rendered it is hard to believe that this is actually a mobile game at its core. The animation of Leo is perfect, the way you are able to move him about in all sorts of different shapes and sizes is just a testament to how good the animation really is in this game. Whilst the game doesn’t have that much audio, Leo does have an interesting voice actor, you’ll get odd snippets of dialogue from him at times, he sounds a bit like a Muppet, and it is hilarious. He doesn’t say much but you really learn a lot about the character just from the small bits.

The game has varying levels of difficulty like I said above with the star rating system; similar to h ow it’s done in games like Angry Birds. But the game also offers an extra level of difficulty in the regular “normal and hard” mode difficulty levels. Only the hard core platforming players should really play the hard mode, as I had plenty of issues progressing on the higher stages with higher star ratings on the normal mode.

Sadly Leo’s Fortune is a very short game; I completed all 5 stages in just over one hour; granted I only just scrapped by on the Star requirements to progress on the stages, but even then, one hour is very short for a game nowadays. You can get a little extra time out of the game if you replay previous levels for a higher star rating, or ramping up the overall difficulty; but personally you are just rehashing old content so one play through is really enough for me.

The game needs to be played with a 360 controller; I couldn’t get the game to work with a keyboard. I also couldn’t get the game to work with the Steam controller too. Small note for people wanting to use Fraps video capturing – it doesn’t work on this game either sadly.

The only downside to Leo’s Fortune is the shortness of the game; the rest of the game is stellar. The price for this game on iOS is £3, 99; compared to the Steam price of £5, 59. If you are really into the puzzle platforming games, you probably should check this game out for the regular price as I can guarantee you will get plenty of enjoyment out of it and you will find yourself wanting to complete the levels with three stars each time. If you are wanting a more casual experience out of the game; then wait for it to go on sale. Personally I am going to only recommend it when it is on sale, purely because of the short play time.

Tom's Score Card
1) Stay away
2) Not Recommended
3) Only recommended when on sale
4) Recommended
5) Highly recommended
6) This is a must play

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Leo's Fortune is one of the best games of this type out there, I haven't played anything like it. The mechanics are great, the graphic are even better! I can't really say anything negative about this game. The game gets harder and harder and cooler and cooler, what more can you ask for?
I was supposed to go out with my friends this evening, instead I found this. I regret nothing.

After every track you can get 3/3 stars, this is based on your performance. + Bonus tracks with awesome games.
1. star; If you collect all coins.
2. star; If you don't die through out the entire track.
3. star; Based on your time. Your time will also show up on a leaderboard, so you can compete with friends and people from all over the world.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=515131698


I rate this game 10/10.

1) Essential purchase
3) Recommended purchase during a sale
4) Not recommended unless heavily discounted
5) Not even recommended for Steam game collectors


In the past few years there have been a lot of games that have started life out on mobile devices before moving onto the PC platform with a majority being nothing more than simple and cheap cash grabs. The transition from touch screens to PC peripheral devices has often not been a smooth one and sadly most generally look cheap and play cheaper. Leo's Fortune thankfully bucks that trend offering players a delightful platformer that looks like it could have come from the Disney staple house with its delightful visuals accompanied by a short but incredibly heartfelt tale (with an added moral sting to the tale for those more impressionable minds among us) that centers around uncovering who is the culprit behind a most impossible theft, a theft that has left our titular hero high and dry. Part mystery, part puzzler, part platformer - Leo's Fortune while incredibly simple - ends up being beguiling and charming in ways very few games achieve.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=676387510
Perhaps it helps that our hero, a furry ball of turquoise fuzz, just happens to be quite possibly one of the cutest, fuzziest little fuzzballs this side of the Furries. No furry fuzzball would be complete without a winning mustache and thankfully Leo has the most winning of mustache's in all of Furriedom. As I guided our adorable hero through five distinct worlds in search of the missing gold and the thief who stole it, I was pleasantly surprised - that from a level design stand point - the developers thankfully steered clear from the typical types of levels found within these kinds of games. Each area has its own distinct feel with stunning 2D painted backgrounds that look glorious in 1080p. Along the way Leo will have to solve some puzzles to go along with all the platform jumping that are gentle in nature but fit with the setting and theme perfectly. None of it is ever too difficult or frustrating so this is the perfect game to put on when the little ones are around.

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With a tale that centers around greed and avarice, we soon learn at the onset of the game that Leo's life is in a shambles. Not only has a thief stolen all his gold but his marriage has hit rock bottom thanks to Leo's desire for more and more wealth. This fascination with accumulating wealth has resulted in Leo's wife walking out on him, leaving no note or letter about how to contact her ever again. With a skewered priority list, Leo hopes to firstly find all his gold (and the thief who stole it) before embarking on finding his missing wife. Along the way he will learn some important lessons about himself, his nature and what it means to be part of a family.

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While certainly not challenging as the current crop of platformers (which seem intent on outplatforming each other with an ever increasing style of lightening reflex play) most players should be able to breeze through Leo's five realms (each made up of five stages) fairly quickly. Leo's winning feature however is not his mustache as you may have been lead to believe but the fact that he can puff himself up into an even larger fuzzball which enables him to glide across the screen. Many puzzles strewn throughout the game world rely on this feature and thankfully it never seems to get old as Leo manages to make himself look even cuter than before while performing the action. Leo also comes resplendent with one of the most charming little accents I have yet heard voiced by a computer game character. He is like that lovable old uncle Scrooge every family has. While each stage can be completed in a matter of just a few minutes there are challenges to each of them such as time trials (completing the level under a certain designated time), completing the levels without dying and completing the levels collecting all the missing gold coin pieces strewn throughout the level. For challenge aficionados there is more than enough here for you to enjoy.

Leo's Fortune may be brief but it's gorgeously brief with some outright dazzling visuals that often it is hard to believe that Leo's Fortune started life out as a mobile ios game. There is a lot of lovable charm on display here and hopefully given the success of the game we will one day see a more fleshed out adventure with a few more tricks up its sleeve than the simple yet amusing adventure that is Leo's Fortune in its entirety. Given the price point, you really can't go wrong with this little adventure and spending an afternoon in Leo's company ends up being more charming than a visit from the Fantastic Mr.Fox himself.

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Leo's Fortune is a HD remake of the popular mobile game with the same name. You play as a lovable ball of fluff, and journey through the world following a trail of your stolen gold in order to reclaim it. It has a cute little backstory and good level design. Let's take a more in-depth look!

• Great Visuals! - The game looks great, and Leo's fur looks very detailed. The environment is very detailed and has nice lighting.
  
• Lovable Protagonist - I really like Leo's Kuriboh-like physique, huge mustache an deep, thick accented voice and his few remarks across the game.
  
• Good Gameplay - People will argue this game is easy and... it is. But the idea is that it is easy to play but hard to master. Like every mobile game in the history of ever, you get a maximum of three stars for each level: Completing it, completing it without dying and completing it fast. Sometimes, the latter two are not that easy to accomplish, and will require several takes. But once you get the hang of it, it will become easier.
  
• Adaptive Level Design - While the level elements are quite limited, and some tricks will seem repeated a lot, the chapters put quite a unique fingerprint on them. Some levels focus on dodging spikes, others on solving puzzles, other on deduction and quick reflexes. The changing theme of the chapters also brings a breath of fresh air to the game.
  
• Achievements and Leaderboards - Each level has its leaderboard, so you can see who completed the level and how fast. Achievements are also prezent, and most of them regard completing all the levels with three stars.

• Short - You have five chapters of four levels each, with another four bonus unlockable levels, bringing the total of 24 levels. Not that bad considering adding more would just make them seem more repetitive and seeing how this is a mobile port, but for the 7 Euros asked from PC gamers, I would have liked to have more content.
  
• The Music - I'm not saying the music track is bad, I'm just saying there's only one... (counting out the bonus levels). I would have liked to see environment specific music rather than generic background music.
  
• NOT Alt+Tab Friendly - Don't tab out of your game in critical moments, for you risk losing your progress. When you tab back in, 2/5 times the game just crashed for me. Not sure if it is a problem for everyone, but I thought I'd mention it. However, no in-game crashes. Works well other than that.

The game is funny, and will certainly entertain children too. It's not that hard, and pleasurable to get into. If you see enough potential in this game to account for it's price, go for it. I would hold my wallet until I see it on sale, though.

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Pros: the graphics are gorgeous, pretty simplistic and minimalistic , level design is fairly interesting , it starts very simple and gets more and more complex every level ! the game looks stunning visually.
Cons: not much really , I would be happier if there was a better menu for the PC owners , it looks alot like an Iphone port , specially the menu part. Also the controls are some times not realiable .. But overall , its a good game and its worth the money.

Leo's Fortune is a very cute and challenging game. The graphics are beautiful and Leo is simply adorable. Definitely worth a buy,

Leo's Fortune tells the story of one mustaches mans journey to find his stolen gold. Scrooge McDuck levels of gold. Traveling through 5 worlds and 20 odd levels Leo faces many obstacles along the way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsHy5yGhc8
Core of the game is focused on physics based platforming and for the most part it works quite well, for those moments it doesn't the game employs a passive checkpoint system which cuts down on restarts and frustrating deaths. Relatively short lived but the 2.5d-like artwork and accompanying soundtrack is just magic. Completing the game unlocks hardcore mode(1-death run) and levels contained a small number of collectibles that gave access to bonus areas so there was some reason to return. Don't hesitate to grab this one on sale if full price looks too high.