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Running Sheep 
Help sheep escape an alien ship in Running Sheep! Ruthless aliens are abducting farm animals for some mysterious purpose. You will have to guide the sheep through many obstacles using movable arrows. Sheep are not particularly smart by nature, so they will really need your help. Only you can help them find an exit from the alien spacecraft and escape in this harrowing Puzzle game!
- 61 dynamic levels!
- Adjustable difficulty
- Hours of puzzlesome gameplay
- Free the sheep!
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Game System Requirements:
- OS: 10.7/10.6/10.5
- CPU: 1.2 GHz (INTEL ONLY)
- RAM: 1024 MB
- Hard Drive: 51 MB
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Running Sheep
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Amateurish Puzzler
The concept is old (you have to direct sheep with a limited number of arrows which you place on the floor to an exit). Took me a while to figure that out, because they must have forgotten to explain the rules in better detail. That's pretty much it, but the game is timed, so after a while you stand next to zero chance, as they really didn't give much time to think about what needs to be done. I have nothing against timed puzzlers, quite enjoy the challenge, but not if I've got only one minute, to figure out a way, place and rotate a limited number of arrows and doing that watching out that the arrow doesn't point the wrong way so the sheep don't end up in outer space.
The graphics are bad and only get topped by the poor sound quality.
May 23, 2012
Good concept, but the game is unfair
I really thought this game could be good. The design looked interesting, and I really love unique puzzle games so I thought I'd try this one.
To say that this game is unforgiving is an understatement. You have one minute for each level. That is one minute to figure out where your sheep could fall into the abyss (as the walls blend in too much with the environment), and you can only use a limited amount of arrows to guide them. This means that while the sheep are in motion, you need to pick up the earlier arrows, and place them in front of the sheep. On top of all this, you have no idea where the sheep will come from (if they are not present on the level at start), so there are many seconds wasted simply waiting for the sheep to appear, so you can start planning.
I like a good challenge every now and then, but this game is very unfair.
If there were unlimited arrows we could place, if there was an untimed option (and the timed game would allow more time to think), and if sheep starting locations were indicated, this would be an excellent game. It is really annoying, because Running Sheep had potential, and the issues I have with it are minor things that are so obvious, I simply can't imagine developers didn't think about them.
May 23, 2012
Running Sheep
Cute concept of a game, but I could not save the sheep. They give you arrows to turn the direction of the sheep to. Only problem is the arrows do not turn easily at all, so you end up with dead sheep. Played over and over, but could not turn the sheep. So sorry little sheep
,I tried. Not to much fun at all with this one.
May 23, 2012
Nothing like Sheep's Quest!
I downloaded, thinking it was going to be identical to Sheep's Quest.
Between the arrows, the timer...it all was awful. Don't waste your money!!
May 23, 2012
A disaster!
This game got 2 stars as a nod to the decent graphics and concept. But the rest is a disaster as far as I am concerned. There is NO written information, other than the name of the game, and the word "player." If I hadn't read the game description before downloading the game, I would have had NO idea what was going on. You are supposed to figure out how to play from symbols and mini-animations. The one that demonstrated how to place a directional arrow and rotate it confounded me. I tried over and over, but just couldn't get the arrow to turn direction. Here's the TIP: you click and hold the left mouse button over the arrow, and drag your mouse to the square NEXT TO the arrow, in the direction you wish the sheep to go.
I only went as far as level 6 before giving up in frustration because each level has a 1-minute timer. It can easily take that long just to figure out what you are supposed to do. When you're ready to quit, good luck finding out how. Fortunately, there are only a few buttons, and by clicking through them, you will come back to the title screen. With effort put into a written tutorial, this might have been a good game. As it is now, it's seconds away from the delete key.
May 25, 2012
Too little time
If there had been an option, either for different difficulty or untimed/timed this would have been a good game. I played one like this which had a better placement of the arrows system and I loved it, expected this to be similar but the timer doesn't allow enough time to figure out what you need to do.
May 23, 2012
Just Plain bad!
As my title implies this game is just plain bad. The visual is probably the best part of the game but other than that there isn't much else to say about it. Took a minute for me to figure out how to play it. When you first start they tell you how to play but the window that pops up giving you instruction quickly disappears. (most games let you read at your leisure). After the first few levels the 1 min. they give you to complete the puzzle isn't enough time (they also want you to collect other stuff you just don't have the time to collect). The arrows you use to direct the sheep are also limited so you have to pick up the ones you no longer need before the sheep run off into space.
May 27, 2012
Quirky Controls
I would have liked this game if the controls were manageable - turning the arrows was frustratingly difficult and time kept running out. Quit midway through trial.
May 24, 2012
Really Sweet Graphics
The art for this game is just adorable. I really wanted to like it. I did not try to hard to make the levels since I do not like scrambling to shift the arrows while determining the route. I had only a few sheep die because I just quit. I would love a game with these graphics with a more varied game play.
May 23, 2012
Disappointing sequel
I really wanted to like this game, as it appears to be a sequel to "Sheep's Quest", a game I really enjoyed. Although the graphics are good, there simply isn't enough time to adequately figure out the puzzles and direct the sheep where they need to go. In addition to the VERY short amount of time you have on each level, you can only have five directional arrows on the board at once. If you want to place a sixth, you have pick one of the others up first.
The combination of these two things makes what could have been a fun arcade puzzler an exercise in frustration and dead sheep. Not a buy for me.
June 2, 2012
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