December 14th-17th 2012 :: Theme: You are the Villain
CONTROLS: With the "track" item selected, hold down the mouse to lay new tracks or re-route existing tracks. You can re-route existing tracks without spending money. Just drag your mouse over the existing track in the path you want it to take.
Cruel Cruel Dastard is a game about using the fortunes of your railway empire to rid the earth of damsels. Play by re-routing the train tracks to use your trains for villainy.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #29 | Theme | 4.09 |
| #56 | Fun | 3.60 |
| #59 | Overall | 3.68 |
| #86 | Humor | 3.47 |
| #98 | Innovation | 3.57 |
| #211 | Mood | 3.08 |
| #242 | Audio | 2.79 |
| #439 | Graphics | 2.76 |
Comments
Well polished game. Kind of easy. The time should tick down even before you start playing the level.
Love the evil chuckle--the puzzles seem pretty easy, but it's really impressive to have so many done in a weekend. I wish I could press the spacebar to start the simulation, though.
I love that 'Nyahaha' Sound effect. Brilliant.
Fun, cute, polished little game. I like it.
harharhar, very nice gsme, this made me really feel like a bad guy ^^
Niiiice. You went with paint-the-tracks instead of Pipe Dream style. I really like it. And you've got consistent sprites, audio, and LEVELS! Excellent! I'd actually play the crap out of this game. You should keep it going.
Very nice. One of the best I've seen so far. Good art, great use of theme (plays perfectly into pop culture and everyone gets it) and the mechanics are such that you can get a lot of levels out of them. I think you nailed it.
I liked this Game a lot :D You should maybe just have a quick tooltip like thing to show what stuff is doing, because I pretty much discovered how everything works by accident... But that's fun too I guess ;)
The laugh sound is incredible. Really cool puzzle game, great work! Definitely the best application of the theme, too. Also, congrats on getting on Terry Cavanaugh's Site!
this is good! nice little puzzle game, well executed idea
Hey there, rail-idea partner. o/
Neat little game. Mouse interaction felt a bit odd when laying tracks, but it works fine.
This is a really fun game. The sound effects are great, and the graphics fit nicely. Well done!
Very good job, the game sucked me right in. Nice one!
Loved the win / lose level noises. Liked the variety of things to buy throughout the game. Brilliant idea with the theme.
Very nice puzzle game! The art style and theme fit well! Good job! :D
Very nice. Surprised at the depth. Liked the challenge. Great pacing. Nice work.
Awesome job! I love the implementation of theme here. Great little puzzler. With some fancier graphics and sounds, I can totally see this selling on mobile devices.
Reminds me of Trainyard. I do really like the arcadey aspect of having to place track while it's running.
Excellent job here. This is a really original and fun game - I was kind of sad when it ended.
Happy Death Train vs Damsels. Great job, esp. for in 48 hours.
Well done. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Nothing major to complain about.
Impressive ! It's a really hard work to make a puzzle game in 48h. Very good work !
I WIN! :)
Superb job! Cute graphics and audio, and great fun to play!
I'm pressing space but there's no "Choo Choo". :(
I like this game.
This game is really cool. Great idea! There's a lot of variation in the puzzles too. This is really good for 48 hours.
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Nyahaha