Your bridges are all created on a 2D grid, from a side perspective. Some are simple bridges for a single vehicle, some require hydraulics to allow for passing ships and some really aren’t bridges at all, but rather, launching and landing pads.ĭon’t expect to be dazzled with fast-paced action because the only time you’ll see anything animated on-screen is when you have finished your build and put your innovative design to the test. For each new challenge, you’ll be given a budget, materials and a goal. The game seems to have a good handle on the physics aspect, giving you a full weight and stress factor report at the end of a successful level. Poly Bridge provides the means to construct a digital replica of a good many of them, plus some hybrid versions and a bunch of crazy other things, like ramps and jumps. In the real world, there are a lot of kinds of bridges: drawbridge, suspension bridge, girder, truss-arch, moveable… the list is huge. “Don’t expect to be dazzled with fast-paced action because the only time you’ll see anything animated on-screen is when you have finished your build and put your innovative design to the test.” Your bridges will have to support either a single vehicle or a combination of them that include but are not limited to station wagons, school buses, monster trucks and some old guy on a scooter. The campaign is loaded with over 36 levels that involve many different styles of bridges that pose new challenges in structural design and building. The tutorial provides you with the basics of how to construct bridges of various types and once you enter campaign mode, that’s it, you are on your own! Of course, you can still revisit the tutorial if you forget how to use any of the materials. You’ve been tasked with building a structure from one land mass to another that can stand freely on its own and more importantly, support the weight of one or more vehicles moving across it. It will cleverly appear to be as simple as a children’s game as you first run through the tutorial, but this puzzler is as skill-testing as they come.

Get your thinking hardhat on and prepare for a battle with the unforgiving laws of physics! Poly Bridge by Dry Cactus is a builder’s dream-game for the engineer in all of us.

Polly bridge game