Heron: Steam Machine

The game features a story about a factory in which a steam engine produces rubber ducks. The player is represented by the factory technician Ron, who has to keep the machine in check. While producing ducks, the steam machine's four color-coded systems (green for steam, yellow for electricity, blue for water and red for oil) grow and the player has to keep them down by connecting entry and exit points for the respective colors. This is done by rotating the blocks on screen. When a link is completed, the gauge for that system will go down, the blocks will be removed from the screen and new blocks will be added from the top in a Tetris style.

The goal is to keep the machine running as long as possible, while the difficulty increases both by adding more systems that fail at once (which then need to all be connected before they will cool off) and increasing the rate of failure for the systems.

Nintendo Life gave it a 7/10, stating that it "isn't going to win any awards, but it has a clean cartoony look and offers a great 5-minute pick-up game that will have broad appeal." Wiiloveit.com thought the "teamwork-building multiplayer" was a nice touch, as was its "warm atmosphere". The site gave it a total rating of 24/30. IGN gave the game a 6.0/10, stating that while fans of Pipe Dream might enjoy it, the pre-filled board can cause "frequent frustration". The game holds a Metacritic score of 70/100, based on 5 critic reviews.