for a specific kind of gamer this title's an easy way to lose a huge amount of time

I already played the demo for 23 hours before purchasing the full version. I'm still having a blast. What a great puzzle game.

Fun game on the surface, but eventually the rules just get repetitive. I found myself copy-pasting the same rule way too many times, when they could all be fused into one. The game's autosolver also doesn't treat rules which apply to 1+ to also apply to 2, 3, 1/2, etc, despite ALL of them being a narrowing conversion - they are a subset of 1+, so the rule will always apply transitively. If you don't believe me, let me state it again in a different way to prove it.

Imagine any region with a label of 1+, and you have a rule which applies to it (and potentially some other crossing regions). It is possible for that 1+ region to have 3 bombs in it, and the rule would STILL apply. Thus, if we changed the region's label in this case to 3, the rule may still be applied - we didn't add any new possibilities, we removed the possibilities of 1, 2, 4, 5, and so on. The rule applied before when the region could have 3 bombs in it, it still applies when it does have 3 bombs in it. This is VERY different than a broadening conversion. You may NOT do the same thing in reverse - a region with a label of 1+ cannot use a rule that applies to a region of 3, because this adds the possibilities of 1, 2, 4, 5, and so on.

This means you have to create a bunch of meaningless garbage rules which are exactly the same, but with different labels. In short, I found myself constantly wanting to generalize the rules, but being unable to due to the solver not being smart enough, and it just sucked the life out of the game.

I'll probably keep playing because another annoyance was the lack of any kind of variables, and after looking it up online it does seem like the game has them. If it didn't, I'd be done permanently. Fortunately, a lot of the narrowing issues with the solver can be dealt with through variables, but you get them much later after dealing with too much rule duplication at the start. If you're willing to fix the above issue with rule narrowing, I'll change my review to recommended.