6 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 0.3 hrs on record
Posted: 9 May, 2018 @ 11:11pm
Updated: 6 Jun, 2018 @ 4:21pm
Product received for free

With puzzles that all boil down to guessing and several missing features, I can't recommend this game, especially not anywhere near full price. The game works, but the very basic home screen simply has 4 buttons to generate a puzzle in the 4 sizes, no options, no exit button. I wasn't able to get the game to launch on my primary monitor, and given it launched in full screen and had no options, there wasn't much I could do to fix it. All of the puzzles are randomly generated, which is fine, but it means that there is no form of progression outside of the level sizes. All of the numbers on the boards seem to be 2, 3, or 4, which means it is impossible to solve puzzles logically, especially larger ones, and you must always resort to guessing. Even in the occasional case where you can determine a tile must be included (or discluded) from the row or column, there's no way to differentiate it from the tiles you've guessed about, as every tile is simply on or off. There's also hardly any confirmation when a level is completed, it just unlocks the respetive achievement (if that is your first puzzle of that size), and then returns you to the home screen after a short delay.

It was also alarming that my filewall notified me that it blocked certain features of the game. I didn't look into it at all, so I'll give the game the benefit of the doubt that it was a false positive, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

If this game looks interesting to you, I'd recommend looking at Squarecells instead. Similar enough concept, but with logic based levels and much better execution.

For more puzzle game and platformer recommendations, check out my Curator page
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