I was excited to grab a simple minimalist puzzle game for half a buck - honestly, it wouldn't have needed to do much to be successful. But it made a few really core mistakes that absolutely sunk it for me.

A lot of features you would expect - windowed mode, dark mode, an undo button, any mouse interface, leaderboards - are not in the game unless you download the free DLC. It doesn't do ANY of those above things particularly well, once included, but beyond that, those could've just been built into the game.

The game just generally feels buggy and poorly built. When the game says "ENTER" to select something, they mean enter and only enter, not space, not left click, which is FINE, but inconvenient. The total lack of audio, claimed to be a plus for the game, feels more like an omission (sure, don't have background music, fine - what about click sounds?). With the DLC, leaderboard pop-ups freeze the game for a second (presumably waiting for a network response, but, c'mon, make it async), and frequently glitch out to remain on-screen during the next level, covering the game.

Most egregiously, moving the character lerps their position smoothly over time. This is good! It does not interrupt, instant-complete, or queue moves if you input a move during an active transition, though. This is very bad. No matter how fast you think, you can't move faster than the animation, as all inputs are dropped until the animation completes.

You can find better for fifty cents. On the plus side, it really wouldn't take much to fix most of these issues, so I hope some day this review is outdated. :(

I was excited to grab a simple minimalist puzzle game for half a buck - honestly, it wouldn't have needed to do much to be successful. But it made a few really core mistakes that absolutely sunk it for me. A lot of features you would expect - windowed mode, dark mode, an undo button, any mouse interface, leaderboards - are not in the game unless you download the free DLC. It doesn't do ANY of those above things particularly well, once included, but beyond that, those could've just been built into the game. The game just generally feels buggy and poorly built. When the game says "ENTER" to select something, they mean enter and only enter, not space, not left click, which is FINE, but inconvenient. The total lack of audio, claimed to be a plus for the game, feels more like an omission (sure, don't have background music, fine - what about click sounds?). With the DLC, leaderboard pop-ups freeze the game for a second (presumably waiting for a network response, but, c'mon, make it async), and frequently glitch out to remain on-screen during the next level, covering the game. Most egregiously, moving the character lerps their position smoothly over time. This is good! It does not interrupt, instant-complete, or queue moves if you input a move during an active transition, though. This is very bad. No matter how fast you think, you can't move faster than the animation, as all inputs are dropped until the animation completes. You can find better for fifty cents. On the plus side, it really wouldn't take much to fix most of these issues, so I hope some day this review is outdated. :(