Fun Puzzle Game That Works Differently Than Expected
Most games today start off with a bunch of annoying prompts telling you how to play. This one had a little text to guide you in the first level, but it wasn’t enough to not let you figure out how the game works on your own. It reminds me of playing old games growing up where you put the cartridge in, turn it on, and then you’re just there in the game and you have no clue what any of the sprites are supposed to be or what kinds of puzzles might be in the game. All you know is that you want to beat the game.
Initially I thought that the numbers corresponded to each square, and it was saying how many paths that square needed to the source block. Then I thought it was saying how many lines around the outside of the filled blocks touched that corner. It wasn’t until around Level 2, puzzle 3-ish that I realized how it really worked (I won’t spoil it here).
I kind of accidentally stumbled into playing this game without reading anything about what it was. I downloaded one of Open Planet’s other apps, and saw their bundle being shown next to it. The other app in the bundle (not this one or the one I had originally bought) looked like something I’d use, so I bought the bundle. Then today, I saw this app that was also included on my home screen so I tapped on it, and it was a fun little mystery to solve. I tapped on it, and then I saw Game Center open, so I knew it was a game, and then I started trying to figure out what the numbers really meant, which kept me interested until the puzzles got hard enough to be interesting in and of themselves.