Bilattice

I highly recommend Bilattice! For just $5 you get a great game with hundreds of well-made puzzles. Bilattice is a simple game without much decoration. The puzzles and gameplay are deceptively simple, clicking and moving squares in a grid. However, the puzzles get very tricky and fun to solve! Eventually, they require tough logical deduction; you need to try many different cases and possibilities. Apart for a few joke levels, nothing feels unfair - while things get quite difficult they are never impossible. This game does a wonderful job introducing its many mechanics. Similar to Understand, there is some challenge in figuring out "the rule" in each section, but afterwards, the difficulty comes from the tough puzzling. Later in the game, the mechanics are used together for some cool puzzles. If you like The Witness, Taiji, Understand, Minesweeper or really any puzzle game, definitely try Bilattice out!

If you measure your enjoyment by the amount of time passed between the 'aha!' moment of a puzzle and the completion of the solution, Bilattice is the best puzzle game ever made. The grids in most puzzles are small enough that your triumph happens near simultaneously with your neurons firing up. Sometimes the simplicity leads to accidental guesses, but mostly in the easy puzzles - there are way too many solutions for the complex ones for this to work. This is where my biggest issue arises - there's an excellent period of rule discovery where the levels go by at light speed, and there are the real clunkers which are these impenetrable walls of symbols that require full mastery of the mechanics out of you. There are some in-between puzzles, but there doesn't seem to be enough of them. I think this really hurts the endgame, because after clearing most of the map I'm not sure if I'm ready to tackle any of the hardest puzzles. Elsewhere new interactions are being thrown in the middle of an another puzzle - this seems like an awkward change from sometimes overtutorialized first mechanics, too. The UI didn't bother me much. The people complaining about it are right, but I don't think it hurts the game in a major way. The ability to save the solution would've been cool to remind myself of some previously explained interactions. The map is quirky in a positive way for me, I think anything else would've felt sterile. There's more that slightly bothered me while playing - the design of the challenge, for example - yet I enjoyed the time spent. It's rough around the edges, but fun for the price, especially the rule discovery part of it.