Cleaning Up The Puzzle Gallery

It's vibe coded and plays exactly like it, PASS

Saw this game on Tiktok so decided to give it a go as I love cleaning up games and also Jigsaws so this seemed like a perfect match! Good fun so far! I decided I'm not going to use any skills so this will take me a long time haha. My sorting is starting to show results. I changed 'drop jigsaw' to right mouse button which is so much quicker for me. Deffo worth the price point and look forward to multiplayer!

A nice Librarian-like that's fun for art lovers. It's satisfying picking up a piece and noticing immediately "oh this is definitely from Starry Night/from a Klimt/looks like The Scream but with different colors" and being able to use that knowledge to make progress. That said, there are some drawbacks here that still make Librarian the better game. For example in Librarian, books of a genre look consistent (e.g. all white, all have a gem on the cover, etc.), whereas different series look and are named different, and each book is numbered, which allows you to know pretty quickly that, for example, THIS book should go on THAT shelf in the 4th spot. In the Puzzle Gallery, you may end up with a stack of nondescript black puzzle pieces (sidenote: I never noticed how much black there is in Girl with a Pearl Earring until now), and you have to drag the piece around the canvas until it lights up and you can snap it into place. Some paintings have few enough pieces or very distinct edge-to-edge content (e.g. Sunflowers) where you know exactly how the piece should be oriented and where it should go, but a LOT of the game is dragging too-similar pieces around a canvas. If you're like me and hooked on the genre of "there are 3000 things on the floor and they aren't going to pick themselves up" then this is a recommend for you. It's got challenges, relaxing music, and pretty art. But it's a step down from what made Librarian work so well.

Even if this game wasn't made using generative AI, I don't like how it plays. It holds your hand a bit too much. If you're anything like me, you got this game because it looked tedious and that it would take a long time. That was the appeal to me, taking a while to put together puzzles. The game makes it so when you hover the piece over the correct location to put it, it makes it yellow/blue, meaning you have to rotate it to its correct orientation. This ruins it for me, that and the fact that there is unlockable skills at all. The library game that started the trend of these games it made sense, because it was a magic library. But here- its not needed nor does it make sense. I hope the other puzzle gallery cleanup game coming out soon is better than this.

More of the relaxing Arcane Library style play for people who need to sort thousands of items.

I give this a "low thumbs up", almost gave a thumbs down. This is the third game I have played in this genre. Librarian is still the best due to fun content (book titles) and new idea. Supermarket is ok, but I think this one is just a little better than that. This is due to the paintings being nice and adding the jigsaw mechanic instead of "collect x similar products and put them on shelf", but I also like jigsaw puzzles. I purposefully did not use the skills, except the "turn pieces over around you", since it was obvious that the skills would trivialize the game to a running simulator. The mechanics were a little clunky, and I would have preferred to use the mouse buttons. Overall, this gives decent value for the discounted price. I predict an avalanche of these games coming, so this one would not get a thumbs up next year. Next I'll try the wine bottle version of this sorting genre.

The game itself is an OK knockoff of Library, but I found out it's all AI slop-coded and not a real game.

very fun and relaxing game. runs great on steam deck