Clutter Evolution: Beyond Xtreme

Wer Wimmelbilder mag, ist hier sehr gut aufgehoben. Nicht täuschen lassen, einige Level sind verdammt schwierig. Tolles Preis-Leistungsverhältnis, da neben den wirklich unzähligen vorgefertigten Levels man sich auch zufallsgenerierte Level erzeugen kann.

The game is weirdly addicting, and I can see why there would be a dedicated following. I sometimes get a weird craving to play it. <Cons> The UI is dreadful and borderline insane. It is a nightmare to try to choose the game mode you want to play. I gave up trying to change the settings. Imagine if somebody from the 90s who doesn't know how to use icons were tasked to build the UI. Why doesn't he just use normal words?? Why add all these unnneccesary icons that don't even make sense? It is beyond me. The artwork is horrible and kind of disturbing. It's as if somebody went out of their way to make the art look bad. So I'm being a bit harsh here, but it's still addicting and I like it.

Fantastically addicting game - fun to look at, lovely music to listen to. Very relaxing and enjoyable. It's amazing to see the difference a modified layout makes - same pictures but different size or different shape and it's a completely different game.

https://youtu.be/DlLfQGh9sZs Delivering on quantity is commendable but the simple matching elements is a best a menial task and at worse tedious.

I really hate clutter. Good thing there are games to help clear it. :) Wait this does nothing for my home?! Aaaaaaaargh! We need magical clutter games for that I guess. Satisfying matching, object finding etc., feels a bit cluttered (whuuut). Wish the game had achievements (cards would be nice but less important to me).

A great addition to the long-running Clutter series. Many variations of puzzle types but of course the Clutter category is the star, and it doesn't disappoint. If this is your first Clutter, just think of the namesake as sort of an anti-hidden object game. Nothing is really hidden here, the objects are right in front of you to see and match up. The trouble is that there are hundreds of them stacked on top of one another! These games also have a very personal feel to them - you can tell the creator really puts his heart into them with recollections of past games, philosophical quotes, and an indicator for his personal favorites. This may be a little strange for some but I find it refreshing. This time, the Clutter puzzles are HARD, but thankfully for most you can click and drag them off of each other to sort through, kind of like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Also, there's options for turning the timer off and playing it more casually. Recommended!

Works great on steamdeck. Unique, fun.

Great game. The type you can just sit down and play when you want to game and think about nothing, just have something to do. After you finish the levels, go in and complete each puzzle section.

REVIEW #124 Clutter Evolution: Beyond Xtreme ---------- Being a fan of casual puzzle games, I was pretty surprised to have come across the Clutter franchise last year, especially since the series is almost 15 years old at this point and getting close to having 20 entries in total (which is impressive, by the way!) I decided to start out with one of the older titles that were available on Steam, and I ended up landing on Clutter Evolution: Beyond Xtreme, the tenth entry in the series. Since I'm new to the Clutter games, I don't know if I selected the best starting point, but I'm very glad that I began exploring the series with this title. Clutter Evolution: Beyond Xtreme is a casual puzzle game that features 1,700+ (!!) puzzles, all of which are divided into 24 different categories. Most of the puzzles involve matching objects or tiles, but CE:BX doesn't limit itself to just that. Other puzzles types include swapping letter tiles to spell out quotes or sliding around pieces of a chopped-up picture with the goal being to rejoin the fragments properly and recreate the image. I initially favored some puzzle types more than others, but I eventually found myself bouncing around between each of the different categories and enjoying them all. How Clutter Evolution: Beyond Xtreme starts off is my favorite aspect about the game. It starts the player in the category, "Clutter Quest", which contains 100 puzzles that offer a very good and thoroughly varied sampling of what the game has to offer in full. As puzzles are completed in this set, text dialog from the developer (known as Joe) is interjected in between, detailing the history of every Clutter game up to that point and the development plans, struggles, and successes that came with each title. I found this to be a fun and fascinating way to present a "behind the scene"-style overview of the series, and for someone who was brand new to Clutter, I highly enjoyed getting to know the developer and his creations in this manner. Aesthetically, the game looks and sounds pretty polished, and while there's normally a lot on-screen, I never felt overwhelmed with the amount of features and options at my disposal. In fact, it's my opinion that the developer has gone above and beyond to cram a staggering amount of options to suit any and every player, and I applaud the amount of work and care that was put into making this game easily accessible to play. The game is also technically very sound, never once giving me a bug, glitch, or crash. My complaints about Clutter Evolution: Beyond Xtreme are small and few. One aspect that I found a bit unhelpful is that the in-game options menu (for adjusting sound, music, etc.) becomes unavailable once a puzzle has been started, and there's no pause feature for timed puzzles. Also, the difficulty curve in some of the categories has some abrupt spikes and valleys in places, and I sometimes felt like the difficulty indicator on some puzzles was overtly inaccurate. All of these aspects, however, are more mild annoyances than actual problems. Again, I'm quite happy that Clutter Evolution: Beyond Xtreme was my introduction to the Clutter series. I've completed almost 450 puzzles so far, and I've had a blast every time that I load it up. Casual puzzle fans need to check this out, and I'll even state that many (like myself) will undoubtedly find it's more than worth paying full price for (currently $10 USD).

The Clutter Evolution series is good for what it is, a mess of clutter matching. It's also frustrating with the clutter scenes that you have to double click on things so they can move around with the odd chance of uncovering something you're looking for without covering up things you're trying to find. I imagine sometime in the future we'll see this sort of game as something someone has to complete successfully in a SAW franchise movie.