Elemental Connection

It's fun, strategic, expressive, variative, colorful, and absolutely brutal. What are you waiting for, go on and play it NOW!

The real beauty of the game starts to reveal itself when you think more deeply about the game rather than placing tiles randomly. This is especially true for puzzle mode; there are goals which appear hard to get, but with forward planning, you can surprise yourself with how high you can go. The sound and music design is also very good. A true gem of a game.

Very simple and straightforward game: basically you learn the rules at one glance if you didn't pick them up already from the video above, but still flexible enough to allow variation. It is basically a board game, but such a minimalist board game that it actually works better as computer game, with the point calculations automatised and some clear modifications on the boards and rules easily executed. And despite the minimalist game idea, it is certainly well developed with different board sizes and shapes, different levels of AI or a number of challenges to solve. It certainly counts as the hidden gem: not the most precious one but still a delight.