8/10 An interesting puzzle game.
Good:
- unique mechanic: you need to place arrows on a grid to make the character (flower watering machine) go along a route and visit required tiles (with flowers, buttons, arrows and more)
- lots of additional mechanics later in the game, 100 levels - basically, weeks of content
- nice overall atmosphere. I guess the flower theme was targeting women and casual players. But it even feels quite pleasant to me though I'm a guy. Actually, I could imagine this game working just as well in other settings (robot visiting charging stations for example; or a purely minimalistic setting; or fantasy)
So-so:
- graphics are pretty basic. They look cute and there are even some animations. But their simplicity probably wouldn't let this game be anything but free. On the other hand, if the dev would hire an artist and switched the theme to something more hardcore, it would probably sell and cover the gfx cost. I dunno.
- maybe hide the ugly scrollbar on the world map, allow map drag with left mouse button
Bad:
- the onboarding could be improved. E.g. the first dialog in the tutorial has 2 buttons "Back" and "Close" which was confusing to me. Instead of "Close" it should be "Continue". Also the instructions in the first level are somewhat unclear and overwhelming. Maybe it would be more straightforward if the game would just tell the player where to move which arrow (by highlighting the areas and blocking any wrong clicks) and solve the first level for them?
Overall, it's a nice game and exactly the type of game that I hope to find when I sift through dozens of free games on Steam which the store seemingly tries to hide from players. Obviously, this game has unfairly low downloads, and Steam does nothing to correct that. I dunno, I'd recommend the dev to make a re-skin with better graphics, in a hardcore setting, and make the game premium (like, $5). And keep all the levels and mechanics the same. + make onboarding a bit friendlier. Right now there is a lot of work gone into the levels and a lot of love, but no reward and no traffic.
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