Great Permutator

[h1] As a parcel carrier you have to deliver packages to the other end of the board - but only with the help of moving belts [/h1] Brilliant puzzle game - mega simple in its design and so damn difficult - you will spend dozens of hours at it - especially that there is a map editor and steam workshop, endless amounts of game play. Our task is to create a conveyor belt to transport packages - but it's not easy - you have to build it so that the packages reach the end of the board in the right order - in the meantime they passed through X machines and can not collide with each other, which is not so easy when the packages come out of three different branches. I do not know what more to say here - for me it's a miracle [★[★[★[★[★[★[★[★[☆[☆]

Very challenging puzzle game. I'd call it a programming puzzler, as it has the feel of hand-optimizing assembly language. You're sorting, adding delays etc. Highly recommended for the patient, deep thinker.

The Linux support is a lie, there is no fullscreen, it's full of bugs and developers said the bugs won't be fixed for Linux, because "I'm afraid too big part of code should be rewritten to fix that". See it here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/319270/discussions/0/487870763306987741/?tscn=1445771399#c490123938437055306

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Just mind-breaking game. This game is absolutely crazy. In first sight it is easy to bet game, but this small gamefield is impossible big when you try to solve another puzzle. No, really if u don't want to break someething after another wrong solution - don't buy this game. Otherwise if you like real strong puzzles - it is for you!

So I got to play this game once a long time ago. I went back to the game some time later and it kept crashing on start up. I made a thread about this and no one ever responded, I seen someone else later made another thread about it crashing on start up, with no help for either of us, despite the dev commenting on other posts after both of our threads were made. So I am posting a negative review. One because thats ridiculous that this small of a game cant get a response from the dev for people having issues. And two because I found a fix. If you go to your save file located at C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Roaming/great-permutator You will find a file called settings, if you open this with notepad, you will see all the settings for the game in there, you need to change the top option display_mode to zero. so it should be display_mode 0 Save and close the file after. The game should now not crash anymore on start up. Mind you, if you change the display settings within the game, and then close the game, it will start crashing on start up again, meaning you will have to repeat what you did with the save file like you did before. Or before you close the game you can put the display back on its original setting. Highly highly doubt this will be fixed or patched, but if it does i'll change my review. Sucks because I really like these type of games, but I dont really feel like jumping through so many hoops to play it.

Great Permutator is a puzzle games that your brains will just love it. Learning curve may be a bit harsh and there are few things that aren't explained (ability to click on the building to switch output sequence). But overall, it's just brilliant. You'll be happy for every solved puzzle. The whole game is wrapped into consistant and nice retro pixel art graphics, if you are puzzle game fan then you need this game in your collection. Game: 6.0/10 Graphic: 5.5/10 [b]100% Achievement :[/b] Easy | [strike]Medium[/strike] | Hard | Very Hard

A brilliant flow-based programming puzzler. This game shows you really how limited your intuitive understanding of logic is. This game is really hard as hell, but it creates an environment where you feel motivated to experiment and find the solution. It is a must-buy for the puzzler-genre, you can spend hours on the game, and who knows how many more, by creating puzzles by yourself or playing those created by others. And finally ... yes, the music is awesome.

I think the learning curve is too steep, which make this game became frustrated very early.

Hidden gem. I bought The Great Permutator on a whim, it didn't disappoint. It looks deceptively simple, but it's a solid puzzle game that impressed on many levels. Each puzzle is surprisingly distinct, and stayed fresh throughout. After completing about half the game I thought patterns would start repeating and it would get easier. Not so, not at all. I don't know if each level was crafted entirely by hand or if developers got help from an automated generator, but it's obvious great care went into level design. The periodic introduction of new machines, well into the second act, was also well crafted and created a good sense of progression. As others have mentioned, the solutions often revolve around heuristics, bit of trial and error, finding clever tricks, and exploiting the ordering of inputs. A programming game this is not, and solutions are not generalized - they wouldn't work on any random inputs. Not an issue for me at all, but worth mentioning. This is an indy, graphics & music are what you'd expect. The music is repetitive - but you're not buying this for the soundtrack, right? Graphics could certainly be better, I'd have preferred a higher resolution myself. That said, I'm not docking any points here - the game play doesn't suffer and developers time was spent where it mattered, on the puzzles themselves. Well worth the asking price if that's you kind of thing.