illumizzle: Finding the lost light

전부 합리적인 퍼즐겜 딱 타임킬링용으로 좋은듯 전부 깨고나서 최소행동으로 깨는 도전도 가능해서 재밌음

자석얻는 사막맵 순서대로 하나씩 끼워넣는거 블럭이 맵통과 해서 지혼자 화면밖으로 쭉날아감(피식 웃고 넘어감) 톱니바퀴얻는 해안맵 2단계 들가자마자 계속 게임 멈춰서 진행 불가

"illumizzle: Finding the lost light" is a student project from Sejong University in South Korea. It's a simple mobile app tier set of low poly/minimalist puzzle game with some visual novel bits wrapped around it. The puzzles are just simple "rotate the scene and make the lines meet" kind of simple tile puzzles... but at least with a student project at least the production value is higher than most amateur made stuff. There's no English translation for the game, but that's okay. The language of bad games is universal. This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy" and looks bad as a result of their lack of interest in doing their job properly. Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.