Kombine

Satisfying core mechanic that I wish was wrapped in different puzzles 3/5 The play area is very generally overly generous and lets you solve the puzzles with much less space than presented. Sometimes this serves as red herring but often this means the puzzles are very forgiving and you can fix mistakes (sometimes non trivially) to still win a level. The most fun I had was stubbornly figuring myself out of errors I've made strangely enough. This makes me think the core mechanic would fit better in a timed pressure mode like a match three. Often puzzles are symmetrical and require you to apply the same solution twice. Generally I think this is fair because it means you need to pause and remember how you apply a solution rather than randomly stumble upon it, but it is repetitive. Last level notably requires you to apply an interesting long solution made tedious by the fact you must do it three times.

Kombine is a simple but remarkably ruthless game about matching up coloured squares of the right numbers. While basic in premise, the execution puts a surprising amount of difficulty out - especially in the timed mode. That said, this game does fall into the frustratingly large category of "Solid games with interesting concepts that get ruined by a timed mode", so my feelings are tempered somewhat. In addition, the game never extends much beyond its premise - which can lead the game to feeling quite repetative over time, which tends to get amplified by the difficulty. Not a bad game, but not one I'm going to be replaying again.

At first glance, Kombine doesn't appear to offer much of a challenge. 40 levels, and the ability to “time trial” each bracket of 10 looks like it could be easily accomplished in a matter of hours. And that is how this little game gets you. Kombine doesn't have a tutorial, and deciphering how the game operates is perhaps part of the charm. If you can't work it out by puzzle 4, then the game is probably not really aimed for your entertainment. The concept is simple – activate a colour by clicking on it, then try to ‘combine’ tiles you create into removing that colour's target from the board. Do this with 1, 2 or 3 colours per board and you are onto the next. Kombine eases you into a false sense of security within levels 1-10, but by level 18 you are seeing how the game taunts you with deceptively simple looking arrangements. By the time you have clicked restart on a single board for the 7th time though, you realise just how clever the game is. You are now trapped, and determined to finish the bracket, or at the very least the board you are stuck on. There really isn ‘t much to complain about with a game like this. It is designed to appeal to puzzle enthusiasts and gives you the least amount of visual fuss in graphics. There is music you can turn off, and the colours are bold, bright and nonthreatening to the senses. The boards get progressively harder, and there is a definite sense of accomplishment when you trigger an achievement, or finish a board. The game saves at your current opened board, so there isn’t any unnecessary frustration at having to complete each one over again.

Besides that the game is really cheap, it's an easy puzzle game. But unfortnately it gets a little boring after a while. In the beginning I was very confused how the game works and now I get frustrated because if you make one mistake you can't undo it. You'll have to do the level all over again and that's just not my thing.

Kombine is deceptively simple yet deeply satisfying. The minimalist visuals and logic rules make each level feel like a small, elegant brain teaser.

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I bought this last decade; it seems to be one of the games to which I think to myself "Why'd I buy this?" I can't even complete the first time trial. let alone the rest of the puzzles. So yeah, screw this. |:(