Mirrored Pawns

Small charming game. Personally I found puzzles rather simpler and was mostly able to smoke through the all 50 levels in few short sessions. There is not huge depth to it but the good news I don't feel it missing either. Controls feel tactile and satisfying and so does the overall atmosphere. For a puzzle game this is quite relaxing and almost never frustrating is actually very refreshing in a time where every game puzzle game starts to increasingly feel like some sort of intellectual battle between player and game designer. As a game it should be very accessible. This is a type of game that kids could play and enjoy as much as your grandma. And that's all plus in my book. Except the gameplay is rather short. You can blast through whole game in an hour and there is not that much replaybility. It might be hard to some to justify the investment and I would agree the sweat spot pricing for this whould probably be around 1 USD rather than above it. The problem is that we live in the word of unreasonable expectations where players expect either everything or are willing to pay nothing. So price probably reflects the fact that players who are willing to pay for small game need to subsidize for the fact that small games have hard time to compete for attention. Personally I enjoyed the fact that game is small. Sometimes it just feels good to play a game that doesn't require impossible time investment and the time you does put to it feels only more special when there is not unnecessary screeching of the game play just to push the goal post further. World actually needs more small games. My main complain would be that game doesn't have game-pad support. I ended up playing it on steam deck and it worked mostly great but for something this relatively simple and approachable having built in gamepad support would further lower the bar for entry so that players can enjoy this on device of any type without unnecessary friction. This is already the longest review I ever wrote but since I'm first one to write it I want it to be as fair as possible. I recommend this game to everyone who is willing to pay the price for little over an hour of gameplay. Just don't expect it will be something it is not.