Prelogate

The market for cheap little abstract puzzle games is large, and this game is at most average. So I would only recommend it to insatiable puzzle game lovers who have already played through all the really good ones. The basic idea is sound, and it's not one that has been overused. There are a number of lasers in a square grid and a number of targets to which you must redirect the light, using various tools that you can place in the grid. The main complication is that each laser, and each target, has one of 7 colors: red, green, blue, a combination of two of these, or white. Up to the point where I lost interest, I found the puzzles OK though not very inspiring. It is not clear to me why this 2D game is presented in 3D form. In my opinion, the effort should have gone into making the various tools clearly distinguishable instead. As it is, they basically all look like white balls that differ from each other only on second sight. Unfortunately I got too bored by the tutorial to continue right after it, wasn't really motivated to return sooner than about a month later or so, and then felt I didn't want to play this game, after all. The balance between the challenge of the puzzle itself and the challenge of understanding the rules and interface again just wasn't right. If I ever see a 2D reimplementation with more visual polish and revised puzzles, I will seriously consider it, though.