Puzzle - LINES AND KNOTS

It just scraped by into recommended with a weak 3/5. All the first 20 Lvs r easy, so u get the first 3 achievements without money. The first really bad thing about this is that it seems to be made by someone who wants everyone to wast a LOT of time in between clicks and levels by putting in SUPERSLOW animations and long pauses...??! The 2nd bad thing is that it several times made the Steam agent crash... Im not gonna waste a single $ on a game like this that seems to intentionally have been made to just waste ones times with lots of slow ani and long pauses. Its really frustrating.

It was remiss of me I know in having dragged my feet in doing this review finally AFTER doing the review for #2 1st! But that is not a bad thing because IF I had done the review for it way back when I should have then I would have missed the chance to say that it now has ANOTHER 50 FREE levels that were added to it when the Dev released #2! So imagine my joy at not just getting to enjoy & savor a mark 2 of this game BUT get another 50 levels right here with the original at the same time! To say that this bunneh was a very happy bunneh would be an understatement! I LOVE this style of game! It is such a great lil hidden gem that really deserves more attention directed at it. The puzzles vary from easy to moderate & solving them is never a chore or feels like hard work. The flow & vibe of this game is so chill that time falls into a black hole & just vanishes.... where it goes, who cares! because the time spent in this game only ever feels like minutes rather than the hours that you invariably clock up playing it. When a game is like this, is there really any reason to hesitate in buying it? So whatcha waitin for! Grab ya fav glass of whatever, kick back, toss the bundle of game 1 & 2 into ya cart & then proceed to ignore the time cos you're busy chillin playing these 2 lil gems! 11/10 for this laid back chill combo that is worth it regardless of whether they are on sale or not! The only thing that I find a negative is the fact the Dev has not announced game #3 of this is in the works, I would be well chuffed to discover that there will be another one coming hopefully! My review for the 2nd game: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198036018820/recommended/1466450?snr=1_5_9__402

It was a hard decision, as to whether or not to recommend this game. But, ultimately, I'll give it a thumbs down, and here's why. You get 20 games. They're enjoyable and quite relaxing. Want more levels? You have to buy them. And that's the only way you'll get more achievements, by buying the extra levels. If the developers add more free levels, that would be great. But what these kind of 'free' games should do is learn from Picross. With Picross, the players can create their own nonograms to get achievements, which other players can then play. It means never-ending content, not to mention all the free games that come with the original game. It was nice to race through the 20 puzzles, but it was disappointing to get to the end and realise there were no more. Also, when you try to swap the pieces they can be a bit slow, which is frustrating when you end up racing ahead and getting pieces in all the wrong places.

Twice now it has failed to detect the current level has been successfully completed. First time was level 22, just kept swapping pieces around until it finally registered it was complete. Doing the same thing again now on level 26, and I couldn't be bothered fighting with it anymore.

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Fun and relaxing puzzle game. It's on the easy side of logical puzzle games though some levels are definitely harder than others. I like the variety in difficulty throughout the game - it's a mix instead of an increasing difficulty, so you might get a harder puzzle and then a nice and easy one right after. There are 100 levels and 20 of those you can try for free in the demo. Looking forward to chill with the devs next game that is coming soon. :)

This is not a puzzle game, this is a trial and error game. Classical puzzles have pictures that make sense to help you put the pieces together, this game has completely arbitrary and random lines for majority of the levels. This isn't a logic based puzzle either, the shapes don't follow any kind of rules at all. The game itself is clunky and has super slow unskippable animations everywhere. It did not save my settings either. I had to turn off full screen every time I launched it.

animation waiting time is insane, at least for me. you have to wait for every move you make to perfectly stop; and i mean around 1 sec after it's visually stopped. [still annoying even after CE spdhax] most of the achievements is attached to the DLC. puzzle is relatively easy the overlap color on the exact path is hard to distinguish to normal one. edited: i forgot the part that it goes on full blast on open with no setting to lower it down in-game (except mute) edited2: FYI, i finished every free levels; not gonna buy any DLC. 6/10

This game wouldn't be good even for mobile. It is poor of content and extremely repetitive, the UI is clunky and terribly designed... the helps aren't even just "helps", they show you the whole path. I ended up using 5 of them because the game got annoying and tiring at some point. Do not buy this, you can get way better games with €4.

...A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Well, those who still remember that long gone golden era of Flash games and a certain K-site with these games (I was pretty much shocked to discover that they are still alive!) - those should also know that certain game. The game's name was Hexiom Connect. And that was a beautiful example of an extremely simple in its mechanics, fast-paced in a way, but also mind-blowingly difficult puzzle game from the same genre "move hexagonal tiles to connect lines and create a planar connected graph". Do you remember that game? Did you like it? If yes, this game is NOT for you. And if you don't, or you never played Flash games, you can try to find this game, play it (there could be problems, since Flash Player technology is pretty much deprecated everywhere in the web nowadays for good reasons, so you must know what you are doing) and then understand once again that this game is NOT for you. For me, it's a pretty weak attempt to do a game in this genre. Thankfully, it's free with the first 20 levels. First, there is no options in this game. No level select menu, no options for graphics, nothing. The game is in fullscreen mode by default, and there is a button to switch to the fixed windowed mode... which will be swapped with fullscreen mode without asking again if you try to restart the game, or finish the game, or even go to the main menu and back to the game. BTW, there is a bug at the very first level - I started the game, went to the main menu through the "menu" button and started the game again... and there were no tiles! Restart. Yeah, a very good game. Second, everything is painfully slow. The animations are really slow, and there is a lag after each action even if you just chose the tile you want to move. Also, this particular mechanic was inconvenient for me, because if you clicked on the wrong tile and want to choose another tile, you need to click on the current tile one more time to remove highlighting. And with this constant lagging in actions and animations this is [b]really[/b] slow. Third, there was no difficult levels in the free set. The game is extremely easy, and it wasn't even remotedly motivating for me to consider buying the full levels pack. Sorry, but no, just no. You can always try and play the free levels if you don't care about your achievements, but if you want a puzzle game which is something more than just an idle game with very little content, check somewhere else. I'll leave the curator vote as "informational", because the game wasn't really bad... and it wasn't good... it was just nothing for me. ----- If you are interested in other games I'm playing, check my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36682541-Lonely-Dev-Reviews/]Curator page[/url]. Maybe there will be something good for you.