[b]6/10[/b]
Get all the snake puppers to their food bowls.
[b]What is it:[/b] A snake-inspired puzzle game. In each level there are between one and 4 puppies that can grow and shrink, and the goal is to get each puppy to a bowl of the same color as the puppy, optionally eating all of the hams spread on the floor. The posterior of the puppy doesn't move, only the head does, growing or shrinking the body to cover all the tiles the head has been on. Other mechanisms used are aforementioned hams that must be collected, but these are optional and influence how many stars are awarded for each level, "wormholes" that go underground and teleport the head from one tile to another, and conveyor belts that automatically move the puppy along in one direction.
I liked a decent part of the levels, though not all, since the mechanics are interesting and can make up some clever puzzles. However, this is an outdated mobile game with very few QoL features that would make it suitable for a PC or the Steam Deck. Some of the raster graphics are low-res and look pixelated/blurry when mixed with the vector ones, the animations often end up in a loop or are mistimed, it works best with a mouse/finger and barely with a keyboard, and almost no settings.
[b]How hard is it:[/b] Easy to moderate. Only one level gave me some trouble, since it was more like a maze you could get lost into than a thinky puzzle requiring logic. Most of the levels are on the easy side, one in every 5 levels is harder and has an achievement associated with it. No level skipping, but multiple levels are open at a time.
[b]How long is it:[/b] 80 levels for about 2-3 hours of playtime.
[b]Level design:[/b] Decent overall, but not impressive, many I felt were pedestrian.
[b]Quality:[/b] Average. Decent puzzles. Mixed experience depending on what you're playing with, from not-working on a keyboard, decent with a finger, almost there with a controller. Undo only works on a controller, but it's a weird kind of undo where you're just shrinking the currently selected dog, not a true global undo, so the same can be achieved by simply shrinking it manually. The keyboard controls are not explained, not rebindable, and make no sense on a keyboard since they use ABXY like on a controller. Almost no settings, decent achievements, no cloud saving, buggy animations.
[b]Worth the price:[/b] Wait for a big discount.
[b]Most positive aspect for me:[/b] The conveyor belts make up good puzzles where you have to keep on growing and shrinking to make stops along the belt.
[b]Most negative aspect for me:[/b] The maze levels where you have to find out the right sequence of wormholes.
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