Shinobi's Way - a jigsaw chess tale

Interesting theme and tiling-alternative, decent art, but menus and especially controls are an issue. + Unique image theme + Choice of a range of piece counts, with or without rotation, and alternative tiling * 3.1 hours playthrough for 100 % achievements (all levels, with and without rotation, with and without alternative tiling style) - Rotate doesn't fit/snap piece (you have to move-touch it again) - Doesn't support pick+rotate (left+right click together) - Right-click camera-panning is way too sensitive - Rotating pieces are buggy (connected but unplaced blocks can randomly reorient themselves in a wrong way, which can only be solved by placing them on the board correctly (according to some of the pieces) and then reloading the level) - Moving connected pieces over other pieces can have visual glitches of what's on top It's not that expensive, and I did play through it, so if it interests you it's by no means awful or not worth it. As long as you can accept the lack of convenience, fluidity, and quality controls and can excuse the progress-blocking bugs you have to manually resolve through workarounds.

[b][quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote][/b] Shinobi's Way - a jigsaw chess tale is an asset flip, what Valve calls a "fake game". The Brazilian "developer", Minimol Games, took a jigsaw template for making jigsaw puzzles in Unity, slapped a couple of asset flipped sprites on it, and dumped the results onto Steam as a cash grab scam. It's nice to see Brazil giving Russia a run for their rubles when it comes to polluting Steam with asset flip garbage. Minimol Games has shown a repeated pattern of ripping off Unity templates and other people's games and dumping them on Steam. Don't believe me? Here's some other asset flips from exactly the same template, all shamelessly dumped on Steam as nasty cash grabs: [list] [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172530/]Daylife in Japan - Pixel Art Jigsaw Puzzle[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Minimol Games [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593220]Jessie 'Boom' James - a jigsaw chess tale[/url]", copy + pasted from the same template by Minimol Games [/list] Look for yourself... these are all exactly the same game! The products that result from asset flips aren't "real" games. They lack depth and content, because they're just simplistic copies of demos or tutorials. In this case, "Shinobi's Way - a jigsaw chess tale" is just a basic Unity jigsaw puzzle template, and doesn't have any merit as a proper, fully fledged PC game, so this copy+paste of it can't be recommended. Asset flips don't involve any professional game development. Sure, sometimes they may change a few cosmetic things, swap out different assets etc, but at heart it's functionally identical to the asset they're ripping off. Asset flips are an insult to both PC gamers and to professional game developers who create genuine, high quality PC games. Asset flips like this are harmful to the gaming industry and to Steam because they reduce the visibility that sincerely made indie games should have. They make it harder for gamers to find genuine games made by honest developers. To cement the position of this asset flip as nothing but a cash grab, it was dumped onto cheap DailyIndieGame shovelware bundles very shortly after launch. Don't reward this morally bankrupt, unethical behaviour from Minimol Games. [b][quote][url=https://mmofallout.com/valve-bans-titles-for-review-manipulation/]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/quote][/b] This game features a number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear almost immediately after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this review manipulation. [b][quote][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/quote][/b]Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.

I like puzzles because they are a great opportunity to empty the mind and enjoy the details of the art.

interesting jigsaw puzzle game

Eh, for the price it's okay. The 'chess' mode is pretty bad (just jigsaws shaped vaguely like chess pieces), but otherwise the jigsaws are fine. There are only 6 of them though, but with 4 different amounts of pieces and the option to turn rotation on and off it offers just enough variety for the asking price.

Shinobi's Way is an excellent jigsaw puzzle created within the universe of "Chess Knights: Shinobi". The game brings some interesting and unusual features in jigsaw puzzles of this price range such as feedback when fitting two pieces (even if outside the board) and the piece rotation option, which gives an extra layer of difficulty, but at the same time makes winning more rewarding. The "chess pieces mode" adds replayability to each stage, while increasing the difficulty considerably, at least until you get used to the new piece formats.

✨ Interesting chess mode. Cheap and nice puzzle game. Nothing special but OK. ✨

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Jigsaw puzzle game based on Chess Knights: Shinobi. Four difficulties (number of pieces) for each puzzle. Pretty much all there is to say.