Stig

This is a really fun Puzzle Game! Charming and challenging without being brutal - but the optional levels (either side of the path) will make you think and challenge your understanding of the mechanics. A surprising amount of variety and cleverness from the mechanics with a a healthy amount of new ideas introduced throughout the whole game. Really clean, simple aesthetic that always made it easy to parse what was going on. Recommended for a few enjoyable hours of puzzling goodnes!

Overall this is a great puzzle game and well worth the low price, particularly when bundled with BOND (which is another great underrated puzzler). One of the highlights for me was realizing how the basic "color" mechanic (white, grey, player color, other colors) multiplied nicely with the different types of shapes (squares and discs), as well as the "paint" mechanic. These few mechanics combine so nicely and provide a lot of depth. But this is just scratching the surface on the number mechanics that the game throws at you. All are very surprising, yet work so nicely with the rest of the game. If you like learning new things and being kept on your toes, then definitely check this one out. The level design is solid. There were a few puzzles that sit just on the edge, where it feels like there's a bit too much complexity and I am forced to explore many different ideas in a case-by-case basis. Perhaps these were due to my own failings of finding the key insights that would have let me deduce my way through the puzzle. However, this was fairly rare. I was able to deduce my way through the majority of puzzles. Several puzzles that I was stuck on were solved within a minute of me saying "Okay, let me take a step back...", which I think is the mark of satisfying difficulty in a puzzle game. I also liked the meta structure of the game, with a single linear path and a lot of small side paths. If I had to nitpick, then I'd say that some of the puzzle sequencing here felt a little out of place. But it's really not something I should complain about given the low price to content ratio.