Terrierble Logic

[b]8/10[/b] A logic game much like the Zebra/Einstein puzzle, but with fun stories detailing the lives of the neighborhood dogs. [b]What is it:[/b] A logic deduction game, given a few clues, you must group together one item from each category in a bin. For example, deducing for each of the dogs, what is their house number, house color, and roof type, given clues like “Number 14 is not where Rufus leaves, but his house has white walls”. Each level has just the right clues to logically make the right deductions. There are two variants of clues, simplified and fully descriptive. The simplified clues only give the right information, if you just want to solve the puzzles without too much verbiage included in the clues, but the full clues add a lot of flavor, with extra details about the mischievous deeds of all these pets and people, funny or cute, and you’re really going to like them if you like pets. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3551616414 Ignoring the flavor text, the clues are very varied, from simple statements that directly tie one item to another, to complex double- or triple-negative statements that remove one possibility, and to relative statements that don’t give much help at first but will later help decide the final two items. Sometimes a clue is enough to give you a head start, but sometimes you need to combine two or three of them to gain an insight. And besides the easier or harder zebra puzzles, there are a lot of other types of levels sprinkled throughout, like a liars riddle, ordering or mathy puzzles, word deductions, and even a wordle-like level. Through its 80 levels, I never felt bored. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3551615754 Throughout each level, you get to learn a bit more about the protagonists, starting with the names of just 3 dogs, their families, their enemies (cats are in the game too!), their adventures at the zoo, the vet, their torture of the mailman, their famous ancestors, with an expanding roster of characters. Intertwined with the main story and other one-off levels, there’s also a side story about the fantastical adventures of the Dog Knights, going on an epic adventure. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3551616864 [b]How hard is it:[/b] Hard, ★★★☆☆, though I never needed pen and paper to take notes. [b]How long is it:[/b] 81 levels (76 main levels, 3 secret levels, the credits and the special Bark level), about 20-30 hours to solve them all. Levels must be played in order, no skipping allowed. [b]Level design:[/b] Excellent. Quite unique and clever clues, good variety of one-off levels, good story connecting the levels. [b]Quality:[/b] OK. A basic [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3551615283]level select[/url]. Mouse-only controls, though it works with a controller moving the mouse cursor. Basic audio and video [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3551617113]settings[/url]. Cloud saving, good achievements. Fast and responsive, though it is big for a puzzle game. [b]Worth the price:[/b] Yes! [b]Most positive aspect for me:[/b] Excellent variety of clues. [b]Most negative aspect for me:[/b] Items start cluttered together, often overlapping, and I first have to separate them. [b]What would make it better:[/b] Custom level editor and workshop support. Keyboard/controller support. [b]Also consider:[/b] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/3035120/Is_This_Seat_Taken/?curator_clanid=25928931]Is This Seat Taken?[/url], another logic deduction game with a story, but instead of grouping items in a bin, you must place people in the right seat. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333240/Logic_Town/?curator_clanid=25928931]Logic Town[/url], Einstein puzzle with a lot of levels available as DLCs, though easier and with less unique clues. [quote]For more puzzle game reviews, news and everything puzzle-related, follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25928931-Puzzle-Lovers/]Puzzle Lovers[/url] and check out our [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/puzzlelovers]Steam group[/url].[/quote] [quote]Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]IndieGems[/url] for more reviews like this one.[/quote]

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review[/url]. This is a logic puzzle game that reminds me strongly of the analytical section on the GRE back when that was not just a writing test. It differs from standardized testing in that it has a lot of humor and also cute cartoon graphics. If you've watched the game trailer above, you'll get a good sense of what the writing is like. Also, the game trailer is pretty funny, so I strongly recommend it - perhaps more than the game itself. I don't feel like I've played this game enough to be able to offer a full opinion, but since there are zero reviews, I felt like any kind of review would be a significantly useful addition, so here I go. The puzzles are all of the variety: "Dog A is older than either dogs B or C, and Dog B is 17 years old. The dog that is three likes ice cream. Spot likes ice cream." etc. Your task is to drag these facts into one of the repositories at the bottom of the screen so that each repository holds all the true facts about the dog that you have placed in that section. Even as a person who has taken the GRE, I found the puzzles to be somewhat challenging, but satisfying when I was able to solve them. They are definitely the sort of analytical challenges that benefit from a pencil and paper. However, the game does allow you to move the various facts around on the screen such that you can use the location of each fact as an indication of partial constraints on the solution. This is an elegant alternative to dragging pencil and paper around, but not as good as having actual places to make diagrams and jot down information. I did get stuck as early as level 5, though. This is because the humorous writing leads to a lot of red herrings and ambiguous statements that the dev thinks can be only interpreted one way, but are very open to interpretation in my mind. Such is the risk of mixing humor and logic, but in the end I don't think the game was tested enough to minimize this risk to an acceptable level. There's an option to turn off most/all the humor and get the bare facts, but at the cost of most of the charm. The interface is the other hesitation I have with the game, although it may be a somewhat niche reason to be displeased. I played on a laptop and found that taps on the trackpad were sometimes missed, enough to be a definite annoyance. And although my laptop has a touchscreen, the game completely ignores all touchscreen events. Probably the game would be more pleasant to play with a mouse, but that seems like kind of a big ask. While on technical topics: this simple looking game pushes my laptop's fan to the MAX. Something's not right there. But, look, this is the developer's first game. It's far better than most developers' first games. It's also clearly made with a lot of heart and enthusiasm about the topic. It definitely deserves a recommended rating. However, as to the question of WHO to recommend it to, the answer can only be people who really love these sorts of logic puzzles, humorous misdirection included. I do not think that it is a good mainstream introduction to this kind of logic puzzle AT ALL. Though I have to admit that it's unlikely that challenging logic puzzles will ever be truly mainstream in the video game world.

A cute logic puzzle game of the type where you sort categories together using clues. So you would for instance have to determine which dog lives in what house and who owns it. You can move the category words and images around to pair them on the screen but as the game progresses you might want to get out a notepad and make a logic table to fill in because it gets quite intricate. I really enjoyed the game and it gives you a lot of puzzles for the price. It has 74 regular levels and at least 3 secret levels that you get a clue for at the end of the game. With 3 hidden achievements left after I finished playing I wonder if there might be 3 more secret levels to find. Seeing as the game has so many levels I imagine I'll be playing it again fairly soon since the odds of remembering the solutions to each puzzle is very low when replaying. I know it says it took me 40 hours to finish, at review time, but it's probably more like 30 hours seeing as I tend to leave games running while doing other things and come back to continue. An easy recommend if you like solving these sort of puzzles. And if you are unsure about buying the Demo gives a really good overview of what to expect from the game.

Love this game. Great deduction game.