Markov Alg Reviews

Nice puzzle game! Not se easy one.

Very fun game! Some levels are absolute stumpers until you realize that one specific little thing...

Excellent bite-sized brain teaser in the vein of Baba is You, though easier than it. Not really much to say about it - puzzles are smart, steadily increasing in difficulty and without any dirty tricks, with a few stumpers close to the end of the game.

SUPER nice little game! Any geek will love it! Also, check out the Dev's YouTube channel. It's a sinle guy that coded this! Great game! Good challenges!

Clever logic puzzle game akin to Baba is You and Rogue Bit. You use logic which overlaps with coding has less programming-like activities compare to the devs other programming games.

I wasn't sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a really enjoyable puzzle game. It is similar to rogue bit, but I found this game to be much more enjoyable. It'd be nice if it also had Linux and Mac builds, though.

Full Screen mode is fake. Also the puzzles are not as hard as trailer shows. Only buy if u are really addicted to puzzle games same as me

Very cool puzzler and an amazing value. As previous reviewers said, it is somewhat reminiscent of Rogue Bit, but I found the format of individual self-contained puzzles, to be much more enjoyable. It is a game that requires logic and planning. The puzzles start off easy taking less than a minute to solve, to some very interesting head-scratchers that take maybe 30 minutes. So it's nice when you don't have a lot of time for a long gaming session; you can get into the game complete a few levels (or in case of the later levels, just one), then quit with a sense of accomplishment and also not having to remember too much from one gaming session to the next. Some of the puzzles are extremely well-crafted - and none are bad or unsatisfying. There aren't a lot of game mechanics to learn but the levels force you to use them very creatively. The game mechanics are mostly explained well in what you can consider tutorial levels, but sometimes you don't really understand everything about that mechanic until a later puzzle surprises you by letting you discover (usually when you're kind of messing around with some trial and error) side-effects of said mechanic that you didn't need to fully comprehend when it was first introduced. I "completed" the game on my own and felt it as very fair and extremely satisfying. I am qualifying the word completed because I did have to skip one level (level 8), which seems unsolvable to me. I should comment that when you complete a level, it unlocks the next two levels (from a total of 64). So as long as you don't try to skip two sequential levels, the game won't prevent you from progressing. I hope the developer releases a sequel or DLC. I would gladly pay several times the asking price.

Cool puzzler, reminiscent of Baba / Rogue Bit. As hoped, the game features nice little shenanigans and outside of the box thinking. Still early in the game, but the first 30 levels (out of 63, supposedly) were very enjoyable. Eager to discover what the game has to offer in the second part, will probably update this review then. If you like puzzle games: totally worth 2 bucks

This is a great little puzzle game. The core mechanics are similar to Baba Is You with a slight variation. Rules of the most common type don't come into effect automatically. Instead, you can invoke them whenever you want with "Enter". There are only three different types of rules and only the first of them can actually be invoked. There is ("sequence A" to " sequence B"), which transforms every occurence of sequence A within your range into sequence B and there is [range: x] which determines that range. The latter rule is used very rarely as a puzzle element, but sometimes you can replace its digits, mostly to increase your range. There is also [const], which freezes a line forever. But the main focus is definitely on the replacement rule. As you only have a single main gameplay element, Markov Alg is considerably easier and much shorter than Baba Is You, but that single rule is actually quite powerful, as the sequences can be arbitrarily long combinations of characters. Also, the sequences don't need to have equal length, which let's you delete or create symbols. Finally, the game is reasonably creative with its "blocks" (ASCII symbols). Just to give you two examples: - Digits always fuse together (modulo 10), when they get pushed on top of each other. - The arrow block always points into the direction in which it was last moved: <, >, V, ^. That creates some nice complexity and the game definitely has a few of the later levels that will make you think pretty hard, but overall Markov Alg only lands slightly above a medium difficulty rating. A solid recommendation for a nice and short puzzle game.