Unitied Reviews

A block sliding puzzler in which all blocks move at once—as if you were tilting the entire level, but without any potentially-disorienting field movement. You may have grown up with a mechanical maze puzzle that worked similarly, perhaps with ball bearings. (And if you were careful, you could cheat a little and keep some of the balls/blocks in place. Not so here.) Perhaps its most distinguishing feature is its appearance; where most titles of its ilk (short puzzle games with limited complexity and an extremely low price point) opt for pale palettes and no outlines at all, unitied opts for saturated coral-oranges and bold black lines. No bugs or performance problems. It's alright.

Cute little game that's very enjoyable. Just wish there was a dark/inverted mode.

I finished this is one sitting, and enjoyed every level. It's definitely not long but for 79p, who would possibly complain? A lovely little experience.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☑ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☑ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☑ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☑ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 For a dollar or two it's kind of worth it. Just short. I guess I recommend....

As others have said, it's short but sweet. Some of the later levels are quite tricky (or at least they were for me) but never quite spilled over into "demented frustration" territory. You really can't go wrong for the price, and in fact I think it's being sold for less than it's worth. According to Steam I've got 200 games in my collection and I think this is my first Steam review, so take what you want from that! Well done to the developer, and thanks to John at Buried Treasure for pointing me in this direction.

I didn't like slide puzzles as a kid, but this variation on the theme is right up my alley. Your brain begins to absorb the small nuances in the level, and soon your random presses turn into a Rube Goldberg machine. Very satisfying minimalist puzzler.

If you like yer mini-puzzle games then grab this. It's quick but as others have noted it's so cheap that's nothing to complain mind about (I paid... £0.79). It's got a nice twist that I don't' recall seeing before in different size boxes to scatter around your screen. According to the inimitable John Walker this is going to have more levels added soon (there were 35 as I played it). https://buried-treasure.org/2019/11/30/unitied/ Oh, the fire button doesn't work though ;) (in case this gets "fixed" there's a key binding or two for shooting things. And a bit of oddness concerning the display selection, but that's likely to do with Unity)

[b]edit:[/b] flipped to a non-recommendation due to lazy minimalism. also, one of the patches erased my progress, even restoring my backup of the completed save doesn't work. [b]unitied[/b] is your typical minimalist block sliding game. the goal is to make all the squares reach their destination by moving everything at the same time. while I love sliding games, this is not a mechanic I personally enjoy, but it does what it has to well. [b]squares can be different sizes[/b] and it doesn't matter which small square reaches which small exit, as long as each of them does, and for that you'll often have to use the squares to help each other out before taking them to the obvious exit, as walls alone won't be enough. basically, the biggest puzzle on most levels is [b]not letting squares leave the level too soon[/b], and there are a couple new mechanics introduced later. controls are straighforward, arrows move stuff around and 'r' is for restarting the current level instantly. [b]there is no undo[/b], which is usually a dealbreaker and would be good to have even with relatively short and mostly easy levels here. minimalism should never mean lack of basic functionality, and while the game doesn't have volume settings (only a single audio on/off button), controls displayed anywhere, dark mode, windowed mode or resolution options, there's at least a level select screen and on-screen level numbers. except if you click a locked level, it drops you back to the splash screen, click the arrow to load level 1 again even though that's not the last one you solved, so bring up level select and choose one of the unlocked levels. wtf? there are a total of [b]50 levels[/b], but ideally there'd be more than one to choose from at any given time. I completed about half the game in half an hour and the rest took another hour because I managed to get stuck in a few places, so it [b]should take a maximum of 2 hours[/b] to finish it, but for people smarter than me it'll be less. since I don't like this sort of thing, I didn't feel the need to play every level, mostly bought it to support minimalist puzzle makers a bit (was a mistake in this case), but still kept trying and managed to solve everything except the final level, didn't want to spend more time on it [b]with a bit more work it could've been a worthy addition to one's collection[/b] of sliding or controlling multiple things at a time games, even at full price.

If you're a minimalist puzzle game fan this is a no brainer, especially for 49c sale. Nice mechanics that feel unique yet familiar, and a good balance of difficulty where you won't really get stuck but will still feel pretty slick when you clear a level straight off (though there is a video walkthrough under the steam guides that I did reference for... inspiration once or twice).

This game is quite short, even by standards I'd hold a 99 cent game to. Has some novel mechanics, namely I don't see smaller blocks all that often in these sorts of puzzle games, which is cool, but I feel like even though the later puzzles are tricky, there's still quite a bit more that could be done. Also I encountered some sort of issue where hitting the restart button during the tutorial/early puzzles seemed to skip me to a very late puzzle, which was also a bit confusing. Especially because I couldn't find a way to select levels.