Simply Puzzles: Junctions Reviews

Chill puzzle game. Kept learning new ways to prove the puzzle as they ramped up in difficulty. Runs great on Linux.

Very nice, simple concept and clean, minimalist execution. Clicks on the board are very responsive so you can proceed as fast as your wits allows. Recommended for fans of the minesweeper/hexcells puzzle varieties, although this one would probably count more as an entry level challenge (not to say that later levels are actually walks in the park!).

I recommend this game to those who enjoy logic puzzles. However, if you enjoy logic puzzles only when you can quickly find the answer, then you probably won't enjoy this. I have completed 60 of the 100 puzzles and there have been times in almost every one of them when I had to follow a sequence of moves to determine whether a cell could be a certain value (but there is always a logical answer with no guessing required). I find this game to be very enjoyable and well worth the asking price.

Just another one then I'll go do the dishes... Just another one then I'll go do the dishes... Just another one then I'll go do the dishes... *1 hour later looks up notices how dark it's gone....* Oopsie!

This is a good game for logic puzzle fans. I found many of the puzzles challenging but not so difficult that I couldn't figure them out eventually. I got stuck on a few puzzles I but came back to them later and was able to figure them out.

A nice relaxing implementation of Nikoli's Gokigen Naname puzzle type, also seen as Slant in Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection. It is not a particularly difficult type of puzzle so the game is not very tough.

Good, minimalist puzzler. Very zen (wish there was a dark mode!). One thing that might be helpful in future updates or a sequel is automatically flagging when a circle is satisfied; it can get a bit tedious later one to scour through every single circle to find the one that is broken, especially as you're moving lots of lines in succession. Overall a lovely little well-priced game!

Great simple puzzle game that is similar to what you would find in an old puzzle book from "back in the day". Learning the gimmick is simple but the puzzles get increasingly more challenging. Well worth the price.

a simple to learn but hard to master puzzle game. Nothing more, nothing less. They are not kidding with the title, the game is REALLY simple to learn. Simpler than say sudoku, even simpler than minesweeper, but with similar levels of complexity when you get really into it. The game has 100 levels for you that start of pretty small that you can do in about 5 minutes, to eventually ballooning to puzzles that take 30 minutes or longer. As far as I could tell you really did not need to ever guess, but there were definitely some puzzles where it felt like you had to guess. I would rate the medium levels very highly, being enjoyable to figure out but not too easy, but the higher levels tended to drag. Maybe you can figure out a better way, but I found myself needing to try a long branch of possibilities just to eliminate a single move that really ground the game to a halt. The game is also very bare bones, with simple looks and sounds, but the game is cheap. So not really a complaint but don't expect to be wowed by that. Overall I can recommend this game if you are a fan of games like sudoku or picross, but while it is fun for a while it does seem more limited.

The puzzle mechanics are really good, but the game built around them would be much improved with some additional/more complicated features. Other than the error check, these puzzles could be printed out and done on paper (with pencil/rubber) without loosing anything, and I think that shows some wasted potential. Toolbox - I think the game should give a few pointers showing some of the rules that need to be learned to even attempt the harder puzzles. Such as: two 1's cannot connect diagonally unless one is at the edge. Coloured lines - I really struggle to see if I'm about to close a large loop on the bigger puzzles. I'd like there to be an option of colouring lines so that all connected lines became a single colour. I think any line more than 10 links long should become a distinct colour (or that this should be an option to enable). Show Mistake - this is actually too powerful. I think it would be much better if it showed all broken rules (nodes with incorrect numbers of connections and closed loops), and not just the first incorrect line.