Kombi Travels - Jigsaw Landscapes Reviews

A very beautiful game with a nostalgic feeling about it! I highly recommend this game for the jigsaw lovers.

I really enjoyed playing this game. Since jigsaw games is something I like playing that helps me feel relaxed. And very helpful when my mental health isn't feeling good.

Really a step up from the previous puzzle game. There are some bugs, but overall it's a neat puzzle game. Not hard to 100% it.

Bare-bones puzzle game featuring a few bugs and fewer images. Pieces seem to get stuck occasionally on the edge of the board. Not sure why the pieces all start off in the correct place at the beginning - you could just click them all immediately and farm the achievements?

I do not say this lightly, and I'm sorry to say it, but I have never hated a game so fast. This game is so riddled with bugs that it's a chore (possibly just slightly better than impossible?) to play. Here are my main notes. [h3]The Good[/h3] [*]The pictures are cute [*]The music is nice and I can imagine it doesn't get annoying very fast if you're doing pro mode and taking a while to place each piece [h3]The Bad[/h3] [*][b]Most important first:[/b] this game completely misses a MASSIVE part of doing a puzzle: being able to connect pieces to each other. This issue alone makes this game almost unplayable, and I'm only on the second difficulty so far. I cannot IMAGINE how this will impact pro difficulty. You can only snap pieces to their place on the board; they will NOT connect to each other. This is the exact opposite of how real puzzles work... [*]There is regularly an issue with picking up pieces. A piece will have 70% of its surface area unclickable and you have to find where it will let you pick it up. I assume this has something to do with overlapping with other pieces improperly, but the unclickable parts don't clearly line up with pieces underneath it, so I'm not positive [*]The pieces, right off the bat, had a visual glitch. The first puzzle, on kid mode (I've yet to play enough to see if this is mode related or random) had a single line of pixels floating a short distance above each piece, leaving the piece field littered with lines that looked terrible and interrupted the good vibes of the game [*]The music quickly becomes repetitive and almost monotonous if you place pieces with some regularity, because each piece placement adds a note to the song in the background. Cute concept, could be slightly better executed. [*]For some ungodly reason, each puzzle starts with every piece in place and you have to manually click the spread out button. Or, if you enjoy getting all of the achievements without suffering through the whole game, you can just go through and click each piece once and it will snap immediately into place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [*]The holes and arms on each piece are all cut exactly the same with no variation. Not only that, the placement of the arms is extremely regular/predictable. On the current pro puzzle I'm doing, the entire bottom row goes back and forth, 3/3 arms, 0/3 arms. In fact, now that I'm looking closer, it looks like every other row is like this and the other half are an alternation of vertical arms/horizontal arms... Yikes. [*]The pieces snap to the board from way too far away, leading to tons of instances of setting a piece down and accidentally having it snap in place half a space below, which, combined with the inability to snap pieces to each other, leads to the most annoying combination of too difficult/too easy you could get out of a puzzle game, making the gameplay feel senseless and pointless. [*]Perhaps paired with the line glitch mentioned above, another visual jankiness is that you can see through the spaces between pieces. If you have a solid background selected, like black, you will see black spaces between many rows/columns where others don't have them, making the picture feel torn apart awkwardly. [*]While the pictures are nice, they're digitally drawn in a coloristically minimalist style, which, unfortunately, pairs very badly with all of the bugs and jank listed, because there's very little way to differentiate two pieces of almost the same exact color aside from just trying it in every single possible spot until you find the right one. Excellent gradient color vision is a plus, because any help the gradient in color would be is very subtle. [*]There is an achievement for every puzzle on every difficulty. So, it doesn't matter if you do them all in pro, you can't 100% the game unless you go through and do each picture 5 times. Literally, why. Please, for the love of god, set the achievements so that completing on any difficulty will check off the achievements for all difficulties below it. I'm very sorry that this game wasn't as good as I expected as I had high hopes. If anyone reading this is searching for a good puzzle game, I have put in over 300 hours on Super Jigsaw Puzzle Generations, which is free and adds a new free puzzle with each DLC they put out, which are many and often. I highly recommend it.

Wonderfully relaxing puzzle with good mechanics and beautiful, warm, soft art and music. I love the theme and the story it tells, it makes me want to jump in my car and go somewhere. I have experienced just one problem in that the top left edge (where the pieces are laid before completion) is a little sticky sometimes and won't release the pieces. It requires me to rearrange and then they become available. Highly recommended for those who like jigsaw puzzle games.

No windowed mode. I don't know if I'm just missing something or what, but alt+enter doesn't work. Can't even force it through my GPU utility. I don't need nor want this to be full screen on my 34in Ultrawide...

So it is a cute game, it really is. BUT There are some things that ruin the enjoyment for me. First there are some key puzzling mechanics . You can only lock in pieces if they are on the correct spot of the board. There is also a spot on the left that if the puzzle pieces are there they are unable to be moved (until you inevitably shuffle the pieces.. but if you have pieces sorted and not locked in, they go back to the edge all mixed up.

Kombi Travels is a jigsaw puzzle game about a very long road trip. Beat the 'Kid' and 'Relax' modes in 2.2 hours (it'll take a lot longer to do the modes higher than that) using a mouse. Difficulty depends on what mode you set it at. - If life's got you stressing out and in dire need of a break, this'd be a good game for that. It's relaxing and pleasant to look at. - There are 6 picture levels, with two (or more) bonus mini levels. - There are 5 challenge modes per level. - Each picture, once finished, has more to explore and admire beyond its borders. You can zoom in, zoom out, and take a photo of the pictures once completed. - You can change the background outside of the border to see all puzzle pieces or if one color is too hard on your eyes. This is very nice. Thank you. - The couple driving the van go places and see things. Each pic is different and there's enough variety to make the trip (and the puzzles) worthwhile. - The music is nice and the pieces make a sound every time you grab and place them. However I had a weird issue with the music not starting until halfway into some puzzles, or the music was oddly quiet. Going to assume this is a temporary glitch because the developers have been on top of fixing bugs in the community forums. - Sometimes I had a hard time grabbing a piece on the middle-to-upper left side. I think it's related to the pull out volume menu on the left side phantom blocking the pieces. Being stubborn enough helps, and sometimes I could click and drag the pieces just outside of them So that was a weird bug but negotiable. Vaguely remember having this problem with other games from the same developer, too. If you're stressed out, like jigsaw puzzles, or like long distance road trips, Kombi Travels is a good game for you. It's entirely worth 2 bucks and there are plenty of modes to piece together. Vroom!

The game has bugs that really annoy me. There is a quadrant on the left hand side where the pieces become locked and cannot be moved. The only fix for this is clicking to mix the pieces which also wipes the unfixed pieces on the picture board you were keeping. Kids mode shows black around the piece image at the square. Needs another middle colour on the board for piece finding. The take 7 pictures achievement appears broken. Fix all that and I would definitely say buy this game.