Puzzle & Chess Reviews

I'm a casual chess player. After playing this game, I forgot how to play chess.

Game description: "Click on pieces, solve the puzzles". How does that work? Game does not tell you that chess pieces, when clicked, move to a predefined location. That can work, but the game must show the path and the final destination for every figure. Right now it is too much memorizing the routes and a lot of brute force to find the solution.

I thought this was chess PLUS other puzzles, but it's not. It's some daft unrelated puzzle game, just using chess pieces. Boring and frustrating.

I proudly present you [b]by far the worst puzzle game[/b] I found on Steam - featuring both a terrible concept and a very poor implementation of it. Forget chess. Every piece moves to a strictly predefined point upon clicking it. You have no control over where stuff goes, you just click a piece and it goes wherever it is predefined to go. You have to make sure that no pieces collide. However, instead of applying any logic to it whatsoever you just have to click every piece in a particular order to solve every level. In the beginning it's the dumbest trial-and-error process as you click a piece, immediately collide with another, and restart the level. There's an annoying buzz to it, and you must then manually click the restart button in the corner of the screen. You try over and over again to memorize where each piece is predefined to move, then memorize the correct order of clicking them to solve the level. Terrible, just terrible. But then it gets worse as the pieces start to have not just predefined locations but predefined [i]paths[/i] that they take. It is at this point I discovered the show-paths button which made the game a lot easier... if not trivial honestly. But alas! This is what [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2860916914]level 13 looks like[/url] (out of 40). You can't tell jack squat. You still have to click pieces and repeatedly fail the level to memorize where each one goes. I'm scared to see what happens in the later levels. And of course as usual you have to manually press the show-paths button every single time you restart the level - something that obviously should've been always enabled by default... I don't even have to mention how ugly the pieces look (seems like they've been upscaled from tiny pixel art then anti-aliased). There are several color schemes but they're all really horrible and they hurt my eyes. Except for the black & white scheme. But you can't use that one! Because you can no longer see the paths at all, as they are all white. Across white cells. Yup. Can't see those anymore. Absolutely the dumbest, the ugliest, and overall the worst garbage of a puzzle game I've seen on Steam in the genre. And I've seen a lot.