Proverbs Reviews

It's a competent puzzle game, and I enjoy it if you like low-pressure puzzles of this type, but suffers from most regions and their puzzles having no connection to the finished artwork. Which always felt a little disappointing to me. Overall it's cheap, though.

The Gorgonites are particularly good hiders. Much like the tapestry hidden among the numbers.

Took 20 hours to complete. Honestly loved this game compared to the others. I loved that each section explains the part after its finished. 9/10 great game to watch with vods playing

Very chill, very fun minesweeper-like. Highly recommended!

not the hardest puzzle game, but I'm a sucker for historical games and good pixel art

You really get your money's worth with this one dang!! It took me a bit to figure out the logic but after I did it stayed challenging and interesting. I liked how each achievement came with learning a little something.

'Proverbs' is a self-described puzzle game that gets everything right — everything barring the actual puzzle. The game practically plays itself, with virtually no deduction or inference required of the player. I would've been more accepting of this fact had the 1-bit solution even hinted at the artwork being formed (nonogram style). Alas, the puzzle is entirely detached and nearly effortless to solve. I hate to give 'Proverbs' a thumbs down, as the rest of what's here is exquisite. But a puzzle game that fumbles the actual puzzle? That's a tricky thing to recommend.

I'm a sucker for Minesweeper variants as well as fine art, so it's like this game was made for me! This is a variation on Minesweeper where each number indicates the number of lit squares it touches (making zeroes and nines the MVPs!). Empty spaces do not "pop" when clicked. From the size it looks daunting at first, but Bruegel's painting is broken up into around 250 sub-sections making the puzzle much more manageable, and you can zoom-in on the board comfortably close. All progress, whether a sector is complete or not, is saved on quit so there's absolutely no danger of losing your place. Completing most sectors rewards you with an achievement, a picture of that sector of the original work, the proverb depicted, and a handy explanation. If you get stuck there's a hint button, and if you make too many errors the game will tell you how many are wrong in that sector and offer to clear away some of the wrong flags. I encountered very few bugs, and those were mostly just with when achievements flagged (some will flag in-game but only register on steam when you quit and re-enter). Nothing game-breaking. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed gradually working through this during breaks; it's a great mental palate cleanser!

A nice game, but after a while it becomes a grinding experience. The math is fast learned and there are no variations. The award you get by this "grinding" is to reveal another proverb picture. This is nice and I love the whole aesthetic. Getting to know more about the Pieter Bruegel painting is good. But the actual challenge is too repetitive. I love the concept, but there are no middle ground in the thumbs, so I will give it a thumb up because the developers made a decent game based on an ancient master.

I love puzzles, but there's very little variety or satisfaction here. I completed about 10% of the game, at which point I realized that it had long ago started to become more tedious than rewarding. I really want to give this a positive recommendation, since it should be right up my alley; but I really just feel like I would have been better off without the time invested in this clever but unsatisfying jaunt. There is no discernible pattern that allows you to "see" what you're painting as you solve each of the regions. It just looks like a random mess of lit and unlit squares that magically fill in with an image after you finish a region. I guess that's what happens when you try to force a highly detailed oil painting into a low-res 2-color format.