Animated Puzzles Reviews

Jigsaw puzzles with animations on the photographs. There are 3 piece sizes for each puzzle and several different pieces shapes from which to choose. There is a DLC for more puzzles. There are challenge modes against others. Runs well on both PC and Mac.

Animated Puzzles is an enjoyable game for all levels- ranging from an easy puzzle with only a few pieces to 800+ pieces. Each puzzle has a "pull out" tray which stores the unplaced pieces but it still allows you to lay pieces onto the puzzle "board" without placing them, which is similar to a real jigsaw puzzle. This game allows the player to choose from many included puzzles (several levels of difficulty), plus the workshop has even more high quality, user created puzzles to download for free. You can make your own puzzles from photographs, and choose the shape of the individual pieces for all of the puzzles (traditional jigsaw shape to completely square). Animated Puzzles has several included puzzles with an interesting animated effect on the pieces, though most workshop puzzles are traditional static photos or drawings. This game allows you to have numerous puzzles that are "in progress" so you aren't required to finish one before beginning another. This is a great feature if you have several people that use your computer to access the game, but want to choose a different puzzle. Animated Puzzles offers benefits that a traditional jigsaw puzzle can't : I don't have to find a place to store a large puzzle in progress, pieces don't get lost, and my cat can't destroy my puzzle. I was a little unsure about the concept of an electronic jigsaw puzzle until I tried it. I have truly enjoyed this game and I am very glad that I purchased it . If you enjoy jigsaw puzzles then this game is well worth the money. A+

I rate Animated Puzzles 4.5/5. Truly excellent, this is almost certainly the best electronic jigsaw puzzle game available on Steam and is certainly the best electronic jigsaw puzzle game I have ever played. Many other computer jigsaw puzzle games completely miss one of the greatest benefits of having any jigsaw puzzles on a computer in the first place: The potential to have pictures which are at least slightly animated or have some sort of motion within them. Animated Puzzles realizes that potential and does so with a slick, easy to learn, easy to use interface which is far more intuitive than the relatively clunky control schemes most other jigsaw puzzle games are hampered by. And if you want to do jigsaw puzzles that do not have any animation in them, there are numerous such puzzles available free-of-charge in this game’s Steam workshop as well. +Numerous puzzles included with the game (with some sort of animation within each puzzle image). Each of the default puzzles has 3 different difficulty options which control the number of pieces the puzzle will have. +It is fairly easy to create your own puzzles using animated .gif files which you may happen to have on your computer so long as they are neither too small nor too large for this game’s somewhat narrow resolution parameters. Images must be larger than 500 by 500 pixels. +It is also extremely easy to create your own puzzles using non-animated image files (including .jpg) as well. +You are not required to publically share (via the Steam Workshop page) any custom puzzles you create. You can label puzzles you create as ‘private.’ +Quiet, unobtrusive but nice satisfying sound effects. Easy for music to be played over the sound effects without those sounds intruding over the music. +Extensive selection of user-created puzzles in the game’s Steam Workshop. +Excellent, easy to learn interface and excellent controls overall. The puzzle assembly area can be easily resized. +Game runs quickly and smoothly. No major bugs. +Several options for what kind of jigsaw puzzle pieces you want to use on ANY puzzle. +This game has an extremely relaxing feeling overall. +/-Puzzle pieces must be oriented properly before they fit together but this can be used to your great advantage. +/-Music gets old fast but it can be easily turned down or muted and it is fairly easy to use the windows key to access a desktop media player while Animated Puzzles is open and then return to the game without incident. -It is a little too easy to accidentally destroy your entire puzzle by clicking and dragging it off the screen and into the panel where individual, disassembled pieces are stored (this is the most potentially frustrating aspect of the entire game and is the equivalent of accidentally shoving a physical puzzle off of a table and onto the floor) but with a little care you can keep this situation from occurring. -The vast majority of the puzzles in this game’s Steam workshop are non-animated. -There is absolutely no guidance provided on whether or not it is OK to create sexually explicit puzzles (animated or otherwise) and put them on the Steam workshop. There appears to be no separate sexually explicit section for such puzzles but it seems very possible for such puzzles to be potentially created and shared if someone wanted to. So far, I have not seen any such puzzles on the Steam workshop. -There also seems to be absolutely no concern in the Animated Puzzles Steam workshop with the idea that the creators of any given still image or animated .gif file be credited with its original creation before it is uploaded as a potential user-created puzzle. However, as no monetary transactions occur in this game’s Steam Workshop, any potential copyright issues are probably, at worst, only slight.

A great jigsaw game. The puzzles are great, they're not overly animated, but enough to enhance the "vibe" of the picture. You can choose how many pieces you want and what kind of pieces so you can tune it to what you want. You can even create your own puzzles for pictures and gifs. If you're looking for a Jigzaw game, this is the one I'd recommend!

UPDATE: Game is not abandoned, as the developer just replied to my post on the forums. Also - the game has a free demo. So yeah... what are you waiting for? What's that? The cows to come home? Yeah maybe just try it - trust me on this one: cow's not coming home. ----ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW---- This game is pretty good. Because it's 3am, but I just couldn't put it down until I had uploaded a fractal zoom gif (and kept making it too big, but finally found a compromise). The game crashed a couple times with the animated gif - but that's forgivable (animated uploads are in "beta" - it's clearly marked in the game that way). It finally played the fractal zoom - and what a great feature to see all the pieces in the tray animating in sync! It was really cool - I can't imagine anyone not enjoying a puzzle like that. I'm pretty sure the game is abandoned. It's a bit of a shame. I finally tried the battles - they are turn-based where you place 5 pieces and then your opponent places 5 pieces. Lucky if you got corners or edges before they do - it's a fairly bad multiplayer thing as far as I can tell, but it might be tolerable if you play against a friend. I got matched to someone - and I couldn't tell if they were playing - there's no chat. It's kind of suck. Fractal zoom gif puzzle - holy cow that was fun! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1979732568 Not impressed? See the zoom: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1980320852 Pro: Upload any picture you like in the workshop and select how many pieces you want the picture to be cut into, and upon playing, select what kind of piece outline pattern to use. Pieces may be in the wrong rotation, so you have to click several times to rotate them into place. When 2 or more pieces "fit" together, there's a nice bell sound affirming you made a good connection, and those pieces all become one contiguous piece if you try to pick them up again. Hence they have to be in the right orientation for them to stick together. All tiles on the board (whether located correctly or not) snap to a grid location. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1978774510 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1979033214 Pro: The game will also save and resume your progress if you decide to quit the game and come back later! This is fantastic!! Con: I have asked if there is a non-competitive co-op mode, but the dev has said nothing yet. Neutral: There's a "battle mode". I guess that is for the more warmonger-bent puzzle competitors in the room. You guys can go play over there. Please try to keep the noise down. I will be over here, quietly putting pieces in place, and waiting for the non-competitive feature to get added so I can enjoy playing this with friends without having to keep score - I hope. Con: It would be REALLY nice to see the tiles at full size which are off to the side. The bin they sit in can be dragged out (left to right or right to left), but the size of the tiles that aren't lying on the board is about 75% actual size and hard to see some details. Even without multiplayer this is really very cool depending on whether you love the pictures - and uploading some fractals has turned into a great time trying to solve them as puzzles.

Runs nicely on a Chromebook using Linux and a mouse. Very quick and easy to setup. Just go into Chromebook settings, search for Linux and turn on the Linux Beta switch and then install from Steam. You can also turn on GPU Acceleration in Linux on certain modern chromebooks if you need to. Type chrome://flags/#crostini-gpu-support in the Chrome browser and enable it from the drop-down menu. Beautiful game and very relaxing. Could be a greater choice of music, but what there is, is pleasant.

This is the definitive jigsaw puzzle game. There are plenty of puzzles across 3 levels of difficulty with a half dozen piece shapes to choose from which can further tailor your difficulty level. The music is relaxing. The interface is easy to use. The pieces can be rotated. Once you have placed connecting pieces together they stay together. The images are varied and nice to look at. The animated backgrounds actually make the puzzles a little easier. The only downside to this game is that it ends when you finish the puzzles, which will take quite a while to do. But even that has an upside in Workshop support with plenty of puzzles to choose from. This is really a great game. It contains all the joy of putting together puzzles without the physical space requirements or missing pieces.

I have found this very relaxing and the add ons have helped. I'm doing some of the puzzles from the workshop which also run well.

Finally, a real jigsaw puzzle game on Steam. Animated Puzzles is a puzzle game in which you put together animated pictures. I wasn't sure how it would work in practice, but colour me surprised, there's much to love about this game. Just to preface this review, my Internet crashed right when I was posting this review, so it should say something that I've bothered to retype all of it (and even expand it a little bit!). There are many things that I like about the game and the UI, so I'll bulletpoint my findings: - The pieces are neatly sorted on the right side of the screen, thus avoiding any clutter. - The board itself is grid-based. When you drop a piece, it will be placed into one of the pre-defined spots. This doesn't mean the puzzle auto-solves itself; the pieces won't be locked even if you put them in the right spot. It is simply a way to avoid clutter and to better figure out where a given piece fits. - The pieces themselves are automatically connected if you have two matching pieces next to each other and with the correct orientation. I only wish the game would automatically connect matching pieces regardless of the orientation, for example if both pieces are upside down and placed correctly relative to each other. - The music is lovely. I wonder if it's possible for users to expand the playlist however they like? - You can zoom in and out. - You can preview the picture whenever you want. - The puzzles go up to 150 pieces, but perhaps the limit is higher. I hope in the future the game will support puzzles with arbitrary number of pieces, e.g. 500 or even 1000 pieces, especially since the game's UI is so convenient. - The game offers three difficulty levels for each puzzle (the higher the difficulty, the more pieces there are) and you can choose four types of pieces for each difficulty level. Time is recorded for each individual piece type at each difficulty level. - The game has Steam Workshop support, so you can add static images as puzzles (a Miku puzzle is already available). Hopefully, you'll be able to create animated puzzles in the future. Perhaps there could be some cross-promotion with other games. - You can compete with other players online in head-to-head battles. I haven't tested this feature, so I can't say much about it for now, but it is neat it's there. - There are daily challenges, but they are unique. Instead of just putting together another puzzle, you have to play various modes. For example, there is one mode where a single piece is placed on the board and you have to figure out where the single provided piece goes. As you continue to place more pieces, you have to consider more possible spots. It's a nice twist on the usual jigsawing. - Don't worry about missing a daily, since you can always go back to any days you've missed whenever you like. To sum up, this is THE jigsaw game on Steam right now. It is laser-focused on providing you a pure, clean and crisp jigsaw experience with non-distracting modern conveniences. If you hate how Pixel Puzzles does things, this game will be a breath of fresh air. If you are a casual or hardcore jigsaw lover, this game is worth your attention. And if you've managed to read this far, why haven't you already bought the game? This game is absolutely worth it in its current state and at the current asking price. I look forward to seeing it grow!

From Spilsbury to Ravensburger, I used to do a lot of jigsaw puzzles. Heck, I've got a 15,000 piece puzzle sitting here in a box right now. It will stay there though, as these days, my vision and my cats would both make putting that together well nigh impossible. Perhaps I'll never get to do another jigsaw puzzle again. What's that you say? Animated Puzzles is a jigsaw puzzle game that lets you choose the number of pieces in the puzzles, and also allows you to pan and zoom as you assemble it? Well sign me up! Actually, I already did get the game, but I guess you knew that since I'm, you know, writing about it now. Despite having lost the dramatic tension, I'll press on to elucidate the salient points without sesquipedalian obfuscation. Oops, fucked that up already. Anwyay. Animated puzzles offers pretty much everything I would hope for in a jigsaw game. As I mentioned, the pan and zoom ability does a lot to make the game easier on the eyes, and while the selection of pictures in the game is a bit slim, Steam workshop support ensures that you can just keep adding pictures of your choice. Heck, upload an old wedding photo and as you assemble it you can pretend that you are putting back together a failed relationship. The possibilities are endless! Also worth noting is the animation, since thats what the game is called. The animations in the puzzles are pretty low key. Things like clouds passing by, or dandelion seeds floating around. It adds a nice touch without causing performance issues. Finally, if you want a more challenging experience, you can choose different shapes for the pieces, do the daily challenges, or even go for the leaderboards in time attack. Honestly, this game is so accomodating to however you might like to play, that as long as you actually want to do jigsaw puzzles in the first place, you can be happy with Animated Puzzles.