Tametsi Reviews

YAY I just wish that it saved drawings when you exit a level or that it at least tell you somewhere beforehand that it won't save when you exit.. had to find out the hard way... ;-;

Yeah its fun.

Super difficult, pretty satisfying, total time suck. Have been having a hard time with life and this is about all I have been able to manage other than a mobile game for many weeks. So hard to let go of once I've been staring at that board trying to logic out the next opening. I wish the annotation system had a way to draw the secondary colour when using track pad, or had a list of recently used colours to switch back to. Some drag and drop icons would go a long way also. Otherwise pretty flawless, well designed puzzles. A surprising amount of variation in level design and strategy within a simple premise. Recommend.

bought this bc i needed more of a challenge from minesweeper and ive been sufficiently challenged

Insane value for the money. I'm a little over 50 hours in and still haven't completed even half of the levels. There's great variety in styles of puzzles, and I find nearly every puzzle highly satisfying to complete. Greatly looking forward to playing the rest of this.

Most challenging puzzle game I've ever played. An absolute joy to solve each puzzle especially the last 30 or so bonus puzzles. I loved solving this game over the last year or so and it was wonderful to take a break from work and work on a puzzle for a while. Huge value for $3

Many creative and engaging puzzles, very low price, it's great bang for a buck.

holy crap this game has completely minesweeper'd me out. some of the later levels are serious brain burners. there's plenty of levels, and it took me 74 hours to get through them all (albeit with some time leaving the game open as i took a break)

Tametsi is one of the best puzzle games available on Steam. It’s inspired by Minesweeper, where the main objective is to reveal all mines—except here, every puzzle can be logically solved without ever guessing the next move. It’s also simple to understand, since there aren’t any complicated mechanics. Tiles can be colored, with separate mine counts, and there can also be mine counts for entire lines in a puzzle. Additionally, tiles can have multiple shapes beyond the regular squares. Combining these three mechanics results in very interesting and well-designed puzzles. There are 100 main puzzles, with difficulty slowly increasing. It starts easy, but eventually becomes quite challenging. Finding the next step will require more advanced deduction techniques, and it’s often not obvious where you should even start looking. Still, I found the 100 main puzzles to be doable if you’re patient. There are also 60 extra puzzles released in updates, with the later ones pushing the difficulty even further and offering tough challenges. The puzzles alone already make Tametsi great, but on top of that, there are plenty of quality-of-life features that reduce tedious checking. For example, you can make mine counts decrease automatically as you reveal them, which I highly recommend. You can also highlight which tiles are adjacent—really helpful for unusual shapes. But the best feature has to be the drawing tool, which lets you take notes directly on the puzzle. This is especially useful for testing hypotheses that might lead to contradictions, something very common in a lot of puzzles. The excellent puzzle design combined with these quality-of-life features makes Tametsi one of the best puzzle games I’ve ever played. There’s no music, and the presentation is minimal, but there’s enough content to keep someone busy for dozens of hours. And the cherry on top: the game is criminally cheap. Even at $10 it would be an easy recommendation, but at its current price, it’s a no-brainer. And that’s without a sale. Still, given the difficulty, it’s something I can only recommend if you’re a fan of the genre. If you are, you’ll have an absolute blast.

In square grids, whether or not cells that share only a corner count as adjacent is entirely arbitrary. As a result, you can't make consistent logical deductions. Furthermore, this goes against already-established precedent in many similar games (minesweeper et al.), which prevents the player from using built-up visual intuition. The levels that don't have this problem are very well done (very cute, if a little easy), but this decision is baffling to the point of unplayability.