SOK MIN Reviews

If like sokoban, then you will like this game. 100 levels that need a lot of thinking to finiish. A must-have for every puzzle lover. P.S. Consider taking the SOK package. It contains SOK and SOK MAX.

Played on Steam Deck. "the smallest and the easiest levels of SOK puzzle" oh no… I have SOK and SOK Max to play so I hope those aren't too difficult since these felt just right until about the 90s where the difficulty was challenging yet still enjoyable. I love a good minimalist sokoban game, but the good puzzles are really the only thing here. No background music, the actual play area is only the middle of the screen and could be bigger, but the tight confined puzzles were great so I am glad to have done them. It is very weird to see DLC at the same price as the game putting a paywall on QoL features of undo, dark modme, BGM, but whatever.

For people who want to challenge their minds, I recommend this game series. As a critique, I would like to say that it would have been better if the game had a dark skin so that our eyes would not get tired when playing at night.

The third SOK game promises to be the easiest - and while it's true strictly speaking, it's 100 levels still pack enough challenge for quite a few hours of fun. No sound, next to no graphics, challenging levels - the formula still works.

A box pushing puzzle with at least two boxes in small areas. Barebone graphics, barely a sound and no music. 100 levels of this are going to be very dry... It kinda overstays its welcome. Also, I really miss an undo button. Idea: add a slo-mo, zoom-in, some fanfare and particles, when the last box slides into place. That would give the player a small, satisfactory endorphine high. Look to Peggle on how it's done.

extremely difficult minimalistic puzzle with really low effort put into the actual game design. no sound and the most minimal graphics possible. too little effort put into this game to recommend.

If you are looking for achievements then sure this game can give you many but it is a dull grind to do so. Otherwise, if you are looking for a fun engaging puzzle game then this is not it. After the first few levels you have seen it all. Most puzzle games in my experience give you a good handful of levels to understand the basic premise and then slowly add in new mechanics, this game does not do that. So if you are okay with 100 levels of the same repetitive puzzles then sure get this and the others. Lets hope you did not do what I did and buy all three without trying one first, but that is on me.

A very minimalistic version of Sokoban but for a game of Sokoban you don't need fancy graphics at all. It's very enjoyable and the levels are on the easier side as sokoban goes, that doesn't mean you don't have to think though. Not as good as the old PC Classic, but still a great game, and one of the few sokoban expiriences you can get on steam

In 2019 I played and finished the first SOK game (simply named SOK) from this developer: those 60 levels took me almost 13 hours to complete. I picked up SOK MIN while it was on sale some time ago but only recently mustered the courage to give this one a go. I still vividly remember how tough the original SOK game was for me, but since SOK MIN promised to be really reeeeeally easy, I finally manned up during another COVID lock down and dove right in 2 weeks ago. Apparently, I did not learn much from my previous dabbles with sokoban puzzles since SOK MIN, which has 'the easiest levels', took me a whopping 19 hours to complete. SOK MIN starts out easy enough but gets progressively more difficult with 4 instead of just 3 blocks to push around. I found the difficulty of SOK MIN to be a bit unbalanced: right until the end of the game some levels would litterally take me an hour to solve, only to be followed by 2 or 3 levels that could be solved within minutes on the first try. However, I do realize that if all levels could be solved so easily, the game would not have been fun at all. Pro tip: When I was truly stuck on a particular level, I found it useful to draw the puzzle with a pencil on plain paper, cut out the required number of moving tiles, put the tiles in the FINISHING position, and solve the puzzle by working BACKWARDS. I also bought SOK MAX (which is ominously advertized as targetting hard core puzzles fans, so that excludes me) but after the current experience with the supposedly easy peasy SOK MIN it will probably be a while before I sink my teeth into that one. If you consider playing one of the SOK games, I would actually recommend considering the SOK MIN PRO version of the game. SOK MIN PRO supposedly has an undo function, the lack thereoff was my single biggest grime with SOK MIN. The main reason you need an undo is because the keyboard input is very sensitive and you will often press down an arrow key a little bit too long causing a block to be pushed farther than intended. I mainly played SOK MIN in the little hours before going to bed, so a dark background or at least a color scheme less strenuous on the eyes would have been appreciated.

Coming to SOK MIN from SOK and SOK Max. Smaller and simpler version, SokoBan at it best and simple form. Had much fun trying to beat the leaderboard as usual with the fastest and best efficient path for each stages (only if you grab the Pro dlc), usually having the game in the background while multitasking other games. Highly recommend to test your braincells with the Series.