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chuckroklocki - A minimalist puzzle game that requires you to move blocks in a variety of ways to create patterns. It takes about an hour to get through the 40-ish puzzles, and they're good about being gentle when they introduce new features. (It never gets particularly hard.) Simple, fun.
Zenge - A puzzle game sorta based on jigsaw puzzles, in that you're trying to connect pieces to form a picture, but complicated by rails, teleporters, rotaters and specific sticky points. 70 levels that introduce a new twist every dozen or so and never got too hellish; less than two hours to do everything.
Mystery Loss - A standard-issue match-3 game where you’re matching ghosts, and the story follows a cat and an old lady as they hunt through a haunted house. Periodically, there will be hidden-object puzzles instead of matching levels. There are 210 levels for all of your casual-gaming needs, though the only standout is that some of the levels move (to the point of rearranging themselves) which adds a complication and level of strategy I haven’t seen elsewhere. I ended up playing the entire game because it’s an easy pick-up-and-play casual game (and it gives you plenty of coins to buy boosters, not having any IAP features to slow you down), but the plot is told entirely in dialogue between Grams and Leonardo and absolutely nothing it shown (the villain doesn’t even have any speaking lines), which means it ends up being fragmentary and nonsensical.
Flippt - A very simple color-based matching game. Memorize the order of the tiles that flash, then click them on the board. Infinite levels that speed up as you go, and achievements for reaching high levels on each difficulty setting. 15 minutes of fun.
Metamorphabet - This isn't so much a game as just some playful letter and word-based art. A touchscreen version would be lovely for a young child. At this point, I think ARR is actually too old for it.
oO - Click at the point of contact to jump a dot between circles. That is literally the entirety of the gameplay. It gets insane very quickly and honestly gave me a mild headache.
Alimardan's Mischief - A puzzle adventure game with an irritating art style and controls, to the point that I soured on it a few minutes in. Which meant it didn’t bother with the sequel, Alimardan Meets Merlin.
The bundle included That's Mahjong!, but I’m not really interested in playing Mahjong. TREBUCHET I already had from the Neon Bundle (and wasn’t wild about). Hook I played the Android version of (and found it a fun little diversion).
Overall: Irritatingly, the best games in this bundle I also had on Android: klocki, Hook and Zenge are all fun little creative puzzle diversions. Mystery Loss ended up being where the bundle earned its keep, because I wanted a mindless match-3 game and it happened to be there.
Zenge - A puzzle game sorta based on jigsaw puzzles, in that you're trying to connect pieces to form a picture, but complicated by rails, teleporters, rotaters and specific sticky points. 70 levels that introduce a new twist every dozen or so and never got too hellish; less than two hours to do everything.
Mystery Loss - A standard-issue match-3 game where you’re matching ghosts, and the story follows a cat and an old lady as they hunt through a haunted house. Periodically, there will be hidden-object puzzles instead of matching levels. There are 210 levels for all of your casual-gaming needs, though the only standout is that some of the levels move (to the point of rearranging themselves) which adds a complication and level of strategy I haven’t seen elsewhere. I ended up playing the entire game because it’s an easy pick-up-and-play casual game (and it gives you plenty of coins to buy boosters, not having any IAP features to slow you down), but the plot is told entirely in dialogue between Grams and Leonardo and absolutely nothing it shown (the villain doesn’t even have any speaking lines), which means it ends up being fragmentary and nonsensical.
Flippt - A very simple color-based matching game. Memorize the order of the tiles that flash, then click them on the board. Infinite levels that speed up as you go, and achievements for reaching high levels on each difficulty setting. 15 minutes of fun.
Metamorphabet - This isn't so much a game as just some playful letter and word-based art. A touchscreen version would be lovely for a young child. At this point, I think ARR is actually too old for it.
oO - Click at the point of contact to jump a dot between circles. That is literally the entirety of the gameplay. It gets insane very quickly and honestly gave me a mild headache.
Alimardan's Mischief - A puzzle adventure game with an irritating art style and controls, to the point that I soured on it a few minutes in. Which meant it didn’t bother with the sequel, Alimardan Meets Merlin.
The bundle included That's Mahjong!, but I’m not really interested in playing Mahjong. TREBUCHET I already had from the Neon Bundle (and wasn’t wild about). Hook I played the Android version of (and found it a fun little diversion).
Overall: Irritatingly, the best games in this bundle I also had on Android: klocki, Hook and Zenge are all fun little creative puzzle diversions. Mystery Loss ended up being where the bundle earned its keep, because I wanted a mindless match-3 game and it happened to be there.
