Vmod

Though not an original type, the puzzle is fine. What bothers me (being a designer/artist) is the box on top of the background. It’s unnecessary. This is a minimalist design that focuses on the buttons. The extra box of a different color that sits on the background which, I suppose is meant to be decorative, isn’t. It’s only a visual distraction. Other than that, if you like this puzzle type, this one is an adequate form of it.

Each puzzle is reduced to the Vertex Cover problem, which is mathematically categorized as NP-complete. In other words, it is among the hardest problems in computer science. Fortunately the size of each puzzle is small enough to be solved realistically. 10/10 would recommend to my professor

About 25 puzzles in, the boards become a mishmash of symbols and directional arrows. There’s no overall pattern to decipher, just grunt guess-and-check work to find which magic button should be toggled first. Eventually, I just hit random buttons to see if I got lucky. Quit playing after several of those boards in a row.

I love games like this, and I find the difficulty progression very well paced. My only wish is that there were a minimum moves goal. Just so that there were more "puzzling". As of now, a bout a quarter of the levels lent themselves to deciphering the mechanics of the game, and some involved much more guess and check. Really great game, would reccommend.

So the game is so nice and the animations look clean. My only issue is that there’s no landscape mode playing for iPad and you can’t scroll through levels, so that means I can’t let my friends try the first couple levels without taking 5 minutes to go through levels. Other than that, I’m really enjoying it and it’s a fun thing to play when I’m bored. 😁