Happy Color Links

[b]8/10[/b] A deceivingly cute, but really hard block pushing puzzle game. [b]What is it:[/b] A block pushing game, there are blocks of different colors you have to push around until all the blocks of the same color are together, forming contiguous islands. The story is that a professor was trying to perform an experiment, but due to an error it failed, releasing many creatures that can only be happy when they are together. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3318116501 And I can't believe how hard this actually is. The first levels are super easy, and the creatures (and the protagonist) have such cute expressions, with big bright eyes, always happy, hopping up and down, you’d think this is an easy game for children. After the first world, there may be a few easy levels, but most of them are challenging, and at least two in each world take a lot of time to solve. And not because of their size, even a small level with fewer than 10 creatures can be super hard. Other mechanics make things a lot more complicated. While square blocks can be pushed with the standard Sokoban rules, circles keep rolling until they hit an obstacle. Clone spots clone any creature on …

This game has good puzzle design even before introducing new mechanics. There is a tricky puzzle even in world one. Note that for the vast majority of the game, the puzzles do not involve meta elements even though it would seem that way from the layout of the map.