Happy Nuclear

Happy Nuclear is a digital take on the logic grid puzzle, drawing clear inspiration from Sudoku-style deduction. You play as a detective tasked with uncovering who is planning to destroy the world with nuclear weapons. By analysing CCTC systems and room usage logs, you must track the movements of various suspects and piece together who is involved in the plot. Each level is randomly generated, giving the game strong replayability, and the inclusion of leaderboards adds a competitive edge by letting you compare your performance with other players. That said, the game is not without its frustrations. The user interface feels somewhat clunky, and the integration of its tools could be smoother. You are limited to just two attempts per level before it resets, which can be discouraging if you are unsure of the solution or still trying to fully understand the puzzle, as it often means repeating the same work. Laying out blueprints and tracking movements can also become a little tedious over time. Despite these issues, I still had a good time with Happy Nuclear. It’s an enjoyable and charming logic game that, while rough around the edges, offers a satisfying puzzle experience over…

6/10 Deduction puzzle TLDR: it's somewhat like Sudoku or Einstein puzzle, in the theme of crime solving. The main difficulty however comes from the clumsiness of the UI. It requires too many clicks and doesn't present the info comfortably. Good: + nice core idea: suspects are in different rooms at different times, and you need to compare CCTV logs with room usage logs (which may have "?"s instead of character names) + thematic spy/detective music + puzzle levels are randomly generated, so you can replay them with a different setup each time So-so: +/- some typos in English text Bad: - checking CCTV or room usage logs requires 5 clicks each time (!): select the room in a drop-down list (2 clicks), then select the time or the person in the drop-down list (2 clicks), then press "Search" (1 click). This turns the game into a slog The obvious UI re-design here would be this: 2 tables on the sides of the screen. The 1st table has rooms for columns and times for rows, and cells contain a list of portraits each. The 2nd table has rooms for columns and rows for persons, and cells contain a list of numbers each (times). That's it. No "search" button or drop-down lists needed, and all…

The answers don't make sense. Even ChatGBT could not figure out the answer to chapter 4.

Use your brain, have fun, I recommend you to play.

This is a unique puzzle game with its own distinctive style. It might look complicated at first with all the maps and token placement, but once you understand the core mechanics, you don't need to draw out every hour or keep track of every character's position. This makes the leaderboard competition much more meaningful and skill-based. However, I don't think it's very suitable for casual players since it requires quite a bit of brainpower.

It's... not really fun. Solving the puzzle genuinely is incredibly tedious. the optimal way to solve most scenarios is to spawn a number of maps equal to the hours, then click on each of the 6 character tokens for each map you spawn and slowly cycle through the dropdowns to get each room's information and place where everyone is in each hour. Maybe it'd be a little more bearable if you could group select and copy-paste (copy-paste 1 single object is functionally no different than clicking the spawn button, dunno why it's an "advertised feature") or spawn a group of all relevant objects with 1 button instead of 7, or if each hour's room locations was a single sheet (perahaps with the "obscured" info scratched or blacked out. The drop downs don't really add anything. The scoreboards are a terrible implementation since most of them come down to 1 multiple choice question; they reward just taking a blind stab and I think time is the only scoring factor? if there was a mid I'd vote that since it works fine enough but I think 6 procgen puzzles aren't worth it.