Hear Your Path

if you're a musician and have any familiarity with classical canon, this game is more fun that it looks. definitely worth the ~$1 it costs.

Very fun, especially if you're a fan of classical music. 5/5 :)

Game crashed three times when I said 'yes' to playing the tutorial. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling to see if that helped, but it still crashed - so I tried a different save slot and for some reason, the tutorial finally loaded and didn't crash the game. Not a great first impression, and then the tutorial itself was a lot of text to parse through, not super clear and I still had some questions by the end of it. I got through two actual levels, but by the third level, I was so frustrated with the split paths that I just gave up on it, as I wasn't having fun. The game description compares it to Minesweeper, but it's not really similar at all - Minesweeper has clues that allow you to logically deduce what might be the correct square to click next, but in this game, when you're presented with a choice of two different directions that each start with the same note, there's no way of knowing if you're choosing the correct path or not until you reach a dead end and have to backtrack. The game also takes points away from you if you go over the required number of notes to find the exit, which feels like punishing you for its own arbitrariness. And the amount of clicking you have …

I love classical music so I decided to give this one a shot. First, I can play levels just fine, but trying to play the tutorial crashes the game (sigh...). But that's kinda all right because the game is super simple to figure out: you just use right-click to hear a note and, if it correctly continues the music from the previous note, you can select it with left-click. So for each note you have 3 options of notes that might continue the sequence (as long as you turn on hard mode in options, which I suggest you do. Otherwise there is only 1 note possibility and the other two are blank walls, which is even more boring). I was irritated with this game by the second level. The fact that you have to click to hear each note and THEN click to confirm it is a lot of annoying clicking. There are no timestamp landmarks on the board, so if you realize you screwed up and want to go back a few seconds in the song to correct your mistakes, you'll have to manually figure out which note on the board the note you're now hearing (from the song playback) corresponds to, which might take a while.

I have mixed feelings on this one, but I'll give it the thumbs up overall because I at least like the idea. Navigating a maze by sound and knowing what note comes next in a piece of music is enough to win me over, and a lot of it is stuff I'm very familiar with from having played it when I was younger or just hearing it a ton otherwise. Something about the actual process of playing through it is less satisfying than I hoped though, so I didn't end up finishing all of it.

Really pleasant musical game ! No timer, no pressure : just enjoy listening the music, and even guide you to find your "path" in each maze. Beautiful experience ❤️