Mad Geometry

The store page lists 4 features, let me debunk those before I say anything else: • Dynamic but simple music ~ sure, but it's not even a minute long and it's on a loop, just like most free unity music samples. • Procedural generated boards ~ you won't notice, they all play the same. • 8 worlds with 5 levels each ~ Does 40 total levels sound like a lot? Maybe until you realize they take roughly 5 to 15 seconds each to beat. Entire game from start to finish is under 10 minutes long. (and about half of that is loading time between levels) • Inspired by classic puzzle games ~ I'm not sure this qualifies as what I would call a puzzle game. It's a simple shape matching game more than it is a puzzle. --- This is in no state to be a released game. The version I was given for review (just days before launch) is barely an idea for a game that hasn't been finished. You have a flat board, and you're a shape. You move over and touch the other things that are shaped like you, and you win and move to the next board. This process takes seconds to complete and no puzzle solving. If you touch a shape that is a different shape, you become that shape and now your goal is to pick up all the shap…

[b]In short: do not waste money on this. It wouldn't even merit a free-to-play Early Access release at this point, never mind charging £6.69 as if it were already a viable product.[/b] When I received my review copy, a few days before release, it was glitchy and barely playable - it froze up right after the "press space to start" screen on several occasions. While the dev did patch this one specific problem, another person who played a review copy noted that the patch seemed to introduce new problems elsewhere. I had to tab out and force quit the game repeatedly because the basic quit-button functionality is just not there. As in, it wasn't included in the design at all - not just that the button itself didn't work! When it did finally get past the "1 player" screen, the 'gameplay' was utterly uninteresting: you move your shape to the matching shapes on the board. That's it. Most of the time there aren't even any difficulties to overcome, it's just a brief walk across the board. Based on the fact that I got past two 'worlds' with multiple levels in three minutes (and most of that was slow loading times between levels!), Mad Geometry has only about 10 minutes' worth of content …

I mean this game is just a masterpiece!