Meld
Axis Games · 2016 · Strategy, Indie, Puzzle
PC
3 user reviews100% · 3
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About Meld
Meld is a mind-bending puzzle game featuring 200+ levels and a build-in editor so you can create your own and play levels made by others! Master dozens of powerups and layers of strategy to make your way through each level. Meld features a build-in tutorial system which makes learning the rules and strategy simple!
Objective & Gameplay
Meld features an incredibly simple set of controls. Click to move or drag elements (tiles) around the gameboard to to create a path of like-colored elements between the starting and ending terminals. If the terminals are yellow, then a yellow path must be created.
Like-colored elements can be stacked on top of each other, and certain colored elements can be melded together to produce new colors.
Melding
Combining elements of different colors in called melding. Primary color elements (Red, Blue, and Yellow) can be melded together to create secondary colors.
Powerups
As you progress in Meld, completing levels becomes much more difficult than simply creating a path. Powerups provide an added layer of strategy while increasing the depth of the game! Below are some of the powerups you'll find in Meld. Each powerup will unlock at a certain level.
Level Editor
Meld features a user-friendly, built-in level editor where you can create, test, and publish your own custom levels. Once a level is published, it can be played by others who can rate the quality and difficulty of the level! See how your level compares to others that have been made!
Objective & Gameplay
Meld features an incredibly simple set of controls. Click to move or drag elements (tiles) around the gameboard to to create a path of like-colored elements between the starting and ending terminals. If the terminals are yellow, then a yellow path must be created.
Like-colored elements can be stacked on top of each other, and certain colored elements can be melded together to produce new colors.
Melding
Combining elements of different colors in called melding. Primary color elements (Red, Blue, and Yellow) can be melded together to create secondary colors.
- Red + Blue = Purple
- Blue + Yellow = Green
- Yellow + Red = Orange
Powerups
As you progress in Meld, completing levels becomes much more difficult than simply creating a path. Powerups provide an added layer of strategy while increasing the depth of the game! Below are some of the powerups you'll find in Meld. Each powerup will unlock at a certain level.
- Antimatter - Changes the color of any element or element stack to its opposite color.
- Board Tile - Places an empty tile on the board at a selected location.
- Asteroid - Destroys an element and its binding. If used on an unbound element or empty bound tile, a placeable tile is awarded.
- {Color} Comet - Shoots out from a specified tile performing a single {color} meld on all valid elements it touches. (There are six colored comets: Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Red, and Yellow.)
- Meteor - Destroys the binding on a selected tile or an element on an unbound tile.
- Pulsar - Destroys all unbound elements in a straight line away from a specified tile.
- Solar Flare - Changes the color of any element or element stack to any other color.
- Worm Hole - Connects two non-adjacent tiles and allow them to act as if they were connected.
- Superconductor - Occupies a single, empty tile and allows any color conduit to pass through it.
- Meteor Shower - Destroys the binding or unbound element on a selected tile and all six surrounding tiles.
- Planetoid - Destroys an element and the tile that holds it or a bound element and its binding. All surrounding, unbound elements are also destroyed.
- Fusion - Fuses any two elements of a different color producing special results.
- Black Hole - Occupies a single tile plus all six surrounding tiles and devours anything that enters the black hole.
- Dark Energy - Pushes all surrounding elements one tile away. Element collisions will create a fusion.
- Dark Matter - Pulls all surrounding elements two tiles away in one tile. Element collision will create a fusion.
- Supernova - Blasts out in all six directions destroying any element it hits then performs a meld on each tile according to its color.
Level Editor
Meld features a user-friendly, built-in level editor where you can create, test, and publish your own custom levels. Once a level is published, it can be played by others who can rate the quality and difficulty of the level! See how your level compares to others that have been made!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Got this in a bundle have to say I didn't expect such a nice game it's night here atm passed first 25 levels now I'm writing this +makes you think +makes you make better decisions +lots of levels +lots of powerups +colorful +doesn't get boring as it requires much attention +shop system for extra chance to 100% +custom level maker -you can be lost in thoughts -colorblind support *can't think of anything else.. it's a nice puzzle game for the price gets you occupied for maybe 5+ hours1 found this helpful
Got this in a bundle and was not that interested in playing it an hour in. While there are a significant amount of levels, I would not consider this worth the currently "reduced" price of $9.99, maybe I'm spoiled by bundles. I will say I found everything was explained well and the mechanics overall are fairly intuitive. The logo as a guide for people who never took an intro to art class, was good use of screen space and just clever. But at the end of the gametime, I just didn't find it all that interesting compared to the many puzzle games I've completed.1 found this helpful
Best strategy puzzle game ever created!
really puzzle-ific!
Really enjoying the game, so far - but please change default camera rotation option to off - it is distracting, unsettling and a bit dizzying - and it turns itself back on whenever I re-launch the game, or exit to the main menu. Thanks.
Meld is a puzzle game with a simple mechanic - you need to create coloured paths from one node to another. There are coloured hexes on the boards you can (or can't) move, you can mix the colours to better suit your needs, and you have various "powerups" that can alter the colours, or even the board itself. Based on the above, the game's 200 levels seem to be excessive, but having gone until 50, I daresay it may be feasible. The levels all manage to be interesting some aspect, and while difficulty is quite up and down, I regularly ran into some rather challenging ones - at least if I was to make 3 stars with no extra powerup purchases. So Meld is a pretty good game - probably not quite worth the 10 bucks asking price, but at 50% discount it's perfectly fine.
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