Patterna

Just wayyyy too convoluted and complex to be any fun. Even if the mechanics are similar it's nothing like Hexcells or (most of) Tametsi. You go through the tutorials (which are like half the levels in the game) mostly fine, then the actual levels begin and you immediately hit the wall. Every. Single. Level. You open it and basically stare at it for hours because there's bloody nothing you can do to progress at all. I feel like I must figure out and solve the whole level at once simultaneously every time. This includes making assumptions based on assumptions based on other assumptions to see if there's a pattern. There's no drawing mode like what Tametsi has though. I've been "solving" levels by drawing over screenshots in MS Paint for a long while and it's simply not fun at all. Even when I do manage to understand and crack a level it doesn't feel rewarding at all. Because you click the next level and instantly run into another wall yet again. Since nodes are not made of grids but rather graphs it is often incredibly hard to really understand what connects to what in the puzzle overall. I just find it next to impossible to truly perceive. And when one-way connections are involv…

Patterna is a wonderful logic game in the vein of Tametsi and Hexcells, but its rules can be a tad harder to grasp and the level design can be brutal. If you thought the Hexcells series was difficult, you might want to skip this one, although to be fair I think that you can assess the game's approach to level design already by playing the demo. Having progressed a bit into the game, though, I have to say that you CAN get better at it once you get the rules embedded in your brain, and the presence of a "what if" mode (accessible by pressing TAB) ensures that even in the worst cases you can try chipping away possibilities. So, yes, Patterna is definitely on the tougher end of the difficulty scale for logic games, but that doesn't mean in any way that it's a bad game. I will also add that the game is sold at a low-ish price considering the amount of levels (not to count the randomly generated ones and the workshop ones).

i love picross as much as the next person but when you've played it and other logic puzzles like it as much as i have it gets pretty easy. and y'know sometimes that's what you want, to just kinda chill and give your brain juuuuust enough to focus on and just space out for a bit. but as somebody who likes those kinds of puzzles, patterna has proved to be really amazing for when i want to *really* have to think about what im doing. very meditative in its own way. a true hidden gem of steam, really. probably wouldn't recommend it to people without any experience with the kinds of logical deductions that nonograms and similar puzzle games (such as the clear inspiration, hexcells) require you to make, though. it'd be nice to be able to make a 'note' mark on any node. pretty minor complaint all things considered though. doesn't stop me from recommending this game if you're a puzzles sicko like i am e: okay, it's not obvious but you can actually hold shift to make "preliminary" note marks without affecting the actual solution nevermind 10/10 flawless no notes

It's a step up from Hexcells but so far not too difficult, has some great mechanics, so if you are looking for another minesweeper variant I definitely recommend it.

This game is everything it's billed as, a logic game that pushes you. There was at least one early puzzle where I got the "you don't have enough information yet" mistake when I thought I did, and had to work hard to figure out what I was missing. If you crave "fair" puzzle games that always have an answer if you look hard enough, this is the best. If you want anything else, this would not be fun.

Delightfully devilish! If you dare brave the two circles of graph theory minesweeper hell, you'll come out with a surprising intuitive mix of several puzzle genres. Not for the uninitiated.