Poly Puzzle: Dogs

Lucky me gets to write the first English review for yet another mobile app copy+paste/asset flip/cash grav from Cute Hannah, who do nothing but copy + paste the same basic mobile app game templates onto Steam (they've done this with their series of POG copy+pastes, a series of "Memory" asset flips, now they're doing it with a basic tile/jigsaw). This is just a ultra simple game where you assemble a picture, this version of the asset flip has a few stock images of dogs that the developer ripped off from somewhere. It's a blatant cash grab, with zero depth or value as a game, a joke $2 cash grab price, and of course it was dumped into DailyIndieGame bundles at launch. Cute Hannah have performed this specific asset flip 5 times, with different tiles to match, but otherwise the same game. Cats, Dogs, Birds, and Furries (which tells you all you should need to know about this "developer"). Since you can play this kind of game for free in a web browser if you really wanted to, I can't recommend anyone should pay money for this cash grab pollution.

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Number Six, and this is definitely my least favorite of the bunch (at least so far), but that's just because I can't stand dogs. I mean, I think I only got the bug I mentioned in review 5 - where the puzzle doesn't think it's solved when it is - once this tiem, so ultimately it's *mechanically* improved, but man, this was a slog.

I don't recall precisely how this game appeared in my Steam library, but given how many of these nearly identical Poly Puzzles exist, and my personal disinterest in dogs, my expectations were [i]looooooooooow.[/i] While it is exactly what it appears to be and nothing more, I can't deny that I enjoyed my time with this totally decent set of puzzles. The images aren't great works of art, but they're all aesthetically pleasing and easy enough to parse while still offering some challenge. The limited number of moves and accompanying hint system are surprisingly clever and fair, never spoiling the laid-back mood while offering the right level of challenge to keep one engaged. Turning on a playlist or podcast would have been a smart choice, but I let the stock, frequently looped music do its thing during the 2.7 hours I spent piecing together dog faces, always expecting it to start irritating me, but nah. It's fine. Every part of this package is completely fine. Inessential and unambitious, sure, but I feared I was getting slop. Let the record show, I was wrong.