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It's like if you took the witness and made everything 100 times easier, laggier and had the game also crash and stutter constantly. no thanks.

Unfortunately, this isn't that good :( Apart from the issues with lag mentioned in the other reviews, there are a few big problems with the game. 1. Many of the panels are *just* Sudoku puzzles. There's not much variety in the types of puzzles you're solving -- you're just doing the same things over and over again. (The Village area is the worst offender here; it mimics the Town area of The Witness, without realizing what purpose the Town actually serves.) There's no meta-progression, no rule discovery, and not much out-of-the-box thinking after completing the first area. 2. The "observation" puzzles dotted around the map are pretty homogeneous. All of them involve finding the pattern near the puzzle and inputting it into the panel. These patterns aren't even hidden, really. (Also, the very first observation puzzle in the game requires you to solve a latin square puzzle; none of the others do this.) 3. The game shows some potential, using non-unique panels to interact with the environment. For example, the capstone puzzle in the Greenhouse area was interesting, especially for an "early game" area. But I wish it did more with that concept. Overall, i can't really recomm…

Not even close.

Sadly a disappointment built on 3 problems: 1) Performance is abysmal while graphics (shadows, water) jumps around. I could understand realistic graphics that lags or simple graphics that works well, but not worst of both. 2) Controls are bad, they make solving puzzles slow. You have keyboard and mouse it's not that hard to make normal way to select symbol, people been doing that on controllers 3) There's seems to be only 2 mechanics so far, one for main puzzles and other for observation ones. Once you got the trick - it's just "fill the blank".

Nice small game. Reminded me of the witness, but easier. Fair warning, the visuals are not that great and (at least for me) the water does not look anywhere near fine. If this is their first game, it's quite a good effort. I'd recommend it more if the developer updates the water and fixes the various visual glitches.