Sharp

Sharp

alkaitagi · September 1, 2018 · 2D, Top-Down, Linear, Action, Puzzle

Sharp is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

PC
Mostly Positive73% · 26 📉 Recent reviews down 64%
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Sharp is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Sharp

A small grid-based real-time action experience with puzzle elements and a bit of story. Featuring an hour long single-player campaign and the fully-featured level editor.

Sharp — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players appreciate Sharp as a free, open-source puzzle game with minimalist aesthetics and gradually increasing difficulty that provides a satisfying mental challenge. However, the game suffers from significant mechanical issues including softlock bugs where tiles permanently flip color, unclear tutorials that leave players confused about objectives, and misleading genre tags—players describe it as more of a frustrating bullet-hell experience than a puzzle game, leading to ragequits even when solutions are known.

Not recommended Jan 20, 2022
"Sharp" is a minimalist 2D mobile app tier retro puzzle game, very much a ripoff of the asset/template flipped game Chocolate Makes You Happy (1 through 8). It's a simple puzzle game where you move in cardinal directions on a grid, but you cannot stop once you begin each directional movement. The developer added some timed movement challenges and other obstacles, but otherwise the game is exactly the same as the DailyIndieGame asset flip shovelware garbage, Chocolate Makes You Happy. On the upside, this is free, where Chocolate Makes You Happy is a nasty cash grab, while this is open sourced, and that's noble, but at the same time it's difficult to say this has made any notable contribution to the volume of video games available today. The same kind of game can be played for free in a browser, so it's difficult to recommend downloading this to have it consume disk space.
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 4, 2021
If you or a virus dies on a tile as it turns red, sometimes that tile permanently flips color. This means you can softlock the levels due to a poor game mechanic even if you know a puzzle's solution. The reactor level is too damn long to put up with that. Ragequit as a result.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 8, 2025
stuck at the first screen with two cross, I don't known what thing wrong or I should do anything though.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 27, 2022
Dont belive the tags, this is actually a rage/bullethell game, not a puzzle game
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 3, 2025
Игра 'Sharp' оказалась на удивление увлекательной головоломкой. Простой, казалось бы, концепт - вращать фигуры, чтобы они образовали цельную картинку - постепенно превращается в настоящий вызов для мозга. Первые уровни служат отличным введением в механику, а вот ближе к середине приходится по-настоящему поломать голову. Визуальный стиль минималистичен и приятен глазу. Ничего лишнего, что отвлекало бы от процесса решения. Музыкальное сопровождение ненавязчивое и создает расслабляющую атмосферу, что тоже важно при сложных задачах. Единственный минус, который могу отметить - это иногда возникающая небольшая монотонность. Однако, это легко компенсируется желанием решить очередную головоломку и увидеть, какая картинка получится в итоге. В целом, 'Sharp' - отличная игра для тех, кто любит интеллектуальные вызовы и хочет скоротать время с пользой для ума. Рекомендую!
Recommended Mar 29, 2024
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