Suddenly Meow

I do NOT recommend this game to anyone, at any price. It is vague and confusing. It is more difficult than it needs to be, because it is vague and confusing. I eventually made it to Level 23, and that's as far as I got. I couldn't figure out what to do on that level, and you don't get explanations. I fumbled around for quite some time, then finally found a guide online. The guide gave instructions, and plainly said that Level 23 was virtually impossible without using Powerups. Good luck with that. Using the Powerups correctly is vague and confusing. I'm quitting the game at Level 23 and uninstalling. I like cats, but I don't like THIS cat. Tim can find someone else to decorate his room. I'm moving on to a game that makes more sense. This is a Thumbs Down from me, no matter what the price.

Suddenly Meow is a typical mobile ported Match-3/Bejewelled ripoff from HH games, who have a long and sordid history of dumping free and cheap mobile apps on Steam at exhorbitant prices as cash grabs. This is no exception. Gameplay here is... yes... typical Match-3, copied + pasted from an often used Unity Match-3 engine that HH uses time and time again. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the mediocre 2D visuals. The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game only ever reached a peak player count of 5. This is a pitiful enough number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is remarkable, but also to be expected. This complete and utt…

Don't be misled by the simple graphics. This isn't just another M3 game with the same old, same old from a bunch of other games in the genre. It's a puzzle game in disguise. And like a lot of puzzle games, you can get completely stuck and will have to figure it out for yourself when a level has become impossible. There's no hand-holding: even though most of the powerups are similar to ones seen in other M3 games, here, they don't remove playing tiles or obstacles - they'll only rearrange the playing pieces. You can still render a level impossible to finish even playing in relaxed mode. A lot of the 90 levels have you making pathways between the hero cat, Tim, and fish in the playfields. The obstacles require thinking ahead to plan out the strategy, and doing things in a particular order to solve the puzzles. There are a handful of traditional M3 levels where you are clearing tiles or dropping items to the bottom of the board, but even some of the "drop items to the bottom" are really challenging. Periodically, battle levels appear in which you must deplete the boss' energy before the boss drains all of Tim's energy. Seven minigames each of HOS and "match the halves to…

https://youtu.be/P7Hjtz7vqIA Going hard on the weird visuals is worth a nod, but outside of that it struggles to have a strong identity or core gameplay loops.

I can not set up the proper size of elements for 1280*1024. It does not fit with any settings unless the elements are too tiny.

Besides the match-3 play, you must use logic to clear the board. Fixing up cat Tim's "hideout" is an incentive to earn points because he looks so cute in his hammock.