Word Factori

This is somewhat of a a weird puzzle game and I'm leaning towards 'not recommend'. The idea is definitely cool, but the implementation is really lackluster. The one mechanic at its core is to figure out how to construct letters, but that just feels very arbitrary and is not really something you can logically solve. More on this at the bottom** of this review. The biggest weakness of the game, in my opinion, is that once you figure out a recipe for each of the letters, you essentially solve the whole game. Levels becomes trivial and repetitive as you only need to build the factory for each of the letters. which would be made even more trivial if a blueprint system exist and you can just paste the letter factories all in. So instead blueprints purposefully don't exist and for each word level you need to manually re-build the same factory pipeline for the same letter. And that's... not really fun? **why I say the recipes are just arbitrary: For example two I's become a V when merged. So it seems angle does not matter? But then, why would two I's and a horizontal bar (—) not merge to become an A (instead this produces an H)? And why would a P and an upside down V (∧) merge to produc…

A must-play for fans of automation puzzle games

Close to completing this game now, only one achievement left that's time locked. I had alot of fun with this game. Going mad while trying to arrange strokes into shapes proves quite entertaining for a time, but I feel the game doesn't explore its own mechanics as much as it could. Challenge levels don't feel terribly difficult, secret levels feel more time consuming than anything, and the only incentive to find your own words is for the sake of itself, which would be fine, but the very process of creating words becomes so second nature that puzzles are done before you place the first building. Again, though, that only comes as you approach the end of your time with the game. It would be fun to see this idea expanded on, but the game is decently fun as is. It doesn't run all that well, lagging pretty regularly and running my computer hot even when it's open in the background, but it's still playable.

It's ok but a bit too linear for me. There are some challenges that have very limited amount of solutions.

Fun puzzle game that will take a half a dozen or so hours, I just really wish there were more challenge puzzles, those were the best part The achievement grind was fine but nothing really exciting, I did like figuring out the last few recipes, but sometimes I was just really confused why some "secret" recipes didnt work Additionally the whole secret level stuff was cute, but the hint given didnt make complete sense to me until I randomly just did ||LOL|| while figuring out other recipes for two challenge maps I didnt beat yet Overall fun stuff, it's cheap too, so grab full price or on discount, either way I hope Star Garden makes more stuff in the future^^

The concept here is interesting, and guessing the first few letter combinations feels good. However this quickly devolves into endless trial and error. Everything starts with an 'I', then you have 4 machine types to bend, rotate, mirror, and merge pieces together to form new letters. There's a recipe book that shows you how many possible combinations exist for each letter, and the specific combinations you've already found. Most of my unlocked letters were the result of failing to find other letters. Many combinations felt very arbitrary, especially anything with an angles like 'S' or 'Q'. The game is well polished, but in the end I didn't have much fun after the first 15 minutes. Thumbs up for the chill music though.