Fascinating game! It's wonderful how it does so much with so little. When I rate any game, I rely on three major aspects: the extent to which it utilizes its gameplay mechanics, how this mechanics interact with the story and artistic style to produce an integral aesthetic experience of a game, and how fun and interesting this experience is to me. This game, in my opinion, manages to succeed at each of this aspects: the very few of its gaming mechanics are quite simple and yet allow for great variety of challenging puzzles; game's minimalistic story and visual style are set just on pair with it's simple mechanics; and finally, the overall experience I get was very satisfying with interesting challenges to solve and some funny comments to read between levels.
I also liked the 'transparent' background. Never saw this effect here before, so it felt refreshing and complimented game's overall visual simplicity and restraint even further.
Reviews for "Game about Squares"
This game is very cleverly designed. The puzzles are excellent. I agree with the other reviews, a few sound effects would make a better experience.
The game is great! But it needs sounds!
Hmm... I wouldn't have minded a little rules to start things off! Or some feedback, so you know even if you do wrong that the game at least recognizes the action, and isn't maybe... frozen? It starts with a screen featuring a box with a triangle arrow pointing downwards, and a circle, and though I've tried dragging, clicking and pressing all keys... nothing seems to happen? Either I'm really missing some of that supposedly innovative core logic here... or it's not working for me. Seems interesting though.
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I'm sorry, that's a bug :\ The square must be clickable. The easiest way around it is to try playing in another browser.
Number of people reported this problem already but I cannot pin it down. On all of my systems/browsers everything works fine. I'll add a note to the description.
It's actually not bad, but NEEDS sound