About Love, Hate and the other ones

I bought this game years ago on my iPhone and it is really entertaining and challenging.

About Love, Hate and the other ones is a really unique puzzle game. I loved the way Love and Hate each have their own powers, and the puzzles are designed around their personalities. The art is simple but full of character, and the gameplay is both relaxing and challenging. It’s one of those games you can enjoy at your own pace, and the atmosphere is perfect for a cozy game night. Highly recommended for puzzle fans!

it s good but not my type of game

This game’s not about drive and not about power, but about love, hate and the other ones.

My friend I play with said that if I post a review about the game and it gets 200 likes and 100 rewards, he'll buy me a bag of chips and a RTX 4090. So I'll leave this here.

A simple and likable 2D game about drawing NPC's closer or sending them away to use their heads as footstools. Callous, maybe, but necessary.

The gameplay is that simple. You click to send either Love or Hate there - you can click whichever of them you want to be active - and if you click on a "Lazy One", Hate will send a hurtful word or Love will send a comforting one to push or pull the NPC respectively. It's simple, but it makes for great puzzle solving variety.

One thing I'm not so sure about is that the projectile- yes, it's a projectile- can collide on the corners of tiles. So far it hasn't gotten in the way of levels' solutions, but it still seems more like the projectile blocking should be limited to the thicker part of environmental blocks and, obviously, Love and Hate themselves.

The art is great! It takes me back to a time before I lost myself in despair and each game had to be as great to look at as it is to play. The hand-drawn, hand-colored style give the sense that this ridiculously simplistic world is really there all the same and that Love, Hate, and the Lazy Ones are actually living things in it.

It's a simple fun game that's great to look at. I recommend getting it on sale.

Normally we would say, "Hey, it's a cute game!" or say, "Hey, this game has a fun mechanism!". But for About Love, Hate and the other ones we can actually say, "Hey, this game has a cute mechanism!". Yuppy, a cute and unique mechanism along with the cute graphic design, which makes this puzzle solving game unique and lovable. Yeah, one can say it's sokoban with a gravity system, but still, it's the one who came up with the concept to draw in players that counts as a winner here. :3

The puzzles are brain teasing and logically solvable, so all we need is a little thinking time. The satisfaction on solving the harder ones are great too! So it's definitely a must have collection for any puzzle lover!

Good: Cute gfx and sound. Nice puzzle mechanics with a variety of characters. Reasonable (for a puzzle) gameplay duration.
Bad: First three stages were very (very!) easy. In the last stage, difficulty spiked abnormally for a few levels, then again very easy ones. I hoped the difficulty level increased more smoothly.
Verdict: 7/10. Joyful puzzle game, definitely recommended. But does not have much replay value.

I'm definitely Recommending "About Love, Hate and the other ones." It's a nice, fun little puzzle game that's very well done and has no time pressure. The developer uses the first several levels as a tutorial to teach us how to use each ability as it's introduced and then gives us the mainstream levels. Levels 1 through 60 are quite enjoyable and straightforward. As I went through those, I felt really good (like I had gotten better at puzzle games and possibly wasn't a total idiot). But, then Levels 61 through 80 showed up and things got a bit more difficult (and I realized my parenthetical statement, above, wasn't necessarily correct). But, still, it's a very good, very approachable game.

I've only got a couple of issues with the game. First, on my 3440x1440 monitor, the top and bottom of the screens were cut off. I had to make sure I chose a 16:9 screen resolution in the Settings (2560x1440 was the closest to full resolution that worked) to be able to see everything. Everything still looked fine that way. But, unfortunately, no matter what I did, the resolution reset each time I started the game. So, I had to change resolution each time. Second, and I think this is why I had issues with the later levels, the proper use of the purple-hatted guys near the end never became clear to me. That might be my fault or maybe that mechanic needs better explaining. I don't know. And, finally, Achievement would be nice.

Anyway, those are my only issues with the game. I got 9.4 hours out of it at a 2021 Winter Sale price of $0.69 (I got it as part of a bundle with "Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftovers"). But, even at its individual list price of $6.99, it's worth it. So, I'm definitely Recommending it.

About Love, Hate, and the other ones is a puzzle game where you both really love and really hate getting to red buttons. Difficulty is medium hard with a few hard levels in there. Took me 7.4 hours to beat it using a mouse, but expect it to take you longer and for you to get stumped royally.

Gameplay - You click on your two respective characters to change them, you click on other denizens of the 2d world to shout whether you love or hate them (Hating them drives them away, and Loving them draw them closer), and you click where you want each character to go. Didn't have any problems with all the mouse clicking. There's also an undo button on the screen that you'll certainly wear out.

Strategy - Each puzzle requires a certain amount or trial and error strategy. Some you breeze through. Others you'll get one step away after long plans to find you screwed up somewhere and curse up a storm.

Levels - There are 80 levels total on three different areas of the map. Every once in a while something new is introduced to the screen that reacts to your love and hate differently.

Voices/Sounds - This is where the game grated on my nerves. I could ignore the constant dorky "I love you"s and hissing, "I hate you"s, but that churning monotonous wind sound a specific item/enemy made never-endingly dug under my skin ugly sorts of fierce, especially with the later levels. I halfway wanted to hate them off a ledge so I didn't have to listen to them anymore. In the end I got by through turning the volume off.

Menu - The game autosaves every level and will continue where you left off from the menu. It can be accessed in the levels, where you're given an option to reset the level, resume the level, or quit. When you beat a level you can go back and redo it whenever you want on a 'level select' area. There's also a credits icon and a 'how to play' icon in the lower right and an options area to set full screen and resolution.

Graphics and Music- The graphics are super dorky simple with polish, as is the music with its thrumming tuba sounds. Both lend to a childish fun little puzzle game very well.

Cutscenes - There are three major cutscenes in the game where Love and Hate do their antics and cause trouble to string along some sort of plot (?) and give you a laugh in between heaps of puzzles. They felt weirdly lacking and didn't really offer anything. Why react to one enemy when they could react to them all? I don't know why the middle one was there.

Achievements - There are no achievements with this game.

In summary - About Love, Hate, and the other ones is a cute puzzle game that'll put you through your paces and keep you busy for a while. If you like puzzle games there's an experience to be had here. But don't expect your mind to be blown. It's pretty average in terms of puzzle games. I liked the concept.

Its an okay puzzle game and I find the characters within the game pretty cute. I will say the puzzles within the game may take some time to accomplish and there is the possibility of being stuck for a bit, so that may discourage some individuals. However, this game is pretty decent and i recommend a play if given the opportunity.
P.S. I also recommend obtaining the game when its discounted, because I believe I got my copy for about $3 at most.

Another puzzley-puzzler! Got this in a bundle, yet not my kind of game. Had higher hopes of seeing something spectacular, after playing Tiny and Big. Well, it works fine on ubuntu linux, and that's important. Worked on my lowend ubuntu laptop. I just couldn't imagine playing this on anything besides a touchscreen. Does steam even run on touchscreens? Anyway, no story, the voices are the characters saying "Hate, Hate, Hate" or "Love, Love, Love" over and over (annoying!) while they use their very, very simple actions, so soundtrack, graphics were ho-hum, umm, nothing compelling me to even care to play this game, except a chance to see another puzzle. Just steer clear of this one.

System Info

Technical side

Game Name: About Love, Hate and the other ones
Developer: Black Pants Studio
Release Date: 12 Dec, 2014
Genre Tags: Arcade; Puzzle; Casual
Estimated Playtime: 4 hours
Full Controller Support: No
Multiplayer Aspect: None
Achievements: No


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[th]Category[/th]
[th]Score[/th]
[th]Comment[/th]
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[td]Artstyle[/td]
[td]7.5[/td]
[td]Simple, yet cute and beautiful.[/td]
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[td]Gameplay[/td]
[td]8.0[/td]
[td]You are controlling two little toons Hate and Love. Hate likes to push things away. Love on the other hand drags things close to him. You use this combo to make your way across the levels to press the Big Red Button.

Controls are simple yet annoying sometimes since clicks can be misread causing characters to move where you don't want.[/td]
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[td]Music[/td]
[td]N/A[/td]
[td]Beside the two toons, Love and Hate, that say “I love you” and I “hate you” respectively there’s no music involved in this game.[/td]
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[td]Story[/td]
[td]N/A[/td]
[td]There’s no story.[/td]
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[td]Length[/td]
[td]2.5[/td]
[td]The game is really short, it takes around 4 hours to complete 100%.[/td]
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Summary:

Fun little Puzzle Arcade game where you find yourself controlling these little toons. One of the little dudes you control is Hate.Hate likes to push things away. The other guy is Love. He makes the little green blobs move towards him. You use this combo to make your way across the levels to press the mighty BIG RED BUTTON. Plus for steam is you also get cards to sell or trade. Good gaming everyone.

This deliciously titled game, whilst not having a ton of replay value, does leave you with a memorable and fun experience working through the 80 puzzle levels the game provides.

The difficulty has a gradual progression, allowing you to warm up for the mental gymnastics - yet the visuals and ambient soundtrack make you feel at ease and relax at the same time.

Definitely worth picking up this cute gem during sales :)

Follow Love and Hate on their journey through 80 brain-twisting puzzle levels.
About Love, Hate & the other ones is a must-play for everyone who enjoy logic games.

If someone held a gun to my head and demanded that I find one negative thing about this game, it would probably be Love's voice, which was kind of ugly in my opinion (Hate's voice, on the other hand, was brilliant). Other than that, there isn't really much to complain about.
A great example of a well-done iOS/Android game port. Recommended.

About Love, Hate and the other ones may have a rather cumbersome title, but its gameplay is far from that. In fact, it's a very good puzzle game - it may have the looks of a platformer, but just like Toki Tori, to which it shows some resemblances, its not. The developers are the four guys of Black Pants Studio, a German indie development studio who have given us the amazing Tiny and Big: Grandpa's Leftover/ in 2012. With this second game, released late 2014, they have really established themselves as a studio to watch.

Controlling two small cubes, representing the two characters love and hate, the player can alter his surroundigs to a certain extent by influencing the position or behaviour of "the other ones". This in order to get to the "red button", which has to be pushed to move on to the next level. An amazingly simple and original concept, almost executed to perfection. Almost, since the difficulty of the 80 levels rather varies a lot: the first ones are, as they should be, very simple, but the more difficult ones are not only found towards the end, but also quite early on. This may discourage players looking for a very relaxing session, but its only a very minor quibble. Some may even find it an advantage. Otherwise, this game offers the perfect amount of casual gameplay, to be taken in as short snippets as one wants since most levels can be completed in a couple of minutes or less.

The visual style is spot-on too, with four different worlds offering the necessary contrasts yet staying within the same basic concept. A few cutscenes offer some cute, silent storytelling, where the two minimalistic figures even manage to convey some emotions. Great!

Overall score: 8,5/10

Fun little puzzle game. It looks like a platformer but it is not. It is a vertical block pushing game. It starts pretty easy but gets quite difficult toward the end. You may want to turn your sound off.

This isn't a BAD game? It's just... I really enjoyed Tiny & Big, it was a fun game packed full of a bunch of secrets and extra content without wearing out its welcome for me. And then the studio follows it up with Yet Another Puzzle/Platform Game.

I mean, it's competently made, it's got a handy step-by-step rewind system if you screw up, keeping it from getting superbly frustrating as you go on, it adds in new blocks/"creatures" to interact with as you go on so it isn't all samey... but it's still basically one of those titles that comes to mind when you hear someone say "indie game" in a derisive tone.

I couldn't bring myself to finish it, in the end, it just fizzled out. It's decently made, I just don't ever want to see one of these again, my god.

This is a very interesting puzzle game, with a unique mechanic. Nice music and a fun art style. The difficulty ramps up very well over the 80 levels and gets very challenging by the end. If you like puzzle games, you'll get a few good hours out of this one!

Fun puzzle game with a simple but logical endgame; "Push the button", starring "Love" and "Hate"; Love can pull objects and Hate can push them. A simple story line and gameplay, but able to twist my thoughts into knots i cant untie on a short notice...; Brilliant !!

This is one of those Steam games that it is inexpensive enough and looked interesting enough to go ahead and get it and I'm glad I did. It starts off very simple but it slowly increases the difficulty. So far up to level 41, none of the puzzles were annoying but they do ramp up in difficulty as I played which I find a good sign in a puzzle game. You can take back moves and restart at any time so no complete backtracking was needed if I misclicked when almost done with a puzzle.

The graphics are charming and the appearance and voices of our two protagonists fit them well; Love is round and has a flower on his head with a loud friendly voice while Hate is sharp and harsh with a hissing voice that sounds like hate indeed. The cast of characters so far fit the atmosphere and the only negatives I can really say is that it took awhile to get a larger variety of characters in the puzzles.

Puzzle games are not my main style but some are quite good and this is certainly one of best.

- Looks like there's about 80 levels, I've completed 40 so far
- The game introduces new mechanics throughout to keep it interesting, however the difficulty seems random, and doesn't really get progressively harder.
- Controls can sometimes be annoying since clicks can be misread causing characters to move where you don't want.
- Seems like it should be a free flash game, but it's cheap and a good simple puzzle game.

(My first impression after 75 of 80 levels.) This is a puzzle game. It is not a platformer. You can't even jump. There is no story. There is no timer. You can't die, but you can get stuck, and then you need to restart or undo your last moves. Each level fits on a single screen, no scrolling.

You guide two black dudes, love and hate, and they can pull or push other dudes around and step on them and on each other to reach the big red button. Since they can't jump and can only climb one step (unless they find one of these updraft hats and position it just right), this usually requires careful planning. You get to meet different "others" as the game goes on. Yes, it's a mobile port, which is why you don't move your dudes directly, but the pathing is fine -- all you need to do is to click on where you want them to go, and they will, if they can. If you misclick, there's undo.

The first 10 levels are the tutorial. It looks like the art changes after every 20 levels, for a total of 4 "worlds", so there are some 80 levels total. (I think there used to be 70, and they added 10 when the iPad version came out.) The difficulty of the level varies quite a bit; they take me anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes to solve, so let's call it easy to medium diffculty.

I would love for the PC version of this game to have bigger levels, an editor, and Steam Workshop; what is has right now is a small price tag (I got an 80% off coupon for owning Tiny & Big), and enough of a challenge to justify it.

So the question is, how long to beat it? Well, that depends on how smart you are. As I stated up front, I have beat 50 levels so far, so the game should be good for 3 hours at least. Is the game inspiring me to beat it? Not really. I think the logic pathways of my brain that can solve "move boxes around" type of games have been exercised plenty before, by games as complex and inspiring as Tetrobot; and that the part of me that wants plenty of small puzzles when I'm bored is still in love with Lyne and its originality (do get Lyne on a touch device).

I like puzzle games, I got this 80% off, I certainly didn't regret getting this game, it's a solid puzzler. Recommended.

This review is just my initial thoughts about the game, I hope to edit this into a more in-depth review once I finish the game.

About Love, Hate and the other ones is a casual puzzle game. The idea is pretty simple: you control Love and Hate in an attempt to get from point A to point B. You click where you want them to go and they go there. Love has the ability to influence Lumps towards him while Hate has the ability to push Lumps away.

Like most puzzle games, the puzzles start off simple and get progressively more difficult. I haven't played this game too much, but I've already come across a couple good Head Scratchers in terms of difficulty (or maybe I'm just not good at puzzle games).

In summation, this game is a fun, casual puzzle game if you're looking for one. The controls are simple but the puzzles get progressively more difficult.
7/10