Разработчик: PlayColorfulGames
Описание
70+ Beautifully crafted mind bending levels.
Based on color-render mechanics.
Optimized for human brains.
Hope you will like it!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, simplified chinese
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP, 7, Vista, 8, 8.1, 10
- Processor: Intel Celeron 1800 MHz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics
- Storage: 100 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.7+
- Processor: Core Due
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Any
- Sound Card: Any
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 10.04 or later
- Processor: 2.0Ghz+
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Shader Model 2.0+
- Storage: 100 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
6/10
In short: The main mechanic is fun and this is close to a recommendation, but ultimately falls short because of how poorly thought-out the user interaction is and because of how little content there is. The concept is great, the execution is lacking.
In long: Watch the store video, it is an accurate portrayal of the main mechanic. You are presented with a grid of linked hexagons in up to 4 different colours. Within a limited number of moves you are to paint them all in a single colour. Select a colour and click a tile to recolour all contiguous tiles of the same colour. The levels are cleverly laid-out, requiring you to carefully plan your steps so you don't exceed the move limit. Later-on new mechanics are introduced allowing you to swap two tiles or forcing you to deal with locked and locking tiles.
For how simple and bare-bones this is, I found it to be surprisingly fun and interesting. It's not overly demanding, but avoiding brute force trial-and-error requires a bit of thinking ahead, which I quite enjoyed. There are 75 levels across 6 categories, roughly in order of difficulty. You unlock the categories one at a time. After beating the last level, roughly 1.5 hours into the game, it just throws you back to the level selection screen, which feels a bit anti-climactic. There is no endless mode or level generator, but I could see myself replaying the later levels in a few years maybe.
The visuals are minimalist, but I still liked the looks of the game. The Unity loader takes care of the technical aspects (resolution, windowed mode). In-game the only menu option is disabling music and/or sound effects, with no sliders present. Sometimes the music seemed glitchy, but I couldn't pinpoint why and quickly turned it off anyway (I do on most puzzle games). The sound effects are decent.
Now onto my biggest gripe with the game - UI and controls. There are no hotkeys, not even Esc to go back to the menu or close the game. Be it through planning in advance or through trial-and-error - usually there comes a point where you know the way to victory on a level and just want to execute it. This is where frustration will quickly build up. Click on a colour, then click on the target tile. Now the UI for some reason completely locks up and forces you to watch up to a few seconds of the colour spreading. Only then you can go back to the bottom of the window and select the next colour, click on the next tile, stare at the screen as the colour spreads, etc etc. It's just cumbersome and excruciatingly slow! I don't want to compromise the artistic vision of the developers, but doubling the animation speed for filling and level transitions, or allowing to instantly complete animations with a second click would make the experience a lot smoother.
And why can't I select the next colour while the previous one spreads? Why doesn't the game buffer inputs? In fact, it provides no visual or auditory feedback whatsoever when you click a tile while the UI is locked. The first few times I just didn't know why nothing was happening. I would also like to see hotkeys for the colours (maybe 1, 2, 3, 4 and/or allow scrolling between them with the mouse wheel) and the undo button so I don't have to always go across the whole screen. Finally, if you are in swap mode and you click the wrong tile, you cannot unselect it - you have to switch to a colour and then back to swap mode. That's honestly just poor design!
This makes the game feel very basic and unpolished. I figured it would be something grown out of a game jam, a proof-of-concept or the first work of a single student developer. But looking at the website of PlayColorfulGames it turns out this the second game of a two-person development studio. Even though I like the mechanics and I see a lot of potential in this game, I can't bring myself to give them a pass on the very poor UI decisions. They should know better for their second game! Especially since they're asking 1.99 EUR for a 1.5 hour game. That would be a fair price if the experience was good and the game was polished. But it isn't. If you really like puzzle games, like I do, I can maybe recommend buying it on sale, just to check out the interesting and novel mechanics. Like I said at the start, this is actually pretty close to a recommendation and I don't regret my purchase at 50% off. But if you have a low tolerance for bad controls, this is definitely not for you.
Puzzles revolve around trying to fill all the nodes to be the same color within the given number of moves, and the game introduces a few other mechanics to make the puzzles interesting. The puzzles weren't too terribly hard once I got into the right mentality for the puzzles, but there were interesting. There are 75 total levels, and it took me around 75 minutes to complete them all. While playing, I encountered an issue where the game sounds became static-y, but it only happened on one occasion, and it may have been just me (though I don't think so). A good puzzle game, and certainly worth the price.
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UniOne is a great puzzles game and it screws with your mind.
In UniOne the goal is to get every tile in the same colour. Sometimes it has a fixed end colour or it is for you to figure out which 1 should be the end colour. All this has to be done within a certain amount of steps to finish it. Going over max wont tagged it as done, No Cheating!
I have been stuck multiple times continued with others and then somehow solved those i couldn't before. So if you do get stuck take a step back do something else or play a different puzzle before trying again.
After playing it for 6,3hours with toilet break in between the price if great. Normally this looks like an achievement hunter especially looking at the video/screenshots but i can definitely say it is not and glad i got it!
Pros
- Great but small puzzles
- Very good price
- Sound is fine while playing it for a long time
Cons
- You can become stuck and hate the game... Remember breath!
- Looks like an achievement hunter game... it deserves more.
I can definitely recommend this game for its current price. If you like to break you brain once in awhile this will do it. I got stuck a few times ready to surrender and then suddenly solving them. Played it for 6,3hours and got 6/6 achievements at the end of it.
Great minimalist puzzle.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | PlayColorfulGames |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 80% положительных (5) |