Разработчик: Paleno Games
Описание
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, russian
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Dual core
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Supported
- Sound Card: Yes
Linux
- OS: Linux or SteamOS
- Processor: Dual core
- Graphics: Supported
- Sound Card: Yes
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"meleng" is minimalist Russian shovelware, another mobile app/browser like game, where you tap on your iPhone screen to put diagonal lines in squares. Tapping twice changes which of the two corners the line touches. At the corner of some squares, there's a marker that tells you whether or not it should be at the end of one of the diagonal lines. The puzzle, then, is to fill the grid (which is a labourious, boring job) with diagonal lines and make sure all the markers are satisfied with 1, 2, 3, 4 or "don't care" number of lines touching them. What excitement, not.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality vector 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 game features extremely lazy, minimalist "art", of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.
The controls can't be customised because the game has such a dumbed down, simplified interface that it's just iPhone screen tapping stuff. The fact that the interface is this dumbed down might be seen as a problem in itself, however... this is a fairly shallow experience if you're the kind of gamer that likes to play games with deep, rich control schemes and interaction. You'll get none of that here.
This looks and feels like a mobile app, but it doesn't seem to have made it to the app stores. It's unclear why this was put on Steam instead of the app stores it seems to have been designed for. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).
Regardless, for all intents and purposes "meleng" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
One of the driving elements of this shovelware game is "achievement spam", that is to say the game features a ridiculously large number of trivial/automatically granted achievements, 118 of them, in fact, of which you get over 50 for just starting the game. Obviously these fake achievements have no real value and prove no skill or competence from gamers, they just exist to gouge some cash from gamers who don't care whether achievements are meaningful or not. It's a damning indictment for this shovelware that people only bought it for easy achievements, and not because it has any serious merit as a real game.
"meleng" is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.
Once I figured out how to play, I really enjoyed this game! Sadly, the instructions were very unclear which almost made me give up, but once I figured it out it was simple! I love puzzles and this one was very fun to do on my free time. I would definitely suggest a tutorial or a guide as to how to play. I also wish there were more levels. Still, it was fun!
Once you get the hang of it, its an easy puzzle game. The key is to fill a square correctly based on its adjacent square outcome. No real challenge if you follow this rule. No guess work required. Get this game only if you want the achievements, you can complete it in around 30 minutes (I left my game on idle).
Nice game EZ to get all achievements 100%
Nice
Game works very smoothly, had fun with the puzzles!
Another great little puzzle game. Simple to start but hard to complete. Must try!
It would be nice if there were some actual instructions or even hints of how to play the game. Randomly pressing things until it works just isn't much fun.
6/10
Nice puzzle game, easy achievements.
As others have said, the puzzles are not interesting, and after solving the first few levels you're spammed with 50+ pointless achievements.
Short and sweet.
This is a horrible representation of the Japanese logic puzzle "Gokigen Naname".
Unfortunately, "meleng" does not follow the the rule that forbids any loops.
Without this rule, all the puzzles become pointless without any challenge.
Worse yet, after solving many of the levels, your progress keeps disappearing.
So you're forced to replay the same inane levels over and over again.
Instead of wasting your money, I recommend a free version which follows the correct rules of the game and provides a logic puzzle that requires some actual thought.
This one allows you to create any size layout. And since it's randomly generated, you'll have more than the 66 levels offered here. You'll have an endless supply of new puzzles every day:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/slant.exe
32 minutes to completion for me, 1 achievement per level and you get 53 achievements for free at the start. There are 66 levels.
Pretty good achievements per minute ratio, otherwise a simple logic puzzle game.
(Be warned that this game can be done in around 2hrs.)
That said, the game is worth its price and is surprisingly good for chilling! It has a kind of "sudoku" logic to it, but put into geometrical terms. Even on last levels, it's not too big of a challenge, don't be afraid there is no brain attack here.
Also it would make one nice steam gift, cheap but great.
Its art is simple but adapted.
And it's original!
I see some negative tho. You hit the "harder" propositions quite quickly in the game. I think it could have gone further with colors restriction, or swapping tiles, that kind of stuff.
Maybe a cursor to customize sound volume instead of turning it on/off?
And from the trailer vidéo, I thought the levels were randomly generated, that would have been a good idea for a time attack mode.
PS : if it isn't released on mobile phone, devs should definetly make it happen!
But those "negatives" are born from the enthusiasm I have for this game, really. There is room for another or a better Meleng.
All-in-all I had my share of entertainment for its tiny price. If you are (like me) into graphic puzzle games such as Klocki, Meleng might be easier, but it's as good. Actually I'm looking forward to the next project or updates. Greetings devs! Nice job
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Paleno Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 67% положительных (15) |