Puzzle One

The app basically just opens with a list of arranged shapes, and you choose one, and then have to manually enable the scramble. Feels a bit lacking really. There is no satisfaction for solving the puzzle, and there is no acknowledgement when you complete it. There is a "high score" button, but looks like it currently only acknowledges the developer's time. It a dollar, but can find free simple swap 'games' online for free.

If you like Rubiks Cubes and other tiwsty puzzles, you'll like this. Clean and simple interface, pick your puzzle, click scramble and solve either with mouse presses or hovering your mouse and using the keyboard. There is a timer too and a leaderboard tracking moves and times to solve if youre into speed solving. Theres 20 puzzles to start with and workshop support so hopefully people will make more. The editor is not friendly to begginers, you will need to know how to code in XML. There is a guide on how to do this on the community section for the game, made by the developer, but still not a simple editor to use. I would love to see the devs update this with some kind of drag n drop gui so idiots like me could make some puzzles. It's cheap as chips, give it a go if you can spare the 71p

u know what? This game gives me a different perspective on group theory.

Puzzle One is a 2D minimalist mobile app-like tile matching puzzle inspired by a Rubik's Cube theme, or perhaps that old Nokia mobile phone game from the mid 1990's where you rotate numbers around a grid until you get them all to line up. Gameplay consists of rotating puzzle sections around until all the colours match and are in the right positions, that's all there is to it. On the upsides this is a bit more sophisticated than most mobile apps that get dumped on Steam pretending to be mobile apps, but that's really a lot like bragging about being pretty tall for a midget. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. ...

When I was a kid, I got a Rubik's Cube, got really excited, threw it up in the air, it hit the ceiling, and then I broke it. Thanks to Puzzle One, I can now attempt to solve colorful group theory puzzles from the comfort of a 2D monitor, without risk of destruction to plastic objects. The orientation markers are helpful for me to get my bearings. I'm a fan of puzzles, but color swippy-swappy puzzles are still kind of new to me.

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This is a fun yet simple puzzle game. It resembles multiple twisty puzzles in 2D. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys puzzles like the rubik's cube.

6/10

If you like trying to solve a rubik's cube this is the same style. Fun for fifty cents!