留白(WhiteWash)

Overall - 70/100

A relaxing watercolor "zuma-like" where you play as a cat

Playing as a cat - 20/20

Yes.

Acting like a cat - 5/20

You're generally "shooting" your projectiles by knocking things off a ledge, which is obviously cat-like behavior. The menu is also full of small delights where you chew on plants and try to knock over vases. For most of the gameplay, though, the cat could be replaced with any other sprite (say, a frog) without losing anything.

Adorableness Level - 15/20

The watercolor "sprites" and hand-drawn backgrounds are fun, and the game is fairly cute overall.

Polish - 15/20

The hand-drawn style makes it feel pretty bare-bones, but it's constructed well. The physics-based object tracking can feel a little messy but never buggy--the items always get where they need to go in the end.

Our biggest complaint here is that the music gets repetitive fairly quickly. It's nice music, but adding a couple more tracks would be ideal.

FUN! - 15/20

The addition of physics is a fun twist on the classic Zuma formula. Need to shove an object through two others on the track? Go ahead--they'll be knocked out of the way. Can't find the match you need, and want to just pelt the front of the line with object after object to slow it down? That can work, too.

Another difference from Zuma is that your projectiles move slower, and often have to travel farther (from one edge of the screen to the other). While this can be frustrating when you're trying for a quick shot, it can also be immensely satisfying when you take long hail-mary shots toward the far edge of your screen and just watch until they finally land.

Overall, it's a fun and relaxing time, but the levels get a bit repetitive, especially with the looping music.

This is a charming little idler game that is very relaxing.

The game is structured into 12 different paintings tied to months of the year, each with 4 stages. The goal is to match the paints ("Color Spirits") to 1 or more of the same kind to eliminate them. Each stage sends out 100 Color Spirits to float through the scene and in order to pass the stage, you must get 60 points (1 point for each one you eliminate). Despite the simplicity of the concept, there is slight increasing of difficulty within each month's painting stages. My favorite thing about this is the collision. You can send the Color Spirits sprawling into other, non-matching ones which can send them flying. This allows for a couple strategies. You can create chain reactions if the Color Spirits are placed just right! Or you can use non-matching ones to try and push Color Spirits into others of the same type within the line of floating spirits! But be careful; you can also push them right off the screen, which means you won't be able to match them, so that's fewer points for you to accumulate.

The music is upbeat but relaxing and charming, even if repetitive. The repetitiveness doesn't bother me too much because I can zone out to this game with the music and gameplay. I really love relaxing games for when I'm feeling stressed and this one definitely serves that purpose for me. The art is very cute and the emphasis on white space actually visually relaxes me as well.

In the Author's Preface in the game, the developer Zuo Yan says this is their first game. It is definitely a charming game with cute art style, and a relaxing atmosphere, and they should be very proud of it! I haven't yet come across any bugs that are game-breaking. The only thing I noticed was sometimes the game doesn't load the next Color Spirit in the cat's hands right away, but it never gets fully stuck, it just takes a couple of seconds to load the next one. At the time of this review I've only made it through 5 months' paintings, but I'm looking forward to finishing the rest and replaying when I want to wind down.

Edit: After the Steam Achievements were added I finished all 12 months' levels. The addition of the achievements gave me a sense of purpose, even if they are just for passing the final level of each month. I really like that the achievements were added. My impression of the game is still good. It doesn't have much replay ability other than it is a game to pull out when you need to relax.

really enjoying this relaxing little game - art is minimal and so sweet , gameplay is easy yet chill and fun in its simplicity
you are a space cat artist - there are 12 months , 48 levels ,14 achievements
nothing new but has its own twist and style that I like
price is super fair as well