Puzzle Light

This is a really well developed puzzle game where you need to connect the lights to the battery on both ends.

There are 50 levels with an achievement on each level. Unfortunately, the achievements do not count for your profile, but it is still a fun game to play. It took me about 40 minutes to complete the game.

Starts out good, but quickly trails off into bigger levels that devolve into trial & error. Since you can move both the battery and the lights that have to receive the ends of the circuits, it's hard to develop an intuitive solution to the puzzles as there are a few too many variables. When the bulbs or the battery are already in place and can't be moved (as in a few levels in the first half of the game), the game is a lot more fun as you build up your little maze of circuits - but the last half of the game is a bit too frustrating and unintuitive.

Still, for the price, it's not a bad deal, but I found it a little too trial & error-y in the second half of the game to recommend it.

Just finished all 5 games, here’s my impression.

I enjoy series like this one: they take one concept and try to come up with a bunch of possible variations for the gameplay. In this case some worked better, some worth, but it was interesting to have a go at them.

Games are quite short: 50 levels in each with a very slow difficulty curve. It generally follows this pattern. 1/3 of rather trivial levels, solved immediately. 1/3 of rather tedious levels, when it is still quite easy to solve, but it requires slightly more time, so it becomes a bit of a chore. And finally ⅓ levels with some solid puzzles. A few of the last puzzles were really good, actually. Not diabolically difficult, but enough to give you that “hm…” and then give you nice satisfaction after a few attempts when you finally solve it.

Anyway, here’s the rundown:

Puzzle Light Original:
It’s okay, I guess. Good middle ground between simple concept and difficulty.

Puzzle Light One move. This one did surprise me. You would think that there will be absolutely no challenge, if the puzzle can be solved in one move, but it actually can require some thinking for such a deceitfully simple premise.
Idea for another game: Two moves. That would be challenging!

Puzzle Light Rotate. The worst of the bunch. Even the “difficult” levels are chores.

Puzzle Light Slide. Chores in the middle, but the final few puzzles, I think are the best in the series.

Puzzle Light Connect. Not too challenging, but the mechanics are oddly satisfying.