Dalo

The level editor and leaderboards are unavailable on the pc version with the game pushing you to download the mobile one after every level to unlock them.

"Dalo" is a poorly made mobile app puzzle game designed for iPhones and then ported to Steam for no reason than to slightly lower the average quality of all games on the platform. Thanks for that. This is competing directly with the puzzles at the back of the newspaper. Put your finger on your iPhone screen and drag a trail between dots with a single line that crosses all sides without going back over old territory... that's really all there is to this shallow waste of a Steam store page. This is clearly a mobile app... it makes no difference if this hit PC before the app stores, or if it never even launched on a phone. This was made for the most basic of all gaming platforms, the lowest common denominator for gaming, and it needs to be treated as such... it won't provide a high-end PC gaming experience. That detail alone is reason enough to reject this from any kind of recommendation to PC gamers. Gamers don't spend thousands on high end gaming rigs just to pretend they're using iPhones to play phone games and mobile junkware. This game features very lacklustre minimalist "art" for graphics instead of anything remotely contemporary. I'm sure the "developer" thought this would come across as "artistic", but it doesn't, it comes across as "really lazy". Yes, contemporary 3D graphics take a lot of time and effort to create. That doesn't mean it's okay not to bother! Developers must try to understand that gaming is a visual medium, and gamers spend a lot of money on high end gaming rigs for a reason. And that reason is not so they can look at lazy, phoned-in half efforts like this. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. A peak of [b]3 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? What's the verdict? Nope, even if you don't have to pay any money up front, this isn't something I can suggest PC gamers spend their time on... there's thousands of better games on Steam.

Fun, simple puzzle game. It's a mobile app port - you can only play the first 20 levels and no access to the level editor or leaderboard but the controls are fine. This PC version can be completed in about 20 minutes.