Papercut Art Gallery-Growth

This is the second such puzzle game from Catnip studio I tried so I primarily evaluate it based on the comparison with Plants Huddled Together. But first, what is this game about? It's about artwork that gets blown up and you are meant to put together all the pieces. You can rotate these pieces (only a couple of times so that much fine tuning is not needed, fortunately) and you need to do all the puzzles without any help.

Now, what Plants did better was that it was offering an easy mode by allowing you to activate a grid so it tremendously helped with the placement. Additionally, after every 5th placement, a random section got highlighted (for 1 piece to fit, naturally, but it was helpful only in case the grid was turned off).

However, Plants was more difficult as sometimes you had to reassemble something with 100 pieces. Here, if I'm not mistaken, we do not really go above 50. For some reason, as we make progress, the puzzles do not get more difficult - sometimes we get a picture with fewer pieces or just an artwork that is very easy to assemble because it is less abstract than the previous one was.

The game remembers your progress but it does not tell you how you can navigate the list with all the artwork at the bottom (you have to hold the left mouse button and do the dragging). Also, clicking on an already completed picture (at the bottom) will open it and if I remember correctly another click resets it. It is unfortunate that you have to find this out yourself as the settings menu does not help, at all. Also, for some reason there is a message in the lower-right screen saying you are playing what is just a trial version only.

Apart from the above-mentioned shortcomings, this is still a pretty great puzzle game and I can highly recommend it if you like this concept.

Very good if you want to make images from paper.

Not so good when you have a tiny as piece and you can't find where to stick it for the next 5-10 min.

Had more people in this one. Some nature. Cats.

Difficulty varies from one puzzle to another.

Good. Thanks. :) :>

Yes!!! So happy to see a second game in this series, which will hopefully see even more additions in the future!

I'm about a third in to the game so far and it's just as enjoyable as the first game. If you like jigsaw puzzles I definitely recommend checking it out. I find it much more interesting with the paper cuts than traditional jigsaw puzzle pieces. And I find the layering effect to be a neat feature though it can also add a bit of difficulty to what is still a very relaxing and uncomplicated game.
Only thing I miss a bit in this one compared to the first is the ambient sounds. I really enjoyed listening to the rain and birds and such but in this one it's classical piano music playing instead. Still enjoyable though, but if the dev makes more nature themed additions in the series I hope it will include more ambient sounds. :)