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Linked

Linked

by ThinkOfGames · Published by Conglomerate 5

★ 91%
Price $3.99
Avg Players 11
Reviews 582
Released Feb 20, 2017
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About this game

What players are saying

▲ Recommended 3 hrs
I won this game from Lilly's Corner group

The game is fun and relaxing for puzzles lovers. At first, I was confused with how to 'link' or what is the concept from linking those squares together because my cat was sitting in front of the screen and covering the left part of it which gives you the hint/guide of how many squares are required to be linked together. After learning that the game is really fun and quite challenging especially in the last two levels. One of the puzzles I couldn't solve until I reviewed the guide for it, but the rest are easy, I can confirm that.

Pro:
+Relaxing music although it is looped and one track (Whenever I launch the game my cat always showed up and sit next to the screen, she liked the music too)
+Challenging puzzles as you advance in the game.
+Steam achievements.

Cons:
-Short
-No reply value due to there is no random generator for the puzzles, you keep solving them the same way.


I finished the game in approximately two hours and had to idle it to get the last card drop. So if you don't mind the shortness of the game and actually love puzzles, go for it. Its an easy game for achievements hunters (if they follow the guide I believe it'd take less than an hour to finish the game)

𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑐𝘩𝑒𝑐𝑘 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑛𝑎'𝑠 𝐶𝘩𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒
31 found helpful Steam ↗
▲ Recommended 3 hrs
Linked is a minimalistic puzzle game. Each puzzle shows you a number of blocks and a caption to let you know exactly which combinations of blocks you need to make, for example:
  • 3 times 2 blocks
  • 4 times 3 blocks
  • 2 times 5 blocks

You then need to drag the mouse pointer in a straight line across 2, 3 or 5 blocks to make those blocks disappear. Do this twice with a row of 5 blocks, 4 times with a row of 3 blocks and 3 times with a row of 2 blocks to make all of the blocks disappear, meaning you solved the puzzle.

Linked offers 12 'groups' of puzzles, each consisting of 12 puzzles, so that's 144 puzzles overall. It took me a little more than two hours to solve them all.

Most of the puzzles are easy, either because there are just so many possible correct solutions or because the solution is fairly obvious if you analyse the puzzle for two seconds. There are a few brain-teasers, though, especially in the last group.

In puzzle games, I really appreciate it when you can skip a puzzle that has you stumped, so you can come back fresh to it at a later time. Unfortunately, Linked does not offer such an option. If you're stuck on a puzzle, you're stuck so you either keep trying to solve that one puzzle, look up the solution in a guide or (rage)quit the game.

The background music in Linked is a nice piano tune that's subtle enough to not distract you from thinking, so that's a plus. If you prefer, you can switch off the music and/or the sound effects through the game menu.

Linked has 5 Steam Trading Cards. You'll get 3 while running the game. The 12 Steam Achievements are very basic and straightforward: you get one for each group of puzzles you manage to complete.
18 found helpful Steam ↗
▲ Recommended 2 hrs
This game is amazing.
From the gameplay to the lore, this game is for casual and hardcore gamers alike. The lore is extremely rich and deep and it will keep you invested. I recommend this to anyone.
15 found helpful Steam ↗

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