Diving into my library for an evenings entertainment VOI jumped out at me. It’s more puzzles, which does seem to be my go to for filler material between bigger games. These are pure logic puzzles but you can have some playful fun moving the shapes around creating surprising patterns. It’s speaks to my interest in graphic art.
The idea is to match the shown image by rearranging the given shapes. Shapes are black. When any two black sections overlap that space turns white. Place another black object over that white space and it stays black. Basically, black on white stays black, and black on black turns white.
Some of the puzzles come together intuitively and I kinda zenned out doing them. Others had me paying close attention. It is possible to succeed by the luck of trial and error from playing around but that could take a long time. Better to actually reason it out by noting the corners and lengths of objects.
Inconsequential point but I got a random graphical glitch that blanked out some of the grid and level numbers. It’s easily fixed by reloading the game and didn’t happen again after I did that. But I was so engrossed and it didn’t affect gameplay at all so I kept playing for a long time anyway. I stopped recording after reloading, that’s why it’s in the video.
VOI has a very minimalistic presentation, no title screen or menus, only a couple of controls for sound. Progress is autosaved. It took me 80 minutes to get through the total of 66 puzzles. Only puzzle 53 really held me back. I was stuck on that for a while. It may be short but it’s also very cheap, so good value.
Available from Steam and mobile stores.
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