SAND for Android

Love puzzle games like this, but the map puzzle is honestly really difficult. You can’t zoom into the map to look at it closer and you can’t take it with you so you’re stuck having to go back and forth with the paper scraps. The scraps in themselves give no indication what to do, even after using the single hint, which does nothing if you’re already lost and put the game in easy mode. I’m completely locked and have no idea what to do but I love games like this so I don’t want to quit. It would be nice if there could be more than one hint, and the hints don’t have to still give you the answer, but at least not tell you what easy mode already had to do

I went ahead and paid but I'm stuck on the coin puzzle. The hint is no help and they give you no numerical info at all. You cant move forward until you solve that portion so I'm essentially at a dead end on a game i purchased, immediately after purchasing.

Was hesitant at first to buy it but I’m glad I did.

**Updated—The developer replied to this review, which is kind of incredible. Apparently the two puzzle snags I mention in my original review aren’t snags, but intentional and don’t affect the game. So I gave another star, but they still seem distracting and odd imo. I would certainly try another of this developer’s games. Original review—I paid for the game, and having finished think it mostly delivers on the price. I enjoyed the style and tone of the story and game. The graphic novel-type art was great, the sound/music were good, and there were words when I tapped on almost everything, which seems like such an easy thing but so many games slack there. The puzzles were standard but solid; a little more challenge would have been nice but I’ve played a lot of these sorts of games. One problem is that you can advance without solving at least one puzzle (the stone rings), which begs the question of why it’s there. You can’t go back so presumably you miss part of the story, which in a short game is irksome. In the beginning there is also a window that is too high so the game says you’ll have to check it out from the other side—that either doesn’t or doesn’t have to happen because I didn’t find a way to investigate before the chapter ended. Those seem like two surprising mistakes in what is otherwise a pretty polished game imo.

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