Pix-o-Mania: Pixel Logic

Perhaps this is the developer’s first foray into the children’s market, so I am not the target audience. but it looks and plays nothing like any other Conceptis game. The idea of solving just a small chunk of the picture over 20 or 30 “rounds” is interesting, but ultimately too easy. Maybe it gets harder later on, but I gave up after completing the second “painting”. I also did not like all the animation between rounds. It took longer to display the animation and changes to score, than it did for me to solve the chunk. There are options to turn off sound effects and music, but you still have to sit through the animations. After the first dozen or so times, the animation has outstayed its welcome. I don’t really know what the developer is going for in this implementation, but I prefer the thoughtful relaxing games they are already known for, versus games with goofy animation and sound effects, where you are penalized for making a mistake or running out of time. I love Conceptis’s other games, but this one is a “delete app”.

i really want to enjoy the game but the owl keeps judging me while I play

There’s a zillion apps out there that are covered in ads and nickel and dime you over everything: clues, an extra few minutes of play, whatever. I have every other game by Conceptis specifically because they don’t use that model — every other conceptis app has a very reasonable model where you get a certain number of free puzzles, and if you want more you pay for more. No ads, no gimmicks, no surprises. It’s a great model! It works! And then there’s whatever this is. M Thanks, I hate it. (Not because it has cutesy features that seem to be aimed at a younger audience. That’s fine. Because I don’t need a puzzle app tracking private information, and I certainly don’t need an app where the amount of money you can spend on in-app purchases has no upper bound, which seems to be the case here.)