Shift Light Puzzle 4+

I adore letterpress so I figured I should try another game from the same devs. Really, really fun for those moments when your brain wants to solve a complex spatial puzzle. The higher levels can be really difficult in a good way, getting up to 14x14 square boards, with the light paths moving around corners. The one thing I wish were different - any music or podcast I have playing shuts off when I open the game as it’s impossible to have audio from another app going while the game is on screen. Other than that, great fun. :)

I really love this game but there are two things that bother me. One, the colors. When my phone’s brightness is turned down it’s very difficult to see the blue against the background, and in night mode it’s impossible to tell the difference between white and yellow. And two, what bothers me most is that recently I’ve been getting ads with sound. I play this game at night to help turn off my brain when I’m trying to sleep and the sound is not good. When sound is disabled in the app and the ringer is off, it should not make a sound. Huge problem. If you fix these things (especially the second) I will gladly increase my rating to 5 and consider upgrading to premium.

You might find at first the game seems trivially easy. However, the larger levels take more thinking. Get into it and then jump packs to the “mix” levels, where the game really opens up. And when you move to “mix and wrap,” a lot of the tactics using edges to narrow down the solution stop working, and you really have to start thinking and rethinking your solution.

I was going to delete it early on, but puttered with it. Give it a chance to challenge you!