Clones

Clones is a puzzle game built around making and steering identical copies, so the appeal is in watching a small plan propagate into a mess of moving parts. By our assessment, that kind of loop can be satisfying when the controls are clean and the rules stay readable, because the whole point is to think one step ahead and then untangle the result. The downside is the usual one for clone-based puzzlers: once the trick is understood, the challenge depends on level design rather than surprise, and repetition can set in quickly. In practice this sort of game asks for quiet attention and a bit of trial and error, with more satisfaction from solving than from spectacle. Clones sits closer to compact logic games than to action, and it will suit people who enjoy planning routes and correcting their own mistakes rather than chasing fast reflexes.