Girls Like Robots

Girls Like Robots turns its joke into the whole structure: you are arranging people on little benches so the right social pairings keep the crowd happy and the wrong ones do not. By our assessment, that simple matching rule is the thing it does best, because it makes every move easy to read while still forcing awkward little compromises. The downside is that the puzzle idea is narrow, so once the pattern is understood, the game leans on remixing rather than expanding. In practice it feels brisk and tidy, with a lot of shuffling, undoing, and restarting a board until the layout clicks. It sits closer to a compact logic toy than to a deep strategy game, and that is exactly its appeal. People who like clean spatial puzzles and short sessions will get the most from it; anyone wanting long systems or heavy difficulty curves will find it light.