Hole Stars: Puzzlespiel

Hole Stars: Puzzlespiel is a small puzzle game for people who like pattern matching, spatial spotting, and working through levels at a calm pace. By our assessment, its strength is the clean puzzle premise: it looks simple, but that kind of game can still keep the brain busy without needing a lot of rules. The limit is also obvious, because this sort of puzzle lives or dies on how many variations it can keep finding, and once the pattern is learned there is not much else to lean on. In practice it is the kind of game that asks for short sessions and a bit of patience more than quick reflexes. Compared with bigger puzzle games, it seems closer to a compact logic pastime than to something with a long campaign, and that is exactly the appeal for the right player.