Not Enough Space

Not Enough Space is a spatial puzzle game about fitting awkward pieces into tight boards, so it tends to attract people who enjoy planning several moves ahead. By our assessment, its best quality is the clean pressure it creates when a layout almost works and then needs one small rethink. The obvious limit is that this kind of game lives and dies on its level ideas, so repetition can set in if the puzzles start echoing each other. In play, it should feel calm on the surface but mentally busy, with the pleasure coming from sliding things into place after a few false starts. It sits nearer to compact logic puzzlers than to action games, and it will suit anyone who likes neat constraints more than spectacle.