Comprar Everyday Genius: SquareLogic

This is a fun puzzle game.

Other reviews relate this to Sodoku....and this is not that game

This is KEN KEN or rather a game where you are given lots of clues as to what numbers go in which squares. Alot simpler then Sodoku but in some ways more challenging.

This game makes you use your math skills and as you play you will notice it is teaching you or getting you to use basic Algebra. Until you get to the most advanced puzzles which are very thought provoking.

I recommend this game for people who like puzzles and basic math skills to solves puzzles.

Music is top notch as are the sound effects. This game also gives you clues as you go...and you can always redo a puzzle if you want to.

The single best UI in any Sudoku-variant software ever produced. The initial gating is a bit annoying but the 9x9 puzzles are my single favorite way to spend time - I just wish there were more of the really hard ones.

Picked it up thinking oh another cool puzzle game... Wow.. I mean I have only played it for like 2 hours but I am amazed at the work put into this game and the difficut levels that actually do get harder and harder I absolutly love this game :) P.S> Already on the Forest :) 9/10 for this type of game

This is brilliant. Perfect with your morning coffee, or solve a few before bed. Nice relaxing puzzle game.

Do you like logic games? Then you should play this game because it's amazing and has a ~ridiculous~ number of puzzles in it. It's also very calm and relaxing to boot.

Are you dumb? Then this game is perfect, because difficulty ranges from insultingly easy to challenging for autistics, with a nice difficulty curve that increases puzzle complexity as you go. You can stay at a difficulty level as long as you want, or you can jump to higher levels pretty quickly if you want. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING

Do you like sudoku? Then I'm sorry, because sudoku is an inferior baby game for babies. If you are a baby, then by all means go play sudoku instead, you big dumb baby.

This game is so fantastic that it will put hair on your chest, even if you're a woman, so if you're a woman and you play this game, enjoy your hairy chest and awesome puzzle game.

What is this game? Well, first of all it is not really a game but rather a collection of simple mathematical riddles where you have to fill a field of nxn spaces with the correct numbers, as can be seen in the screenshots. There really isn't much more to be said, the game is nicely done and while all the riddles can be logically solved, they will keep you thinking if you choose the grid size that fits your skill.

This one has so many riddles, if you're into that kind of mathematical casual game, you have something for many hours. If you go however for achievements, it will be a real grind to get the final one.

It can't really be compared to other games, for the reasons given. It rather can be compared to riddles, such as Sudoku, and there it would stand as an own genre.

Recommended: Yes

Hey, it's this game, and they finally started selling it again!! It's really addictive and a fantastic time waster. The game has gotten some kind of legendary status due to its extended absence from the steam store, so I'll say if you're expecting it to be the second coming of Christ in the form of a puzzle game you may be disappointed. But it's a really solid game that you can sink a lot of time into, and I'm glad it's back.

Pretentious Title: SquareLogic is an abstract puzzle game that takes the concept behind sudoku and twists it to create something far more interesting and engaging. Like sudoku, the goal is to fill a square grid such that the numbers appear only once in each column and row.

SquareLogic's twist on the formula is in the cage system. Instead of prepopulating the grid with enough numbers to solve the puzzle, SquareLogic divides the board into arbitrary chunks, called cages, and assigns a mathematical rule to each. For instance, one cage may require its content to sum to 8, another may require its smaller value to divide the larger value 4 times. Other cages impose inequality operators on the divisions between cages, indicating that one square must contain a larger or smaller number than its neighbor. The puzzles have extra mechanics beyond the cages as well, including double-puzzles, where two grids contain the same solution but different cages, each providing too little to solve on its own, but enough to solve when paired with the other. Other puzzle types may leave some cages unfinished and require the player to paint them in as they go.

This formula would likely be overwhelming and tedious, especially on full-sized 9x9 puzzles (the game ranges from 4x4 to 9x9). However, the game automatically removes numbers from tiles when that number is used elsewhere in the column/row, and players can right click any number to remove it as a viable option. This effectively automates the more menial part of the puzzle, leaving the logical problem solving front and center. The game also highlights possible valid combinations for cages in a small window, so you don't have to constantly keep a calculator by your side to determine what factorizations are possible for a number set. Because of these features, the puzzles go by quickly and rarely feel like they're ever wasting your time.

SquareLogic isn't flawless though. The 4x4 puzzles are almost comically easy due to their small size, while the 9x9 and some 8x8 puzzles can become frustrating and tedious because there is simply too much information to pore over. It becomes less a game of applying logic and more of a mindless search for the next clue you can use. Luckily, the game still has plenty of 6x6 and 7x7 puzzles, which feel extremely well paced.

Another problem is the immediate error highlighting feature. When you first boot up the game, go into options and turn this setting off immediately. This setting causes the game to tell you the very instant you make a mistake. It's a feature that is quite literally too helpful, as it quietly encourages you to start guessing whenever you begin having trouble. With this disabled though, there's still an incredibly nice hint feature to help you out of jams. Rather than openly tell you what's wrong, it simply highlights a section of the grid where you should be able to either eliminate possibilites or find a correct number. It's especially useful on the large puzzles where it's easy to have too many options to pore over.

The one last problem is somewhat debatable. The game simply has too many puzzles. It has 6 regions, each with a staggeringly large number of available puzzles. The first area alone contains 4800. That is not an exaggeration. While it certainly means the game has incredible value, it can be a little disheartening to know that you're not likely to ever even come close to finishing all of the puzzles. Oh, and anyone obsessed with achievements would do well to avoid this game for that reason, unless you want to solve all 4800 puzzles in the first region for a cheevo.

Overall, for anyone who likes abstract logic puzzles, SquareLogic is pretty much top class. It's fun, mostly well paced, has a ton of puzzles and lots of good mechanics. Well worth the $5 asking price.

More addictive than it has any right to be.

A great time-wasting puzzle game.

If you want challenging, they have challenging grids (9x9). If you want brain-dead easy (for when your brain isn't working well), they have easy, 4x4 grids. There are many different solution-types for every grid size, making a huge number of total puzzles to solve (maybe 15-20K).

The last achievement is a grind, but I've still played for many, many hours since getting it. Now if they would just add one for doing ALL the puzzles... (Actually, I'd like them to make another game instead!)

So glad this game is available again, its the greatest newspaper-style puzzler to come about since sudoku. literally more puzzles than I could fathom are contained within this game, ranging in difficulty from "bash your head against the keyboard to win" to "bash your fists against the keyboard becuase **** this is hard", however mistakes are never punished, and you can artificially decrease the difficulty at any point (automatically hide unavaialbe options for this row or column), or even ask for hints.

I've sunk more enjoyable hours into this game than I have into 99% of my steam library, its a fun way to unwind. There are so many puzzles. the difficulty curve is very gentle, but it ramps up to the near impossible. If you dont like impossible puzzles, dont worry there are tens of thousands of easier puzzles.

A great rainy afternoon game for when you're taking a break from HL2.exe engine games.

Relax, put on some Chopin, and solve math puzzles that'd make Einstein weep.

Sudoku lovers your dream has come true. A great way to pass the time or challenge yourself to good puzzles. I highly recommend this game. Unless of course you are bad at or hate math then you should probably stay clear of it.

One of the best, most addictive and brilliant logic puzzlers on Steam.

This game is a fun logic puzzle. It is essentially the game Mathdoku, which is somewhat like it's more familiar cousin Sudoku. What makes this computer version stand out is that it's got great solving tools that don't exist in the paper and pen version. And Steam Cloud support, and a global leaderboard.

If you llike numbers puzzles and logic puzzles, give this demo a try.

Oh man I had forgotten about this game, it is a great casual math puzzler similar in style to a Sudoku

Except, as you can see in the screenshots there are a bunch of differently shaped colored areas like someone just won at tetris. Each colored area has a "rule" associated with it (you can see those in the screenshots also); for example you might have to make a 4-tiled "L" shape's numbers multiply all together and equal 36. Or rule might be that the area can only contain even numbers.

You have to use each number once per column and once per row; once you fill in a tile it automatically removes that number from the rest of the row/column for you. As the game gets harder the rules get a bit more complex, the areas get larger, some tiles won't have the color filled in, you'll have to use your brain to figure the colors/rules, THEN the numbers for each tile.

There's really no penalty for putting the wrong number in a tile except for your "shortest number of moves to complete this one" personal best ego boost. I also feel it does a very good job of explaining and working each new rule/aspect of gameplay as it is incorporated into the rising difficulty.

By hovering over a tile, if the rule for it's area is known, all possible solutions are shown to you so you really don't have to be super good at math; this is a logic game that uses math as a tool not as a requirement to play. I happen to like math so I never had to use the displayed possible solutions very often but I admit there were times when it saved me a headache and the game doesn't make you feel bad about it, it displays this for every tile you hover over on purpose so you don't have to feel the pressure of MATH.

Overall a fun casual puzzle game that combines simple math, 'sudoku' style numberplay, and logical processes of elimination. I think the screenshots showing the puzzles will help pull this review together, highly suggest taking another look if this review sounds interesting.

Crack in digital puzzle form

When I saw this game released I instanstly bought it, since this is the type of casual game that I really enjoy, and I knew my girlfriend would agree. The game is somewhat like sudoku just where you get some solving help by small equations around the board. It is really well done, and with 20000+ different boards (some very easy and some very complicated¤) there is plenty to do. I highly recommend this game to everyone who enjoy casual puzzle games like sudoku.

Oh yeah ....you know you want to!!

Very nice game. Eats a bit too much cpu power for my liking. Making misclicks is a bit too easy (if I already selected a number, then don't select another)...

All in all, good for a mental challenge.