Quell Zen

I played through this a year ago and have just come back to play through it again. It's my favorite relaxing game. Beautiful design and music, no ads, puzzles that are challenging but not impossible, and solutions to access when you get stuck. I also love that even after solving levels I can go back and replay them until I get a perfect number of moves or find the hidden gem. The automatic skip feature that becomes available whenever you've done both those things in a level is awesome.

This puzzle is a masterpiece of lateral thinking. Some puzzles take days and up to hundreds of tries to complete to get the perfect solution, and then you realize that the solution involved thinking out of the box and that moment of insight is delightful. I suggest never using hints or solutions. For an even more profound challenge, try just looking at the puzzle for a few minutes and trying out combinations in your head until you got it and then complete the puzzle to perfection in just one play. I hope the authors make more of these games and please keep the same high level of quality.

This was the most beautiful and moving game I've ever played. The puzzles were just challenging enough to keep me intrigued. The graphics and sound effects are lovely. But it was the story that made this game so difficult to put down. As a mom myself, I found the letters from Kiko's mother heartbreaking. I couldn't wait to read the next chapters in their story. This is everything I look for in a game.