shapez

I enjoyed 95% of this game, but the developers fumbled at the goal line. The majority of this factory game is simple and logical. Then you get to the final mechanic of "floating layers." To put it simply, floating layers don't make logical sense and aren't explained in the game. They are a quirk of the programming that the developers should have patched out, but instead they decided to keep it in as a challenge. You can only figure out floating layers in one of two ways: extensive trial and error to figure out how the (illogical) mechanics work, or looking up the solution online from someone else. After a few hours of trying to figure it out for myself, I looked up the solution. It doesn't make sense. It's a programming quirk disguised as "difficulty." I decided to not finish the game as a sort of protest. This game could have been an all-time classic if they had done the sensible thing and patched out floating layers. You don't need difficulty at the expense of the logic rules that are the foundation of the game. There's a sequel and it doesn't include floating layers, which is practically an admission that the original was handled incorrectly.