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.

I've been playing the Quell games since I was a child, from my parents nook, my first laptop, my first 3ds, and actively seeking to play them again as an adult. This game series has been such a calm place for me and the visuals are so gorgeous. This installment has been my favourite as I play it over the course of the past year. Thank you for the memories 🖤 Phenomenal quality and such heart as always.