Others - Strip 'n Slide [demo3] [DanaCrysalis]

Played version Demo 3

Overall
Overly difficult to make game progress due to lack of balance. Some game mechanics are poorly or not explained. Check back in a few months after some polish has hopefully been added.

Good

1. The mechanic of being able to grab a single tile and move all tiles in its row/column is fun and gives a tactical depth of “I don’t need to move the cursor all the way over to where I want to move a gem, I just need it in the same row/column

Issues

1. Can’t use the mouse in the menu. Can’t use it in game.
2. The level select screen has no prompt telling you to press enter or left/right to select the level
3. I filled up every color bar 7/7 but nothing happened. Making a new match emptied all the bars. Correction: it generates a rainbow tile
4. It takes a long time to do the main stage progression: matching 3 rainbow tiles. Generating a single rainbow tile takes matching 35 other tiles across 5 colors
5. The 5 color bars are completely colorless until starting to fill them up. If you want to know “what color do I have 0 fill of”, you have to just know which bar is which.
6. Typing a code too fast into the Code input in the options menu doesn’t read all characters you’ve typed
7. Unclear what happens if a color bar is full and you make another match of that color. A secondary bar at the bottom is filled up instead? What does that do?
8. Generally difficult. Didn’t beat the first or secret character after 2 tries each.