Dissembler

Shape Shop

About this game

Dissembler is a subtle puzzle game about unraveling playful, abstract designs one color at a time.

Flip pairs of tiles to make matching color groups vanish, but that is where the resemblance to a standard match-three ends. In Dissembler no tiles will drop in to replace the ones you’ve matched: your task is to remove all tiles and leave behind a clean slate. The experience starts simply, leading you gently from basic principles to more complex puzzles, but before long it will require careful planning and lateral thinking.

■ Beautifully-presented minimalist puzzle game with chilled original soundtrack

■ Every one of the 170+ puzzles is a hand-made work of art with no randomness

■ Experiment freely – undo any number of moves at any time without any penalty

■ Buy once and enjoy forever – no in-app purchases!

■ Daily puzzles, plus step-by-step solutions revealed the next day

■ Infinite mode offers an endless play mode with online leaderboard

■ Color-blind mode makes Dissembler accessible to more players

Ratings and reviews

This is a nice collection of fairly challenging logic puzzles (I'm only 25% through, and the difficulty is still ramping up). The controls are smooth and undistracting. The music is atmospheric (and a bit avant-garde, which you may or may not find relaxing). There are well over 100 puzzles, plus daily challenges and generated "infinite" mode. The only downside I found is that there's no syncing of progress across devices.

This game was interesting at first, but after playing a few levels, I got bored of the concept and didn't really feel like the game advanced in an interesting way. Most of the time, I felt like I was only somewhat randomly guessing as to what squares to flip, and didn't really feel like I was learning anything. The game was otherwise very competently made and I enjoyed the minimal aesthetic.

A pretty decent puzzler. Most of the early puzzles can be solved with basic intuition. But unfortunately there are levels where that doesn't help, and you get stuck. You end up repeating the puzzle over and over again, and trying to find the correct solution by brute force. Another star deducted for not having level numbers. Makes finding solutions to said hard puzzles impossible. EDIT: all the remaining intuitiveness flies out of the window when the dots appear, not fun. Uninstalled.