Liquidum

[b]9/10[/b] Nonograms, but with water and gravity. [b]What is it:[/b] A logic game similar to nonogram/picross, or rather [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/416770/SquareCells/]SquareCells[/url], but with flowing water instead of fixed blocks. On a square grid, you're given clues for rows and columns about how much water is supposed to be in the row/column, and you have to fill in the water so that it satisfies all the row and column requirements. The trick is that the grid is separated into different pools, and water in a pool flows down, so you can't put up water on top of air, if a cell must have water, then all the cells below or at the same level in that pool must also have water. Unlike nonograms, where you have the exact size of each consecutive painted sequence of cells, you're only given the total number of water cells, if at all. Sometimes you're given an additional information, if the water forms a single consecutive block, or must be split, or even just this compactn...

Liquidum is a really thought provoking puzzle game with a lot of content. Definitely worth puzzle fans playing this one!

Encountered a very strange bug. When I first opened the game, the game window was very large, extending beyond the screen edges. But that's not a big deal: I can manually drag and resize the window to the desired size. The problem arises later. After playing a few levels and closing the game, reopening it results in the game window not displaying. I can see a thumbnail in the taskbar but cannot bring it to the foreground. I don't know how to fix this. I downloaded the Android version, but whenever I open the daily challenge, a dialog box appears saying "generating," and then the app crashes. 2024.5.15 Update I have resolved the issue—after the game starts, it scales down to a very small window in the top left corner of the desktop. You can manually resize it to an appropriate size. However, this can still be considered a bug. Additionally, the game's GPU usage is extremely high, my graphics card fan is spinning like crazy, as if it's running a AAA game, which is quite unusual for ...

I've never been a puzzle gamer, since I usually have a lot of difficulty to learn the mechanics, how things work, how I am supposed to solve the puzzle, then I get frustrated and move on to another game. But in Liquidum something that really caught my attention is how smooth the learning curve is. The game doesn't start with anything too complex, you see the water, you fill the squares and that's it. After some stages you start getting introduced to new mechanics, but one at a time. There is a lot of room between mastering a mechanic and getting to know a new one, and how you increasingly start applying what you've learned is what made this game different for me than other puzzles. The process of planing how you solve the puzzle in your head, plus using the markers on the stage, is something as gratifying as clearing a tough boss in a Souls game! And I believe I only got the encouragement to keep learning, thinking and trying to solve these puzzles thanks to the chill atmosphere and...

An addictive pure-logic game. Long after exhausting the puzzle levels, I'm still playing the daily puzzles, the weekly marathon, and generating endless puzzles to zone out on. There are multiple puzzle generators, using different rulesets and difficulties. If you like this kind of logic puzzle at all, you'll get a lot of value out of Liquidum.

If you like Hexcells, Squarecells, Crosscells, and Tametsi - I think you're like Liquidium too. The water, boat and ? mechanics all add great crunchy complexity! I will say that keeping track (either in your head or by drawing) both boats *and* water is a bit of a mess at times. The build in painting tool is a great help. The previews for where water will go is also great. It's just a good puzzler for dirt cheap. Definitely get it if you're a fan of the games I mentioned.

Sudoku-descended puzzler. Has good gameplay, as well as proper level select and more than one level to work on at a time. Runs great on Linux.

Really nice picross game with aquarium puzzles and other interesting mechanics. Besides the campaign levels, there are procedurally generated levels in Explorer mode. And you can also create your own levels or download other people's creations. The presentation is nice, too. You can toggle off the timer, auto-correct (recommended) and some other features.

I haven't been this excited since Hexcells Infinite came out. It's the Aquarium logic puzzle with all the bells and whistles.

Ideal for those who are bored of regular nonograms. The main twist here is water (== gravity), which spices things up perfectly. And for this price? It's a bargain.