I've yet to complete the 'daily tidy' goals, so I expect to continue playing for that sisyphean achievement completion, however they do not offer substantive enough content for me to consider completing more of them as significant enough to change my opinion, so I'm sharing it now.
The 'just tidying up' pattern-seeking game is a rough territory to wade into as the omission of some modes determined to be oversight, as well as inclusion of others determined to be overconfidence, can turn impressions sour quick. However, Max Inferno have overall managed to avoid this problem (in the base game, at least) to the point that grace is fairly easy to give on the annoying puzzles. But... everything else kind of ruins it for me.
The art style is very cute, but wasn't enough to save my gaming experience. The puzzles ranged from 'arrange these by clear characteristics' to 'I don't know why they thought we would get this,' most leaning towards the former rather than the latter. The simpler puzzles, however, joined with random nuisances (sometimes literal nuisances programmed into the game for some unintelligible reason) to cause enough interruption that I couldn't fully embrace the 'brain off' type of play, either--frequently left waiting just long enough for an animation to end, or for the game's cutesy 'cat paw interrupts your play' (first time was clever, second was annoying, third and beyond? unbearable) to tear me away from the game and get angrier at whatever annoyance came up. I would suggest that Max Inferno learned from this based on the comparative few interruptions in Cupboards & Drawers DLC, but as more annoyances came back in Seeing Stars this interruptive impetus seems to have only temporarily vacated their brains.
At the beginning of my playtime I was plagued my control issues, and looked forward to trying it out on my steam deck--maybe the controls would be more comfortable for somebody else, but I continued to find them annoying. Then I tried using the touchscreen. Aha! I strongly suspect development began as a phone game and it was shipped on PC, though I don't think my mind can be changed because of how infuriating the controls were, excessive UI navigation that was required and all.
I recommended Cupboards & Drawers because, if you have already committed yourself to the game (and thus accepted the annoyances), Cupboards & Drawers is more of its best qualities. However, I still can't put aside the poor qualities long enough to consider this game a good recommendation.
