An Architect's Adventure

I actually enjoyed my time with An Architect's Adventure, but that's because I explicitly wanted to improve my ability to visualize complex structures, and I definitely got some good practice in this regard. This game is all about imagining up 3D structures of blocks that can be pushed around to solve puzzles, typically by bridging across gaps. From the Steam store page, it is clearly trying to be a Stephen's Sausage Roll-like, but unfortunately, like many of the other sausage-likes out there, it falls quite short. None of the mechanics are super stand out, and they don't feel like they are explored to their absolute maximum the same way as in SSR. So, I can only recommend to those who have run out of other great puzzle games to play, or to those who want to improve their ability to imagine complex shapes. There are actually quite a few of good things about this game: Like Bean and Nothingness, the goal-state of each level is extremely simple: move the character onto the space marked with an X. The game's description says "Refuse complex sokoban shuffles", which is definitely true. A game that looks like this could have been sokoban hell but in fact all the levels are hyper-focused and don't involve a ton of fiddly steps to solve once you understand what the puzzle wants you to do. It has the Gain Insight hint system adopted from Can of Wormholes. I took a peek at the insight levels when I thought up of multiple ways to construct a solution but wasn't sure which one was actually possible. Sometimes the Insight levels would show me something entirely novel, instantly spoiling the level for me, but more often than not, there is still a decent amount of work to do even after using the insight levels. There are meta-puzzles too, which are quite fun. Very importantly, 100%'ing the game does not overstay it's welcome.