Sublime element

If I was better at reviews this would be a better review. I don't typically write reviews. This game scratched so many itches though so it's worth a word. Word.

Wow that was very cool

This is a tricky one the review. Sublime Element is dressed up as a construction puzzle game, but it essentially fails that premise - it's a bit more than a construction / automation themed placement puzzle game, but not by much. Most puzzles are solved by finding the right place of the elements as intended by the level designers, and there's only a very narrow margin and hardly any need for creative solutions. There's no real space for experimenting, and no motivation for improvement either - once you solved a task, it's solved and done, just like a puzzle, and not like a building experiment. To add to the suffering, the "programming" of the construction elements is sort of painful - the basis is pretty good, but in the first hour with the game, I came up with at least half a dozen UI / UX improvements that would make the game markedly better. While the visuals and the audio are decent, the only saving grace for the game is its price. Eventually, this is not a bad game, only not a very good one. It offers some decent, if not too high quality entertainment for a few hours, and for 2 EURs it's reasonable. Just don't expect anything (even remotely) like SpaceChem or Opus Magnum...