Recent reviews by Pazi

Fun deckbuilding roguelike. Fair difficulty curve. Nice art, music, UI and overall polish. Each character and loadout feels very different, although it is a bit too easy to "force" the playstyle that is good for your build. Decisions feel more strategic and less about min-maxing the obvious strategy.

The most unique play experience of the 2020s. The first title in a long time to recapture the feeling of discovery and wonder that comes from gaming as a young child.

The epitome of easy to learn but difficult to master. The only game I can think of where me, my parents, and my grandparents could each happily put 100+ hours into a video game.

An updated review after 100%'ing the game and the most popular custom levels:

Lingo is a mix of Witness-like rule discovery, word association, and non-euclidean geometry. It uses the first two extremely well, but can overuse the third.

Lingo has a lot lot lot of content for its price. Just reaching the end of the three main levels would take you at least 50 hours, and there is a lot of bonus and fan-made content after that.

Lingo is at its best when:
- You get to experiment and discover the rules of the puzzle panels in the early game
- Puzzles ramp in complexity through the combination of many simple rules
- Rooms use grouped panels, repeated answers, and themes to minimize the answer space
- Non-euclidean geometry makes initial exploration more interesting and disorienting

Lingo can fall flat when:
- It feels like a puzzle has multiple equally correct answers and you have to guess which one the developer intended
- Non-euclidean geometry makes it difficult to revisit panels/rooms you've already seen, especially after setting the game down for a while

I simultaneously think this game is an 8/10 and one of the best games I've ever played. Playing Lingo often feels like the developer is scribbling ideas onto a napkin, sliding them over to you, and asking what you think. The execution isn't perfect. But the napkin has some really, really good ideas on it, enough that I'd happily keep playing more content after 110 hours on a $10 puzzle game.

Best roguelike of all time

Easily the best puzzle game of all time