Adore Puzzle is a level-based tile swapping and sliding puzzle game. Each level provides an image of a landmark from a European country, then cuts it into rectangular pieces and scrambles them. The player has the choice of putting them back together by solving a sliding puzzle or by swapping the tiles around directly.
Tile sliding was one of the earliest games to come to personal computers, but Adore does a fair job of nicely dressing it up in modernity with a stylish graphical interface and a level-based, if not clearly story-driven, progression. The audio is nice and there is a fullscreen option - a must if the standard view extends beyond your screen resolution. Still, I find it hard to become engaged by this simple of a puzzle. The game permits multiple accounts and keeps high scores for the fastest completion of each puzzle type, which could make this a nice game for a family with multiple kids.
Sam's Protip: Solving a solitaire sliding-tile game is like solving a Rubik's cube; once you understand the problem-solving method, variations become trivial to solve if you know where the pieces need to go. Save yourself some frustration and look up the strategy!
The aim of Sudoku Companion is to make solving Sudoku puzzles more convenient.
