About This Game A truly unique puzzle experience that embraces simplicity, elegance, and challenge. Strata paints a simple yet challenging puzzle game onto a sophisticated canvas of color and sound. Test the limits of your brain by completing complex weaves of color to solve the puzzles. The goal of Strata is to strategically layer colored ribbons to match a pattern. Using forethought and strategy you must sequence your moves correctly. Over time patterns emerge and your tactics may evolve, but Strata will keep you on your toes with increasingly difficult puzzles. Special thanks to those who supported Strata on Greenlight!Key FeaturesHundreds of increasingly bigger and more challenging puzzles. Option to Perfect each grid by completing it without pulling a ribbon back. A simple, yet addicting game for any age. Beautifully recorded sounds accompany your actions. 6d5b4406ea Title: StrataGenre: Casual, Indie, StrategyDeveloper:GraveckPublisher:GLITCHRelease Date: 29 May, 2014 Strata Download Youtube This is one of those games that is extremely simple in their concept, but deviously hard to beat. The visuals are comfortable to the eyes and the easy-listening, laidback music further draws you in.If you like to exercise your visual imaging then Strata is a must-have. The game is a bit buggy at times, e.g. it sometimes freezes when you move around menus or levels too quickly and some achievements pop-up when you haven't rightfully earned them yet. This is however compensated by the low price and enjoyable gameplay.. A nice zen puzzler. You against your own intellect. Tranquil and meditative; provides food for thought. No rage-quits here. Well worth the money.. Really fun and zen-like puzzle game that's not too challenging while still being engaging. It's something you can just jump into for 5 minutes while you're waiting or bored. I don't know if I'd play it again and again, but for its price I'd say it was worth the money :). If you enjoy puzzles that give you a sense of accomplishment when you complete...this game is 10\/10 the game for you. Very reasonable price, and simplistic yet endearing game play and artwork. As soon as you get the hang of it, you'll zip through the puzzles until...no longer shall you trudge through 3x3 puzzles, but you reach the ever increasing difficulty of 4x4! A whole new style of getting it just right to learn, and many many more to complete, this goes on until 5x5, and ending up with the God-like 6x6! With achievements that are 100% completed from just playing the game and completing all the puzzles, this game will test you over and over, putting your patience and intelligence into question.Get it, play it, win it, love it.. Strata reminds me of puzzle games like Flow and Picross. Like those games, Strata has a simple, grid based ruleset whose depth comes from the many variations of the playing board. The simplicity of the game's interface helps keep the focus on what is important. No wading through unnecessary time-wasting elements searching for the game or fun play. Each little action results in relaxed musical riffs which set a peaceful tone. This, coupled with subtle animations gives proper weight to each click, making the game have a sense of physicality which grounds the player in the interaction. And Strata makes fanatastic use of color. For that reason alone, give it a shot.. The graphics of this game are beautiful and the challenges are appropriate in difficulty and simplicity. I'm an avid fan of logic puzzles and prefer the ones where the rules are clearly explained in a visual manner. Strata does that perfectly and quickly, allowing you to jump right in without excessive amounts of tutorial. With two and a half hours in I've gotten up to the end of Set 2, out of 7. Granted theres been some moments of idling do to me being a stay at home mother and needing to check on my son, but I still feel entertained and eager to continue on with perfecting each score. The price is fair at the 3.99 I purchased the game for. I would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a casual logic puzzle.. Strata is a very simple idea that works well and is nicely delivered. It starts as a pleasant casual game in that you can just walk away from it an any time and it's out of your head in a nanosecond, but while you're playing it.But....A possible criticism is the change in difficulty curve every time your square increases in size. There's a large jump between 3x3 puzzles and 4x4 ones and the further one progresses the less casual it becomes and the more concentration is needed. Strata stops being so casual and becomes fiendish once you're sucked in unless you use the hints I guess. But I'm not a fan of just following instructions.. Peronally I'm an avid fan of games that tease your brain and give you that "Aaah" feeling when finally figuring out the puzzle you're presented with.Sadly I have to say that Strata disappointed me in that regard. Strata was fun for the first ~5 minutes while I still got to know the game mechanics and figured out how it works, but then it fell into a state where the levels got bigger and bigger, but I just kept repeating what I did before, again and again. Strata is very static and does not offer variation whatsoever. It is possible to complete a level in many different ways, but repeating a level over and over again just to find all possible solutions, from which many of those barely even differ doesn't sound very appealing to me.If, on the other hand, your goal is to find a game that simply keeps you busy while progressing through it with time, but doesnt really present any difficulty, you might find Strata interesting, but for me the things that Strata has to offer were not quite enough.. Looking for a beautiful, relaxing game? This is it.Similar in feel to Kami, Picross, Splice, Lyne.Everything from the graphics to the music, to the gameplay is incredibly zen and gives you peace of mind while still managing to engage you. Very easy to get into, even without the excellent yet simple tutorial.What made me first discover Strata and Kami was the wonderfully clean art-style, I was very surprised how well orchestrated the game is with small bits of beautifully crafted sounds. There seems to be no loading times for each puzzle which makes everything feel like it flows together beautifully, adding to the already peaceful setting of the game.. Fun puzzle game, but gets a little bit samey!
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