follow.trail
Prepare to torture your brain
$2.99 From Grzegorz Pykacz, followthetrail.info Made for iPhone, iPad Needs iOS 9.0 or later
Every now and again you come across a puzzle that bumps right up against the maximum your brain can manage. Follow.trail, while being initially confusing because of its lack of a tutorial or any on-screen words, slowly reveals itself to be something much, much more.
You play a domino, basically. There are tiles before you with different numbers of dots and, later on, tiles with special symbols on them that mean different things. You have to navigate through this maze of symbols by moving one tile at a time to reduce each tile to zero, and then go to the finish tile. Sound easy? It’s not.
The reason there is no tutorial is simply that follow.trail wants you to discover the rules through trial and error, and it provides an Undo and Restart button in order to encourage experimentation. It’s frustrating to begin with, but becomes more enjoyable as you learn the language of the game — what each symbol means, what it does, and how to get to the finish tile each time.
It gets especially difficult when you find the tile that turns all white tiles black, because you can create black tiles by stepping onto empty space. The solution to each level doesn’t even exist at the beginning.
Follow.trail is certainly not for everyone. It’s an exercise in torturing your brain. If you’re a spatially- or logically-minded person, however, you should definitely give it a try.
The bottom line. An impressive, minimalist logic game that will twist your mind into a pretzel.