Find the Balance

CREATE LEANING TOWERS OF PIECES.

Free with IAP | www.digitalmelody.eu/ games/findthebalance

YOU MAY THINK, by the name alone, that this game is a meditation app. Not this time. This game does fill your ears with nice ambient music that does a brilliant job of not grating on you as you play — rare for a puzzler. The premise for this brightly-coloured game is to stack shapes on top of each other. Sounds simple; however, far from having a flat surface to start on, you’re often given slopes, two pegs with a chasm between, a curve, a pin-point or gaps over rotating spikes. The shapes themselves are far from your basic equalateral triangles, squares and L-shaped blocks. Here, you will be stacking bananas, sandwiches, cherries and carrots. This means you need to be mindful of the order in which you begin stacking. Get tall enough and things will begin to sway. Shapes are lowered on a rope and you can rotate them before cutting the rope. Technically, you can take as long as you like doing this but you’re also fighting the clock to collect stars and beat your last time stamp.

The ads aren’t too obtrusive and can be removed for only $0.99. We did encounter one annoyance: when we tried to move objects up/ down or left/right, the app would sometimes register this as a rotation, which wasted time when we were trying to beat a previous time and get more stars. For us, it’s a game to visit once in a while to kill some time, not one to sink serious hours into.