Linkito

Critic reviews

• SSoftpedia

  Cosmin Vasile · Jul 25, 2024

  8.0

  Linkito is clever and varied, offering players more than 100 puzzles to tackle. The simple idea of moving a wire between yellow and blue sockets to let the electricity flow is simple and gets tweaked in a variety of innovative ways. Each location gives players a certain type of challenge, using both normal puzzles for progression and more complex ones for those who want a challenge. The narrative is also pretty good, offering gamers a reason to persevere if a puzzle becomes frustrating. The presentation isn’t spectacular but mostly works. Linkito is a good introductory experience for anyone interested in puzzles and is willing to learn a variety of new mechanics as the game progresses.

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• AAnaitGames

  Víctor Martínez · Jul 23, 2024

  8.0

  Linkito, que mezcla piezas de muchos sitios distintos (un poco de electrónica, un poco de automatización, un poco de sandbox de creación de maquinitas), es un buen muestrario de cómo este género, que parece irremediablemente condenado a estar lejos de las miradas de los grandes públicos (¿quizá por eso es un oasis?), puede presentarse también en una variante más light, mejor explicada, más didáctica por sus propias circunstancias (la idea es, si no que diseñes tus propios puzzles, que seas capaz de apreciar un buen diseño, que puedas reconocer en las creaciones de la comunidad las buenas ideas, y que la gente tenga las herramientas apropiadas para darles forma y presentárselas al mundo); menos contundente y redondita, también, pero aun así muy interesante para quienes busquen un buen juego de puzzles con fondo suficiente como para darle buen alimento al cerebro y, quién sabe, quizá hasta encontrar una nueva pasión, que de eso nunca sobra.

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• SMSlant Magazine

  Aaron Riccio · Jul 23, 2024

  8.0

  Where it most matters, though, Linkito delivers engaging puzzles. The final area, Albatross Tech’s Control Center, creatively incorporates elements from each of the previous divisions, with elaborate, multi-panel contraptions that will have you programming robots to carry data that can be used to unlock the path to a bomb. A promising level editor all but ensures there will be even more challenging post-launch devices to solve, for while the story is about a budding revolution, it’s by no means revolutionary. The puzzles, though? They’re electric.

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• HGHardcore Gamer

  James Cunningham · Jul 23, 2024

  8.0

  Linkito is an incredibly clever puzzle game based on real-world electronics (barring the occasional infinite power source) and it's smart enough to introduce things slowly so that even the less technically-minded can wrap their heads around each new part. Clearing the story probably won't take more than eight hours or so, although the bonus puzzles in each area can add another several more hours to that total, but a few bonus puzzles plus a level editor promise to add a significant amount of content if Linkito finds its creative community.

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