A Monster’s Expedition

I'm a sucker for a good puzzle game that explains the mechanics through the puzzles themselves. This is one of those games. Some puzzles I ended up brute forcing and then had to work backwards to figure out why a solution worked. Sometimes, this is when it was trying to teach me a new quirk of the mechanics I never considered, or it was a case where I was just overthinking. Generally, though, I was able to use my expanding understanding to solve things intuitively. And the game generally does a great job telegraphing the intended goal of each island, which helped a lot.
I also like when a puzzle game isn't level-based or when it feels like a cohesive game space, which this does by the nature of it being open world. I never felt too frustrated with the puzzles because of how calm and relaxing the vibes were. The way this game strings you along island to island was really well done and got me interested in uncovering more and more of the map. This is one of those games that sucked me in, playing every day until I rolled credits.
The biggest downside for me was the underlying story and theming, which, although cute, were mostly uninteresting.

This is the most fun simple game I've ever played. No major plot, just genuinely relaxing. First goal is to go from island to island and get back to the ferry, second goal is to see all the exhibits, and the best goal of all is to hug all the snowmen. To do so, the game allows you to use very simple rules to create complex setups in order to move from location to location and get where you need to go. I beat this game with zero guides, and I genuinely feel like it helped my creativity and logic skills to beat it. I'm going to recommend this game to just about anyone who enjoys relaxing puzzle games. 10/10.

This game is dangerously addictive for puzzle fans. The open-world design makes it so easy to do "just one more island", and then suddenly another hour has passed. The designers have also managed to serve up quality AND quantity in terms of puzzle design, which provides a supportive learning curve, and allows for casual sessions.
The main reward here is the self-satisfaction of completing the many clever puzzles that the game has to offer. There's no story, or character dialogue. However, the strange museum placards do provide some surprisingly funny musings. Good humour is very rarely found in video games, so I was pleasantly surprised that this game had some genuine chuckles to offer.
I got the game on sale, and it took me about 13 hours to reach the credits, so I definitely got my money's worth. I did activate the hints feature early on, so that made the game easier. And even though I've reached the credits, there's still so much more that the game has to offer. I could spend several more days trying to uncover everything. I may dip back in occasionally, to seek out the last exhibits, but I don't think I quite have the dedication to uncover everything, and I'm okay with that. I've had so much enjoyment from it already.

My favorite game in my library, one of the puzzle game of all time, the difficulty curve is incredible making you learn mechanics as they go by. It has a lot of depth too giving you post-ending challenge in trying to discover all islands.

Good game. Great graphics. Open word, can choose which level you want to solve first. Have not completed it yet, but its great.

One of the best puzzle game ever! I needed aspirin to stop my headache from this game but it was worth it! The game is just so damn smart with simple mechanics that is explored to depth beyond anything I've seen in a long time!

Very good, It has great ambiance with the interactive music thing and the visuals ar every epic very cool. I like hugging snowmen and human storage rack. There should be more popcorn stands.