Lockstone

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

Lockstone, released on Nintendo Switch in 2020 is a Puzzle game where players flip the color of tiles on a grid from red to clear and try to clear the grid.

Graphically, this game looks fine, with the tiles depicted cleanly against a background of a slightly dark cloudy sky and with the backing of a a slightly-creepy soundtrack (not really sure why the creepy tone, though). The puzzles are also interspersed with a narrative story that… really doesn’t seem to have any connection to the gameplay, actually.

Okay, look, I’ll make this simple – if you’ve ever played a Puzzle game or two, you’ve likely played some variation of this game. Select a tile and both it and its adjacent tiles change color. Keep pressing tiles until you clear them all. The game does build on this a little by having later puzzles where your selections are mirrored, but largely this is a by-the-books Puzzle game. It’s ideally played with the touchscreen, but gamepad controls work fine too.

That’s it, that’s all I have to say about Lockstone, really. It’s absolutely nothing special, but for $1.50 it’s not a bad Puzzle game, just an extremely unoriginal and uninteresting one.

tl;dr – Lockstone is a Puzzle game where you select tiles on a grid to change their color. This game does nothing that hasn’t been done in countless other Puzzle games, but if you’re looking for something inexpensive to kill time, I suppose it will suffice.

Grade: C-

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