Colorfall

Genre: Numberlink Puzzle

Players: 1

Game Company Bad Behavior Profile Page: Prison Games

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Review:

Colorfall is a Numberlink-style Puzzle game where players must connect dots of the same color with paths that cannot cross each other. This game was released as an asset on the Unity Asset Store in 2018 as J Connect Kit, and brought to the Nintendo Switch as a low-effort asset flip in 2021.

Visually, Colorfall looks decent enough, although there’s nothing about this presentation that’s particularly impressive or noteworthy. Despite the game wanting to evoke the imagery of waterfalls of color, these look more like round pillars. It doesn’t help that everything is wrapped up in a presentation that absolutely screams “mobile game”, including plucky music that sounds like so many mobile game soundtracks.

The quality of the gameplay here depends on whether you’re playing the game in handheld mode and using a touchscreen, or if you’re trying to use more traditional controls. With the touchscreen, this is a decent but unspectacular Numberlink game, albeit with the inexplicable and odd choice to present everything in a diagonal fashion, and the frustrating decision to refuse to let players play later levels without first completing earlier ones.

On the other hand, if you’re playing the game using the controller, this diagonal presentation makes the game absolutely unplayable, as it is nearly impossible to move the cursor in the ways the game needs, especially as the game inexplicably requires you to drag the colors from one pillar to its destination. Accidentally slip, even for a moment, into a line you have already completed, and you will break that line and need to redo both lines.

Honestly, the absolutely busted controls on a traditional gamepad make me wonder why anyone would bother with Colorfall when there are so very, very, very many Numberlink games on Nintendo Switch, many of them also offering optional touchscreen controls, and many of them also offering more options, such as not locking later content beyond completion. While Colorfall is a serviceable Numberlink game if you opt to play with the touchscreen, why limit yourself when there are so many better options anyway? Skip this game.

tl;dr – Colorfall is a Numberlink Puzzle game that aims to present the dots you’re joining as waterfalls of color… though they look more like static pillars. It hardly matters though, because the gamepad controls here are so broken that the only viable way to play the game is using the touchscreen, and even then this is a sub-par entry in the genre. You have plenty of other Numberlink games on Nintendo Switch to choose from – get one of those instead.

Grade: D+

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