hocus.
perspective illusion puzzle based on M.C. Escher drawings and impossible shapes
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4.72
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Relaxing and mind-bending gameplay
- Innovative and simple design
- No ads or intrusive monetization
- Great for time-killing and casual play
- Challenging puzzles with satisfying mechanics
Cons
- Controls can be clunky or janky
- Some levels can feel repetitive or linear
- Puzzles may not be challenging enough for all players
- Sound effects can be annoying or loud
- Requires payment to unlock additional levels after a certain point
Most mentioned
- The game is visually simple yet engaging
- The game lacks ads, making for a pleasant experience
- Players enjoy the unique puzzle mechanics and Escher-style designs
- Difficulty increases gradually, allowing for a friendly learning curve
- Some reviewers express a desire for more challenging content
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4.60
All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-12 |  | | Cool, relaxing puzzle game... but it's barely a puzzle, because there's no moving parts. You're really just solving a maze. Hocus has got cool impossible perspective stuff, but I can't recommend it to true puzzle aficionados. Also, some alternative color palettes would go a long way to make it look nicer. Go play Monument Valley instead, that game does really cool perspective stuff kind of like this, but good. |
| 2024-09-24 |  | | So pleasing. I don't have to stop to watch a score animation or watch an advert. I can just get lost in playing. Now I am having fun creating my own puzzles within it and it gives me a way of saving them in the form of code. I can paste in levels with code I have saved in a note app, and then play them again. After playing my pasted level it says rate this level, with a thumb up and a thumb down and then crashes whichever I chose. I just swipe the app closed but I thought you should know. |
| 2024-07-09 |  | | It's exactly as advertised. It involves many levels based on the same mind-bending concept but with varying structures and complexity. It's also quite simplistic, with no fancy sound effects or distracting visuals and no annoying ads (at least as far as I have played, which is ~40 minutes) The only reason I don't give 5 stars is because it's too simplistic for my taste. The levels begin to feel repetitive. It's the same concept over and over. |
| 2024-01-27 |  | | Serene, simple, yet mind-bendingly complex and unfortunately rather easy puzzles that calms the mind. My mind wanders a bit into the game as I pathfind different routes until I find the one that gets me to the endpoint. It could use some more challenging levels on the free ones to make it easier for potential and current players to buy it. Great bonus that you can play this game offline. |
| 2023-11-18 |  | | This game is incredibly well designed. It takes a very simple concept and goes wild with it. The game slowly teaches you to look at it with a different perspective without you even realizing it. Because the game doesn't outright TELL you how everything works. It only tells you the controls. Also, this game has a simple concept, but programming this must have been a nightmare. I'm genuinely impressed by this game |
| 2023-08-13 |  | | The game is very good. It looks simple but can be quite challenging in a good way. Just when you are about to give up, the correct path suddenly becomes clear. It definitely challenges spatial ability. The only minor negative. Sometimes the ticking of the rolling block can get a little annoying. Other than that the game is excellent. |
| 2023-02-17 |  | | If you want something relaxing and slightly cerebral before bed hocus. is the move. Imagine being on the surface of a a knotted, rectangularized, Möbius strip, and you can only escape by reaching a point on it's "other" side. The game increases in complexity quickly, but is not timed or points driven, so if you get caught at a level there's no stakes. You can go back and replay levels, too. |
| 2023-01-07 |  | | This app is a beautiful example of what should be a mobile game: fast fun to break out when you have a couple minutes to spare, no ads, no in app purchases. This game is perfect, because in encapsulates what a good time-killer is. The graphics arent anything to gawk at, but it's some rectangles and a red box, so who cares. this game is also extremely trippy, as the illusion of foreground and background intertwine in ways I have never seen. I love this game, and will continue loving it. 6/5 |
| 2022-12-17 |  | | In an age where every game wants to hit you with an ad per level, useless fake currency, daily login gimmicks, and all the other monetization models, it is truly refreshing to have a pure, fun, no distractions puzzle game. The game itself, very relaxing, great art style, perhaps not the most challenging out there, but it doesn't need to be. |
| 2021-08-23 |  | | Educational, callenging, and I LOVE the fact that you can send hand-made levels to your friends. Slight warning; there is little to no way to gauge where the level might take you if you go a certain way, which can have you wandering in circles (actuall, pretty much everything but circles) and being stumped on levels you THOUGHT you had mastered. But it's certainly an adventure and hearing that little "vwoom" at the end of a level is extremely satisfying. TLDR? Buy if for litterally all ages. |
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