Silent Dot – a review

I’ve been looking for a casual game for my short breaks these past couple of weeks. Something to take my mind off things – work, as it were – but not in such a way that I got too stuck, wasting away hours, like I can do with, say, Slay the Spire.

I picked up Silent Dot, a premium release with a very wallet-friendly price because the look and feel of the game felt like it could be a contender. After having played it on and off for a while, I’m uncertain if this is what I was after.

Silent Dot is a puzzle game where you move your dot from its starting tile, to the final one. Problem is, the tiles have a mind of their own, and every so often they disappear on you. It doesn’t come as a complete surprise when that happens, if you look at them, you can see what they’ll do. Move a step, and everything else moves a step, too. It might sound complicated, but it isn’t when you’re playing.

Colorful and simple – sometimes…

At first, Silent Dot is deceptively simple. Like many games of its kind, it’s obvious what the designer had in mind for each puzzle. Is there a roundabout way to get to the goal tile? Then that’s probably the way to solve it. The game eases you into its tile-shifting mechanics with a series of truly simple puzzles, perhaps too many in my opinion, I got a bit bored in the beginning.

Luckily, it gets harder, and then Silent Dot gets really hard. The Medium puzzles are challenging, but the Hard ones require either a lot of thinking, or some serious trial-and-error. That might be my one criticism of the idea behind this game: Sometimes, trial-and-error is faster than actually trying to figure out the solution. Or maybe I’ve been a bit lucky, who knows?

Silent Dot is a nice little game. I usually play it without sounds, but they’re pleasant enough. It didn’t quite fit my bill for what I was after, but I like it all the same. Give it a shot if you like puzzle games.

⚫️⚫️⚫️ out of 5 – Good.

Silent Dot costs $2, and is totally free of in-app purchases, ads, and the like.

There are plenty of color schemes in Silent Dot