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Backlog Review - Zenge (Steam)

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A short and simple puzzle game available on Steam that manages to be a decent time killer, but not much else. Gameplay - 6/10 Zenge is, at it's core, a simple block sliding puzzle.  You select pieces that are different shapes, and slide them around the board until they fit together to form a picture.  The picture isn't obvious until the pieces are in the correct location, in which they fill in with pieces of the larger photo.  This mechanic isn't very well utilized though, as the end result is often still only a segment of a larger photo.  This results in you feeling like you are completing a very small portion of a larger portrait, because you are.  Fortunately, the game features some pretty interesting mechanics that spice things up over the 50+ levels.  Teleportation, shrinking and sliding, just to name a couple.  While some mechanics definitely don't feel like they get utilized as much as others, the ones that do get the lion's share of atten