I picked up this game a couple of months ago for free on the epic game store, but only now got around to playing it... and I enjoyed it. The major gameplay loop consists of placing programming blocks onto an area to sort objects of a given shape and color into the requested collections. If you think this might get a bit repetitive after a while, you're correct. The game is short however and you'll be done by the time it becomes boring.

There are a couple of alternative modes that offer some variance, but they are the worst aspect of the game in my opinion. There's a 'startup' mode where you create a program that customers use and pay for. You can optimize the program to get better earnings, but never get any clues on what parameters you should improve (execution time, better division of blocks,...) so it's kind of a guessing game. There's also an AI mode where you optimise a self driving algorithm by setting certain parameters. You get a short explanation of what these parameters do, but it's not really clear on how they actually influence the driving... so it also becomes a bit of a guessing game.

I have a lot of programming experience, but you don't really need any to play this game and I think this is what's holding it back. The amount of blocks is limited and are mostly variations on an "if, else". Introducing storage blocks (arrays, stacks,...) and loops (you can actually loop back blocks to a previous part in the program, but they're used only in 2 puzzles) would greatly improve the variation in this game but increase the difficulty to a level where you kind of need programming knowledge.

Overall, I had a good time but I'm left feeling this could have been a better game if the leaned into the niche a bit more.