Ichi might be the best bad mobile game I’ve ever played. It has a coherent art style and the puzzles work as intended. This, however, is not good enough to qualify as something I would recommend to any person in the world. It’s a good game if you’re comparing it to all the other horrible, low-effort trash on the Apple and Android stores (and by extension all the horrible, low-effort trash on Steam), but I really don’t think it’s a good idea to let the standard be lowered that much.
It’s clear that this was designed for a touch screen, and while a mouse is typically analogous enough to make things work, Ichi is weird and frustrating to control, and the looping mariachi music is almost as unhelpful as the game telling you to ‘tap’ or ‘swipe’ to control things. That’s right, it’s the kind of mobile port that doesn’t even bother to change the input directions before being dumped on Steam. If puzzle games are the only thing that keeps you going and you’ve played every actual decent one, then Ichi is the thing for you, but you should get it on your phone, not on Steam. For everyone else, obviously avoid sinking any time or money into this junk.
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