TouchArcade Recreation of the Week: ‘Tiny Connections’

Developer Brief Circuit Studio made a giant impression with their earlier launch Teeny Tiny City, which got here out over the summer season and took the match-and-merge gameplay of recent classics like Triple City and Threes! and put their very own distinctive spins on the components. This resulted in us selecting it as Game of the Week and awarding it 5 stars in our full review. Nicely, I suppose Brief Circuit has a factor for tiny issues as a result of they’re again with a brand new launch that’s additionally considerably within the city-building realm and mentioned metropolis can be fairly tiny. It’s known as Tiny Connections and whereas it’s a really totally different beast than Teeny Tiny City it does really feel very very similar to its sibling as a result of similar elegant stylings and excessive degree of polish we’ve seen from Brief Circuit already.

As with the very best puzzle video games, the premise in Tiny Connections is blissfully easy on paper however fiendishly difficult in follow. You’ve a gridded panorama the place homes will pop up at random. These homes have to be linked to numerous sorts of assets, like water or electrical energy, and the buildings that offer these assets may even be positioned across the grid. Your job is just to attach the homes to their similar coloured useful resource constructing by connecting pipes/energy traces/and so forth. You merely select the kind of connection you need to make, draw together with your finger on the grid from the useful resource constructing to the home, and voila, that home is now linked! Subsequent homes will pop up that additionally have to be linked by both extending from an already linked home or creating a brand new extension from the useful resource middle.

Sounds straightforward, proper!? It most definitely isn’t. To start with, you’ve got restricted components to attract your connections with, so if a home pops up that wants water however you don’t have sufficient lengths of pipe to simply draw a brand new line to them you’re out of luck. In that sort of state of affairs there are particular talents that come into play, like creating an underground tunnel the place you solely want sufficient pipe to attach a constructing to a tunnel entrance and the remaining occurs for you underground, saving your treasured components. You can also’t criss-cross traces on the floor, and the useful resource buildings have a restricted variety of locations to hook up with. Additionally, the homes and assets buildings are available in a wide range of colours, and you may solely join between like-colored buildings.

All of those elements and extra make Tiny Connections a really considerate puzzler that takes eager technique and forethought so as to achieve success. I really feel like I haven’t even coated all of the totally different mechanics and parameters that the sport is constructed round on this quick weekly piece, however the excellent news is that Tiny Connections is free to obtain and play and supported by adverts. There are a few totally different choices of IAP for eradicating adverts or including further content material to the sport, in case you take pleasure in it, and proper now there’s a launch low cost on the complete bundle that’s simply $4. So for all intents and functions I’d simply name this a free with adverts recreation that you may take a look at to your coronary heart’s content material, and in case you prefer it don’t hesitate to drop a handful of {dollars} to unlock the complete factor.