Understand on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Understand is an experimental puzzle game about guessing rules. In each level, you have to figure out the rules through trial and error, then draw a line satisfying all rules.

Understand is a abstract, minimalist and logic game developed and published by Artless Games.
Released on October 30th 2020 is available on Windows and MacOS in 29 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Turkish, Greek, Norwegian, Czech, Japanese, Polish, Thai, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Romanian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Vietnamese, Arabic and Korean.

It has received 723 reviews of which 657 were positive and 66 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Understand into these genres:

Abstract Minimalist Logic Experimental Puzzle Mouse only 2D Singleplayer Indie Casual Education Difficult

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Storage: 20 MB available space

MacOS

Storage: 20 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

It's okay, but I tapped out midway through stage 4-6. It starts out strong, but becomes less about "understand" and more about "guess". So The Witness is what you're going to compare it to. There's two goals in that game. 1. Understand the rules 2. Solve the puzzles given your understanding of the rules. But in The Witness, the rules stay the same the whole game and you get the satisfaction of solving puzzles. In Understand, the rules change every single stage. The intro levels to each stage are minimal and follow a pattern that is set up to deceive you. Then by the 5th board comes the predictable curveball "Aha, you actually *don't* understand the rules for this stage!". So you go back to the intro levels to see what incorrect assumption you made, but the intro levels are so tiny there's not much room to experiement or learn more. You eventually do guess correctly and you get the privilege of solving one or two *actual puzzles* before moving on to the next board, with all fresh rules, and the guessing process begins all over. And to be fair, some of these rules are pretty goofy. The prime number one I actually did get, but god that was a slog. Counting out free spaces on a 8x10 board isn't very fun either. I like solving puzzles and guessing at rules, but the balance is all out of whack. A game 25% of the length with consistent rules would have been a better choice IMO One possible course of action is to read the level guide that gives you the rule hints for each stage, and then you can simply enjoy the puzzles. I considered this. Maybe I'll come back to it later. Overall it's a neat game, and you can't go wrong with the price. I got my money's worth. It's not a bad game, it just overstayed its welcome for my personal taste.

March 2025

All chapters complete, phew. This puzzle game by solo dev Artless Games, has a very simple look with deep layers of puzzle meaning underneath. If you liked The Witness, Baba is You, Spacechem, this is clearly inspired by the puzzles there. It has two main mechanics; solving a puzzle on a grid according to certain rules, and ... figuring out what those rules are, because they're obscured! But they'll tell you if you get them right, and then you have to go back and forth between the grids to see "ok does that also work in this instance? what if I draw it this way instead?" Very much made for people who like tinkering and testing. Despite some of the utterly bizarre "solutions" towards the endgame, thank goodness for online forums to provide hints. I do appreciate that, even with hints to Understand the rules, that doesn't spoil how to use them to solve the grids!

Nov. 2024

Extremely concentrated version of The Witness. Good stuff.

Sept. 2024

I just got to the middle of world 9 and am feeling fatigued with this game so I will take a break. That's not to say this game is bad actually quite the opposite I think it exercises creative and logical thinking and problem solving beautifully but it does require intense focus and in my case as someone with shorter attention span due to all the social media I used to consume it got really tiresome and I could solve less and less levels each time before becoming mentally fatigued. But that is a good thing as well as it's training my focus just be prepared that you will need to take a break.

Aug. 2024

I like the fact that you have to sort of blindly commit to a rule and see if it work. Really tests your creative and imaginative capabilities. However, it is a bit difficult.

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3.99€

8.5

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Developer

Artless Games

Publisher

Artless Games

Release 30 Oct 2020

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