Sometimes, Dandelions: Chain of Seeds can be a little overwhelming. About halfway through the first chunk of levels you'll be confronted with a screen full of white, blue, and yellow shapes. You might swear. It's okay, I did too.
But there's a calming familiarity to the gameplay that means, even when confronted with acres of seeds to knit together, you always know where to start and what you have to do.
Unfortunately, that confidence means the game does get a little repetitive until you earn enough seeds to buy some of the new game modes.
FloweryThe game is all about connecting the titular chains of seeds. These are little circular pieces with a number of sprigs coming off them. The ultimate aim is to link all of the sprigs to other sprigs and create an unbroken network of seeds. You spin them into position with a tap.
You need to connect the blue seeds to the yellow seeds, via as many connections as necessary. Once you've done that you don't need to create the rest of the chain, but there's something comforting about knowing everything is in the right place.
There are other challenges to complete on the levels as well, including connecting all the dots together in the right order, usually without knowing what that order is, or doing it within a set number of moves.
Later levels chuck time-attack style ticking clock constraints on your linking, as well as other new flavours to the gameplay, but they come a little too late in proceedings, and while you can spend some cash to up your seed count to buy them earlier, they arguably should be open from the start.
Technically they're weedsStill, there's something eminently enjoyable about clipping that last seed into place, and while there's a lack of urgency to the game, some will probably find that a breath of fresh air in the mad-dash world of mobile gaming.
Dandelions: Chain of Seeds isn't quite the ethereal puzzling escapade that it wants to be, but it's a sweetly put together diversion all the same, even if it never quite finds itself connecting the way it should.