Slide N' Go (PS4) Review

 

Slide N' Go is a Playstation 4 exclusive F2P Sliding Puzzle Game. If you have ever done a physical Sliding Puzzle in real life, than you know exactly what to expect from this game. You have an image split into 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 smaller slides. The slides are mixed up and one of the slides got removed. You can only move slides into the empty missing space and have to move all slides around in a way that restores the original image.  

Slide N' Go gives you access to a few hundred different images for your slide puzzles. 3x3 is obviously the easiest variant and 5x5 the most demanding. You can also extra challenge yourself by trying to use less time and moves to solve the puzzle. 

I unfortunately did encounter some technical issues when playing the game. A few months ago on the PS5 I had problems with moving the slides, since the controls were very oversensitive and even restarting the game didn't solve it. Retrying the game recently on both my PS4 as well as my PS5 that problem seems to have been patched, because I didn't encounter it again. I however did get an really annoying 'Internet Connection Error' once again, which makes it much harder to start a puzzle. The Error message seems to pop up all the time and glitches out the main menu. Once you get into a puzzle however, you can keep playing without the issue. Nonetheless, it was pretty annoying, that this still hasn't been fixed after months.

 

Result:

It is very difficult to rate such a simple game as Slide N' Go. I can't really fault it for nothing offering more than its very basic functions, because that's clearly what it envisions. At the same time it would be very unfair in regards to the much more complicated "real games" to give Slide N' Go a top score. Slide N' Go can be a nice relaxing experience for people, who want to calm down inbetween intense games. Puzzle fans might also want to give it a try, since it is a free and small to download game. Everybody else should just manage their expectations. This is more of an occuptional app than a real game.

 

6/10