Reception

The high score may seem a bit strange at first. But to use an example: I can’t really compare a simple toy to a more complex board game. This is a simple toy — and a very good one at that. I’d primarily recommend it to a younger audience, but playful adults looking to relax won’t be disappointed either. As a shared activity, it works wonderfully.

Windosill is a difficult game to judge. It's gorgeous and it's fun...but it's also very, very short, it has zero replay value, and it's $10 on the Switch. And to top it all off, the game originally came out in 2009 as a web browser Flash game.

Undeniably creative and having a very unique sense of style, Windosill is absolutely distinctive

Yes, fans of proper puzzlers may find some of the solutions and overall level of challenge here a little disappointing due to their more surreal and playful nature. There are only one or two — including a very clever Rube Goldberg machine — that will really make you work something out logically, but that's not really what Windosill is getting at. This...

Windosill is fun and unexpected and you can let your imagination run wild. Don’t rush through it to solve the puzzles but take time to try it all. It’s short, if you rush through it, very short. But as I already highlighted that’s not the point of Windosill. Your child in your lap, trying it all out together and marvelling at what you see, hear and...