A Little to the Left Review

Another cosy puzzle game featuring a cute animal? Don’t mind if I do! This time I am covering A Little to the Left which features a cute white cat that causes mild chaos throughout the game. Minor spoilers ahead, so go do that task you’ve been putting off for a week before continuing.

This game is made up of 80 levels spread across 5 chapters (not including the DLC which I didn’t play but will be in the future). Each chapter has a theme based on the title of each level which are, Home Sweet Home, Lost Recipes, Nitty Gritty, Inner Nature, Near Earth Organiser. Home Sweet Home is based on organising and sorting items around the home, Lost Recipes is food orientated puzzles, Nitty Gritty is more packing, organising and tidying based puzzles, Inner Nature is as it says, features puzzles that are orientated around nature and Near Earth Organiser which has puzzles based on outer space, shadows and more creative puzzles compared to the other chapters.

There are a good variety of puzzles features throughout the game, but some of the levels are similar in that it’s basically the same puzzle but with a new environment or objects featured, which I didn’t mind too much as like I said, there are a good variety of puzzles. This becomes more of a problem if you want to try and 100% the game, as you need to play the daily tidy to earn certain achievements (including one where you need to play this mode for 30 days consecutively). The daily tidies are just the same puzzles featured in the game, but again with different environments, objects or colouring, which is fine, but doing this everyday becomes very repetitive and dull.

Each level has a set number of stars which represents how many ways a puzzle can be solved, with the maximum number being 3 stars (therefore 3 different ways to solve a puzzle). Some of the puzzles will have easier solutions than others and trying to do multiple solutions can be difficult at times (which did mean I did have to look up some of the solutions).

The game has DLC which as mentioned, I didn’t get round to playing, but this is due to the fact you must pay for it (as most DLC goes these days). This is something I find lets the game down, as the game full price is £12.99 and the DLC on top of that is another £4.99, making the total cost of the game (if you want to 100% it) is £17.98 and even though I did enjoy playing the game, the time it took me to finish the game, I think you would be better waiting for a sale or if you have game pass, playing it on game pass as it is included.

This leads to the other downside I had with the game. I played the game on Xbox, as I pay for game pass and the game is currently included however; trying to play it with a controller I found was difficult and hard to control compared to if I had played the game on Steam. I’m no stranger to playing with a controller, however this game I feel isn’t suited for a controller.

Overall, I did enjoy playing the game however, to fully enjoy the game I recommend buying this game on sale, on steam and not going for the 100% as some of the level’s solutions are obscure and as mentioned the daily puzzles are repetitive.