Cessabit: the Calming Game

The art style excited me and hence I preordered. What a disappointment though. The game mechanics weren’t tested in the first place. Had they tested the game, they would have realised it’s not fun at all. And just because it has generic meditative music doesn’t mean it’s a meditative game too. Look at the images and answer quizzes? Seriously? There is no randomisation to the questions either. Same questions in same order. Really sad.

Literally thought it was a hidden object game and it’s absolutely not.

I don’t know what is up with all the negativity in the reviews, I really like this game even with a few things I would change. Yes,the music is a little creepy and it does make you feel a little on edge but you can mute your mic and not listen to it, it is incredibly hard to play the ones that are all black when you don’t know where the light button is. And lastly, when you are in Alaska and you go back to look for clues your screen goes black .It could be my iPad. We’ve had it for about three years and it’sbeen dropped more than once. Please fix these few things! Overall, everything is amazing and fun. Every level leaves you wanting more! And as far as relaxing games go, this ones been the best!

I expected a meditative experience, getting into the images to absorb the details. This was partly accurate, but made difficult by Controls that seemed inconsistent. Some of the images are disturbing (downed planes, sinking ship) and the music induced a sense of anxiety over time.

Stresses me out trying to figure out what it wants me to do, and actually frustrates me more than relaxes me. It’s pretty easy to figure out usually, however I was looking for an app to chill me out not make me tap a screen a million times looking for clues.

Need a little help it’s fun

Awesome! Review.

I didn’t even want to try it after reading the negative reviews. I’m so glad I went one step farther and read the Today article. Idk how long ago those neg reviews were written, and whether the game got better after that. But I wonder if ppl are going in with wrong expectations, or maybe most game players are into action or at least figuring out game strategy. Because, yeah, I definitely see how none of those approaches are going to get you off the ground in Cessabit. I’m calling it Genius bc it’s making me think about what I see and how I interact with it in a way that my conditioned brain hasn’t had to deal with since I was probably about 5yo! Interesting and ironic that, yeah, kids really are so creative and not just out of the box but instead don’t yet know what “the box” is! Remember when your mind worked more with images and ideas and interactions...and then with WORDS, no, not so much? I remember it, and I bet you do, too. That’s why I find Cessabit to be very challenging, but also exciting. It’s almost like I can FEEL that long lost part of my brain firing up again! I certainly am not acing the questions about the images, at least not the first time through, but there’s no pressure, you can just keep going back to the image and trying again. So I guess that part is relaxing, after all. Mostly I feel like I’m learning something long forgotten. No, it’s better than that; it’s realizing that those long forgotten lessons have been well missed. I may go back through all those negative reviews and change my Helpful vote to Not Helpful. This developer is not some idiot or a-hole; this developer is a genius!!

This is an interesting app. Unfortunately sometimes when I touch the image absolutely nothing happens. I go back later and a few things happen. So when presented with images and questions to answer I have not seen the objects/images no matter how many times I have tapped. When I close the app and go back in one or two appear. Is this supposed to happen?

You are correct. You’re swiping around and tapping random things because there is no real rhyme or reason to why anything occurs. The game mechanics are just to manipulate the scene until you find everything, but it doesn't even indicate if anything is still missing. It almost supposed to be like an interactive ISPY, but it fails so bad that I wish I could get my money back. It’s as if it was made by an artist with not one idea about game design.