Please, Touch The Artwork Review - A Jazzy Puzzler With Style

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Gosh, it can be nice to kick back, maybe with a mug of tea, or glass of red, and just touch some artwork – almost literally.

In developer Thomas Waterzooi’s jazzy and gentle puzzler Please, Touch the Artwork, players will often be touching canvases and filling them with colour. If you’re playing on an Android or iOS device, the effect is emphasised as the touchscreen makes you feel like an amateur painter.

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Waterzooi’s game has three different modes. The first of these is The Style gallery, which has you trying to recreate paintings by tapping the canvas in specific orders and places. There’s also the Boogie Woogie gallery that sees you sending little blue squares along the right paths, tapping them in the right order, to send them to their blue home.

Finally, there’s the New York gallery, which was my favourite since it required the least brain work (yes, I’m simple like that). This mode gets you to trace lines on a maze-like grid collecting letters to spell out a letter of some sort on increasingly complex grids. I found New York meditative, compulsive, and strangely affecting since the letters you’re collecting slowly spell out a tale of migrating to the big city in one’s youth.

The music is lilting and relaxing, with a piano-led score. Music is a major part of Please, Touch the Artwork, with jazz instrumentation being the main soundtrack. It’s used to good effect in the puzzles, as each part of a canvas is tied to a specific instrument – a snare, a clarinet – which plays as you tap the screen, although it could also annoy especially when puzzles get more difficult.

In The Style, players learn more about the emotional aspects of