Gemcraft Games & Bleedingmoon Studio have teamed up again and introduced something completely different, "Deja View", a spot the difference game.

"Deja View" has 16 fantastic images. They are split in two halves and each has 20 differences to find. After completing them you get two full images, one for each set of differences.

Gameplay is different than what I am familiar with in similar games. I'll be honest, I was a bit on the fence initially, but as I played i came to enjoy it because I could swap between all the images with no progress loss. Saves per click which was very helpful to avoid eye strain and the blind spot that comes with staring too long stuck on the same image.

Be aware, there is no zoom or magnify at time of this review.
The differences can blend too well which may annoy you. The store page even warns the player. I did suggest it to the developer it would be a good idea to have and they are looking into options but there is no guarantee it will happen.

🔍𝖶𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗌 𝗎𝗌𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝗎𝗂𝗅𝗍 𝗂𝗇 𝗆𝖺𝗀𝗇𝗂𝖿𝗂𝖾𝗋 𝗂𝗇 𝖺 𝗉𝗂𝗇𝖼𝗁. 𝖣𝖾𝖿𝖺𝗎𝗅𝗍 𝗁𝗈𝗍𝗄𝖾𝗒𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖶𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗌 𝖪𝖾𝗒 𝗁𝖾𝗅𝖽 𝗐𝗁𝗂𝗅𝖾 𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗉𝗅𝗎𝗌 + 𝗄𝖾𝗒. 𝖸𝗈𝗎 𝖼𝖺𝗇 𝗆𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝖺𝗀𝗇𝗂𝖿𝗒 𝗐𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗈𝗐, 𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗂𝗓𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖼𝗈𝗆𝖿𝗈𝗋𝗍 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗉𝗂𝖼𝗄 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗓𝗈𝗈𝗆 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝖼𝖾𝗇𝗍.

Typically you just click a hint any time you need it but that's not how they work here. Hints can only be used after you do a 'Check my Spots!' and before placing the next circle. Hints carry across the game and can be earned every 15 correct differences. The Developer gave an explanation for those who might be curious.

However. No limit to 'Check my Spots!' usage.
If you wanted a hint to give you the answer, then randomly using this really isn't much difference, just more clicks. You may even get some of those guesses right.
But after that you can just click the hint to get 1 verified correct location.

In the end, ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3488095357

Thank you to my sis for this gift! 🤍

In 5.5 hours play time I've only completed 3/16 of this game so far, but I'm writing a review now in case I'm too old to do so when - or perhaps if - I finally finish it. I thought that I was pretty good at spot-the-difference puzzles, but then I played Deja View; perhaps it should be labelled as a "anti-hubris simulator"...

Deja View is a hard and challenging spot-the-difference game, and when I say "hard" I mean diamond-hard. It consists of 16 cartoon-style pictures which are divided into two halves. Each half has to be compared with its nearly-twin image containing 20 (often subtle) differences, so in the whole game there are 640 differences to find. When both halves of a picture have been solved, the complete picture can be viewed.

Note that there is no instant confirmation of whether a marked difference is correct or not; only when all 20 suspected differences have been marked can the game be asked to check them, at which point any incorrect ones are removed. Related to this is the strange hint system; I used it for one picture to get the related "use a hint" achievement, but I'm trying (ever weakly) to resist using it again.

Hints (which are earned by finding differences) can only be used when there are no unchecked differences on the current image i.e. at the very start of playing with a new image (pretty pointless) or immediately after having 20 marked differences checked by the game. There is a good description of how hints work, and why, in the developer's reply to a discussion question. So if you are really stuck, you can randomly place enough "dummy" guesses on an image to reach the magic total of 20, ask the game to check them, and then immediately press the hint icon.

There is an excellent and varied set of musical tracks for each picture; as these are unlocked they are added to a "jukebox" feature.

So, in summary, a very challenging game (at least for me), but one that gives a huge sense of achievement when a picture is successfully completed. And no worries about value for money given the play time I've had so far for only a small fraction of the puzzles!