Simple-looking puzzle game but pain in the butt to solve. If that wasn't enough, once you beat the main world, there is another one which will kill your remaining brain cells.

An interesting premise, I liked the original puzzles but the endgame is too convoluted imo and takes away some enjoyment

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is a beautifully serene puzzle game about constructing snowmen by Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis. The game mechanics are simple: There are snowballs, you roll them around on the snow to make them bigger and have to stack three snowballs of varying size to create a cute snowman. It's short, sweet, gorgeously painterly and with an awesome, minimalist piano soundtrack, which really helps to soothe you during some of the game's more difficult sections.

Unfortunately, your cleverness in solving the puzzles, and my admiration for its open-ended approach to many of its puzzle solutions (because I really hate puzzle games where there is only one correct and very convoluted solution like Snakebird) get dashed against the rocks in the game's post game, where you end up in a dream world, constructing dream snowmen from your previously built snowmen. Neat, more content! Right? No, allow me to elaborate:
Each large snowman gets replaced by one maximum-sized snowball in the dream world, which you can then roll to create a new, dream snowman. When you roll the ball on any part of the dreamworld's grid, the snowball gets smaller, something that doesn't happen in the base game's 30 puzzles, which means that you have to re-solve your puzzles, in order for your finished base game snowmen to be in just the right places to allow for the construction of the 11 dream world snowmen.
Then there is the second achievement I found disheartening. Far from celebrating your clever puzzle solutions "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build" decides that if you leave an area and enter through a different entrance it constitutes "cheating" and doesn't give you a butterfly after beating the level, which delineates between if you beat the level without "cheating" or not. The clever puzzle-solving I praised myself for was turned against me by this achievement, as an accusation of not having played the game "the right way"; much as the post game did.

If you are not a completionist like me, do not care about the achievements and want a good time with reasonably difficult puzzles for about 3h of overall gameplay, then be sure to pick up "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build", if you can't help but obsess over achievements even a little bit, and what I described above sounds insulting to you, then I'd unfortunately recommend skipping this one, so that your mood isn't soured as mine was.

This is a cute and cozy sokoban puzzle game with snowmen instead of boxes. It’s not the most difficult I’ve ever played, but it has a lot of charm. The puzzles start off easy, but a few made me stop and think for a bit. Nothing too frustrating, just enough to be satisfying when you finally figure it out.

One thing to keep in mind is that you can’t leave a puzzle "room" and re-enter from another door. The game considers that cheating, and you won’t earn a butterfly reward. If you mess up, you’ll have to reset that specific room with the “R” key and try again.

After finishing the main world, you will be given the option of solving the puzzles again, but with a twist. You will solve them again, but in different locations. I won't give too much away. You do need to look for it and figure it out. It’s a nice way to mix things up and add some replayability.

Overall, it’s a short and sweet puzzle game that’s worth checking out if you're into a more casual and relaxing puzzle experience,,, or you just enjoy sokoban puzzles.

A very good puzzle game with cute snowmen ⛄️ short and no replayability but definitely worth the play if you can get it on sale. Played well on steam deck aswell 💖

game was very enjoyable and highly recommendable until the last level which has taken 4 years off my life expectancy and contributed to significant malding!

Turns out, not THAT hard, but very satisfying.

Clever games curator review: 9/10 Short Sokoban-adjacent puzzler with novel “snowball grows as you roll” mechanic that is both fresh, novel, and a lot of fun to master. Possibly, it’s over too soon, but you could also say it knows when to stop before it wears out its welcome. It would be a perfect 10, save for the surprisingly high “normal” price for the 2 hours of gameplay on offer.

Sokoban has been done to death, but the twist here makes it feel entirely fresh and new. The rules for building a snowman: small snowball on top, medium in the middle and large on the bottom. Every time you push a snowball it gets one step larger until it’s at its Max size in which case you can continue to push it with no further growth. Thus a lot of the puzzles involve figuring out how to clear a path such that you can then push together the snowballs without them growing too large. That’s pretty much the entire rule set, save for a couple of minor and sensible tweaks you will figure out later on.

I think the difficulty ramp is perfect. The puzzles are varied, intermixing various themes and moves so that you never can guess precisely what’s going to be required of you on the very next puzzle. But never is the solution tedious or incredibly obscure. Although some flashes of inspiration are involved, a lot of it just requires some careful thought. It is definitely elevated above purely casual, but not so hard as to be frustrating or painful. You also have some flexibility in which puzzle to solve next, giving you a chance to jump around when you get temporarily stuck. It is a master class in designing a satisfying puzzle game if you ask me.

It is also just the right amount of cute with a lot of fun little touches intermixed in a fairly minimal and spartan world. There is zero storyline, and minimal music. The controls are extremely simple; all you ever do is choose which direction to move. Keyboard or game pad are your only options. Quality of life is top notch, with unlimited undo or complete level reset.

In my opinion the game is over when you reach 80% completion (labeled “The End?”). There is an after game that is way too pedantic for my taste, and hidden in a way that can surely only be discovered by a web search.

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is a very good puzzle game not too difficult with an original gameplay, some nice designs and a cozy ambient. It worth it with a discount price, I recommend it!!! ⛄❄️🤍

Tricky puzzles with a very simple premise and nice presentation. Calming and "zen".