Cuit is a game about flipping switches in the right order on increasingly complex logical circuits. The concept is neat, the execution is poor. If you are on the fence about this game, I don't recommend buying it.

After launching the game you'll immediately notice this is a very badly handled mobile port. You can only play in full-screen with mouse lock (personally I think windowed mode is a must-have for any puzzle game) and there are no graphical options. The menu is a total mess. It is an overlay that has to be opened and closed with a button, it's very ugly and very confusingly laid out. It appears as if functionalities had been tacked on and each has ♥♥♥♥♥♥ its own menu item and button with no regard to usability or workflow. Double clicks are not accepted, only buttons. Loading a level means opening the menu, selecting one from a scrolling list, clicking the load button and then closing the menu. Menus don't auto-update with changes (creating a new playlist or level requires you to close and reopen the menu for the item to actually show up). On some of the text boxes the words clip outside and become unreadable against the background. I suspect there has been zero thought put into how this game handles on PC during the design process.

The various gates and other circuit components are unorthodoxly labelled which you can't customize. Standardized symbols for logic gates and various notations for propositional logic operators exist and yet the gates have completely newly invented labels. There is also no internal consistency as a NOT gate is "!" and an OR gate is "/", yet the NOR gate aka NOT OR is marked "//" instead of "!/". Since even the most basic gates have a homebrew symbol, you absolutely need the in-game tool-tips. This is where the frustration quickly mounts. Most text is displayed in a single line at the bottom of your screen which by default shows the level number. If you mouse-over a component to find out what it does, it takes about 3 seconds for the level number to slowly fade away and the explanation to slowly fade in. And if you start the level or if the music changes the tool-tips will be overridden with other information and it takes several seconds longer for the thing you actually want to know to show up. I'm sure an experience veteran doesn't mind, but it's terrible for learning the game. As an aside, the patch notes mention that the tool-tips have been improved - I honestly don't want to know how abysmal they used to be if this is the fixed version already.
The developer seems to particularly enjoy these fading effects as merely restarting a level takes 5 seconds to complete a fade to white and back. Unfortunately many levels feature explosives and a single wrong move means you have to restart the whole level as there is no undo functionality.

Gameplay boils down to flipping a few moving parts (levers, buttons, switches) in the exact right order to direct current towards the goals and not towards the explosives. Building your own circuits is reserved for the editor - in the main game you are just switching pre-existing circuits which, with increasing convolutedness, try to trick you into misjudging the effect of 8 gates simultaneously changing state. The learning curve is gentle at first, but then ramps up quickly. Later elements are introduced not in tutorial stages, but already as part of huge circuits. The first 30 levels were somewhat interesting, but then I didn't enjoy myself anymore as levels got more and more confusing. A big part is that I didn't like the lock components - permanently flashing gates with 3 inputs which you have to feed a series of input combinations in sequence without messing up. Instead of showing you the next result you have to work towards, they keep cycling through all and roll-over flashing annoyingly. Dealing with them was just miserable for me.
The store page claims, "Level up through 4 tiers and 60 ranks, solver over 100 levels, earn the golden trophy's for each and unlock new backgrounds, special puzzles". I've beaten 30-odd levels of 66 available in sequence and then skipped ahead to solve a few here and there (all levels are unlocked from the start). I've never seen any tiers, ranks, trophies, backgrounds or special puzzles. Maybe all of that only comes into play after you've beaten everything once? I don't know, but colour me suspicious as the bottom bar of my game looked entirely different than shown in the screenshots on the store page and I've never seen any visible way of the game keeping track of my progress and which levels I've solved. Perhaps another result of the mobile port gone wrong?
While we're at it, the store also claims the game to be "challenging and relaxing". "Challenging" I can get behind, even though I didn't like that most of the difficulty came from complexity and convolutedness, not from smart puzzle design. "Relaxing" on the other hand is only the actually quite nice music. With the constant threat of having to restart the entire level due to a small oversight I never really felt relaxed.

The editor is - no joke - the most convoluted way of creating levels I've ever seen in any game. First create a playlist via its own menu. Then create a level, again via a separate menu. Then load the level and enter build mode. Right-click somewhere and a behemoth of a UI pops up with all parts of the game, which you then have to scroll though - sideways with mouse movement, but up and down only with your mouse wheel. The selected colum is also so dark that you cannot see what part you're picking. Once a part is placed you can only delete it, not move it or rotate it. Cables to connect parts are actual rectangles that only extend down or to the right, never up or to the left. And finally you have to go through a third separate menu to upload your creation to the Workshop. The convolutedness of it all is honestly absurd.

The game also looks pretty bad. It tries for a minimalist aesthetic, but fails and ends up just looking cheap. The graphics are functional, but lack any kind of style. Everything is black, white and grey with the exception of flowing current and some of the laughably cheap animations on completing a level. For whatever reason mousing over a gate changes the colour of all currents to a dark green so you can barely see them anymore. You can change the colour but I don't know why this feature even exists. It certainly does not highlight upstream or downstream current to help you orient yourself and gauge what the component you're hovering over actually does.

Still, I do see some squandered potential in Cuit. The concept with directing currents via logic gates is actually quite neat. Even though I would have preferred laying-out circuits myself, there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the basic gameplay. But the developer fell into the trap that more complexity surely must equal more fun instead of going for clever and streamlined level design and adding lots of polish to their title. Even though I ended up not enjoying the game, its pricing seems fair for a game with ~70 complex pre-made levels and a level editor. Still, even if the gameplay sounds fun to you, I can realistically only recommend buying this game if you have a morbid interest in trainwreck mobile ports.

Uhh, I think the game is actually broken for me.

Upon loading any level and hovering my mouse over any node for about a second, the color of all the current flows gradually shifts to pitch black and permanently stays black. It is now impossible to tell how the circuit is currently functioning or how my changes affect it.

How do I solve levels if I can barely find the starting point[i.imgur.com] among the black wires?

This isn't how it's supposed to work, right? They're supposed to gradually shift between different colors but not just stay pitch black, yes? And yeah, I have "animate circuits" on. I didn't mess with the color scheme or any other settings. It's just... broken :/

Pros: The puzzles

Cons: Everything else.

The UI is unadulterated crap.
Creating a level is it's own circle of Hell.
I think 2 achievements are swapped (create playlist & create level) and I got one of them pounding the keyboard in frustration while trying to create a level.

The puzzles get a thumbs up.
The level creation gives you the middle finger.

Buy on sale for the puzzles.
Not recommended because of all the level creation aggrevation.

Cuit is a circuit-based puzzle game that focuses on basic programming knowledge of circuit flow and switches. The idea is to connect the signal between the starting point and the ending point without connecting to any of the bombs. That said, it does not offer much aside from the same thing I just mentioned, but throwing more convoluted gimmicks into it with later puzzles to make it much harder.

There's not much else to say about this. It went for a price on release, but became free in 2019 (Just short of 2 years after its release). Do I recommend this? Well, I'm honestly not a puzzle guy, so I'm going to have to say "no". It is free, but instead of feeling a sense of fun, I only gained a feeling of frustration and confusion. If you want achievements, you won't stay for long (maybe half an hour max). If you're looking for a puzzle game, this is for you. But if you're a casual gamer looking for something fun to enjoy, then this won't be the game for you.

2/10 This game really kinda suck-Cuit.

wtf, UI crappy as hell. cannot even create and upload levels.

This is got to be one of the worst games I have played. I do not mean gameplay-wise; it is mainly the UI and art design.

Cuit is a puzzle game where you use various logic operators to solve puzzles. I like the concept, and it could be a good game, but it has awful execution. The design of each object is bad. I can barely tell which ones are active and inactive due to the small indicators (it gets reset after moving up a level). The UI is terrible, and it shouldn't be this slow. In addition, I get some form of performance issues while leaving the game since it is always full screen.

If the game gets some form of revisions for some of the assets, I will likely update this review.

"Oh good, a neat little puzzle game based on logic gates" I thought. That could be quite good fun.

It was fun for maybe the first few levels, but after that the learning curve was incredibly rapid. The levels automatically advance by default, which means that when you lose you don't see what caused you to lose. Helpfully, the game tells you to go into the menu and turn off auto-advance, but the menu is very clunky to use and having opened it, it took a while to work out how to close it again.

The create a level achievement seems to tied to creating a playlist, not a level. Which is just as well, because I couldn't actually work out how to get out of the menu and back to the editor to actually build a level.

I'm also not a fan of any game that has an achievement for uploading things to the Steam workshop, as I think it tends to create spam in the workshop as people upload any old thing to get the achievement (which is probably what I will end up doing in order to complete the achievements, unless I manage to figure out the level editor).

On the plus side, the developer has admitted that they can't support the game and made it available for free, so there's no real downside to trying this game and deciding that it's not for you.

Good game but UI sh!ts itself everytime I clear a level.

Game is fun and challenging, sometimes a littele iritating, but crush every 2-3 levels, also it's menu is a mess. I would recomment it after crush and menu fixes, but not in current state.

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