Count Logica is a variation of the classic Haunted Mirror Maze game. It’s basically what you get if you combine Nonograms and Sudoku and add a maze of mirrors to the grid in order to count the tiles in a “line of sight” kind of way, as opposed to counting them on each row / column. From Nonograms it inherits the rule of placing the given pieces so that in the end all the surrounding numbers are satisfied. At the same time, it takes after Sudoku because every level requires you to place a specific amount of pieces from each of the three possible types. And here’s where the mirrors mechanic comes in: depending on the type, a piece adds a +1 or a 0 to the current line of sight based on its position relative to a mirror.

There are 300 puzzles in total, each of them having only one solution that can always be logically deducted. Sometimes you will need to plan ahead several moves / combinations and see which one of them works in the end, but most of the times, the level naturally solves itself if you progressively place the pieces whose location is clear relative to the current configuration and then use an elimination technique to decide the placement of the remaining tiles. The latter levels have a higher complexity, requiring multiple iterations until the solution is found. Therefore, one level can take between a few seconds and a few minutes to solve. No matter if the grid has a size of 4x4, 5x5 or 6x6, the mechanics are the same and the solving strategies don’t differ, but the 6x6 levels are indeed more difficult to solve simply because of the extra complexity and extra steps needed to reach the solution.

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The game doesn’t offer hints, the only help available is clicking on the column / row header, which in turn will draw a line to indicate the path along the line of sight. However, using this will make you end the level with less than the maximum of 3 stars. Achievement completionists will be required to obtain 3 stars in all levels.

Going through all the levels took me around 25 hours, which is a great amount of value for the modest price of $2. I can only recommend this game very warmly, especially for logic puzzles aficionados and fans of nonograms.

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A faithful if flawed adaption of David Millar's classic Haunted Mirror Maze puzzle game. On the plus side, it is a faithful adaption of this nonogram/picross sort of puzzle, with the same vampires, ghosts and zombies as in the original Adobe-Flash game. Still the game could have used a bit more polishing and play-testing: many levels are uneven in difficulty (super-easy levels are sprinkled in with very hard ones) and the music is insipid. It is a faithful rip-off of the original game, but I feel that there was a missed opportunity to explore new features. Millar is often creating variations with one-way mirrors and what-have-you, but he had nothing to do with this... an extremely bare-bones adaption, lacking both originality and innovation.

For those unfamiliar with Millar's game: you have a board with numbers on each side of a row. Inside that row there may be / and \ slashes, symbolizing mirrors. A zombie is worth 1 point in front of or behind a mirror, a vampire is worth 1 point only in front of a mirror (and zero behind it) and a ghost is worth 1 point only behind a mirror (and zero in front of it.) Therefore, if you have a slash mirror in your row, and the row is worth no points, you know that there can be only ghosts in front of it and only vampires behind it. This is a 100% straightforward adaption of that game.

I was originally going to give this a thumbs-up, because it technically works all right and I thought it was a fun and unique concept, but once I googled 'haunted house maze' and found out that this game has been around for at least 15 years on Millar's own site ... well then I was left judging this as a 'port' of the original game. Then this becomes just 'is this a good version of this puzzle game?' as opposed to 'hey, look at this fun new concept!' In that case, all the issues I have with the U.I., the terrible music and the uneven level design take center stage. (One good quality-of-life feature, the ability as in Picross puzzles to mark in few choices when you're not ready to decide on a final choice is a bit of a wash-- puzzles were either so easy that I did them in my head and breezed through them, or they required me to pull out some paper and do them manually.)

I really feel there was a missed opportunity here by Smokey to make this game his own. Why not some levels without mirrors, or perhaps levels with an owl that counts as a 'zero' on either side of the mirror, or perhaps a cross-hatch mirror? Perhaps some variation in shapes such as a 2 x 3 or a 3 x 4 rectangle instead of a square board.

I also feel that there should have been some 2 x 2 levels to start with, as there really wasn't much of a tutorial, and it takes a few minutes to remember what zombies, vampires and ghosts do and don't do. And there wasn't even a story or campaign, such as of a fairy sipping tea with a wizard for 100 levels, as you might find in a similar card or puzzle game.

The graphic of the game might not be great, but it is a really nice puzzle game with 300 levels to solve.
I have no idea how to explain the puzzles - some weird mix of nonograms and mirrors, but I think it is a clever idea I haven't heard or seem before (might have been done before for all I know, I didn't research it, I just personally never seen it).

The Linux version works without any issues.

A fun, casual twist on Nonograms. The puzzles are small (one might even say bite-sized :P) so they're great for breaks and other small chunks of time and the gameplay is completely logic-driven (no guessing!).

Not only runs great on Linux (Mint 18.2, Nvidia proprietary) but developed on it, too! ¡Viva los Pingüinos!

This is a good logic game plenty of content. There are three hundred levels and some track quite a while to figure out so you’ll definitely get your money’s worth!

Very good variation of the classic nonogram, with three grid sizes and 300 increasingly difficult levels.

Reluctantly I'm gonna have to vote against this one.

On the surface level this is somewhat of a mix between Hexcells and nonograms. Each number represents how many entities you can see by following the path from that line to the other end; mirrors may change this trajectory and even loop through the same tile sometimes. Zombies are always seen. Vampires are only seen before hitting any mirrors and don't count otherwise. Ghosts are only seen after at least one mirror. And similarly to minesweeper-like games you get to know how many of each entity type is left to place on the board.

It's generally fun but the further you go the more level design falls apart (for me at least). There are 100 levels for each of the 4x4, 5x5, and 6x6 categories and it is obvious that they've all been randomly generated and thrown together. Some levels take literally four seconds to solve while others can get me stuck for a full hour. It just feels like the levels were not curated by a human designer after being procedurally generated.

It's fun to find not so obvious moves but sometimes you have to make an assumption like "okay, suppose this tile is a vampire, what happens next?", and then solve a LOT of further-branching paths (all in your head) to find obscure contradictions in every case to make the deduction that this original tile is not, in fact, a vampire. Problem is, there's no undo button, no planning overlay like in Tametsi, and due to how the game works it's just humanly impossible to keep all of this information in your head (tons of intersecting lines all having different meanings depending which direction you're coming from, it's inhumanly hard). So I end up taking screenshots and recreating my partial solutions while trying to make a deduction. It was at this point I realized that I cannot recommend the game for this very reason.

Technically, all levels are solvable without guessing. But due to the uncontrollable difficulty maybe ~30% of levels are trivially easy while ~10% require thinking ten steps ahead in a game where it just happens to be super difficult to think more than a step or two ahead. Unlike a computer I cannot operate on an assumption based on another assumption based on another assumption based on another assumption then backtrack through this mind tree to exhaust all possibilities.

Thumbs up! There are some flaws, but this is worth taking a look at if you like puzzles. The type of puzzles in this game are known as Haunted Mirror Mazes. It’s not the same as Sudoku, but there are some similarities. Both involve filling in a grid while satisfying a set of logical rules. In a Haunted Mirror Maze, you must place the monsters so that you see the correct total. Ghosts can only be seen after mirrors, vampires can only be seen before mirrors, and zombies can always be seen.

This game has three hundred levels, one hundred each of the three grid sizes: 4x4, 5x5 and 6x6. One flaw in the game is that the level difficulty varies widely. Level 94 might be much tougher than levels 93 and 95. Fortunately, you don’t need to solve them in order. You can skip a level and come back to it later. You always get five unlocked levels for each grid size, so you could theoretically skip four levels and keep going until you reached level 100. I like this mechanic better than having to solve each level in order one by one.

I didn’t like the music, but I liked that the game counts the monsters for you, so you know how many of each you have left. The monster count is an important clue in some levels. Another plus is that there are no time limits. I’m not a big fan of timers.

I completed the game and got all the achievements. For each level, you get one owl if you solve it, two owls if you solve it without getting a warning that you placed a monster incorrectly, and three owls if you solve it without getting a warning or using a hint to show the line-of-sight. You need to get at least two owls on each level in order to get all the achievements. You don’t need to get three owls on each level.

Amazing little puzzle game, by the creators of 'Flagsplosion' and 'Mindsight' !
it's like a super version of a picross game, where numbers indicate how many monsters there are.
Except it's not always on a straight line ; the path includes change of directions when a mirror is met.

Pros
• 3 * 100 = 300 levels !
• Challenging : from any point of view (before or after a mirror), always 2 types of monsters share the same visibility. You rarely can't be sure of the correct combination without further analyze.
• Learning : make false assumptions while being confident they are true, and learn from your mistakes
• Rational : solve every level by using logic only
• 5 levels always unlocked, per pack (4x4, 5x5, 6x6) - if you're stuck, just do the next one and comeback later to that #@$! one later ;)

I'm a general fan of puzzle games ; I like this one for its game mechanisms without being annoying.
Just have a try, guys !

Great puzzle game. The mechanics are simple, but the resulting puzzles (there are 300 in total) can get tricky at times. You don't ever have to guess, you can deduce everything. The presentation is clean and functional.