85%PC

A really charming and fun game. I liked the sorting pattern focused levels the most. Would have loved if the different level types were more spread out across different chapters and some of the levels were really frustrating to figure out. Also the final level was really dizzying and gave me a headache. Still, a nice and relaxing experience for the most part!

70%PC

🏆: 37/65
DLC pending

50%PC

Giocato per i rewards. Il "chill" che si propone non è pervenuto (fa meglio unpacking), anzi è tedioso se non si intuisce la soluzione prevista dagli sviluppatori. Pare si possano completare alcuni livelli in più modi, ma ho trovato una gran rigidità invece, anche quando il riordino visivamente sembrava completato. La maggior parte dei livelli comunque è banale e ridondante (ordine speculare, o per grandezza...). Inserire un gatto non basta a digerirlo per la componente "cute".

70%PC

簡單的小品遊戲
單純打發時間用
將畫面上的物品擺整齊為玩法

80%PC

Увидела игру у Маркиплаера и узнала, что она есть в геймпассе.
Очень милая и релаксная. Пусть оно не будет 100% прохождением уровня пока ты не выберешь все возможные варианты, что, скажем, не всегда очевидны. И как бы я не любила котов и кошек, но немного кошачья тема из-за того, что она повторялась ну слишком часто, раздражала слайтли.
Мне понравилось, концовка замечательная. Но есть свои недочёты, потому 8/10.

70%PC

It scratches that OCD itch

80%PC

A Little To The Left is an unorthodox puzzler in which for 4 or so hours, you sort knifes, power tools, chess pieces, stars and shadows into perfect little formations. All while avoiding the nefarious motions of your overlord kitty, hellbent on destroying your attempts at neatness. It is a calming, casual experience that I found occasionally quite difficult, mostly since the latter stages lack the logical basis of earlier ones. You can never truly expect what comes next, sorting flowers by colour or turning tires into sugar, and it makes for a constantly entertaining and equally perplexing series of solutions. Solutions which, without the help of a friend (honourable mention to James) I would not have found. But don't let that put you off, if you can't figure something out immediately, the game doesn't penalise you in any meaningful way for skipping it or using the hint system.

The only game I can compare this to is Unpacking, which similarly has you sorting items into neat stacks or layouts, sporting the same cosy atmosphere and colourful look. But it's definitely more a defined puzzler than that game. While Unpacking has multiple solutions, this game mostly has just the one. But if you liked that game, I imagine you'll like this too.

Anyway, this is one I really enjoyed and implore you to try. It's well worth its asking price despite it's relatively short length.

Little update after completing the Cupboards and Drawers DLC

These are, to me, a kind of "best of" collection building on the main games more conventional sorting, space efficiency puzzles. One's where you match up, and slot things into their rightful places. But expanded with additional functionality, namely, drawers and cupboards can now be opened and closed to reveal more stuff inside. As a result, they are bigger and often take a little longer, so while there might be only 25 levels, trust me it is a lot. My favourite being the box that continually opens with secret compartments the more you put into place, a puzzle inside a puzzle. But all of them were great and flowed perfectly from one another, even brandishing a return of the evil kitten in the form of 4 interlude levels.

It took me a little under 2 and a half hours to complete (the DLC), which is outstanding considering the price and quality. So if you buy this game, buy all of it.

8/10.

(Played on a R7 5700X/RTX 4070 combo at 1440p, using K+M.)

50%PC

A little to the left 5/10:
- Says what it does nothing special
- Some puzzles also don't make any sense, you could solve it in so many different ways but you are forced to follow that one step

70%PC

The pastel visuals and casual style were remarkable. Yet the puzzles were not so memorable, and I didn't feel any incentive to finish the game or redo the puzzles with alternative solutions.

80%Nintendo Switch

Fun and quick but some later levels have weird solutions lol

70%Nintendo Switch

Very cute and feel-good; I'd classify this game, especially with its DLC (which I thought was even better than the base game) as a sister experience to Witch Beam's Unpacking. It's charming and cozy with graphics that make each scene look like a diorama made from construction paper. With so much dragging and dropping this game is probably more ideal to play on a PC than the Switch, in case there's room for you make that choice.

I had some issues with the game's more abstract levels- they aren't as intuitive to solve, and what I enjoyed most from A Little to the Left and its Cupboards and Drawers DLC is its straightforward gameplay. In my opinion, the game is strongest when you work through a container with clear conditions as they've proven that there's still room for abstract pattern-finding. Especially towards the end of the base game, I'd get frustrated and think that what they were trying to have the player solve required a jump in logic that seemed to stray from the game's premise.

Sometimes it's also unnecessarily specific on how you solve something, like a specific object must be placed somewhere despite no indication that this would happen. This can be especially frustrating when the player who otherwise solves a puzzle must use a hint to fix an inconsequential detail. And while the player can skip puzzles they don't like, I think the game could've maintained a stronger focus if more puzzles took place in realistic scenarios.

85%Xbox Series X/S

A great short puzzle game. Really creative puzzles, loved the final few puzzles and credits!

40%PC

Played through the first chapter of puzzles and quitted because for a cozy game there are so many little annoyances that triggered my anxiety. First of all, it's a click and drag game but the mouse and gamepad behave weirdly, is this a mobile game port, meant to be played with a touchscreen? Well: both mouse and controller suck. Using mouse and keyboard the mouse trembles, but using a gamepad the cursor just slides; can't get comfy with any of the configurations. Second, there's no feedback of where to place the items until you randomly guess, having you drag anything at random across the screen until the game "sticks" it. Third of all, why does the cat randomly jumpscare you? Finally, the star rating feels so condescending, just made me paranoid trying to search for hidden patterns, the hidden answers for the puzzles should have been convened by other means, a literal rating is... too passive-aggressive. For a game that brands itself for being cozy, this game just gives me a headache. The idea is nice, the art is good, music is relaxing. But the execution is disgustingly horrible.

70%PC

It's a good game, the ending was executed really well, gets really annoying at times though

70%Xbox Series X/S

Ми розсортували усі речі, а в кінці стали котом і все розкидали назад. Така оцінка за деякі взагалі не очевидні пазли, в яких треба розставити речі не за логікою, а саме так, як це хочуть розробники.

95%PC

I feel like we've been through this before... but organizing my room? cleaning my desk? folding/hanging my laundry? NO, I hate it all! Putting little virtual objects in perfect order or making patterns fit nicely? Yes PLEASE! No mom, IT'S NOT THE SAME THING.

80%Xbox Series X/S

A charming assortment of sorting logic puzzles. The novelty got a little old by the end and finicky console controls certainly didn't help, but the allure of each puzzle and figuring out the trick kept my going.

Massively inflated game time largely thanks to some insidious achievement design that made me come back and grind random puzzles day after day. Their 'daily tidy' system sounds great on paper but literally months in and I've seen some of the same puzzles with randomized solutions at least a dozen if not more times.

70%Xbox Series X/S

Mostly an enjoyable puzzler, but 1) the controls on XBOX suck; this is clearly a game you are meant to play with a mouse. So, it's doable, but irritating. And 2) roughly half the puzzles are so counterintuitive that it starts to get really annoying. Some feel nearly impossible to figure out without looking up because you simply would never think to solve it in a certain way because it's not like any previous puzzle. But since these are all basically micro-puzzles, you at least get over these relatively quickly and just move on to the next thing. So yeah, I enjoyed this enough to finish it all, but it was certainly more frustrating than I was expecting it to be.

80%PC

The puzzles in this game were so much fun! Once you know what the game wants you to be looking for (color, size, shape, sequence), then completing levels can be pretty easy. I particularly loved the puzzles that had you organize drawers and fit shapes within each other. I was able to complete the game without any hints, although some puzzles took me longer than others. This game features daily puzzles, but I don't see myself completing more than the two that I already did. Each daily puzzle was solved within seconds and then there's a 24 hour wait for the next one. I don't feel its worth keeping the game installed for a daily puzzle that can be solved in less time than it takes me to start the game. Maybe in the near future, I will revisit this game to complete the DLC. It seems to feature a lot of the same puzzles that I enjoyed in the main game.

80%PC

Excellently crafted, beautiful art, puzzles that instantly made sense to me as a serial cleaner. One solution that I found very annoying when I worked it out, but otherwise perfect.

75%Nintendo Switch

Enjoyable game, although some do make you scratch your head trying to figure out what they want if attempting all stars. Although once you get some levels down, you tend to get an idea of what the game is asking of you - which is not inherently a bad thing as it makes a somewhat more relaxing game. I enjoyed the game enough to 100% it (excluding daily tidy) in any case, and there is certainly enough variety in my opinion. I think the length of the game is just about right as well.

70%PC

A nice little puzzle game that doesn't outstay its welcome.

Would have liked more complex puzzels as by the end it feels like you're just doing the same puzzles as you were doing at the start but with more interactible pieces. Still a nice way to spend a few hours while listening to podcasts or relaxing in general

70%PC

Grating music, some really obtuse puzzles. Gotta play through it with a guide on the side once you get to the latter half. Worth it to see the ending and because a handful of the puzzles are pretty satisfying to solve.

70%Nintendo Switch

The first half is nice, then it started to feel like it was dragging to long. The final puzzle is very well-executed, kudos to that!

I had to watch some solutions om YouTube and I must admit that some of them are still not clear for me, hehe.

60%PC

Un bonito y relajado juego de puzzles.

95%Nintendo Switch

Me ha encantado este juego, tiene un diseño super bonito y música super relajante.
Me encanta que el michi te desordene todo cada dos por tres🥺🥺
Los creditos son muy adorables.
Es muy corto pero tiene retos diarios así que mola para rejugar.

80%PC

Excelent game. Great gameplay loop, every puzzle makes sense when finished, though some of them are obtuse and hard to get at first, had to use hints and google a couple times for the more challenging ones.
The ending sequence alone is a 100/100, amazing and elevates the game a lot in my opinion.

65%PC

Yeah it's ok, but the music is grating, which is insane for a game that is supposed to feel calming I think??? The puzzles where you're sorting a buuuunch of items were the most fun, but there were the most uncommon. Most levels just became the same size, shape, or color puzzle.

85%Xbox Series X/S

satisfying little tidy game

75%PC

Un simpático juego de puzzles donde tienes que ordenar cosas para pasar el siguiente puzzle. Bien cortito para jugarlo en un día.
Lo bueno
El arte del juego es hermoso, muy de brocha digital. Además la interacción con el gatito del juego lo hace más simpático. Aunque creo que ese concepto es lo que define el juego "simpático y desafiante".
Lo malo
Hay puzzles que puedes solucionar de 2 o 3 formas distintas, algunas de esas formas son bien rebuscadas. Más que ordenar de menor a mayor hay detalles que no te mencionan. Además, las pistas no son sutiles, te muestran la solución completa al problema.
Resumen
Un excelente juego de puzzles: corto, entretenido, desafiante y a veces rebuscado en sus soluciones. Recomendado en oferta o jugarlo en gamepass.
Ojalá que exista en el futuro una segunda parte un poco más largo.

60%PC

It starts relaxing enough, but eventually feels like it goes on a little too long and drifts into obnoxious puzzle designs in order to stretch out the play time. First half is better than the second half basically.

70%Android

Very cute cosy game, a great one to play for half an hour in bed before going to sleep

55%Xbox Series X/S

Fun and harmless, but lacking in good controller support, making for clunky navigation for the console port

85%PC

Not very difficult, but the free form nature - no ruleset, each puzzle has different end solutions - of the puzzles makes this a casual puzzler that is easy to dip in and out of. The daily puzzles promote playing the game in small doses, where the simple solutions - make order out of chaos! - become a pro rather than a con. Fun to play, and never tedious.

50%PlayStation 5

5/10

55%PC

Love the artstyle and concept but absolutely hated the execution. Some levels (like almost all in chapter 3/4) I couldn't understand and hints are just the solutions. Daily tidies are just levels I already played? Also just outright unplayable trying to play with controller.

40%Nintendo Switch

this game was really cute and some levels i had fun with but i didn't like a majority of the game

60%PC

tbh im not a fan of puzzles but this game was a nice cozy game except for the puzzles that i couldn't solve lmao

90%Xbox Series X/S

Get in the mind of a Serial Killer™️ on adderal whose cat is constantly messing up their manic organizing. I love this shit.

100%PC

Fantastic little puzzler. Very relaxing, well designed, and just enough challenge to stay engaged.

60%Xbox Series X/S

Chegando na assinatura do Game Pass, "A Little to the Left" é um verdadeiro passeio meditativo através da associação cognitiva. Mas o que exatamente esse puzzle relaxante entrega ao jogador? É isso que vamos conversar nesta análise.

A proposta do jogo é bastante simples, porém profundamente executada. A desenvolvedora Max Inferno mesclou fotografias do cotidiano residencial em puzzles relaxantes que prendem a atenção até serem resolvidos.

Objetos, contêineres, mesas, caixas e muito mais coisas que podem ser encontradas em qualquer casa são apresentadas através de um formato lúdico, bem colorido e divertido. Um verdadeiro convite à criatividade dos amantes de puzzles.

O jogo não é apenas sobre organizar objetos. À medida que progredimos, são inseridos desafios lógicos que exigem certo grau de concentração e conhecimento para serem superados. A partir do capítulo três, é bem possível que você precise investir alguns minutos a mais até perceber os novos elementos inseridos, é nesse momento que a palavra quebra-cabeça faz sentido.

Durante a primeira hora de jogo, senti uma leveza que foi induzida pela trilha sonora descontraída e cenas cotidianas que pareciam me convidar a organizar os objetos em tela. Uma sensação que particularmente não experiencio nesse tipo de jogo.

O game é dividido em capítulos e cada capítulo traz um tema e novos elementos para o gameplay, inclusive um gatinho que está lá para ajudar ou atrapalhar a diversão, dependendo do ponto de vista.

Para concluir, a mensagem que gostaria de deixar é que esse game é muito mais sobre relaxar e se deleitar com uma trilha sonora extremamente cativante enquanto você passa o seu tempo organizando cenas cotidianas e resolvendo puzzles inseridos nos objetos apresentados. O game encontra-se muito bem avaliado pelos usuários da Steam e não senti muita dificuldade em me adaptar ao controle no console. Ao controlar o mouse pelo controle, algumas vezes arremessei objetos incondicionalmente para lugares indesejados, mas nada que atrapalhe a experiência geral do jogo. Se você curte um puzzle mais soft e está à procura de momentos relaxantes, então esse jogo é para você. Principalmente se você for uma daquelas pessoas que sente prazer em arrumar a casa e admirar o resultado.

80%PC

Humourous and cute puzzle game where you just.. organize things. I had to look up some of the organization methods because I was not looking at the items the way the game wanted me to. But I also enjoy the daily puzzle, reminds me of Mini Motorways' daily puzzle.

60%PC

Achievement Grind: 6/10. The achievement grind for this one sucks, specifically because of the daily achievements. Thank god for time travel; I would not play this game for 50 days straight. It is also a mildly infuriating game, but that's because I'm impatient and don't like stopping to think.

60%PC

I wish I had liked this more. Played the demo in early Feb 2022 and loved it, playing the game felt different. Not sure why, but it did.

There are several levels where the puzzles are very straight forward. Even some of the clever "solve different ways" flow really well. But then there are other levels... that more abstract and completely lack direction. Some with new elements you have to discover how they work.
As you play, the game becomes more complex, which means the levels become more difficult. Some of which are irritating, like getting hung up on needing the smallest adjustment to considered being solved.

*Played on Steam* A personal pet peeve, several Steam achievements specifically require purchasing the DLC for a prefect game. As well as completely a daily puzzle (variations of previously puzzles) up to 100 days, 30 of which must be consecutive. I just feel some kind of way about that level of commitment from a game that markets it's self as a "casual" "relaxing" title.

60%PC

+Manche Level sehr spaßig, aber viele leider auch mehr nervig als alles andere
- Sortierung bei “nur” Reihenfolge oft umständlicher als nötig, warum kann ich nicht einfach alles 1 nach links schieben, sondern nur alle einzeln?
- Wusste oft nicht wo ich anfangen muss
- Wtf Blätter zupfen und rausfinden welche nicht nachwachsen? Not my Kind of Zeitvertreib
- Generell mit Gamepad nicht sonderlich cozy, weil oft ungenau und mit Stick.
+ Level sind skipbar zum Glück

75%Nintendo Switch

Jogo muito bacana, quando descobre as coisas é satisfatório mas no final fica avacalhado a dificuldade. Faltou o pt-br

80%PC

It can be satisfying solving the puzzles but sometimes it's so picky on HOW you solve it, that it becomes frustrating

80%PC

Fun and short puzzle game. I feel like I need to compile a list of the short games there is sure a lot of them. Organizing things is fun, if you don't enjoy that play a different game. Think I gave the same review to "Unpacking". Once you beat it you won't have much incentive to ever play it again so only really play this game if you are bored between other more substantive games and need time to figure out what to play next.

70%PC

It was pretty fun. I might play it again at some point. Not really interested in 100%ing it, though.

50%PC

The concept of this game is novel, but it does not feel like an idea that can carry a whole game. The idea behind these puzzles is to show you an object or group of objects and let your natural intuition of how things should be tidied up guide you to the solution. Very quickly you start to see the cracks in this concept. Most puzzles will be extremely obtuse or extremely obvious, and you can tell which is which instantly. A particularly nasty kind of this former camp is the symmetry puzzles, where you must arrange items so that they are symmetrical in the space they occupy. The problem is, there are a million ways to make these puzzles work but only one is "correct". I really wanted to love this game, but it's wears out it's 3-hour average playtime about an hour in.