Arranger review: making moves on puzzle design

I love a challenging puzzle game, but sometimes a game comes along that is so clever it breaks my brain. For me, that game was Baba is You. I can see how excellent the puzzles are, I perceive how well-designed each level is, and yet every time I play it, I feel my brain break and my intelligence leak out of my ears. No matter how well a concept is tutorialized, there comes a point where I no longer compute and can’t proceed. Booting up Arranger I had a similar feeling. The core concept is one that I have never encountered before. You play as Jemma, a girl who moves the world around her as she moves. If she moves left or right everything horizontal with her does the same, moving up and down moves all the tiles on the same vertical plane. Not only this, but tiles wrap around the screen, meaning if you leave from one side, you’ll end up on the other. Despite how alien this concept initially seemed, unlike Baba is You, my brain – or what’s left of it – remained inside my skull, and eventually reached a place of