Geared Review

Geared is a puzzle game where players must place different sized gears in order to reach and turn each level's blue gear. The difficulty gets harder and player must deal with no drop zones, obstacles and multiple blue gears to turn at once.

Players choose the different gears by tapping on the gear buttons at the bottom of the screen with their finger and dragging the gear to where they want to place it. If gears are placed correctly, they will begin to turn as they should, if there are misplaced they will need to be picked up and adjusted. The click and drag controls are simple and allow for easy and effective gear placement.

The visuals are basic and drawn on graph paper, but the levels and your objectives are clearly shown. Their sound consists of only gears clicking when placed correctly. However, if players turn the game sound effects off in the menu, they can use their iPod while playing. This is a single player only game with a statistics menu only, no leaderboard or highscore options are currently available.

Geared is a simple, yet addictive game and the ever increasing level difficulties, option to replay levels and easy to use controls make it a real treat to play. And while the main gameplay mode is currently the only mode available, hopefully more game options will be available with a future update. Either way, if you enjoy challenging puzzle games with lots of replay value, then you’ll definitely want to give Geared a look at.