Sights & Sounds
- The visuals are simplistic and highly stylized. You'll play most of the game with (mostly) black & white foregrounds with a background color that depends on which puzzle you're currently solving
- Not much to say about the music or overall sound design. It's serviceable but not really memorable

Story & Vibes
- The minimalism evident in the audiovisual design carries over into the story. Bits and pieces of narrative are doled out in the interludes that separate each puzzle section. It's a morose yet hopeful story involving the protagonist, his mother, and the game's antagonist, and their shared past
- Not a whole lot going on vibe-wise. I tend to really try to immerse myself in games, but Hue doesn't really offer anything emotionally, intellectually, or atmospherically substantial enough to latch onto

Playability & Replayability
- It's a puzzle platformer. One of the ones where you flip between environments (in this case, colors) to change the state of the current puzzle you're solving. If you've played something like Seasons After Fall, the gameplay will feel immediately familiar
- Some of the puzzles can take a minute or two to figure out, but there's nothing especially devious or unintuitive to trip you up
- Similarly, the platforming isn't going to pose many challenges
- Not much of a reason to replay the game unless you feel like getting the achievement for collectibles

Overall Impressions & Performance
- I played two very similar puzzle platformers before playing Hue (Seasons After Fall and Moonleap), but I'd say that Hue is the best of the three. Still, though, unintentionally playing 3 games in a row with essentially the same gameplay hook was a little disappointing. There's definitely some room for creativity in the puzzle platforming space
- The entire game ran flawlessly on the Steam Deck, and it's a pretty good game for playing on handheld

Final Verdict
- 6.5/10. If you don't already own a free copy from another storefront (it's been give away twice elsewhere), I'd say Hue is worth a look if it's pretty heavily discounted. Otherwise, it's a little pricey for what you get

Pretty decent puzzle game and concept, though I felt like it overstayed it's welcome a bit. The puzzles are largely fine, but by the end they started to seem more like a way to pad the play time than to actually present a new challenge. I wish they had either been more varied, or the game was cut down by like... ~15%?

The art style, soundtrack and voice acting are pretty good, but the story is nothing to really write home about. Same goes for the few platforming parts of the game.

I got this game for free as part of some promo, though so I can't complain too much. Overall it's just fine.

Hue es un juego de plataformas y puzzles que tiene como principal característica el uso del color. Conforme avanzamos en la historia, iremos recopilando nuevos colores para poder seguir progresando.

Los puzzles nos obligan a ir alternando los colores constantemente, ya sea para hacer que desaparezcan objetos que nos impiden pasar, hacer aparecer otros objetos... Básicamente ir cambiando de un color a otro para superar estos obstáculos.
Esto al principio resulta bastante entretenido y absorbente, pero a medida que vas avanzando resulta muy repetitivo, tanto que a mí me ha llegado a cansar muchísimo.

En cuanto a los gráficos no tengo nada que destacar aquí, sin más. El apartado sonoro es aceptable, tiene una banda sonora adecuada para el tipo de juego que es y la narración que tiene es muy sencilla.

CONCLUSIÓN
El inicio del juego resulta original y entretenido, pero poco a poco va cayendo en la monotonía. Esto no quiere decir que sea un mal juego, pero en mi opinión se ha hecho muy pero muy pesado.

it's a fine puzzle game. lots of the early puzzles are just "oh what if i changed the color so that i can walk through this wall" etc. and are very easy, but the last several are well made and make you think without being overly difficult.

an alarmingly high amount of puzzles in this game have timing based solutions, which is fine for some things, but it just didn't really feel right for me in this game. "oh no the color i have selected makes the platform i'm going to land on disappear! i better change the color!" happens constantly during the midpoint of the game and feels like pointless fluff because all the good puzzles were delegated to the end of the game.

the "story" elements were pretty pointless to me though, and it doesn't really seem like it had a real place in a game like this. the voice acting they had was actually pretty good, and i think the VAs did a very good job with the task they were given, i just didn't care. additionally, the mail dialogue is essentially read to you in a boring pointless hallway that you jump up staircases and climb ladders in the most boring way possible with no interesting platforming whatsoever. i'm pretty sure these sections are just there to fill the whole length of the reading "cutscene" because they always finish right about the time to get to the end of the hallway, but if you want me to care about your story, it should be interesting and not just because it's literally the only thing happening during the game at that point.

fine game, nothing special. not interested in going for 100% because it seems tedious going back through the game without a level select (afaik) just to find hidden collectibles.