Review Glass Masquerade (Switch)

A review code was kindly provided by Digerati

Glass Masquerade, released on the Nintendo Switch, is an artistic puzzle game inspired by Art Deco and stained-glass artisans of the 20th century.

Leaning about cultures around the world

In the game you combine hidden glass pieces to unveil clocks and themes, representing various cultures of the world. These themes are exhibited at the ‘International Times Exhibition’, an interactive electronic show.

There are 25 beautiful and intricately designed stained-glass jigsaw puzzles to complete in this game. A very relaxing, serene soundtrack complements the game, that plays extremely well.

A jigsaw puzzle with a twist

Each puzzle is a clock with a stained glass face, all the inner hidden jigsaw pieces are at the side of the clock on rotating circles. The edge pieces to start the puzzle with have a little hook on them and they are outlined in red on the rotating circles. The inner pieces of the clock face are presented in unique shapes all in silhouette form.

As you select a piece, the detail and colour of the piece appears and it’ll flip around and right it’s self to the right way up. At that point you can place it on the puzzle area, if it’s the right piece it clicks into place. If it’s not, it slides back to the side again to be used later.

Glass Masquerade is a standard jigsaw puzzle but with the twist. Filling the clocks’ face with the odd shaped pieces while you don’t see the detail on the pieces until you pick them up. Unlike most jigsaw puzzle there is no picture preview so once a puzzle is completed it’s only then you see what it is.

Timed but no pressure

All the puzzles in Glass Masquerade relate to something associated with each country, so when you complete the British puzzle it reveals Sherlock Holmes, or solving the USA one revels the Statute of Liberty.

The puzzle pieces glint and sparkle in the light as you would expect real stain glass to do, it’s a glossy and well presented puzzle/jigsaw game.

Puzzles are timed, however there is no timer on screen other than a quick glimpse of the hands on the clock face appearing when a puzzle piece slots into place. Once you have finished the puzzle the time appears on the screen. This is a great idea as a relaxing game shouldn’t really push you to finish a puzzle within a certain time. The timer can be used to replay the same puzzle and try to beat your previous time of completion.

The conclusion

Difficulty-wise I didn’t find any of the puzzles overly hard, just enough to give a relaxing challenge.

The game can be played using the touch screen controls, however I found it easier to control the direction of the puzzle pieces when I used the joy stick and button option.

Glass Masquerade is a well presented puzzle game, from its beautiful stain glass clock puzzles to its relaxing music to match. If you are interested in a relaxing puzzle game, this game could be the one to add to your Switch.

I like Glass Masquerade a Lot.

2 comments

Geddy says:
February 25, 2019 at 5:22 pm
Looks like a fun title. I love how many unique puzzle games there are on the Switch. Plus the big screen makes it so much nicer on the eyes than, say, the 3DS.
1. Yvonne van Geloven says:
  February 26, 2019 at 9:45 pm
  The system sure doesn’t lack for puzzle games, I agree!