Tessera puts one 8x8 block puzzle in seven different outfits
An Android line-clearing puzzle with a daily one-shot board, an endless mode, a shared-board duel for two and a wardrobe of themed worlds.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The cleverest thing in the Tessera screenshots is a piece of restraint. Six of them show the same board: the same score of 18, the same best of 48, the same L of pieces in the top right corner and the same square of nine in the bottom left. Only the clothes change. Deep Space turns the blocks into moons and ringed planets over a purple nebula, Retro Pixel sets them above a blocky waterfall, Teddy Dreamland swaps in tiny bear faces and a sleeping teddy on a gingham blanket. Somebody at Case Sensitive Computers, L.L.C. understood that the honest way to sell a theme is to hold everything else...