Just Find It 2 Collector’s Edition at it’s core is a simple puzzle game. The collector’s edition version adds 24 more chapters, downloadable wallpapers and a music player. The developers for this game are Tiny Little Lion, with the publisher being Ocean Media. It released on March 22nd 2024, while the standard version came out July 11th 2023.
Taking a look at the game before playing it, I knew where my expectations were. I will say, it mostly managed to meet those low expectations at least. It can be fun for a little bit, but then you start to realise you could be playing much better puzzles games instead. If you really must have this type of puzzle game though, I suppose it can temporarily scratch that itch for you.
Finding The Difference
This game focuses on gameplay, that gameplay being all about different types of puzzles for you to solve. There are 7 puzzle types and each one has a set amount of “chapters”, which contain a single puzzle within them. Once clicking on a chapter it will bring up the puzzle for you to solve.
The first four types of puzzles I will cover in this section, those being, select to cycle, difference, detail and match. Select to cycle is probably the most interesting of the different puzzles in the game. You click on a certain portion of an image until you find the correct portion that fits with the rest of the image. It’s a cool idea, but one that you can exploit easily. You can simply just keep clicking on each portion until it is right, there is no challenge here.
Difference, is as you guessed it, clicking on the differences between a varying amount of images. If you play this as intended it can provide a decent challenge however there is nothing stopping you from just clicking all over the screen until you win. This exploit makes this puzzle type extremely easy, it’s a shame too because otherwise it seems to provide a decent challenge.
Detail is about finding certain small snippets of an image and clicking on them. Just like spotting the difference if you play it without just clicking everywhere on the screen then it can provide some challenge. There is nothing again to stop you from not just clicking everywhere though until you complete it.
For the match type, you need to find many matching images amongst a sea of other images. This type is the first to have no exploit. It has quite a fair amount of consideration to it, with there being extra images to confuse things a bit. This can provide a decent challenge and I found it to be one of three decent puzzle types.
Swapping Things Around
Moving on, I will now discuss the other half of the game with it’s remaining puzzle types. This consists of memory, montage and swap. Memory is one many will recognise, it’s the standard match two card game. You click on one card to reveal what’s on it then try and match it with another. This is another with no exploit and it is a good way to challenge your memory. It’s a shame there are only 4 chapters worth of these in the whole game, including the CE content.
Montage is basically a slightly different version of detail. You have little snippets you see at the bottom of the screen but then you need to select the image that it is showing amongst a collage of images. Again, just like detail, you can exploit it by tapping random places on the screen. The images you click on generally cover more area too, so it’s even easier to do this.
Finally, let’s talk about the last puzzle type, swap. This one is easily my favourite from the game. You have a varying amount images which have snippets cut out from them. You must then swap the incorrect snippets around until they are back into the correct places. It’s a good idea for a puzzle type and I found myself having some fun with these. Just with the other decent puzzles there is no easy exploit here.
I do also want to mention two more things relating to gameplay here, those being hints and lion collectables. For some of the puzzle types you can also find an extra lion collectable. This doesn’t really add anything in my opinion though and sadly is the only trace of identity in this game. You can use hints to help you solve any puzzle. These basically just solve the puzzle for you though and are not really “hints” more so just telling you the answer outright. These are useable as many times as you want with very little cooldown between them. So, even puzzles that have no easy exploit can be easy with this. It’s not thoughtful game design at all.
Basic Look & feel
The presentation for this game is very bland. The game has very little animation or visual flare giving it a poor sense of game feel. It does feature some nice art, though these seem to just be images they pulled from online. The UI looks very basic, it’s mostly just still images and coloured shapes with text on. There is also way too many colours present in the chapter select, it looks very unprofessional and messy. On top of this, you can see visual errors such as the scroller cutting off the chapter boxes and the text in the settings being in front of and behind buttons.
The music does fit well with this type of game though, it’s the type of music that would play in your head while doing a puzzle like the ones in the game. There are quite a few tracks that play during this game too, with the CE version giving you the chance to listen to them in isolation. Though, they all sound quite similar and are quite repetitive in nature. It would have been nice to have been able to choose which track plays or for the music to change as you get near finishing the puzzle. Another thing I want to mention, is that when you back out of a puzzle the puzzle music stays playing in the background on the chapter select screen. Yet another thing adding to the blemishes of the game.
Conclusion
Just Find It 2 Collector’s Edition is a game that you may find fun for a few hours, then want to move on. There is many issues with it’s game design and it is lacking polish too. There is a decent amount of content here and it is easy to pick up but there are many other better options for a cheap puzzle game. However, if you do want to play this game still, the best way to play this game is handheld mode. Handheld is much better since you can just use the touch screen, rather than having to move the on screen cursor around.
You can get the game here on Nintendo Switch and here on PlayStation 5.
