Considering how many casually-minded puzzle games there are on the Switch, it’s in your best interests to try to be as surprising as possible. Well, the developer behind Can of Wormholes appears to have gotten the memo. Not only is the visual presentation quite unique, but the way you navigate between puzzles is particularly odd, and can sometimes involve some mild puzzle-solving in itself. The main event though, is a series of over 100 puzzles that will continue to evolve and up the challenge bit by bit, mostly making for a satisfying progression of difficulty.

The core mechanic always remains the same, and that’s to essentially get your worm character into a designated zone. Initially it’s good enough simply to figure out how to get there, and will typically require you to carefully move off the edges of the platform to get yourself placed or arranged properly. From there, every handful of levels new elements continue to be added to increase the challenge and keep you from getting complacent. Small dots will appear, which will make your worm longer, but then a few puzzles later you’ll realize the end without a mouth will need to sometimes push them into position before eating them, and it continues on from there. 

What the game absolutely gets right is the progression of difficulty, typically doing a great job of presenting you with new elements or problems in a more simple scenario, letting you work through it, and then building on those concepts or layering them with others to keep upping the challenge bit by bit. In addition, the game’s pretty unique hint system is also refreshing, not providing you so much with answers as insights into the mechanics at play, but at a simpler level. This actually opens the door to helping you understand the underlying systems and logic better, rather than outright providing you with the solution or simply being so vague as to not be helpful. Put all of these elements together, and you have a solid puzzle experience with its own flavor, and a level of difficulty that isn’t out of reach for more casual players but shouldn’t be overly simple for genre veterans either.