Grim puzzles:

In Brief:
Grim Puzzles is a 49 piece jigsaw puzzle (with square puzzle pieces) with 10 images to solve.

Introduction:
Gloomy picture puzzles. Each level consists of 49 elements that will have to be rotated to match all the elements. The game contains 10 levels of medium difficulty. The game has a choice of levels and you can start guessing at once any puzzle of your choice. The faster you finish the game, the more points you get. If you do not have time to finish the game, you can save it and continue playing at any time, each level will be saved separately. The pictures become a little more complicated with each level. Put all the elements correctly and you will be able to enter your name in the general table of records. If you are at a loss, then click the icon with a question mark and the game will tell you where to put the desired element. In the game, you can flip through the levels without going through them if they caused difficulty in passing, just press the arrow to the right. The game will delight you with nice graphics and calm music.

Reference accessed HERE 27th September 2021.

The Game:
Grim puzzles is a 49 piece square puzzle with ten images to solve. Along the bottom of the puzzle grid are seven buttons, the first allows you to see what the image is; to cancel it press the X in the bottom left of the screen. The second and third buttons are to save and access saves, the fourth button turns music on (if it's off), the fifth button restarts the puzzle from the beginning; when this is done, all the pieces of the puzzle are shuffled and reoriented differently. The puzzle pieces are located to the right of the 7 x 7 grid. When placing pieces in the correct position they are not locked like previous jigsaw puzzles we've received from a different developer. Also, if you place a piece wrongly it does not jump back to the periphery like some of the BD Games puzzles we've had recently, you have to put them back manually. This puzzle looks more professional and is very similar to the puzzle we received yesterday about Autumn Moods and Statue Puzzles by the same developer i.e. GameREA.

There is a level map that allows you to start at whichever image you wish to solve first. When you've completed a puzzle it will automatically move onto the next puzzle in the level map or if you want to move to a new puzzle press the seventh button at the bottom of the image. Whenever you start the game from the beginning without choosing a level, it always starts with the first puzzle. When you have completed all 10 puzzles you are taken back to the main menu, where you can start again. Each restart of the puzzle you'll find all the puzzle pieces in a different location. Puzzle pieces are orientated in different ways, so you may need to turn the puzzle piece to get it to match up by right clicking on the piece.

You can also see the different mouse and keyboard commands via the second button in the main menu. To close the game use the Esc key.

Progress can supposedly be be saved via the second button, but I tried saving my progress and a completed puzzle before it moved on to the next puzzle, but both the save and the folder buttons (where saves would be saved) buttons seem to be locked. Completed puzzles will revert to unsolved once completed. When you reach and complete the last puzzle the game closes.

Unlike previous jigsaw puzzles, all the puzzles start with 5000 points. Instead of a timer, the points count down to zero. If you complete the puzzle before your points reach zero, you are placed on the score board for that puzzle. (I haven't checked this function yet).

Conclusion:
Grim Puzzles is a jigsaw puzzle game with paintings by Lothar Dieterich, that often depict grim or fantasy like images. Each of the 10 puzzles should take you around 10 to 20 minutes to complete, giving you a reasonable three hours worth of jigsaw puzzle solving to do.

I enjoyed completing a couple of them in the time I had to write this review. For an adult, there is little challenge, but these would give a youngster some challenge, especially if they were competing with siblings to see who could complete the puzzles the quickest. I havn't completed any of the puzzles yet, so don't know if the high score table works yet.

Notes on Security

I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game using Virus Total and it found zero hits from 61 antimalware engines.

The downloaded executable 'may' include some low level adware that only opens your browser once to Falcoware's home page after the game has installed and also places four shortcuts onto your desktop (which can be safely deleted once the game has installed).

The installation does NOT inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to Falcoware's home page following the games installation, it earns Falcoware games some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. Once you've installed the game, there are no more browser redirections. This is because Falcoware removed their installer over a year ago (that installer would show an advert for a game and then open your browser each time you played and then closed the game down.)

You can see the results of the scan via the following link:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/52f15d411663b3bc0609d7c01485bb7483d0710b3fab56f7f30ad1729213e16b?nocache=1