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Blek – Entertainment Game Review
Blek is a Entertainment/Family/Puzzle game from kunabi brother GmbH, first launched in 3rd December 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 779+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Blek Stand Out
Blek is a unique game about imagination and personality. Everything you draw keeps moving – and watching your creations move is like watching magic.
The goal is simple: shape a line that collects all colored circles avoiding black holes on its route. There are no specific moves that you need to master. To every level countless solutions exist, from delightfully simple to exceptionally deep and complex, yet always elegant.
—– Articles & Commentaries —–
"The Most Brilliant iPad Game I've Played All Year." ~ Kotaku
"One of the greatest joys of Blek is experimenting with your approach." ~ WIRED
"It’s the sort of game you’d want to put on a space probe: when the aliens play it, they’ll take a liking to us right away." ~ The New Yorker
"Wonderful experience" ~ Pocket Gamer
"Blek is a thing of elegant, intuitive beauty" ~ Edge
"One of the year’s best" ~ The New York Times
—– Awards —–
• Apple Design Award
• Best Mobile Game – Casual Connect, Amsterdam
• Excellence in Innovation – International Mobile Gaming Awards
• Best Game – Content Award Vienna"
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Blek is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 22nd February 2021
Recent improvements include:
- Small sound fix
Download & Availability
Blek is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
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Just download it, check it out and its so satisfying and also a puzzle game too.
We love this game, its so amazing. Truly creative.
This is boring and the instructions are non-existent. A game like this that could be made in Monogame or Unity in less than 40 hours shouldnt sell for more than $1.
Had it one day and couldnt stand it. Very hard to control and especially to end the game. Had to power off our phone. Wish we could get our money back. We found the reviews misleading.
If youre like us, spacial awareness is your dump stat and this game will be super challenging. But thats why we like it! Its so satisfying to clear a challenge. Sometimes we open the app just to play with the physics and sound effects. It can be a tad frustrating when Im not in the right mood but mostly its a great brain teaser we highly recommend giving it a go.
After reading several reviews about the sound when you hit the black dots, for $0.99 we had to hear it for ourselves (and Ive grown to like drawing games). This is a unique game from other similar games. You dont draw a line to connect the dots and the lines dont model physics and fall like they do in other drawing games, rather, they repeat. It creates a pattern. If you draw a squiggle then your squiggle will repeat the same motion AND the same angle. It bounces only if you bounce it when you are drawing. If you draw a straight line it moves in the direction like a worm until you hit all the colored circles or until it goes off screen or… Hits the black dots. Its unique and challenging but also relaxing fun. So, what IS this awful sound that everyone complains about? Admittedly, we turned the sound down too but we dont find it as off-putting as some. We think its the uncanny-valley style weirdness that makes it so disconcerting more than the sound itself. It sounds like several sounds mixed and it changes. There is a small plink sound in one with a light negative tone chime in another and similar sounds in others. The part that makes it annoying though is the overlay (we suppose thats what you would call it?) of a female-sounding voice saying ooh or what sounds like ay-oh Or ohhh – but each sound is mixed with something so its hard to say exactly what it really sounds like.
We love Blek. Some are really hard but you come back a couple days later and solve it. Its just cool and a perfect app for the iPad…especially if you have a pen. :).
This game is actually a lot of calm fun. Im on the train playing it right now. The only negative thing we can say is, what is that sound effect when going into black holes? It is annoying. The sound heard when hitting colored dots is pleasant though. At least find a way to allow customers to mute only the back dot sound effect or something. Other than that, thanks for a good game.
Good game, but it crashes every time we try to share a screenshot and hit save.
We agree with the other reviews that say the sounds that play when the line goes into a black hole is really annoying. Other sounds are nice.
Blek starts off great until it reaches the puzzles with timing components, the timings are straight forward but the input is way too imprecise for it, turning an initially charming game into a frustrating mess.
The lates update zooms in the picture dose not give enough place to draw.
When ever we click share -> save image the game crashes. IPhone XS on 12.1.3, intel, Verizon Id be happy to give info to fix this. Beautiful game and and sounds though.
The main mechanic is beautiful and expressive, but the puzzles are sloppy and finicky. The puzzles are also not really puzzles… You never combine any information, you just do the one path-finding thing every level. The game is an attractive, mindless trial-and-error experience. This mechanic would make a great non-puzzle game. Maybe a music or zen sandbox.
At first it was addicting, then after 30 minutes, it started grossing us out. One of the sound effects is mouth sounds. Have you ever known anyone that makes a lot of sounds whenever they move? Thats this game. It started to skeeb us out. If people chewing grosses you out, this is not the game for you. Its a beautiful game, but we just cant. Not worth 99 cents for 30 minutes.
Is there a way to get our money back? :-/.
No fun in higher levels. The line seems to change direction on its own when near black dots or near colored circles. Frustrating when game play is not connected to your input. It seems skill in launching the line does not help at level 28. It just got boring, uninstalled.
Too boring, and this is usually the sort of game we like. Suuuuuuper tiresome. Drab.
Pierce of crap. Stuck in level 35 with no way of advancing. Impossible to solve. If only way is to pay to unlock we are erasing this app.
Very cool game. Original and elegant. After playing for 30 mins we were hooked. When tried saving screenshots after the game completion it would crash. Then we went to settings and allowed video recording. Now we cant even open it. It crashes automatically. Well, that was a fun 30 min play.
Maybe the game was just not our type. We love brain teasers and puzzle game, but we hate this. Im disappointed that we actually waisted money on it, but thankfully it didnt cost much. The sound effects are awful; we had to turn them off just to try and enjoy the game a little better. Every time we tried to start the line from the top it would try to save a picture. The fact that we couldnt start a move without that happening was frustrating, that should be something they fix/change.
Where is access to new drawing area.
At first all we got was a gray screen that made some sounds. We rebooted our iPad Pro and it lit up.
We hope you don't say blehck when you see this review.
Very unusually fantastic game. Simple. Beautiful. Mind boggling. Perfect.
Great game. Keep coming back to it.
Simple concept, elegant execution. Fun game with exceptional physics.
The only problem is putting it down.
It's a great game. Sometimes it's hard to solve levels and you have to guess till something happens. Lol. The black dots are like black holes. The only thing we don't like are the sounds when you hit the black holes. It's annoying so we have to turn the sound off. Other than that prepare to be challenged.
We've been playing this game for a couple years now. We love this game a lot.
We don't get it and it doesn't have a tutorial so we don't even know what we're supposed to be doing.
When we're playing a level and we put line at the top it tries to save a picture soooo….. 1.
So creative and well-designed. Game is smooth and awesome.
Beautifully crafted and thought out. Simple but satisfying.
We can feel our mind stretching when we play this.
Blek is such an interesting game, we find it very relaxing and very challenging at the same time.
It's one of those games that we can pick up at any time to play a few levels. Love it.
A new idea but honestly,can't play too long time.
This game starts simple, but definitely gets tricky after several stages. If you like having to utilize outside-the-box thinking, this puzzler's for you.
Never seen a game like this before, many different ways to pass a level which makes replaying a level more exciting.
So smooth and well done. Relaxing but not boring.
Wish we could think up cool stuff like this,really nice work and great fun.
The sound effects when hitting a black dot make us want to die. It's cute that you recorded them yourself and all, but cmon.
We previously gave a 3 review cos our game wouldn't sync across platform, not that gameplay wasn't good. But somehow, the sync works now – thus – we're back to give this a 5 instead. Great game. Makes you think but not too unreasonable. Challenging enough and sound is nice especially on the iPads.
Really like this game a lot! It took us a few rounds to get the hang of it, but after that no issues. Beautifully and simplistically designed. Challenging enough that we want to keep playing! Great job, no complaints.
The perfect second screen game. Fun and addicting to keep playing, but perfect when watching TV or doing something else to relax.
Very well crafted. Plays very smoothly. Is peaceful as well as very challenging easily the most fun game on our phone.
This game is so fun when we're bored we play it. But it gets hard in a good way we love this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.8.6
- Size: 195.70 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: kunabi brother GmbH
Last updated: 22nd February 2021 | Genre: Entertainment, Family | Developer: kunabi brother GmbH