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GNOG – Puzzle Game Review
GNOG is a Puzzle game from KO-OP MODE INC, first launched in 28th November 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 287+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes GNOG Stand Out
GNOG is a 3D puzzle game set in a tactile world of toys and secrets. Point, click, grab, poke, spin, pull, and play with uniquely charming monster heads, and explore the hidden worlds inside them. Inspired by real-world toy designs, every GNOG head is a miniature world to discover. GNOG has optional AR support to transform your tabletop into a magical toy box, bringing a new level of tactile, physical interaction to its world.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, GNOG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 7th February 2019
Recent improvements include:
Fixed: an intermittent bug in HOM-3 occasionally blocked the Thief from playing their escape animation, preventing players from finishing the level.
Download & Availability
GNOG 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:
We enjoyed every aspect of this game. To us, it was absolutely worth the buy. Make sure youre playing with headphones though, as that contributes a lot to the experience.
So fun, original, and quirky! Maybe a little too detailed for a small phone screen. Also every time we closed the app it reset the current level. Super annoying if you dont finish a level in a sitting. Do you plan to make more levels.
We have had this game for a while now and we have to say, this is one of the most addicting, most puzzling and the most wonderful game we have ever played. The graphics are gorgeous and the characters are cute and fun to play around with. We have completed all of the levels and was wondering if you guys could add more to it. It may seem like we are pushing you guys, but this game really passes the time when we are bored and have nothing else to do. Thanks for reading our review! Hope you guys make a great new update with new awesome characters and a bunch of new bright, challenging levels.
This game is amazing but just a few are tricky but we still like it make more.
We dont rate games much but this game is beautiful all around. For the price you pay, we think this is well worth it. The soundtracks are well made and the graphics are cartoony in an enjoyable way. Though the game is short, its entertaining when each song finally unfolds after the end of each puzzle.
This game was amazing to us, the graphics were beautiful, the music and sound effects were so interesting. It felt like we were in another world playing this game. Its super hard at first because you think there is really no point, which is why we had to search tutorials for the first 3 levels to help us lol, but after we got the hang of it it was really cool. Its like a fidget gadget but not stupid and boring. If you like puzzles, youll love this game. It was beautifully created, the only downside is we dont see a part 2! Better hop on that creators. :) @danimarienelson insta.
Its just the PERFECT game for your touch screen…nuff said.
Loving the game so far, but the next level doesn't unlock after beating hom-3. On an iPad Pro.
This game is just great! The only problem is that sometimes it kind of glitches out and the puzzles dont work. But otherwise its amazingly designed and executed. Also, it has GREAT music. PLAY WITH HEADPHONES OR WITH THE VOLUME ALL THE WAY UP.
Amazing graphics, colors, animations, and music. Enjoyed every puzzle and liked the fact that it wasnt too hard to solve. The reward you get after every puzzle is a nice animated little show. Would love to see more games by the developer.
We wasnt really expecting this game to really suit our interests, however, we were completely wrong. This is one of the best games we have ever played. The quality and animation was probably the best Ive ever seen on an iPhone game. Not to mention the puzzles that were absolutely incredible. Hats off to the creators of this game, Im very impressed.
This game/experience just makes us smile. Yes, its short; dont care! Love the sound, love the graphics, just plain love it. The only thing we wish the developers would add is a reset button. So you could play it all from the beginning.
We loved this game, please make more.
Beautiful, delightful, surprising, and inspired. A truly rare combination.
This is just a beautiful beautiful beautiful game with the right amount of challenge. Whats interesting is that, unlike other puzzle game, these challenges are LOGICAL. Ive play so many other puzzle games where in the end, youre just saying to yourself this game is so stupid or the logic behind this puzzle makes no sense or too straightforward. For this game, every level has an objective that you need to figure out on by yourself. What we love about this game is that it rewards you with beautiful artwork at the end of each level that are quite soothing and trippy to a certain extent, haha. Best 5bucks Ive spent on games.
This is a great game, we got it to de stress for finals week. We showed it to a few friends and they thought it was neat too.
It was an amazing game and very fun, the confusion (in a good way) took our focus off of everything else. We actually completed the whole game in a few hours, so we would LOVE it if you made more levels.
It was a good game love the puzzles through and the graphics were very nice but we just wish there were more levels to the game then it would be a bit more fun.
Really liked this!! The only negative is that we wanted more. More more more!!! We loved the space ship level the most. It was so ambient and beautifully done.
Overall the game is good but theres this glitch for the log and thats when you dont hear him singing.
We only gave it 4 stars, & not 5, just bcuz all the puzzles were incredibly simple but still satisfying, til the very end. And we did the whole game in about 4 hours of play, over 3 days. As we cant sit for That long on our tablet. But Id encourage any body with children, 4Sure, if ya like puzzles, definitely get this game. Shouldnt be too difficult 4 um 2 work out by themselves. Cute.
If youre one of those who is a kid at heart…who likes to check out the toy section of any store (even if you graduated from elementary school ten years ago or more)…who is drawn to anything with levers, dials, buttons, cranks, or pulleys…who appreciates whimsy and light-hearted fun…who understands what it means to PLAY…this app will tickle your fancy. The graphics, color, and music match the goofy, silly characters in this game. All brought a smile to our face. Unlocking each toy box wasnt as easy as we thought it would be. A few had us scratching our head…but not for long. Some of the controls are touchy, and also small, so its better to play this on an iPad. Not impossible on an iPhone but will be more frustrating. Took us a couple hours total to play so cost was higher than we usually like to pay for a game this length. But with the creativity of the game, level of detail, high quality graphics, and cool soundtrack, we didnt feel cheated. Its not a game for everyone…but if you dont mind being silly and fanciful, try this out. We havent tried the AR functionality yet so cant speak to that.
This game is great. We love the simplistic nature of the design and how that simplicity turns into infuriating confusion (in a good way) our only problem is that the entire game can be finished in about 3 hours. It needs a lot more levels to be a full 5 stars.
These puzzle boxes are a ton of fun snd require laser focus to pick up all the well hidden clues that help you progress. The audio and visual design in this game is top notch. Do not play without the sound! The battery drain and phone overheating is a major issue. Losing approximately 15-20% battery life p/ puzzle and the heat feels like your phone is melting.
We loved this game. It was very clever and difficult but it felt so short. We really wouldnt have spent $5 on it. Id spend $3 at most. We cant explain how much we loved this game despite how short it is.
Overall the game is fun, puzzles are great and design is awesome. Our only complaint was we beat the entire game in under two hours. For $5 we should get more play time out of this. We hope they add more levels and make the a little more complicated.
We love puzzles and this was perfect! Creative, unique, challenging, and fun!!! Our only complaint is that the price is too high for the few levels it contains. We were a bit disappointed because we solved all of them in less than one day. But we do LOVE the quality! Maybe you can make an update for more levels? Whatever works for you! :D.
There were only 9 puzzles?.. We finished them all fairly quickly and just hope there are more to come for the $5 we spent on it.
PROS Great looking design, beautiful color, very poetic feeling Amazing music (if you like weirdo magic electronic) AR mode No in-game purchase CONS Pretty hard to control on an iPhone, UI is too small some times Require to try everything a bit randomly instead of really twisting your brain AR mode is kind of a gimmick A bit overpriced for that kind of simplicity (completed in a couple hours) BUG (SPOIL ALERT) $ level, burglar in fridge, ice is gone, we had to close the fridge and reopen it for the animation to start.
This app was really fun, but we managed to finish within less than 2 hours, and although the app has wonderful graphics and music, we don't think it was worth $4.99. We've had cheaper games take us much longer to finish (Rusty Lake series, The Room series).
We enjoyed the game but we completed the game within an hour after buying it. Can you make more levels or give us our money back.
After we did the final puzzle they all came together to make a bonus level but we had to leave and when we cam back it wasnt there.
We wish we hadnt spent more than $1 on this game. Sometimes it just doesnt pick up the gestures/swiping and then you feel stuck, even if you were doing the correct things.
This game is not a puzzle game. You dont solve puzzles in each level, but instead, touch and drag randomly hoping something would happen. Theres no logical sense on the consequences of each touch, and has almost no rational clue on what to do next.
Games/apps like The Temple Run Series have opened up a new genre of time wasting do-hickies that are sometimes enjoyable, But as with Gnog, very frustrating and annoying. It's not a game, it's not a puzzle, it's not something to 'play' with, it's just a random collection of spinning wheels and knobs ( that while visually amusing ) have zero functionality. They are ostensbily arranged to 'accomplish' something, and advance to the 'next' level, but there is no rhyme or reason as to how to proceed, there are no clues or feedback as to whether you're making progress, nor are there any hints as to how to 'arrange' the sequence of tasks to determine if you're moving in the right direction. It's completely random. You randomly spin or twist or push and pull things, and hope that you blindly stumble upon the right sequence, of which there are millions of permutations, to 'finish' a given level and move on. Perhaps it was intended for very small children that didn't know better. We hate it. A lot. A very lot. More than very lot can adequately express.
The controls are too small and can not be properly activated which is infuriating for a puzzle game.
Ive made plenty of space for this, yet it now says it is unable to load. It isnt even specifying why now. Bummer as we paid $5. EDIT: Thank you for your reply. We will try to free up space and update on the outcome.
Then this game is for you. No rhyme or reason to the puzzles, just randomly click on stuff until something equally random happens.
Its a cool concept and visually appealing, however it is nowhere close to the fun of any other puzzle box game we have played here. Controls are TINY making it nearly impossible to operate it on iPhone. This is all about literally touching every inch of the screen under the expectation that something will move. Its a puzzle that doesnt require your brain, only patience and tiny fingers.
Was not worth 5$ 1$ maybe but not enough content for 5$.
This game is great but it needs more levels.
Though it only amounted to about 3 hours of play time for us, we enjoyed in immensely. The designs are clever and cute, and so is the audio. We can't wait to forget this game and play it again.
CANDY and LAB-O keeps crashing whenever we try to play it. UPDATE: this is now fixed. Thank you KO-OP.
What a charming game! Everything about it is fantastic. We love the tactile controls, the whimsical level design, the animation but by far, our favorite aspect is the sound. You want to play this with sound on. Headphones if possible. Seriously, if you start this app for the first time without your sound on you are missing something truly wonderful. Worth the price. Worth the time to sit and play. The puzzles were occasionally frustrating but we never got stuck for more than an hour ;).
Good puzzle game. A bit short however awesome design. We look forward to more from this developer. We quick bit of feedback- on iPhone 6s, this game drains that battery at an unusually fast rate- as in battery drained after 45 min. Knowing nothing how to fix this, anything to save battery would be wonderful.
Its a cute game but when we play it our phone gets incredibly hot within five minutes. No other game does this. IPhone X 64GB.
Add the intro and ending and add HOM-3 on AR it will be great to to have that on the app.
2 things. First, there are only 9 levels and we think there should be at least twenty. There should be a level shaped like a video game controller. Second, when we beat HOM-3, and we got to the ending level our screen froze and we had to restart the app so we missed the ending animation. You should add a feature in the setting menu that you can click on and play the ending level again that you unlock when you beat the game. Other than that GNOG is an amazing game.
Very sigma very fanum tax very skibidi toilet.
Its pretty simple and easy Only reason we didnt give 5 stars is because Theres only a few levels.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.7
- Size: 1,507.12 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: KO-OP MODE INC
Last updated: 7th February 2019 | Genre: Puzzle | Developer: KO-OP MODE INC