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Moncage – Puzzle Game Review
Moncage is a Puzzle/Simulation game from X.D. Network Inc., first launched in 16th November 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 212+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Moncage Stand Out
Moncage is a stunning vignette puzzle adventure developed by Optillusion.
The game takes place inside a mysterious cube, with each side of the cube housing a unique world: be it an old factory, a light tower, an amusement park, or a church, etc. At first sight, they may seem random and unrelated, but upon closer look, you will become mesmerized by the subtle and intricate ways of how these worlds connect…
【Solve Puzzles with Mind-Boggling Optical Illusions】
Use your imagination and spare no brain cells to find the connection and pinpoint every possible interaction between different sides of the cube, then watch as the magic unfold in front of you.
【Collect All Photos to Unveil the Story】
Behind the puzzles, there lies a story with a surprising twist for the player to uncover. Collect the photos from obscure corners and angles to reveal the underlying story, one photo at a time.
【Get Unstuck with Thoughtful Hints】
There is a multitude of guidance systems to help prevent players from getting stuck. Focus can be activated to highlight the key items to the solution, while hint texts are available to provide further clarity. And, if all else fails, video walkthroughs can be unlocked as the ultimate safety plan.
【Prove Your Puzzle-Solving Skills with Medals】
There are a total of 15 achievements in the game, each corresponding with a Medal that has been crafted with a uniquely stunning design. A complete collection of the 15 Medals could be the perfect evidence to attest to your master puzzle-solving skills~
【Connect with us:】
Twitter: @MoncageTheGame
Email: [email protected]
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/TEVX2uPEsj
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Moncage is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th November 2021
Recent improvements include:
-Fix some bugs.
Download & Availability
Moncage 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 dont write reviews but this game is beautiful! We completed it and wish there was another like it.
This is a unique game that intertwines images to finish a puzzle. Ive never played anything like this and hope they come out with more.
This game has worked nothing but perfect, and we are confounded by the bad press it seems to be getting. If this game is challenging, use the hints. If you dont like that its too hard, you shouldnt have downloaded a puzzle game. Thank you for making Moncage, it has served us well and we have now done it several times and gotten every achievement. For some reason playing Before Your Eyes reminded us of this game, so here we are again. Anyway.
Hands down one of the best and most unique puzzle games Ive ever played, ready for part 2.
Amazing game beautiful and CHALLENGING. Everyone has different minds and ways they perceive the world we cant speak for bugs since we didnt have any issues on our 2021 iPad Pro but to read some of the comments condemning the game cause they couldnt figure a puzzle out is hilarious and prompted us to review this game. Theres hundreds of threads on Reddit and websites people can easily turn to giving a one star for lack of patience or cognitive functioning is hilarious.
We loved this game. The puzzles were challenging but not out of this world far fetched like some puzzle games. The animation was beautiful, the visuals were stunning. Our largest and only complaint is that it seemed a touch short. Basically we want more.
We would even pay $5 for this game. Hopefully they make more in the future. Unique concept.
We loved this, though it was very hard to figure out some of the puzzles. We used the hints a lot. Very satisfying though.
Great game, very challenging. Really gets the brain going. Whens the next story line come out.
Besides being an incredibly clever puzzle game, this also offers a touching tale. Challenging enough to need the helpful hints (which recharge on their own) but so rewarding when you figure it out on your own! Wonderfully done.
Beautiful, interesting and challenging game. We never write reviews, but this was too good not to praise. Highly recommend for anyone that likes relaxing, visual puzzle-type games.
And what a beautiful and seamless way to tell this story. We found ourselves in tears at the end. Love it.
Very fresh, clever take on the isometric optical illusion puzzle started by Monument Valley. Beautiful graphics and sound design. We wish more games were like this.
We hope it can be longer. After searching for the back story, we decide to play it again.
We really enjoyed this puzzle game. Actually, there are puzzles within puzzles in this game. We think the game required quite a bit of intuition, as there are no written rules to guide you. If you get stuck, sleep on it, the solution will come to you. It reminded us a bit of Gorogoa, which we also really enjoyed. We appreciate all the thought and attention to the developers took with the puzzle.
Needed a lot of help along the way but got the hang of it. There is definitely a story line there. But darned if we can get anything more than a whiff of it. Overall glad we played through to the end.
This game is phenomenal. We love these perspective-based puzzles and this definitely scratched that itch for us The art is beautiful and the sound design is incredible. Each cube having its own sound really immerses you in the experience. They always make good use of the premise. The only cons for us would be that some of the puzzles are a bit too obtuse. We would never have figured them out without hints. Fortunately they provide a generous hint system (along with a video if you get TOO stuck) The other con is that the story doesnt feel like it sticks the landing. We were engaged the entire time, but the ending left us wondering what the ultimate point was. Those points are really minor though, overall we think this game is wonderful.
A bit tricky at times, but also has a really well-designed hint system to get you unstuck.
This game is so beautifully designed. Id recommend playing this to anyone and everyone with a sweet spot for storyline puzzles. We wish it would never end.
If youre like us and feel disappointed by puzzle games that are too easy this ones for you.
It is really difficult, you might have to rely on the hints a lot, but if you played too much puzzle game like us, we would say this is THAT game you are looking for. Story is touching but it is definitely too blurry to know the detail, not a big deal to us. It is so difficult that developer literally have to use hints to push the game forward, but the logic becomes clear after two or three chapters and it starts to get interesting. Graphic, music and animation are nice. 5 star game.
Id recommend playing this to anyone for its unique and fun puzzle design, but there have been some weird decisions that have irked us. Decisions like having the solution to exclusively one puzzle (iirc) involve matching on the same side of the cube, like going with weird logic like matching one door frame causes a door to open versus its own door frame. The hint system is pretty good, which alleviates these issues a bit so again, still highly recommended. Make sure you go for the true ending.
This is a beautiful game with satisfying moments of intuition. The looping nature was nice and the hints were often enough to get us going without giving it away.
Was able to finish in one day. Really looking forward to part 2.
We love the game but several of the matches are just a little too tight – once you find the match you shouldnt have to fiddle with it endlessly to make it fit.
Great game until you have to get some of the timing exactly right which becomes ridiculously difficult.
We have been enjoying it but we got to the point where you turn the bottle to move on and we cant get passed it. According to the hints when you turn the bottle the label is supposed to turn to and then you can complete the section. We can turn the bottle but in the second position the label disappears, making it impossible to complete. Is this a glitch? Besides that, love the game. Edit: we ended up deleting and re-downloading the game and it fixed the bug.
The art of this game is fantastic and the core perspective mechanic of the is really fun, but the touch controls and various states that the cube can be in make it frustrating. Any given side of the cube can have layers of zoom and if you just so happen to not be on the right layer while rotating the cube its very easy to miss solutions, resulting in having to constantly move between states of the cube just to see what works. When you add on things like lighting states affecting how things merge, the amount of possible ways to observe one face of the cube gets too high. Ultimately by the end the novelty had long worn off and we just wanted to be done with it.
So so so hard to merge 2 scenes together while trying to pull the trigger the connection frequently breaks or our action is always perceived as double tap and exit.very difficult to proceedthe cubic in our iPhone also appears small and makes it hard to find any clue. The only good thing is hints are free and has video instruction.
Wear headphones for a better experience of no sound. Update: Make sure Silent Mode is off. This is the only game Ive seen thats affected by silent mode.
But we cannot get the light switch on from the lighthouse! We have lined up the birdcage, seen the switch, but when we touch it, the pictures move and Im still in the dark! We are ready to delete it but would love to know how to proceed instead! Help! Ps and Im playing on our IPad.
Update: we had to take a star back. We had tried the radio puzzle 19 times and couldnt get it to link. Finally we viewed the video-we hate to resort to a walkthrough-only to find out we were doing it exactly right. Yes, Im on a new IPad. A lot like Vignettes but less finicky. Also each puzzle does not rely solely on the correct position to merge two items other aspects come in to solve puzzles. So if nothing happens when youve managed to create a beautifully merged item, it does not mean youve got the wrong solution just not the entire solution. Also try the solution at least twice. Its a matter of touching the switch (or whatever) juuuuuuussst right. Our source of frustration.
The idea is neat, but the puzzles are so unintuitive that they become thoroughly frustrating pretty early on. We found ourselves not only waiting for hints, which we almost never do in games, but watching the videos. And even then, we still didnt really grasp how or why we ever would have guessed a particular action. Its not a bad game, but its not a particularly fun or satisfying one either.
Its obvious how much thought and work went into this game, and we really wanted to love it. Its unfortunately terrible on the iPadyou can know how to solve a puzzle, and try it twenty times, and go check a walkthrough to make sure its correct, and the touch interface still wont allow you do solve the puzzle (in part because of the double tap-zoom out issue). Too bad. The puzzles themselves are really nice.
The effort required to get all sequences exactly right and alignments exactly right and colors exactly right and night vs. Day exactly right . . . Well, you get our drift. This game rapidly ceases to be fun. And using headphones does nothing to improve the experience.
Was enjoying this until we got to a part that doesnt work. We are supposed to use the lighthouse to turn a light on but it doesnt work. Ive seen the video of what to do but theres a bug that wont allow it to work.
Was enjoying this until we got to a part that doesnt work. We are supposed to use the lighthouse to turn a light on but it doesnt work. Ive seen the video of what to do but theres a bug that wont allow it to work.
Beautiful game and a clever mechanic. Hats off to the designers for creativity. But the puzzles are arbitrary and disjointed. Theres a lot of time spent just figuring out what to do next. That leads to a slow game pace which can get frustrating.
Great concept and interface for the hints and walk thru video BUT we just cant get the switch in the room turn on after it is revealed in the light from the lighthouse. Got the parts to line up but try as we might the switch never moves, after over 100 trys Im out of here looks lovely though.
This game started out great and was progressing smoothly, but when it came time to drop the blue battery into the toy train, there was no train anywhere and the room shown on video was not visible either. That scene was not there and something else was. We deleted app and reinstalled twice and wound up at the same dead end each time. There is no tech support in English. Sounded great, but a big frustration and waste of money.
There are several things about this game that are quite glitchy. Im sure they had a lot of fun making it, but all it really becomes is tedious and annoying, not fun. Definitely should not have won any awards. Do not buy. We wish we could get a refund.
When you have an interface that insists on doing certain actions in a specific order, AND also insists on you tapping to complete an action to turn something on while having you trying to maintain the merging of two separate images, this not only goes beyond ridiculous, this gets downright frustrating and makes ordinary patient people want to break their iPads in half and course the developers of the game. We love the concept. However, the devs need to keep in mind that if two actions require you to tap at the same time, once to merge and then once to complete a separate action, like turning on a light, then the program recognizes that as a double-tap and backs you out. This game was never meant for tablets and should have never been set up for tablets unless you could have come up with additional instructions for merging or having the scene merging lock itself in some way. Next time, thoroughly test your games before releasing them out into the world. It would save a lot of time and frustration. The concept is awesome and would've worked had you workshopped it a little more, but nothing frustrates us more than a game that is incomplete and frustrates the user because the devs didn't take the time to figure out how to handle merging scenes.
The game is clever and challenging in all the right ways, BUT it was clearly designed for a non-touch interface, as the alignments necessary to get the puzzles to click into place are WAY too finicky. The result is that you know what you need to do but the UI makes it nearly impossible. We gave up at a light switch that was so near another item it was literally impossible to activate without shifting the view and making the switch inaccessible. After 20 mins of frustration we decided to stop wasting our time. Disappointing.
We cant figure out how to connect the truck on the first level its really confusing.
We were really enjoying, right up until we hit an unpassable bug on the iPad, by the lighthouse. Going to need a refund. Dont download for iPad, you will be disappointed.
The interactions are broken on MacOS. Can't even get past the first truck puzzle.
Even when things line up nothing else happens. Solving the step just reverts back to the initial problem.
You have to line up the image exactly before it will let you move on. We spent 10 minutes trying to get an image to work with no success. We thought we were doing it wrong so we watched the video and we were doing it correctly. But still it was not letting us place the image on. Its a game it should be fun. If youre way off its understandable, but to be a hair width off is another thing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.06
- Size: 895.60 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [X.D. Network Inc.]()
Last updated: 26th November 2021 | Genre: Puzzle, Simulation | Developer: X.D. Network Inc.