Garden of Gears

Garden of Gears mixes tidy machine-building with a gardening theme, which sounds odd and works beautifully. You place cogs, ramps and belts to carry seeds across each board until they land in the right soil.

The puzzles start friendly and become genuinely brain-bending, but the game never punishes experimentation — you can rewind and rearrange as much as you like. That freedom is what kept me tinkering.

Each solved board rewards you with a little animated bloom, and honestly, chasing those is reason enough to keep playing.

What we liked

• Freeform tinkering with no penalties
• Difficulty that ramps up smartly
• Charming payoff for every solution