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Heart Star is a physics puzzle about two characters, Heart and Star, who cannot finish a level alone. Each screen has a gap or obstacle that one of them can't handle on their own, so the job is working out how they can help each other get to the goal. It plays in the browser with nothing to install.

A session is a run of short, self-contained screens. You look at the layout, form a plan, try it, and watch the physics decide whether it works. When it doesn't, you reset and try a different order or a different position. Fans of Icy Purple Head: Super Slide will recognise that loop of thinking first and acting second, though here the puzzle is about cooperation between two characters rather than one sliding head.

How to play

The game is played with the mouse or by touch: tap, drag or hold, and the physics handles the rest. Every level has a restart button, so a failed attempt costs you a few seconds, not your progress. The goal on each screen is to get both characters to the exit by using one to help the other across.

Because the two characters behave differently, start each level by asking what each of them can do that the other can't. Once you know which one has to go first, the rest of the screen usually falls into place.

Tips

1. Spend the first few seconds looking before you touch anything. Most levels have one obvious gap that decides the whole order of moves.
2. If an attempt goes wrong, hit restart straight away instead of trying to rescue it. A clean retry is faster than a messy recovery.
3. Change one thing per attempt, such as the timing or the position, so you learn what made the difference.
4. Use the fullscreen button under the game on a small window. Precise placement is easier with a bigger view.

Similar games on Icy Purple Head

Circloo and Circloo 2 are also physics puzzles, but you shape the level with drawn objects instead of guiding two characters. Sugar Sugar 2 has you draw lines to steer falling sugar, which is a calmer kind of planning. Red Ball 4 is a platformer with physics, so it has more reflex play than Heart Star. Nuts and Bolts is another mechanical puzzle for when you want a change of pace.

Heart Star suits short sessions on either a desktop or a touchscreen, since it needs only a pointer and each level is quick to restart. It works well for a few minutes of thinking between longer games.