20.6 hours played
Written 20 days ago
A really fun light puzzler; Wilmot Works it Out excellently captures the energy of doing jigsaw puzzles, but instead of working with hundreds or thousands of pieces, the engagement comes from picking out what pieces from your current selection even go to the puzzle you are working on. The base game is a nice calm little adventure with a mild story told through your conversations with the postwoman. Even with "trap" pieces, the difficulty never gets particularly high as you rarely have more than ~35 pieces to work with at any given time. It also has one of my favorite new-game+ modes I've seen in a while.
NG+/Marathon mode significantly bumps up the difficulty by giving you a larger room, and every single piece for every puzzle you solved in the base game (as well as a few new puzzles that have exceptionally difficult pieces). It quickly becomes a challenge of both space management and remembering the puzzles you just solved in your first playthrough. With so many pieces, it gets very easy to accidentally overlook the one you were searching for, so I was constantly weighing the benefits of staring another puzzle to reclaim some space, looking for the missing pieces for other unsolved puzzle fragments, or continuing to look. Every puzzle solved gave me more room to work, and it ended up being really satisfying to work through and eventually clean the entire room. Overall, I really enjoyed Wilmot Works it Out and I don't really have anything negative to say. Strongly recommend giving it a shot.
My first playthrough took ~4 hours, my NG+ run took ~16 hours, and an additional 30 minutes to 100%.