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Work · December 6, 2025

FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels

Hi everyone, I built FuseCells, a minimalistic logic puzzle game where every level is handcrafted (no procedural generation). It started as a personal challenge to design a clean rule-set and scale it to thousands of puzzles without losing difficulty balance. What’s unique: • 2,500 handcrafted levels across multiple grid sizes • Deterministic logic — no guessing required • A rule system inspired by constraint-solving and path-finding concepts • Daily challenges and global progress tracking • Fully built as a solo dev project Technical notes for those curious: • Level generation tools I wrote…

FuseCells – a handcrafted logic puzzle game with 2,500 levels launched on December 6, 2025 with 37 votes, #475 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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FuseCells is a minimalist logic puzzle game featuring 2,500 handcrafted levels with no procedural generation. Players solve deterministic puzzles based on constraint-solving and path-finding rules that require logic rather than guessing. The game includes daily challenges and progress tracking across multiple grid sizes. Built by a solo developer, each level was validated for solvability and balanced by difficulty estimation, with optimization for smooth performance on lower-end devices.

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From the sources

Download FuseCells: Logic Grid Puzzle by Igor Cuiumju on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like FuseCells: Logic…

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS. Puzzle Developer Igor Cuiumju Language EN + 9 More Size 24.8 MB iPhone, iPad FuseCells is a fresh grid logic puzzle built around one simple rule: every number tells you how many neighboring cells must share the same symbol. No ads. No guessing. Just pure logic. Inspired by the deduction of Sudoku, the neighbor logic of Minesweeper, and the pattern reasoning of Nonogram, FuseCells creates an original and satisfying cosmic puzzle experience. HOW TO PLAY Fill every cell with a cosmic symbol: Planet, Star, or Moon. Each number clue shows how many neighboring cells must contain the same symbol. Some puzzles use 4-way neighbors,…from apps.apple.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi everyone, I built FuseCells, a minimalistic logic puzzle game where every level is handcrafted (no procedural generation). It started as a personal challenge to design a clean rule-set and scale it to thousands of puzzles without losing difficulty balance. What’s unique: • 2,500 handcrafted levels across multiple…

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