Play Tiles of Fate Online
Match tiles by drawing symmetry lines in this NES puzzler—but watch out for bends and blocked paths. Power-ups help when you're stuck, and there's a level editor to make your own devious puzzles.
I picked up Tiles of Fate back in 1990, a puzzle game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System by American Video Entertainment. It was a time when the NES library was absolutely packed with platformers and action games, so a pure logic puzzle like this always stood out on the shelf. It didn't have the flash of a Mega Man or the adventure of a Zelda; it was just you and the grid, a quiet kind of challenge.
You don't control a character so much as you control a cursor, methodically drawing lines between matching pairs of colored tiles on a grid. The main objective is to connect every tile without crossing your own paths or hitting dead ends, clearing each screen to advance. The signature mechanics involve planning routes around permanent obstacles and utilizing special power-up tiles that let you erase mistakes or break through blocked squares. The pacing is slow and thoughtful, the difficulty coming from increasingly complex layouts that demand real foresight. It feels like patiently untangling a very stubborn knot.
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