Ok, I tried to play this game like 4 different times and somehow only on the final time I realized I was controlling the game completely wrong, and then the game suddenly went from making no sense at all to making perfect sense.

The issue is that you can switch out of swap mode while mid swap with the crank undocked, and I kept unknowingly trying to finish the swap by doing that, the result is the tiles visually move but the underlying map is unchanged, BUT Simon's position on the map when moving to that tile does still reflect the new visual position of the tile, which made me think this was somehow part of the puzzle and that I perhaps had to get Simon to warp to the spots where the stars initially were.. but I could not solve a single puzzle by doing this lol.

After finally figuring out how the game is supposed to work I enjoyed it a LOT more. I do agree with others that docking and undocking the crank frequently is not a comfortable player action.. BUT to the game's credit there is something satisfying about the fact that the tile always ends up in the perfectly swapped position naturally when docking. But I think the fact that docking while swapping means the swap only happens in fixed intervals tricked my brain into assuming that I wanted to press A when i was finished, not dock, because the act of docking would potentially change my current rotation.

I think some reworking of the controls would be necessary here, but I think the core mechanic felt pretty novel and fun to solve. Also really like all the sound!

Fun + well executed puzzle idea. One thought I had while playing, is it would have been nice to not have to dock the crank from swap / move mode. (still enjoyable, just more of a comfort thing) 

great work!

I really like the idea. It’s simple, but it consistently creates interesting levels.

I couldn't get all the starts the first time I played, but then I came back and managed the second time, it's a tricky maze! It's fun when you get the hang though. I think it could also be fun just as a maze that you have to build to go from point A to point B. I shouldn't but I like the hand written UI x)

I love this concept! Once I got the hang of it, I played several levels just for fun. I like a puzzle game where the solutions are open ended.

The controls took me a bit to figure out. I wasn't paying attention to the instructions (that's on me) and didn't realize I had to dock the crank to "finalize" the swap, and I nearly beat a level before I realized I could select different tiles to swap.  But once I figured it out, it works fine and it makes great use of the crank. Who knew you could use docking the crank as a form of input?