A Little to the Left is a cozy puzzle game developed by Max Inferno and published by Secret Mode. It was released on November 8, 2022 for Windows, MacOS, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Do you ever organize things or clean your house only for your pet to mess it up? That is basically what the game is. Puzzles involve different objects like books, utensils, and plants. Each puzzle has to be arranged in an aesthetically pleasing way and sometimes when you’re done the cute kitty comes along and messes up your work. In a lot of the puzzles there is more than one way to arrange things too, so arranging an item by height smallest to tallest might look good, maybe arranging them by colors or by liquid height would also look good. I will admit sometimes the puzzles are a lot simpler than they appear. I found myself overthinking some of them when in actuality I just had to put them in height order.
The game’s intuitive mechanics make it accessible for all ages, while the increasing complexity of the puzzles ensures that it remains engaging and challenging for seasoned gamers. As you go along, some can introduce a new aspect of game play that wasn’t there before, like a mouse wheel movement to zoom out or change the rotation of items. All this doesn’t take away from the fact that the soft music and overall simplicity and design make this a great relaxing cozy game.
The game has two DLCs, Cupboards and Drawers and Seeing Stars. The focus on Cupboards and Drawers focuses on those as well as other nooks and crannies of the home that a lot of people forget about. In Seeing Stars, there’s even more puzzles to solve, but this time to get all of them you need to complete the rest in multiple ways.
One of the hardest parts about this game is that most of the puzzles have no indication of you doing it correctly, so you could think you are on the right path and organized items in a way that makes sense to you, but isn't any of the solutions that it recognizes.
A Little to the Left Achievements
- Home Sweet Home: Complete Chapter 1.
- Lost Recipe: Complete Chapter 2.
- Nitty Gritty: Complete Chapter 3.
- Inner Nature: Complete Chapter 4.
- Near Earth Organizer: Complete Chapter 5.
- A Cozy Completion: Complete the campaign.
- Guests Coming Over: Chapter 1 100% Completion.
- Clean Kitchen: Chapter 2 100% Completion.
- Spring Cleaning: Chapter 3 100% Completion.
- One With Nature: Chapter 4 100% Completion.
- Encounters of the Tidy Kind: Chapter 5 100% Completion.
- Tidy Triumph: Find all solutions in A Little to the Left (100% Completion).
- Seeing In A New Light: Solve a puzzle multiple ways.
- Triple Threat: Solve a puzzle three ways.
- Helpful Hints: Take a hint.
- No Squint Hint: Complete the game without taking any hints.
- Hint Hunter: Reveal 10 hints.
- One Clean Page: Fully reveal a hint.
- Let It Be: Skip a level with "Let It Be."
- What Is Will Be: Skip 10 levels with "Let it Be."
- No Mess Left Behind: Finish the campaign without skipping a single level.
- Fun for Humans Too: Having a ball with a ball inside a ball.
- Bad Kitty: Where are your manners?
- Keep Away: Quick like a cat.
- Sweep Them On The Floor: We'll worry about these bits later.
- Exacting Eggs: Balance the carton in minimum number of moves.
- Draw Me A Rainbow: Looks like we're missing a colour?
- Harmonized Purr: Purr-fect rhythm.
- Rainbow To The Moon: Complete the tower continuing the starting colour sequence.
- Unstable Stacker: Complete the tower by using every available spot.
- Be The Chaos: Bat every name (first or last) and job title in the credits.
- Path of Destruction: What a mess.
- Today's Tidy: Complete your first Daily Tidy.
- Tidy Toddler: Complete 3 Daily Tidy's.
- My Lucky Number: Complete 7 Daily Tidy's.
- Neat As A Pin: Complete 14 Daily Tidy's.
- Flip the Calendar: Complete 30 Daily Tidy's.
- Halfway There: Complete 50 Daily Tidy's.
- Three-quarter Sorter: Complete 75 Daily Tidy's.
- Sqweeky Clean: Complete 7 consecutive Daily Tidy's.
- Two-week Sweep: Complete 14 consecutive Daily Tidy's.
- Calendar Collector: Complete 30 consecutive Daily Tidy's.
- Highly Decorated: Achieve all Daily Tidy badge ranks.
- Triple Digit Tidier: Tidy 100 Items.
- Categorization Cadet: Tidy 250 Items.
- Adept Aligner: Tidy 500 Items.
- Extraordinary Organizer: Tidy 1000 Items.
Cupboards & Drawers
- The Other Side: Complete the Cupboard and Drawers DLC.
- Everything Put Away: Find all solutions in the Cupboards and Drawers DLC (100% Completion).
- Where Is My Cap?: Every cap has a new owner, but no two owners traded their caps.
- Can Do Altitude: That's one epic stack.
- A Balanced Meal: All you can eat.
- In No Rush: Sit with the cat for a while.
- Now You're Playing With Power: A blast to the past.
- Show Off: Be proud of your accomplishments.
Seeing Stars
- Shooting Star: Complete the Seeing Stars DLC main campaign.
- Nine Lives: Complete the bonus finale in the Seeing Stars DLC.
- Full Orbit: Find all 100 solutions in the Seeing Stars DLC (100% Completion).
- Sticky Wand: Introducing our newest flavour.
- I'll Take My Water Neat: I like my drinks lukewarm.
- Whatcha Lookin' At?: I'll go left, you go right.
- Keeping Count: Solve the Music Box with the Counter set to the hidden number.
- Dead End Boss Gems: That doesn't look like anything.
- Top Heavy Slice: All for one.
- Grabbed the Wrong End: Ouch, that's sharp.
