Neves was released quite a while ago (October 21^st, 2007), and I hadn’t heard about till it won an award and received a price drop. Needless to say I picked it up and decided to give it a go.

Neves is a puzzle game that involves moving seven variously shaped pieces to fit a silhouette of a picture. You will become very intimate with these pieces as they’re used in all the puzzles. You can rotate, flip, and move them to try and fit what you believe is their proper placement. Once all the pieces have been placed properly you are told the puzzle has been complete. That’s pretty much all there is to it. Nice and simple.

The game presents you with three modes that share all the same puzzles. The first mode is called "silhouettes?" and gives you all the time in the world to complete the puzzles. It, like all the modes, are divided into Rooms and Stages. There are 4 rooms and 3 stages to each of those rooms. You begin with the first stage in all rooms and upon completing any stage in that room you get the next stage. There are about 48 puzzles in each stage. The second mode is a time mode where you have 3 minutes to complete the puzzle. If you manage to finish it in under a minute you get a gold medal otherwise you get a silver medal. The final mode is a mode that only allows you to have seven moves and thus forces you to complete them with the minimum amount of moves. The game also contains a room that you can see your completion percentage of each mode and look at the puzzles you’ve finished.

The entire game is controlled with the touch screen and stylus. These controls are very easy and very fluid. There are no real problems with the stylus or moving the pieces around. You click and drag to move them, grab and edge and twist it to rotate, and double tap them to flip them. Going through the menus is easy with the stylus as well.