This is a lovely little puzzle game that I'd be happy to play more levels of. The poem at the start explaining that you have to eventually loop back to the beginning was clever and fun. Little bit of game-dev-to-game-dev feedback:
- As the goal is to minimize the number of moves to get back to the start, I'd like to see a personal best, a star rating, or a "dev's best" number to compare my score to, as well as a way to easily restart/replay a level.
- Others have mentioned it would be nice to see which junctions will lead through which pipes before you arrive. I agree. Though, if you leaned more into replaying levels for lower scores, that initial exploration and discovery could be nice as you are rewarded for learning the level.
- I'd love if my input was queued just a bit. There were many times I'd press a key just as I arrived at a junction only for it to be ignored because I wasn't quite there yet.
Overall, solid submission. I'm happy to have played it.