I liked it. The learning curve was a little cumbersome because so many shapes right next to each other made everything look the same. I had to resort to a lot of lucky guessing. Maybe if only the next available to match icons were highlighted/visible, it would be easier to assess compared to all at once?
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Thank you for playing and sharing your thoughts! We tried a lot of variations to balance the sleek two-color visuals we were going for with sufficient distinctiveness for the puzzle, and I'm sorry to hear we fell on the wrong side of that for you. I do like the idea of highlighting only available icons - but the issue we found there was that, since you can match from both endpoints, essentially half the board would be highlighted. It ended up being too much visual info rather than helpful, in my opinion anyway.
These things are always a judgment call, so it's always helpful to hear feedback -thank you!
I agree with Let's Chat (about liking it and about UI concerns). I would have been content with an indicator that shows if you can link with a node when you hover over that node. To be sure, it could detract from the puzzle of managing the properties yourself, but perhaps that's a worthwhile tradeoff.