HALTER
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
HALTER is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
The beasts in the night byre are in the wrong stalls. Trade them home for the least effort there is. You are the stable hand. Walk the straw aisle, take one beast by the halter and lead it into another beast's stall: the two trade places, and the other beast walks out into the stall yours came from. You keep yours on the rope, so you can lead it straight on to the next stall.
Every trade costs the weight of both beasts. A hen weighs 1 and an ox weighs 9. The card on each door says where the beast standing there belongs, so you can follow the trades round the byre before you make one. Sending the cheapest beast home first feels right, and it is usually how the night goes wrong.
Every byre has a proved least effort For every byre the game computes the least total effort any night could take, exactly. That is LEAST on screen. Match it for GOLD, come within a twentieth for SILVER and within a tenth for BRONZE, which opens the next byre. Anything more and the hand is WORN OUT.
Pass a byre and X rings the beasts that lead the least night, with an arrow over any group a light beast is lent to; lose one and you get a single clue instead, about the group your trades wasted most in.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.