Finitimi Review

A Minesweeper-Adjacent Star Hunt With a Curious Numerals Obsession

Finitimi is a single-player logic puzzle built around Tentaizu, a Japanese grid puzzle whose name translates to "celestial map." The rules are Minesweeper-simple: a grid hides a set number of stars, numbered clues along the rows, columns, and regions tell you how many stars sit adjacent to each cell, and every puzzle has exactly one valid solution to deduce through pure logic, no guessing required. What sets Finitimi apart from a straightforward Tentaizu clone is its fixation on how those numbered clues are presented. Rather than sticking to familiar Western Arabic digits, the game lets players swap in numeral systems from two dozen historical and cultural traditions, Armenian, Babylonian, Chinese, Devanagari, Egyptian Hieroglyphic, Hebrew, Khmer, Maya, Sumerian, and more, alongside purely visual and auditory clue representations for players who want to strip the puzzle down to shapes and sounds instead of symbols entirely. Wrapped around that core mechanic are four scoring modes, marathon, sprint, ultra, and survival, forty colorful visual themes, automatically generated puzzles for effectively endless replay value, and a deliberately unlockable-free structure where every mode and theme is available from the moment the game starts. Developed by Hubert Cecotti and published by hublab, Finitimi launched on Steam on September 7, 2026, priced at $5.99 with no microtransactions, loot boxes, or paid DLC attached.

A Small but Completely Unanimous Launch

Finitimi has drawn five reviews so far, all five of them positive, for a clean 100% approval rating. That's a modest sample for a brand-new $5.99 release, but every review currently on record independently lands on the same handful of points, the puzzle logic is simple to learn, the difficulty ramps up steadily and fairly, and the game rewards exactly the kind of quiet, focused attention its "relaxing" tag promises, which suggests a genuinely consistent experience rather than a lucky handful of easy scores.

Reviewers Praise a Fair, Steadily Escalating Difficulty Curve

The recurring theme across every review is how well Finitimi calibrates its learning curve. One reviewer calls it "a pretty relaxing puzzle solving game with lots of game modes to play through," specifically noting that "the levels get progressively more challenging as you go" and recommending it for a chill session, while also singling out the background music as "very nice." Another reviewer frames the core rules as deceptively simple, "rules are simple but the difficulty steadily increases as you complete puzzles," and calls the assortment of visual styles genuinely fun to experiment with once you understand what they're doing to the clues. A third reviewer draws the Minesweeper comparison directly, describing "basic mechanics, but increasingly difficult logic," and points out that the alternate numeral and audio/visual clue modes actively raise the challenge by forcing memorization rather than simple pattern recognition. A fourth review captures the addictive loop most directly, calling the game "very interesting" and noting it "feels very satisfying when you solve the level," adding that Finitimi "could possibly make you go through the levels forever and ever" once the underlying logic clicks. A fifth reviewer, admittedly early into their playtime, describes the game as one that "makes you itch your brain" and praises the range of themes and difficulty settings for replayability, while explicitly flagging that they hadn't logged much time yet but already felt the pull to come back.

Plain Presentation and a Learning Curve That Front-Loads the Confusion

Even the reviewers who recommend Finitimi are candid about its rough edges, most of which cluster around presentation rather than the underlying puzzle logic itself. More than one reviewer describes the game as "very simple graphically," a fair description of a puzzle grid with numbered or symbol-based clues rather than any kind of elaborate visual flourish, and one that will matter more to players expecting the forty colorful themes to translate into meaningfully different visual experiences rather than palette swaps over the same basic grid. The headline feature, the two dozen alternate numeral systems, cuts both ways: reviewers who understand what they're looking at call the variety "fun to play with," but the game leans on the player already being able to parse Armenian, Babylonian, Hieroglyphic, or Sumerian numerals, or being willing to learn them cold, before those modes stop being an obstacle and start being an interesting twist on the core puzzle. The reviews are also uniformly short and early, several explicitly note they're only a little way into the game, which means longer-term questions about whether forty themes and four scoring modes meaningfully diversify a single core mechanic over dozens of hours, rather than just reskinning it, remain genuinely untested by this launch-week review pool.

Verdict

Finitimi takes a clean, well-worn logic puzzle format and gives it real identity through its numeral-system gimmick, four scoring modes, and a difficulty curve that every reviewer so far describes as fair and steadily escalating rather than either too easy or artificially punishing. At $5.99, with automatically generated puzzles promising effectively endless content and nothing locked behind unlocks or purchases, it's a low-risk pickup for anyone who enjoys Minesweeper-style deduction and wants a genuinely relaxing, screen-off-your-brain-except-for-the-puzzle kind of game. The presentation is plain by design, and the numeral-swapping party trick will land better with players curious enough to learn a new symbol set than with anyone hoping for visual spectacle. Go in wanting clean logic puzzles wrapped in an interesting cultural curiosity, not a game trying to dazzle you, and Finitimi delivers exactly what its five early reviewers describe.