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Standard jigsaw fare - 25, 49, or 100 pieces, depending on how patient or mildly masochistic you're feeling.
Developer: New Kids Games
Jigsaw
Antistress
Kids
Puzzle
- 4.7
- Score
There are twelve images. Each one still. Each one slightly absurd. A cartoon body mid-impact, mid-explosion, mid-something you probably shouldn't be enjoying as much as you are. Welcome to Kick the Buddy Jigsaw, where violence isn't animated - it's arranged. This isn't the usual chaotic stress relief simulator. There's no screaming, no firecrackers or nukes. Just silence, a grid of scattered pieces, and your careful fingers putting the scene back together. Piece by piece. Smile by stitched-up smile. It feels less like solving a puzzle and more like reconstructing evidence from a crime you can't admit you witnessed. The gameplay is standard jigsaw fare - 25, 49, or 100 pieces, depending on how patient or mildly masochistic you're feeling. You start with image one and work your way up, unlocking the next only after completing the current scene. There's no rush. No timer. No loud effects. And yet, the game has a strange weight to it. Each completed image is a moment of slapstick chaos frozen in time - a missile hitting a ragdoll, a mallet mid-swing, Buddy smiling (as always) through it all. But in stillness, these scenes feel different. Not shocking. Not funny. Just... eerie. You're not acting out the violence anymore. You're preserving it. Honoring it, even. Reassembling moments of impact like a curator at a cartoon trauma museum. And maybe that's what makes Kick the Buddy Jigsaw so oddly compelling. It turns absurdity into ritual. It asks you to take something loud and dumb and reframe it as quiet and deliberate. The fun here isn't in the explosion - it's in recreating the explosion with care. That tension - between humor and discomfort, between chaos and control - gives the game more edge than it has any right to claim. You're not just solving puzzles. You're memorializing madness. Buddy never complains. Never moves. But every finished picture feels like you've participated in something you shouldn't have - and liked it. That's the real puzzle.
