Energy: Anti-Stress Loops is a rotation puzzle with an unusual goal. Rather than simply connecting a source to a target, you are closing loops, and a segment only lights once it forms part of a complete circuit between a bolt and a lamp.

That distinction sounds pedantic and changes the reasoning noticeably. A partially correct path gives you nothing at all, so the feedback stays binary until a whole loop resolves — which is exactly the property that makes finishing one feel like something. Infinity Games, Lda has two games in this catalogue and this is the more single-minded of them.

The first ten minutes

Four segments, one bolt, one lamp, solved in six seconds. The opening exists to establish the tap gesture and the lighting feedback, and it does not linger.

Boards grow quickly but never structurally. By level thirty you have twenty segments and three branches, and the reasoning is the same reasoning as at level four — which is either soothing or limiting depending on what you came for.

Controls, and where your thumb ends up

A tap rotates a segment through its orientations. Targets are large, response is instant, and the animation is quick enough not to slow a run of taps. There is nothing to criticise and nothing to remark on.

The absence of an undo matters not at all here: rotation is cyclic, so any state is a few taps from any other. This is the one genre where undo is genuinely unnecessary, and Light Connect — which needs one and has one — shows why the distinction is worth drawing.

The audio side, headphones off

The best-judged sound design here after Laser: Relaxing and Satisfying. Each rotation is a soft muted tone and a completed loop produces a warm chord, so a board resolving is audibly a resolution.

It is decorative rather than informative — nothing is communicated by sound that the lighting does not show — but the chord is a real part of why this works as a wind-down. Muted it becomes noticeably flatter, though still perfectly playable in public.

How it holds up without a connection

Fully offline. The level list installs with the game, progress stays on the device and nothing waits on a server at launch or between boards.

It is also small and undemanding, which makes it one of the more sensible things to keep installed permanently for the sake of a spare five minutes.

Depth after the first week

Limited, and honestly presented as such. The closed-loop rule gives it a distinct texture but no additional depth: once you know to start from the bolt and work outward, every board yields to the same method.

What it has instead is consistency. Several hundred boards that all feel the same is a criticism of a puzzle game and a recommendation for a wind-down application, and this is clearly built as the second. Of the seven, it is the one I would open at midnight.

Three frames from the game

What works, and what does not

The verdict

A very well-made small thing that knows precisely what it is for. It achieves calm without removing the puzzle entirely and never outstays a single sitting — the best of the three gentle rotation games here.

Scores on this site run from 6.1 to 8.7 and are one person’s judgement. How the scoring works.