Delete Puzzle: Erase One Part

Review by eFreeware

Delete Puzzle: Erase One Part builds its whole idea around a single gesture: you rub out one piece of a picture and the answer to the scene appears. That is the hook, and it is a good one, because it turns a puzzle into a small act of vandalism. The app comes from iKame Games - Zego Studio, costs nothing to download, and carries ads.

I would point this at people who enjoy short, mischievous brain teasers and do not mind being tricked. It also fits anyone who liked the wave of puzzle games built on silly, counterintuitive solutions, since the developer openly credits Brain Out, Brain Test and DOP as its inspiration. If you prefer puzzles with clear rules and a fixed solution path, the deliberate absurdity here will likely wear thin.

Scenes built to be rubbed out

Each level is a hand-drawn scene with something hidden in it. The scenes lean on light relationship drama, including catching a cheater and a wedding twist where you save the bride, all played for laughs. You are not solving equations or matching colors, you are deciding which part of the picture is a lie.

The eraser is your finger, and that is the entire control scheme. You drag it across the screen, remove a section, and see what is underneath. The developer describes the experience as thinking logically and then enjoying the moment when the truth appears, and that framing is fair, because the pleasure is in the reveal rather than in the effort.

There are hundreds of stages, and they start simply before pushing harder on logic and creativity. The scenes are drawn by hand and the storytelling is deliberately cartoonish, which keeps the mood light even when a puzzle stumps you for a minute or two.

How a level usually goes

A round begins with a question or a strange situation on screen, and you have to work out which element is hiding the answer. The developer warns that one careless erase can ruin the clue, which suggests the game expects a little restraint before you swipe. That tension between experimenting and being careful is what gives a one-gesture game its bite.

The freedom is the interesting part. You can delete whichever part you want, test your instincts and experiment, and sometimes the silliest answer turns out to be the smart one. That is a different feeling from a puzzle with one correct sequence, because it invites you to poke at the scene and see what happens.

It is also the source of the frustration. When almost anything can be erased, working out which of the many possibilities the designer intended can take a few attempts, and a wrong guess costs you the clue rather than points. The game is billed as easy to pick up, and the drag-and-erase control is genuinely simple, but simple controls and simple puzzles are not the same thing.

The jokes are the reward

What holds attention here is not difficulty but surprise. The developer promises unexpected twists and outcomes, and the level themes lean into little stories rather than abstract shapes: a romance, a betrayal, a wedding. Each scene is meant to end in a punchline you uncover rather than a score you earn.

That structure suits short sessions. You can work through a couple of scenes, get a laugh, and put the phone down, which is a better fit for a game with no campaign to grind through. The experience is pitched as both relaxing and challenging, and the hand-drawn look supports the calmer half of that claim.

The developer goes further and says the game sharpens your mind the more you play, and calls it the most creative entry in its genre. Those are marketing claims rather than anything I can verify, and I would treat the creativity as the real draw: the pleasure of erasing the right detail and seeing the trick behind it.

Free to play, with ads

The app is free to download and supported by advertising. There are no in-app purchases, so nothing suggests you will be asked to pay to continue or to unlock anything. For a game with hundreds of levels, that is a straightforward arrangement.

The trade-off is that ads are part of the package. Whether that bothers you depends on how you play: short bursts of a few levels will mean fewer interruptions than a long sitting.

The content rating is Teen, which fits the themes the developer describes, including cheating and relationship drama played for comedy. It is not a game aimed at young children, and the rating reflects that.

Updates and what is new

The most recent change listed is a version update that adds levels, which is the pattern you would hope for in a puzzle game: more scenes rather than a rework of the ones already there. The app first appeared in December 2023, so it has had time to build up its library of stages.

That is worth weighing if you tend to finish puzzle games quickly. A large and growing set of levels means there is usually something new to erase, and the supply does not run out after the initial batch.

A quick puzzle for a spare five minutes

Delete Puzzle: Erase One Part is a good fit if you want a free, low-commitment brain teaser with a sense of humor and no interest in spending money inside it. The swipe-to-erase idea is immediate, the scenes are drawn with personality, and the level count means you are unlikely to run dry.

Its appeal rests on how much you enjoy being misled on purpose. The puzzles reward instinct and experimentation rather than careful deduction, and the ads are part of the deal. If that sounds like your idea of fun, it is an easy download; if you want a puzzle that plays fair and explains itself, the deliberate silliness will be the sticking point.

What's new in version 1.8.10

+ Version_1.8.10: Update level