Game Reviews6.7/10
Ten Years On, Obduction’s Desert Mystery Rewards Patience — and Punishes It
A strange desert world, a journal, and a mystery that takes hours to explain fully. Obduction review.
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Tag: puzzle game
Game Reviews7/10
Not a Hero Review: A Man Who Can’t Save Himself Earns Our Respect
A man cannot save himself, yet through his trials, hope is born. Not a Hero, a puzzle of rooms, wherein we guide a captive soul.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Nocturne Turns Darkness Into Puzzles, and It Earns Its 8.1
A game of shadows and light, wherein mirrors and bulbs reveal the unseen path. Review of Nocturne, a puzzle game of singular vision.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Entropy Review: Building Machines Is Easy — Explaining Them Isn’t
A puzzle game of gears and pistons, wherein machines must be built without word of instruction.
Game Reviews6.7/10
Nine Years On, Hey! Pikmin’s Good Idea Still Gets Burying Under Weak Puzzles
A spinoff of the Pikmin series asks players to switch between three characters to solve puzzles, but its ideas fall short of execution.
Game Reviews6.9/10
Shrink Down to Bug Size: Grow Up Turns Ordinary Rooms Into Strange Worlds
A game of shrinking down to insect size, wherein the world grows vast and strange, a curious and clever invention.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Nine Years On, Snake Pass Still Bends Rings Into Puzzles Worth Watching
A serpent of linked rings must bend itself through narrow passages, over gaps, and past hazards, in a trial of patience and precision.
Game Reviews7.7/10
Twelve Years On, Broken Age Still Has the Stamina to Baffle and Delight
A tale of two souls, Vella and Shay, bound by destiny across a vast gulf of years — a broken age of puzzles and wonder.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Nine Years On, RiME Still Rewards Patience Over Puzzles
A boy, a rock, an island of memory: RiME's quiet journey rewards patience and wonder.
Game Reviews8/10
Snipperclips Review: Nine Years On, Scissors and a Hole Still Define a Great Multiplayer Idea
A pair of scissors, a shape, a hole, and a friend — this puzzle game celebrates cooperation above all else.