
Piecing Together Murders Word by Word Is Still Brilliant in The Rise of the Golden Idol
The Rise of the Golden Idol is a sharp detective puzzle game about solving grisly 1970s crimes. Our review praises its fair mysteries and huge payoff.


The Rise of the Golden Idol is a sharp detective puzzle game about solving grisly 1970s crimes. Our review praises its fair mysteries and huge payoff.

A review of The Swapper, a 2013 puzzle game about cloning yourself on a derelict space station, praised for its atmosphere and clever design.

Tetris Effect review: familiar falling blocks wrapped in a stunning audiovisual journey. Zone mode adds risk, music shines, but the campaign is short. 8/10.

Upon a strange isle, one seeks Bugsnax—creatures caught in odd traps, fed to islanders whose forms alter in curious mirth.

Water, fire and ice war upon a small green field in Wetrix, a Nintendo 64 puzzle whose peril never rests.

A round puzzle globe of layered pieces, patience, and a buried core — judged apart from the name it borrows.
A robot enters the bodies of mechanical beasts upon a broken satellite, and this single trick sustains a whole tale of puzzle and jest.

A puzzle title of matching cookies for Super Nintendo, wherein two players share the board's rows and columns in contest.

Kickle Cubicle turns foes to ice for patient puzzle work across a frozen kingdom, still a sound test of shape and space decades on.

A bottle, three colors, viruses without end — Dr. Mario for the NES weighed and scored, fault by fault, virtue by virtue.
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