Game Reviews8.4/10
A Screwdriver, A Notebook, And A Corporate High-Rise: Quadrilateral Cowboy Still Packs A Punch
A hacker moves through a corporate compound of quadrilaterals, wires, and solitude, in a puzzle game of rare feeling.
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Tag: puzzle games
Game Reviews8.1/10
Unravel Review: Yarny’s Thread Turns a Broken World Into a Puzzle Worth Solving
A tiny thread creature guides a broken world of memory and shadow, unraveling puzzles of patience and sorrow.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Ten Years On, The Witness Still Teaches You Its Language One Line Puzzle at a Time — 8.6/10
A look back at The Witness, the 2016 puzzle game that rewards patience and attention above all else.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Five Years On, Eastward’s Pixel-Art Odyssey Still Rewards Players Who Take Their Time
John and Sam journey through a broken underground realm—a tale of light, silence, and dungeons wrought in pixel splendor.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Viewfinder Turns Pictures Into Places — and the Trick Holds Up
A picture becomes a bridge; a room becomes a door. Viewfinder builds a strange, quiet grammar of pictures and perspective worth the walk.
Game Reviews9/10
Blast Corps Built a Near-Perfect Puzzle Game From One Runaway Truck
A truck bearing peril cannot pause; the driver must lay waste to every wall before it strikes. A tale of ruin, wrought with strange care.
Game Reviews7.6/10
Erik, Baleog and Olaf Prove Blizzard’s Old Puzzle Design Doesn’t Need Nostalgia to Work
Three heroes, one lock: a look at The Lost Vikings, a puzzle game where no single hero can finish the task alone.
Game Reviews9.6/10
Tetris Attack Review: Simple Matching, Deep Chains — a 9.6 on the SNES
A tale of Tetris Attack upon the Super Nintendo, wherein matched pieces clear away and chains of trouble are sent unto a rival.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Kirby’s Dream Course Turns Golf Into a Puzzle Worth Solving
A round ball, floating stages, and cups to seek — Kirby's Dream Course still rewards the careful mind on its old, remembered green.
Game Reviews8.2/10
One Job, Done Perfectly: Tetris on the NES
Four falling shapes, one plain board, and hours gone before a player notices. The NES Tetris endures.