Onde is a difficult game to describe. It’s a puzzle platformer of sorts, I guess, but far from a typical one. There’s a musical element to it, but it’s not really a rhythm game. It has flashes of puzzle and action games, even a little bit of arcade influence, but …
A young woman wakes up in a strange place, her long, braided red hair flailing in the wind despite the numerous ribbons that bind it. Broken eggshells, large enough to house a person, lie scattered around, and an even larger sword towers over her. “Am I free? No. Still inside. …
Mini Motorways is all about the pursuit of the sublime. The gradual, iterative growth of a city’s transport infrastructure, to create something that aims for perfection or falls apart in trying. Of course, there’s no real perfection to reach. Mini Motorways is a score based arcade-puzzler, like Tetris, where the …
Mini Motorways is all about the pursuit of the sublime. The gradual, iterative growth of a city’s transport infrastructure, to create something that aims for perfection or falls apart in trying. Of course, there’s no real perfection to reach. Mini Motorways is a score based arcade-puzzler, like Tetris, where the …
From LittleBigPlanet and Kirby’s Epic Yarn to Yoshi’s Woolly World and Sackboy: A Big Adventure, it seems like “textile-themed platformers” are becoming a genre of their own—as oddly specific as that may seem. It’s this trend that Where’s Samantha? jumps on, and while it lacks the budget and refinement of …
Crossword City Chronicles is a barebones port of a woeful mobile game that turned Scrabble into a tedious, mind-numbing grind. Let’s clear something up: crosswords and Scrabble are different things. They’re both word-based puzzles that use a grid of overlapping words, sure, but very different in how they actually work, …
Darq: Complete Edition comes with an intriguing premise: a young boy is trapped in a seemingly endless recursive nightmare that wouldn’t look a jot out of place in a Tim Burton collection, and the only way for him to escape is to bend the laws of dream physics and solve …
Everybody’s daydreamed about waking up one day with pixel puzzle-themed superpowers, right? No? Well I know I have, and apparently the good folks at Rude Ghost have too, because that’s the concept behind Pixel Puzzle Makeout League, a humorous, surreal, adorable game that sees you saving the day by solving …
Everybody’s daydreamed about waking up one day with pixel puzzle-themed superpowers, right? No? Well I know I have, and apparently the good folks at Rude Ghost have too, because that’s the concept behind Pixel Puzzle Makeout League, a humorous, surreal, adorable game that sees you saving the day by solving …
It looks like we’ll soon be able to solve Picross puzzles starring beloved Sega characters like Sonic the Hedgehog. Though we don’t have more than a title at this stage, Jupiter Corporation has announced Picross S: Mega Drive and Mark III Edition, coming soon for Nintendo Switch. The reveal came …
