Blue Prince, this spring’s buzzy and wildly engrossing indie sensation, is a terrific reminder of something video games do tremendously well: Puzzles! The game, about exploring a mansion where ...

Ana Diaz (she/her) is a culture writer at Polygon, covering internet culture, fandom, and video games. Her work has previously appeared at NPR, Wired, and The Verge. The puzzles of Blue Prince ...

The New York Times' Connections puzzle, a daily word game, challenges players' logic and vocabulary. The April 12th puzzle (#671) required identifying connections between seemingly unrelated words.

It includes every single Oddworld game—a series of lavishly animated 2D puzzle platformers starring a weird-looking green guy—for just one dollar, a price that compares extremely favourably to ...

I was about 10 hours into Blue Prince, a roguelike puzzle game where you plan the layout of a manor house, when my partner said to me “Oh Blue Prince, like blueprints.” This was the first time ...

Play this puzzle to see how far the machines have to go. By Dylan Freedman and Cade Metz Produced by Juliana Castro Varón and Umi Syam In 2019, an A.I. researcher, François Chollet, designed a ...

What are the best puzzle games ... perspective. You play as a plucky stick figure who flips, switches, overcomes obstacles, and jumps between literal signage in the 2D space as the bustling ...

Not that we’re complaining! Kaizen: A Factory Story is an “open-ended puzzle automation game” set in Japan in the 1980s. You’ll spend time “designing, building, and optimizing production ...

Terminator 2D: No Fate has been announced by Reef Entertainment and developer Bitmap Bureau, a brand new side-scrolling action game that’ll probably make you think you’re playing a remaster of ...

PlayStation 4, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch If friction is what you’re looking for, The Talos Principle 2 is one of the more demanding puzzle games we ...

The game is a dark, suspenseful journey through a virtual version of the very panelák in which Oršel grew up. As players explore the building's chilling halls and rooms, they’ll solve logical puzzles ...