Tag: Puzzle

Jonathan Blow’s new game has the most ‘Jonathan Blow’s new game’ pitch imaginable: A ‘game design supercollider’ that takes 4 puzzle games and jams them together into a 500-hour saga

Nine years on from The Witness, Jonathan Blow would, once again, quite like you to solve his puzzles. He’d like you to solve quite a lot of them, actually. Revealed during The Game Awards, Order of the Sinking Star is a big box of proper stumpers that’s deep enough to drown in. Blow and the […]

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Steam’s latest cozy game has a fascinating backstory: Not only is it a PS1 game that predates the ‘cozy’ era, but it’s only officially available in English thanks to fan translators

Just a hair over two years ago, I wrote about a fan translation of a landmark Japanese PS2 game, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, making a landmark “cozy” game playable in English for the very first time. We didn’t call games cozy back in the early 2000s, but were it released today, the slice-of-life adventure game […]

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Raw Fury is kicking off ‘Rawcember’ with a stacked Humble Bundle, featuring a discount on one of the year’s coolest puzzle games

Raw Fury, publisher of excellent indie games such as Cassette Beasts and Blue Prince, is keen to inform you that it is now officially “RAWCEMBERRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!” Festivities for Rawcember include “giveaways, game launches, demos” among other things, including a pretty snazzy Humble Bundle that comes with 14 games and a few worthwhile discounts. The bundle, called […]

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Ghost of Yotei star Erika Ishii wants the world to know their pick for Game of the Year is not Ghost of Yotei: ‘Blue Prince, all day, every day!’

Voice actor Erika Ishii appeared in no fewer than four videogames in 2025, including Ghost of Yotei, which was in the running for Ultimate Game of the Year at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards. Ghost of Yotei also earned Ishii a personal Golden Joystick nom, for Best Performance. And when they were asked on the […]

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‘I will probably never fully acknowledge whether or not everything has been solved’ says Blue Prince creator: ‘There are certainly mysteries still in the game’

When puzzle strategy roguelite Blue Prince launched in April, the singleplayer game quickly became a collaborative effort. Players shared more than just puzzle solutions online, they began piecing together the sprawling story that takes place outside the mansion’s walls, which includes generations of history about the world of Blue Prince. The non-linear nature of the […]

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Someone needs to take my wallet away because Once Upon a Katamari has revealed its first two DLC’s and one is launching this month

Once Upon a Katamari announced the first two DLCs during the State of Play Japan stream on November 11, and to say I’m excited is a complete understatement. Even though these DLCs won’t add any crazy new levels for you to roll around, they’re just as exciting. If you jumped at the opportunity to start […]

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Blue Prince developer announces ‘a plea for help’: one of the game’s lead playtesters ‘has only a few months to find a living kidney donor’

Blue Prince developer Dogubomb has appealed to the puzzle roguelike and dark horse GOTY candidate‘s fanbase for lifesaving assistance. One of Blue Prince’s lead playtesters, Matthew “Iggy” Kowalski, needs a kidney transplant from a living donor within the next few months. Iggy was an invaluable tester and contributed so much to the project. He was […]

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