Tag: Puzzle

Peter Molyneux says ‘We never took a penny of money from people’ with his cursed cube game, contradicting Peter Molyneux who said it had made ‘a few tens of thousands’ in 2013

Peter Molyneux, founder of Bullfrog and Lionhead Studios, is notorious for overhyping his games. Back in the day, when I was a lot younger than I am now, this was considered a kind of adorable foible—the guy just got so excited about the stuff he was making he couldn’t help but make wild, unfulfillable promises […]

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D-topia is about a city where ‘life is curated by artificial intelligence to maximize happiness,’ which actually sounds like something the tech industry is on the verge of pitching

Do you ever wonder how those utopian sci-fi societies in the movies are actually managed? Sure, everyone’s needs are met and robots do all the cleaning, but what happens if a robot breaks down? Does another robot fix it? In D-topia, you play as a Facilitator who helps an AI run the perfect city. Residents […]

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Descend into the murky depths of memory in Mind Diver, a trippy puzzle game set in an ocean of remembrance

Sherlock Holmes has his mind palace, but that’s nothing compared to the mind ocean you can explore in Mind Diver, an upcoming first-person mystery game from publisher Playsim. In it, you’ll need to piece together the fragmented memories of Lina to solve a missing persons case. Is the key to her boyfriend’s disappearance locked away […]

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The Witcher’s forgotten minigame gets a grisly revival where you bet your own digits trying to roll high-scoring poker hands against demonic billionaires

Fans of The Witcher 3 may have fallen in love with Gwent when CD Projekt‘s masterful RPG launched in 2015, but I personally lamented the loss of the original minigame from the series—Dice Poker. I always thought Gwent was too much of a commitment for a minigame contained within a 300-hour RPG, and preferred the […]

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