We chat with developer Tonda Ros about how the world of tabletop and iconic puzzle games held the keys to unlocking Blue Prince's full potential.
March seems to have been a jam-packed month of puzzley stuff: here's the big list of everything that caught our attention to help you sort it out. We got the long-awaited Ligo, a new set of cases for The Rise of the Golden Idol, a unique and fun PuzzleScript creation, a tactics deckbuilder, a sequel to cryptic language game Lingo, puzzles about slimes, puzzles about bodily functions, a game about sheep, a city-builder, a narrative mystery in a house of secrets... and the list goes on!
Try to find the elusive Room 46 in a labyrinth of interconnected chambers of your own design.
The latest outing of Draknek's ever-present monster is just around the corner: a release date less than 2 weeks away was just announced for the new bite-sized puzzle game The Electrifying Incident.
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Traditional metroidvanias aren’t the conlang’s ideal pairing. Rather, it’s their thinky cousins, the metroidbrainia.
The popular roguelike deckbuilder Monster Train has a sequel coming soon, and a new story-oriented trailer reveals the May launch date.
Sam Barlow's Immortality is a deep, complex mystery game that asks the player to rely on their gut intuition to solve its mysteries.
Welcome to Thinky Third Thursday, curated by Alan Hazelden of Draknek & Friends – a monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught my eye.
Your House is a mix of text-based adventure and escape room puzzles in a haunting mystery that plays with narrative form and player interaction
Diacritic mixes interactive fiction with satisfying puzzles in the guise of a workplace dystopia. It’s reminiscent of Papers, Please and Severance, but it’s wholly unique.
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