Dayten Rose's articles

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   Dayten Rose, 11 February 2025

   While Waiting is a quiet appreciation of life’s slow moments

   Puzzle minigame collection While Waiting is out now and it trades intense puzzle solving for a funny, delightful riff on boredom

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   Dayten Rose, 21 January 2025

   Point-and-click puzzler Reviver looks like Good Night Moon, but plays out like War and Peace

   Point-and-click puzzle game Reviver hides a surprising amount of difficulty behind beautiful hand-drawn art.

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   Dayten Rose, 16 December 2024

   How The Case of the Golden Idol developers made one of the decade’s best detective games, twice

   The Rise of the Golden Idol developer Color Gray Games followed their Obra Dinn-inspired detective puzzler by embracing player agency.

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   Dayten Rose, 9 December 2024

   Mystery point-and-click adventure Phoenix Springs tells an experimental story with traditional puzzle mechanics

   This surreal mystery game proudly rejects classic point-and-click tropes but often feels at odds with itself.

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   Dayten Rose, 19 November 2024

   Crucial choices and a critical countdown will shape your investigation in detective game Mindcop

   Nonlinear detective game Mindcop lets players take the role of a mindreading detective with match-three puzzle mechanics and a great soundtrack.