Dayten Rose's articles (Page 2)

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   Dayten Rose, 8 April 2026

   Shutter Story riffs on deduction games like The Roottrees Are Dead and Her Story, but finds its identity exploring the paranoia of a haunting

   Shutter Story inevitably comps to other self-guided investigation games, but none suit it perfectly. It’s fully unique.

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   Feature

   Dayten Rose, 16 March 2026

   Micromega is a hand-drawn portrait of a collective future

   Micromega is a physics-based puzzler about guiding a fragile sphere upward through a debris of dead machines.

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   Dayten Rose, 9 February 2026

   Cassette Boy dazzles and vexes with its inventive metaphysical mechanic

   Cassette Boy explores perception with its central puzzle mechanic, but its RPG elements and world design struggle to fully support it.

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   Dayten Rose, 15 January 2026

   In a genre where information is sacred and spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?

   The stakes are high when it comes to thinky games, since one big spoiler can often ruin the experience. Where should you turn for hints, and is it even possible to play a game knowing absolutely nothing about it?

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   Dayten Rose, 8 January 2026

   Text-based mansion mystery Type Help is worth playing before its 2026 Roottree remaster

   Type Help blends the moody atmosphere of And Then There Were None with the deduction gameplay of The Roottrees Are Dead, whose developers are working on a remaster for 2026.