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    Dayten Rose, 4 March 2025

    Multi-dimensional puzzle platformer Vextorial will test your mental gymnastics

    Vextorial is a multi-dimensional puzzle platformer with a chill retro aesthetic and a mysterious narrative. It’s rough around the edges but wholly unique.

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    Dayten Rose, 3 March 2025

    Retro game anthology UFO 50 holds a treasure trove of thinky games

    Of the 22 puzzle, strategy, and tactics games under UFO 50’s “thinky” tab, these are our favourites.

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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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