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Rick Lane's articles

  1. Feature
    Rick Lane, 11 December 2024

    A Satisfactory result: How factory builders use logic puzzles to revolutionise the management genre

    Overseeing a system of interconnected machines is it's own type of logic puzzle

  2. Review
    Rick Lane, 13 November 2024

    Mind Over Magnet review: An attractive but polarising puzzler that is too cautious in expressing itself

    A fascinating final product from Game Maker's Toolkit that's a pleasant but somewhat limited puzzler.

  3. Review
    Rick Lane, 14 October 2024

    Exographer review — A different kind of physics puzzler

    Exographer is a deeply original sci-fi physics adventure with quantum tile-matching and puzzle platforming that's well worth discovering.

  4. Review
    Rick Lane, 20 August 2024

    World of Goo 2 review — A Goo-d old puzzler, but it doesn't ooze greatness

    There's still fun to be had playing in the mire, but World of Goo 2 is also a bit stuck in the past.

  5. Feature
    Rick Lane, 13 August 2024

    Interview: How Hauntii brings puzzling to the unlikeliest genre

    We chat with Moonloop Games founder Leo Dasso about how twin-stick shooter Hauntii deftly straddles two of gaming's most polarised genres.

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