Both debuting this week, two puzzle games featuring immediately attractive premises: Piece by Piece is a literal puzzle platformer that lets you connect the levels together at will and Rhell: Warped World & Troubled Times is a spell crafting adventure with wide open options for creativity.
Piece by Piece cuts the world into jigsaw-puzzle shaped pieces and asks you to join them back up in a way that will allow your little characters to navigate to their goals. As we can see from the trailer, it's not always quite as simple as putting the big pieces in right order and then proceeding to the exit: sometimes blueprints will let you place platforms on top of existing pieces, or interactive segments will require rotating, copying etc while you wander through them.
You can get Piece by Piece on Steam now with a 15% launch discount. There's also a free demo on offer.
(I knew I'd played at least one webgame from a game jam back in the day that used this premise and wanted to drop a little reference to it, took me a while to remember the name but I found it: Tiny Fragments.)
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times has a mouthful of a title, and the spellbook you're filling up is just as verbose. A puzzle adventure being published by Yogscast Games, the idea here is that you slowly collect dozens of runes that fill up your time of wizardly knowledge, basic building blocks for spells such as "fire" and "shrink" and "push." The fun comes once you collect enough of them that you can start combining them in interesting and unique ways to solve problems. There are apparently many millions of possible combo spells, and "every puzzle has multiple solutions."
Head to Steam to get Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times with a 20% launch discount or get your feet wet with the demo first.
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