Remember Professor Lupo And His Horrible Pets? They’re back. Famed studio BeautiFun Games, creators of 2012’s award-winning game Nihilumbra, are returning to their puzzle adventure with a new story and a new protagonist in Professor Lupo: Ocean. The gameplay is similar to the original: enter room after room, solve a puzzle to make a safe […]
When you think about, the success of escape rooms owes a lot to video games. If an entire generation hadn’t grown up with puzzle-solving mechanics in virtual rooms, they wouldn’t have a desire to re-enact those mechanics in real life. Now things have come full-circle with Mad Experiments: Escape Room, a video game version of […]
Publisher META Publishing and indie developer NEXT Studios have released Biped on Steam! What’s a Biped? It’s a creature that walks on two legs, and it describes the two characters at the center of this game. You and a friend control two bipedal robots one leg at a time….meaning your left control stick moves the […]
Polish game developer SONKA is putting Mars Power Industries on the Nintendo Switch next week. You won’t be colonizing Mars in this one…because it was already colonized a long time ago, and it doesn’t seem to have gone very well. THIS trip to the Red Planet is for the purpose of figuring out what went […]
There are fast-paced, twitchy, edge-of-your-seat games….and then there’s Spring Falls, designed to be as soft and calming a gaming experience as possible. This upcoming puzzler was designed by developer SPARSE//GameDev, which is actually a one-man studio….so let’s call him Mr. SPARSE. Mr. SPARSE has created a game where your goal is to direct the flow […]
Flying Beast Labs, a game developer out of Madrid, is hard at work on their puzzler Magic Twins. It’s an arcade co-op for one to two players where the titular characters, Abra and Cadabra, must use their color powers to defeat waves of hued enemies. The strategy is basic (one color will defeat another) but […]
These days it takes a lot for a game to stand out visually, but William Chyr Studio’s Manifold Garden manages to pull it off. It’s a spacious puzzle game where you’re wandering an Escher-like world of staircases and platforms in first-person. This world was once filled with plant life, but it’s fallen on bad times. […]
Indie puzzle game Felix The Reaper is out now for Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, XBox One, PC and Mac. In the case of XBox, it’s part of XBox Game Pass and it’ll be part of Game Pass Ultimate at launch. Felix The Reaper has a job….to kill people. But his real passion is dancing. Luckily […]
Indie Developer Meridian4 has published their puzzle game Night Lights on Steam. You play as a little robot whose function is to turn lights on and off. The manipulation of light is the only way to solve the puzzles on each screen, and they get hairier as the game progresses. If there’s a story here, […]
Other Tales Interactive has developed Tick Tock: A Tale For Two — a unique puzzle game that’s launched on PC, Mac and mobile platforms today. The title means more than you think….this truly is a tale for two because one person alone cannot play it. It’s a co-op game that requires two and only two […]
Iris will have to wait a little longer to fall. Developer NEXT Studio has announced their anticipated puzzle exploration game Iris Fall will be released in December, not this month as originally planned. But to make up for the slight delay, they released a new gameplay trailer. The titular Iris, modeled after Alice, falls into […]
There are many “escape the room” games on the market these days. A simple search on any game or app store will give you dozens of options, some good, and some bad. However, most of them are Japanese, and that comes with the usual translation errors and issues. Fortunately, there are a few domestic games […]