Reviews by Matt S. Just before Easter, Apple dropped a big pile of new games on the Apple Arcade. Almost enough to count it as a “re-launch,” at it came at just the right time. I had been planning on ending the subscription, as I hadn’t really found a reason…
Read MoreList by Matt S. I’m a big fan of itch.io for the freedom and open platform that it allows for developers to be creative, experimental, and directly canvas the audience for feedback for games that are not yet ready for primetime on Steam and its ilk. In addition, itch.io allows…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I was expecting Hatsune Miku Logic Paint S to be a fairly standard port of the previous Miku puzzle mobile title, MikuLogi. Why wouldn’t it be? The mobile game is excellent, with plenty of colourful puzzles, a good rewards loop (one new Miku artwork for every…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Maquette is a game that has been inspired by a lot of things. The first person puzzler (it’s clear the developers have spent a lot of time inside The Witness and Portal) is certainly one. Walking simulators are another, in the way that the game shares…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. If you haven’t played MIKULOGI on mobile phones yet then… what the hell, folks? Don’t you even read DigitallyDownloaded.net? And even then, how does Hatsune Miku + Picross not sound like the best thing ever? The good news is that it really is that good, and…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. One thing I love about the indie games space is that if you like something, you’ll always be able to find more of it. Room to Grow is an elegantly designed puzzle game that instantly reminded me of modern puzzle triumphs like Snakebird, The Witness and…
Read MoreInterview by Matt S. It always does my heart good to see an independent developer from Australia be able to break out and create something, and that’s exactly what Mischka Kamener from Melbourne has been able to do. In just a day or two Kamener will release Room To Grow,…
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History lesson time! There’s actually a really good reason that Crawlco Block Knockers, a pervy puzzle game with plenty of nudity in it, is quite the appropriate Nintendo console release (I have no idea how eastasiasoft gets away with this, given the previously-released Waifu Uncovered pushes real boundaries on what…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Puyo Puyo Tetris is one of those genius ideas that shouldn’t work… and yet somehow does. I don’t think, prior to the first Puyo Puyo Tetris landing, that anyone thought that bringing together such disparate puzzle games as Puyo Puyo and Tetris was going to result in…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. It comes out in December, but I’ve had the opportunity to get some hands-on time with the sequel to one of the most eclectic puzzlers we’ve ever seen. A cross-over game that combines Tetris and Puyo Puyo doesn’t sound like it should work, but incredibly it…
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