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ThinkyCon 2026 Streams Two Days of Puzzle Design Talks
Matthew Stein reports back from three months inside Japan's escape room and riddle scene, in a free online lineup with Hempuli and Evan Todd.
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Watch the Trailer for Jiayi Liu's Afterlife Game THRESHOLD
The Bartlett graduate project draws on Chinese funerary traditions and ghost marriage rites, with rooms that record every route walked.
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Jian Chen and Yuet Ching Lo Show Games at the Bartlett
NIBO and The Noon Loop are part of the Bartlett Autumn Show in London.
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Walaber's Reason and Rhyme is co-op for exactly two
Tim FitzRandolph's Flipnote-styled island puzzler lands October 15,
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Wendi Yan built a puzzle game out of Daoist inner alchemy
You move through a science-fiction landscape as a bundle of qi, aligning your own breath with the planet's carbon cycle. Meditation as mechanic, scripture as technology.
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Get in the mood for a spring clean with a new zen puzzler
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Empty (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android) By DustyRoom It’s almost time for the big spring clean this year, which might mean you need something to get you in the appropriate head space. Empty could
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Night Lights hides a whole other world behind its shadows
“Things are different at night.” A game based on this small sentence could go in any direction, really, but the most obvious path is probably towards horror. Not for Moscow-based game maker Artem Cheranev. He went with making a 2D puzzle game that uses light and shadow so you can move between differ
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Get ready for the twisty geometry of Euclidean Lands to arrive this year
One videogame that should be on your list of ones to watch in 2017 is, without a doubt, Euclidean Lands. It’s the work of Miro Straka, a Slovenian architecture student at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, who decided to make a puzzle game in his spare time. After a few years he’s coming to a
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Videogames are finally experimenting with the time loop of Groundhog Day
Before I had even watched Groundhog Day (1993), my childhood was fringed with the fantasy of alternate experiences of time due to a British children’s TV series called Bernard’s Watch (1995-2005). Bernard, the lucky bugger, had a stopwatch that could freeze time. Each episode he’d perform this mirac
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The independent studio behind some of Lara Croft GO’s best levels
Lara Croft GO came out for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on December 3rd this year and brought with it a time-exclusive set of levels. Called “Mirror of Spirits,” these levels take the grid-based puzzles of the game’s dioramas in a radically new direction than the main levels and the first expa
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KAMI 2 will let you create your own origami puzzles in 2017
State of Play is known for creating videogames out of physical materials. Their biggest to date is Lumino City (2014), an adventure game set across a mechanical metropolis that the team actually constructed out of paper, card, wood, miniature lights, and motors. Outside of that are smaller titles li
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Paintings literally change the world in upcoming puzzler FRESCO
The years after Portal came out in 2007 were tiring. An influx of first-person puzzle games broke like a tidal wave over the horizon. All of them flaunting what their creators deemed to be the next big “mind-bending” idea. They simply hoped to wow people. But many of these games were were dull, unin