Brain Game – How video games help me think
Have you ever been working on something and been so stuck you can’t think your way out of the situation? Have you then tried to force yourself to come up […]
Review – Unforeseen Incidents
Harper is a university dropout handyman. He’s got no motivations and pretty much no aspirations, until a mysterious plague spreads across his town and he finds an infected woman dying […]
Top Myst-like Games
A few weeks ago I saw that Cyan Worlds had put up a Kickstarter campaign for a 25th Anniversary Collection of Myst, a series of games I adore but because […]
Review: Forgotton Anne
For the past few weeks, when doing reviews, I’ve been doing two games in the same article—thanks to the new concise review format. But sometimes, you gotta give a game […]
Twinned Reviews: Without Escape & The Thin Silence
So yeah, doing this again, having a couple of games in the same review article. The format is here to stay! This time’s it’s Without Escape and The Thin Silence, […]
Nancy Drew – That’s all Folks!
While we wait for Midnight in Salem, which might never make its Spring 2019 release window, I’ve now played every Nancy Drew title possible and have some thoughts on the future of the series and the titles I played!
Review: The Room: Old Sins
A new house, a new investigator and a brand-new complex set of puzzles to reach the Null element and discover the tale of those who fell to it. This is […]
Preview – Felix the Reaper
Being DEATH must be an interesting line of business. Making sure people meet their maker, or you, at their appointed time to keep the cosmic wheels turning properly. We’re used […]
Review: The House of Da Vinci
Master Leonardo is in trouble, his latest experiment has drawn unwanted attention. He trusts you, his lowly apprentice to retrace his steps and aid him. To do so, you first […]
Review: Semispheres
Most puzzle games have you controlling a single character or object, but what happens when you must control two of them, in parallel rooms identical to each other but need […]
7 Things you Need to Accept to Enjoy the Nancy Drew Series
I promise, this will be one of the last Nancy Drew articles I write…maybe. Ok, it’s not likely. I like the games and there’s lots of them to talk about. […]
Puzzle Games – Open vs Sequential
Last week I spoke of the two categories I separate puzzle design into, those being the story driven ones, the ones with a close tie to the game’s narrative and […]
Nancy Drew Series – The Road so Far
I said it on Twitter a few days ago, that this week I was going to name-drop or speak of HeR Interactive‘s Nancy Drew series quite a bit, because it’s the […]
Puzzle Design – Narrative vs Challenge
If there’s one thing that you can expect from an adventure game, it’s puzzles. They’re part of the genre, and even the slew of choice-based adventures we’ve seen in the […]
Nancy Drew Scares: Playing with Expectations
I have spoken in the past of the Nancy Drew games by HeR Interactive and despite the continued contrivance of its puzzle design and placement, I do thoroughly enjoy every […]
Rewiew: The Little Acre
A job-hunting day for Aidan turns into a dimension-hopping adventure when he finds clues to his missing father’s whereabouts. But when his daughter follows him into danger, they’ll have to […]
