Tag: Artful
Games where the primary emphasis is on the wow factor of the world design. Some games may be walking simulators, but artful games may also include engaging gameplay alongside stunning visuals.
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RiME
RiME is a beautiful little short to medium story game. It has some rudimentary puzzles in it but it’s mostly a game about visual storytelling. You play as a young boy who wakes up on a beach, where you can use your voice to activate statues around the island to raise platforms, open doors, or…
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Moncage
Moncage is a cute puzzle and story game where you explore a world inside a cube. The twist though is that some parts of the cube can interact with other parts when you look from a certain angle. Each face of the cube is its own perspective on the world inside, and while the scenes…
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Taiji
Ever since I finished The Witness for the first time back in 2017, I’ve been looking for a puzzle game that follows that same formula, and this year I found it with Taiji. Instead of being a first person puzzle game about completing puzzle panels where you fill in the edges, this is a top-down…
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Example Block Game
Now I have to come clean on this one, the developer of this game is literally my IRL partner, who makes games to keep herself from going insane. She has a lot of experience with various tetris games, including ones that very few people have ever heard of, and she’s made a few games in…
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The Witness
This is a hard one to recommend because it takes a certain type of person to enjoy the concept of this game. You’re dropped in a world devoid of life but full of puzzles, with no direction other than the controls. Move to the door, click to open solving mode, draw a line from the…
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INFRA
Yet another one that I was recommended by a YouTuber I follow, but this time it was Real Civil Engineer. I got about 3 videos into the playlist before I stopped and went to play it myself, and I’m glad I did. The game surprisingly has a very intriguing plot, which is not something you’d…
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Manifold Garden
“In William Chyr’s Manifold Garden, the player’s world is not our own.” – Jacob Geller, 2020. Manifold garden is a game about infinity. Every ceiling a floor, Every direction stretching out in a looping manner, only terminated temporarily by the repeating floors, and in this game you get to navigate this infintite world to solve…