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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The Talos Principle
So when I tell you that the team behind Serious Sam made another game, what genre are you thinking? Because personally, “philosophical puzzle game” is quite low on the list. So this is a philosophical puzzler with an overarching story. Like Portal but slightly more biblical.
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Islands of Insight (First Look)
So this game has not been released yet, but I am so incredibly hype for it! It’s the brainchild of some of the industry’s best puzzle creators, and the closest comparison I can make is to The Witness, but it’s so much more than just that! You can jump in this one. Explore a stunningly…
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope detective game? Sign me up. You’re a surveyor for the East India Company who is investigating what happened on the Obra Dinn, which was declaired missing at sea in 1802, but after 5 years has drifted into port with no visible crew aboard. Your job is to figure out the identities and fates…
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Viewfinder
So this game released very recently, aaaand it’s fantastic. Very simple gimmick, find a photo, place a photo, explore the space inside the photo as it gets embedded in the world. And they take this one simple mechanic and absolutely run with it. It’s like exploring all the interactions with the Portal Gun, and even…
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NieR:Automata
The Dark Souls Of: Prepare to Cry Edition -And More Genre Switches- By Camellia Well uh, that happened. Anyways, welcome to open world story heavy game where you play as your new video game waifu and her boytoy/twink companion. You play as a giant fuck off mech-suit shooting robots out of the sky, as a…
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Discolored
A short little point and click puzzle game. Some of the puzzles are a tiny bit obtuse, but my partner and I solved it in 2-3 hours without a walkthrough or anything. Doesn’t overstay it’s welcome.
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Ori And The Blind Forest
Ori is an interersting one, unlike most other games in the genre, it’s a metroidvania that isn’t focused on combat, but rather a lot of tricky platforming through difficult terrain and spiked tunnels. There are some enemies that get in your way, but in general the way to tackle them is to just dodge their…
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Groove Coaster
Groove coaster is an arcade game with some home releases, where the gameplay involves the player following a track, and performing inputs as they pass by them. While I do recommend playing the original Felica enabled Arcade GC version, any version will be just as fun.
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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…