puzzle game

Abriss, or to give it’s full title ABRISS – build to destroy, is a physics-based puzzle game from Berlin-based studio Randwerk and it’s really quite something. As it’s annoyingly uncapitalised subtitle suggests, this game is about building and destruction but it’s done in a way that’s wholly original and just technically so […]

Abriss – PS5 Review

March 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged abriss / destruction / physics / puzzle game / randwerk by Richie

It’s not very often I take on a review without knowing what I’m in for. Train Valley 2: Community Edition is a repackaged PC release for the Playstation 4. Coming from Lithuanian studio Flazm, it includes all DLC expansions plus a large selection of workshopped community levels. Building on the […]

Train Valley 2: Community Edition – PS4 Review

December 17, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged flazm / lithuania / logisitics / puzzle game / railroading / train valley 2 community edition / transport by Mike

Indigo 7: Quest For Love is a puzzle game by Spanish studio Dolores Entertainment but one that offers both a fairly unusual puzzle gameplay mechanic and also a fairly sizeable story about musicians and love triangles all done in a cartoony style. This gives the game two sides to its […]

Indigo 7: Quest For Love – PS4 Review

July 6, 2021 in PS4 / Reviews tagged indigo 7 / music / puzzle game / puzzler / story / teen drama by Richie

As if the title didn’t give it away, Lapis X Labyrinth is a Japanese title and comes to us from Nippon Ichi Software who are regular purveyors of JRPGs and adventure games. This one is a little different to the usual though as while it does the usual looting thing that […]

Lapis X Labyrinth – PS4 Review

June 23, 2019 in PS4 tagged adventure / hack and slash / lapis x labyrinth / nis software / puzzle game by Richie

Our Finish friends, Ratalaika Games, are back with any cross-buy, easy platinum offering title. While that part of a Ratalaika joint is very predictable, you can never predict what type of game they publish next and Access Denied is yet another departure. Developed by Russian coders Stately Snail, this is a […]

Access Denied – PS4 Review

March 3, 2019 in PS4 tagged access denied / easy trophies / puzzle game / ratalaika / the witness by Richie

I’ve never been a huge fan of dual controls in games but some games are able to overcome the control method to produce good gameplay. Brothers in particular was great, even if trying to control the two brothers at the same time with different analog sticks was something of a […]

Semispheres – PS4 Review

February 17, 2017 in PS4 tagged dual controls / puzzle game / semispheres / stealth by Richie

Subject 13 is Paul Cuissets’ newest game, who you may or may not know as the creator of Flashback, as well as others. Now, I liked Flashback in its day with its style and atmosphere (or at least half of it, I only really remember up to the futuristic game […]

Subject 13 – PS4 Review

December 23, 2016 in PS4 tagged flashback / minesweeper / point and click / puzzle game / subject 13 by Gareth