Cocoon is the puzzle aficionado’s delight. The isometric adventure from Geometric Interactive marries pared-down gameplay with a mind-bending premise where players jump between worlds nestled inside ...

The satisfaction of solving a puzzle is inherent. You learn the rules of the game, then you’re presented with a challenge that tests your knowledge of those rules. The predictability is calming, and ...

Cocoon is an absolute marvel of a puzzle game. It’s chock-full of puzzles that encourage “aha” moments due to their elegant presentation and intuitive design; the sheer simplicity of some of the ...

Late last year I learned that jigsaw puzzles are good, actually. Yes, a COVID quarantine was the impetus, but even after the wife and I weren’t forcing ourselves to stay indoors, we still found time ...

If you’re a puzzle game fan, you’ve had one heck of a month. Within a span of two weeks, two of 2024’s best puzzle games — or, simply, best games — were released with Big Mode’s Animal Well and Simogo ...

Mastery is one of those words that gets tossed around when we talk about games. As an interactive medium, games can imbue in you a sense of accomplishment that, while not impossible to convey in ...

Is it really a puzzle if you already know the solution just by looking at it? Triple-A titles often have simple brain teasers that range from annoying to downright pedantic. Solving another abstract ...

Take-Two Interactive-owned Zynga is suing over its hyper-casual game Screw Jam, which it says was copied by a company called AdOne, according to a lawsuit reviewed by Polygon. The company released ...

While puzzle games often rely on unintuitive key bindings or clunky click-and-drag mechanisms, Wilmot Works it Out iterates on the speed-focused controls used in Wilmot’s Warehouse to create a puzzle ...