Month: May 2026

For this critical play, I tried out Gorogoa, a beautifully hand-drawn puzzle game developed by Jason Roberts. I went through this play on PC,…

Blue Prince is my favorite puzzle game of all time. Developed by solo designer Tonda Ros under the studio name Dogubomb in April 2025,…

The game I chose for this critical play is Portal, a puzzle-platform game developed by Valve Corporation and originally released on PC and Xbox…

I played A Dark Room, a one-player game created by Michael Townsend/Doublespeak Games. I played the web version, though it’s available on iOS, Android,…

For this week’s Critical Play, I played Storyteller, a single-player storytelling puzzle game published by Netflix and available through the mobile Netflix app. The…

For my Puzzles Critical play, I played Monument Valley, created by the gaming studio Ustwo Games. I played it on my iPad through the…

Through a pastel aesthetic, flowy dialogue that pops up when particular objects are highlighted, and a rudimentary inventory system to solve relatively simple drag-and-click…

This week, I played Monument Valley on my mobile phone, a 2014 isometric puzzle game directed by Neil McFarland and published by Ustwo Games….

The game I played was Fez, which was created by Polytron Corporation in 2012. The game is HEAVILY targeted towards players (of all ages)…