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 ...

Sure, we’ll always love the pure, minimalist puzzles offered by the likes of Sudoku or Picross, but I think 2024 is a reminder that the way we think of puzzle games needs to be broadened.

The Witness is an open-world puzzle game with no UI or HUD at all. Players wake up on a cozy but strange island with no memory of how they got there or even who they are.

The atest game in the Maker series has a release date as players can experience Action Game Maker when it arrives on Steam ...

ChatGPT can add another job to its résumé: game developer. With just a few simple prompts from a user, the AI chatbot invented its own math-based logic-puzzle game dubbed Sumplete, rules and all ...

This underrated sci-fi horror game has the coolest UI design since Dead Space. Echo strikes a fine balance between extravagance and simplicity. by Toussaint Egan. Mar 19, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC ...

I am now 24 hours deep into a nightmare, and my GOTY list is one game longer. The hundreds of block-pushing Sokoban-meets-Cave Noire puzzles in Void Stranger are just the surface layer of what I ...

Like so many games made in Wordle’s wake, the UI design is very familiar, but what you actually do in Globle is very different. Presented with the entire globe, your challenge each day is to ...

Blackbox is a puzzle game for iPhone that was just awarded one of Apple's prestigious Design Awards, which honor the best new apps, the ones Apple thinks are e specially useful or beautiful ...

Naturally, as a first-time designer, Ise had some growing pains with game development, saying, "Finding ways to stir emotion—things that elicited joy, excitement, accomplishment, and even ...