Puzzle
16 games reviewed, ranked by score.
Baba Is You
The Rulebook Is the Puzzle, and It's Brilliant
Into the Breach
Three Mechs, Eight-By-Eight Grid, Endless Tactical Knots
Portal 2
Aperture's Comedy Masterpiece Still Outwits Everything Since
Portal
A portal gun, GLaDOS, and no wasted minute
XCOM 2
Concealment and turn timers punish every cautious instinct
Inscryption
A deckbuilder that won't sit still, for better and worse
Pronoun Palace
Spell your way out of a state that confiscated your pronouns
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
A Sequel That Outclimbs Its Predecessor
Mini Motorways
Simple rules, traffic-induced rage, and one more city
Stray
Being a cat is enough. The rest is window dressing.
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order
EA's Best Apology Is a Soulslite With a Lightsaber
Return to Monkey Island
Guybrush Returns Sharp, The Ending Doesn't Land
The Book of Unwritten Tales
A Warm, Funny Throwback That Wears Its LucasArts Heart Openly
Deponia Doomsday
Deponia's Fourth Trip Trades Charm for Time-Loop Headaches
Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Looks Stunning – Underneath It's Just Generic Open-World Busywork
The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
Critter charms, the Yeti cave crashes the party