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Tag Archives: Puzzle

The Insight: Superliminal: The Sheer Beauty Of Carrying On While Being Trapped Within A Paradox Of Dreams

By Isaac Espinosa As you make your way through various puzzles that force you to question reality, how far can you make it until you lose yourself to the dream? Developed and published by Pillow Castle, Superliminal is a puzzle game in which you traverse multiple dream-like levels, each with its own unique puzzle. However,…

December 18, 2020 in The Insight.

The Insight: Good Job Is Good Fun And A Good Laugh During These Dark Times!

By Isaac Espinosa When there are no rules about how to do your job, and no penalty for causing havoc, what’s the harm in a little collateral damage? “Good Job!” is a puzzle game developed by Paladin Studios and published to the Nintendo Switch. Here, you play as the son of the CEO of a…

May 28, 2020 in The Insight.

The Insight: Bookbound Brigade Made This High School Senior Wistful and Nostalgic (Well, Mostly)

By Zante Barker A bunch of little literary characters on a quest to save the world. That’s the idea behind Bookbound Brigade, a new game that takes on the Metroidvania genre. You know, these are games like Axiom Verge, Dead Cells and Hollow Knight. Bookboung Brigade, created by Digital Tales, came out on all systems,…

March 5, 2020 in The Insight.

The Insight: Young Writer Finds The Artful Simplicity And The Puzzles Within Boxboy + Boxgirl Extremely Compelling!

  By Isaac Espinosa As a strange blackness overtakes a box-filled world, puzzle solving becomes the only way to save it. BoxBoy! + BoxGirl! is a puzzle game developed by HAL Labs and I played it on the Nintendo Switch system. This new addition to the “BOXBOY!” series features a brand new two-player co-op, along…

June 20, 2019 in The Insight.

The Insight: Tetris 99 Makes 17 Year Old Intern Happy With Unique Competitive Gameplay!

  By Zante Barker It’s old! Tetris has been around for 35 years – almost two times my actual age. It was first published in 1984 and was created by Alexey Pajitnov in Russia. According to Wikipedia, it’s the seventh largest gaming franchise to ever still be played and over a billion players indulge daily.…

March 20, 2019 in The Insight.

The Insight: In The Spectrum Retreat, We Are All Just Prisoners Here Of Our Own Device

By Ronald Gordon Everyone loves a nice hotel stay from time to time, but what if your hotel had mysteries and secrets beyond your wildest imagination? The Spectrum Retreat is a first-person puzzle game developed by Dan Smith Studios and published by Ripstone Ltd. Here, you are a person named Alex, and you’re trapped within…

July 31, 2018 in The Insight.

The Insight: The Journey Down: Chapter 2 Is A Jazzy Mystery Rife With Wonder

By Ronald Gordon Not many point and click games grab my attention but there are some that I come across that really catch my eye and draw me in with their stories. The Journey Down is one of those select few that I actually played all the way through. The Journey Down is a three-part…

July 5, 2018 in The Insight.

The Insight: Why Our 17 Year Old Intern Loved The House of Da Vinci

By Ronald Gordon Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest inventors in human history. His inventions were simply amazing – even to this day. But what if, instead of the Triple Barrel Cannon, Da Vinci invented brain-torturing puzzles? The House of Da Vinci, an indie puzzle game that was developed and published by Blue…

April 17, 2018 in The Insight.

The Insight: C.U.B.E. 2 Generally Rocked Our Writer’s World

By: Ronald Gordon Q.U.B.E 2, a stirring, adventure-filled puzzle game, is the sequel to the original which was released back in late 2011. The game, which I played on Xbox One, is about an archaeologist named Amelia Cross who ends up stranded on an alien planet and gets trapped in a sandstorm. However, a sandstorm…

April 5, 2018 in The Insight.

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