The Chronos Principle By: Logisk Studio Swipe-based sliding puzzle games are pretty common on mobile, and for good reason. The controls are a great fit for touchscreens and can offer a challenge without the awkwardness of multiple onscreen buttons or anything else that can get in the way. But with so many games available in the genre, it can be hard to stand out. Logisk Studio's upcoming The Chronos Principle aims to…
Cards! - MonkeyBox 2 By: TheCodingMonkeys While I normally prefer puzzle games that can be worked out using logic and clues that are dropped, I do also enjoy games based around trial and error, if it promotes experimentation to uncover different results. A good example of this is Bring You Home, which has simple controls and mechanics and encourages playfulness. You can brute force the solutions to each puzzle if you try…
A few days ago, I posted a story about how I overlooked but then rediscovered a website created by Glitch Games to tease their next game. You can read that here if you haven't yet. Details of the new game weren't revealed yet. Instead, a fake company called Veritas Industries that has its foot in every aspect of, well...everything, said it was looking for human subjects for its Insomnium project. I wrongly…
If I got a dime every time someone told me to play Stephen Lavelle's puzzle game, Stephen's Sausage Roll, I'd have...about a dollar? But seriously, people keep recommending it and I keep responding "but it's not on iOS." There are some shorter narrative games I've played on my PC over the last few years, such as The Stanley Parable. But I have so many games on my iPad and iPhone and there's…
I don't do many upcoming game release announcements these days. I prefer to have some hands-on with a game before I say much about it. Instead, I usually just add newly announced games to my Upcoming Adventure Games list. But I do make exceptions, and I believe a sequel to one of my favorite point-and-click adventure games is worth getting excited about. I played and reviewed Studio Fizbin's and HeadUp Games' cartoony…
