Hidden Object Storytelling With Occultus: Mediterranean Cabal
Occultus: Mediterranean Cabal is not your typical hidden object title. Instead, it puts the emphasis solidly on story and plot, which, depending on your tastes, might be good or bad.
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RiME Review: Beautiful Puzzle Adventure with Sweet Storytelling
RiME’s incredibly gorgeous world is the setting for a story about childhood innocence and life and death. A puzzle adventure with more than enough to set it apart from its influences. Whilst easy puzzles and control flaws detract, Rime’s charm and story makes it a worthwhile journey.
True Fear: Forsaken Souls I Misses the Mark
This week Billy is checking out a horror game called True Fear: Forsaken Souls I and the real scares come from the game’s puzzle design.
Solving Puzzles in XLOX
Billy’s time wasting this week brings him to a puzzle game called XLOX that doesn’t really do anything new, but is well designed.
Hungry For the Adam Wolfe
The Adam Wolfe game is on a mission to redefine the hidden object genre by adding a great story, interesting animation, action sequences and an episodically delivered plot that will actually have you anxiously awaiting the next episode. For the most part, it succeeds.
Find Adventure with Lemuria: Lost in Space
Lemuria: Lost in Space finds players in the role of an android space detective, trying to determine what happened to a ship that disappeared 70 years ago. Your investigations take place in a glorious throwback point and click adventure.
Shift Happens offers Quirky Puzzle Platforming
Shift Happens is a quirky and enjoyable puzzle platformer about two creatures made of jelly escaping from their lab and setting off on a grand adventure. Simple but fun, with a little bit of humor mixed in, it might just jiggle its way into your heart.
You Have 293 Keys to Unlock This Door
This week our Time Waster is all about players trying to unlock a door, but the problem is you have 293 keys and only one works.
Semispheres Offers Both Calm and Challenge
For those who appreciate puzzle games, Semispheres is one of the most innovative we’ve seen in a while. It’s calm and serene on the surface, but it’s challenges are downright diabolical once you get behind that pretty facade.
Exploring Red’s Kingdom
This week out Time Waster is lost in Red’s Kingdom trying to find his missing nuts after they were stolen by an evil king.