Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is notorious for a few things. The first is that it radically changed the gameplay style from its predecessors, segmenting the fan base in the process. The other is that the relative failure of the game nearl...

Tetris 99 is on a roll. It's universally beloved and it nailed its surprise release the first time around without the early access periods and growing pains most battle royale games go through. Arika and Nintendo are also doing a decent job...

Escape this bizarrely haunted mansion in today's contest for Killer Chambers! Ugh, I hate it when I get trapped in mansions that require me to solve puzzles and dodge obstacles in order to pass from room to room. It's just poor manners on t...

I was enthralled by The Witness when it first came out, and three years later, I feel like I'm in a place where I can go through the game again almost as if it were new. I've forgotten whole swaths of the island. I don't remember most of th...

Arika's Tetris 99 just got a very small update on the surface: but for hardcore players, it's quite significant. In short the new patch (version 1.2.0) just altered the sensitivity settings, which now allow for both light and hard drop...

[Update 05/17/19: A recent patch has fixed the glitch mentioned in this article. You can find more information here.] Indie puzzle platformers are a dime a dozen nowadays, but I honestly can't get enough of them. I've played so many games...

As I've grown older in age, I've developed an appreciation for minimalist puzzle games. There's something so appealing about playing a title that cuts out all of the excesses of the triple-A market and hones in on the mechanics that carry...

Open your mind by entering our contest for a Switch or Steam copy of The World Next Door! I've been following this one along with Dtoid for quite some time now. It just looks so...awesome, ya know? Like, my sort of game. I don't buy a ton o...

It feels like we've been hearing about Concrete Genie for forever. It was announced in October of 2017 and since then it's kind of had a nebulous 2018 release date that just...never came? Well, thanks to Sony's State of Play stream yesterda...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a one-of-a-kind multiplayer puzzle game full of panicked bewilderment and a-ha moments. One player has control over a ticking time bomb; everyone else has to parse and explain how to disarm doodads using ...

Golf is a very deceptive sport. While many people will bemoan how "boring" it is, they're only looking at it from the viewpoint of a spectator. Actually picking up a club and swinging at a ball will show you just how much technique goes i...

Puzzle me this with today's contest for Golf Peaks for Switch. Golf itself is stupid, but I've always enjoyed golf video games. Weird, right? It's like, I can drink as much at home playing virtual golf as I would on a real golf course, for ...

Thanks to the Switch and (3DS) Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker was given a new lease on life. The 2014 Wii U puzzler made some waves several years ago, but a modern update and some paid DLC is shooting it to the forefront in a way the origin...

Feel like a friggin' genius with today's contest: Win a Switch, PS4, or Xbox One copy of Minesweeper Genius. I love kooky, off-the-wall kinda stuff. Take Minesweeper Genius for instance -- the whole premise is that aliens have cloned Aristo...

I knew someone had used the "chroma chameleon" tagline as soon as I typed it. But it was only in that split-second directly after letting the ink hit the digital page did I think to Google it: sure enough, our own Josh Tolent...

Last week, with no warning, Tetris 99 was unleashed upon the world, and puzzle games will never be the same. Infusing the "me against the world" psychology of the battle royale genre and applying it to the highly accessible, generally non-v...

I get the distinct feeling that Baba Is You will be good as hell. It's a game in which you solve puzzles by pushing words around the screen to form simple phrases that wildly change the rules of the world. Talk about a fascinating game mec...

Tetris Effect is such a treasure, and I hope everyone who hasn't taken a chance on it yet considers doing so soon. The limited-time demo is coming back on Friday, February 8 and it'll be playable until Monday, February 11. (Note: you'll nee...

The just-delayed Mario Kart Tour isn't the only Nintendo title coming to mobile devices this summer. In the briefest of announcements, the company revealed Dr. Mario World for iPhone and Android. Dr. Mario World is a "new action puzzle gam...

I've done long-distance relationships before. Twice, actually. The first one didn't work out. The second has (so far at least). But both were hard. Being physically apart from someone you love may be easier today with our current technology...

Get weird with this contest for Catherine Classic for Steam! I've never played Catherine, mostly because I felt shame enough even having the box on my shelf. I thought surely I'd get weird looks from anyone passing if they saw me playing it...

In case you aren't aware, Tetsuya Mizuguchi is a legend. In addition to working on cult favorites like Space Channel 5, he also lent his talents to Rez, Lumines, and Meteos: three of the most recognizable rhythm games in existence. A recent...

Enter our latest contest for your chance to win a Slayaway Camp/Friday the 13th Killer Puzzle prize pack for Switch! I keep saying that there's a disturbing lack of licensed puzzle games based off of iconic horror characters. Who wouldn't w...

Catherine: Full Body, which is heading to Japan soon and at some point in 2019 in the west, is now playable so long as you're willing to create a Japanese PSN account and grab the demo. Demos, actually, as you can play Fully Body ...

Setting out by yourself to create your own game is one of the riskiest excursions a creative type can take. That takes guts. It can take years for one person to see their vision through to fruition, and in that time there are challenges tha...