For the most part I pick games that are either striking in some way or another or just flat-out goofy looking when I decide to write about them. For reviews, I get to be even more picky as the "good" games are gobbled up by tenured staff, l...

I was a late bloomer when it came to Lumines. Unbeknownst to me I skipped over that whole step and moved on to Q Entertainment's next hit -- Meteos. So when everything came full circle years later, I was ready to embrace its greatness. Afte...

It was sometime during the lifetime of the Wii, I believe it was after the launch of Mario Galaxy 2, that I found myself in awe of just how skilled Nintendo was at compressing their games. While many other AAA titles were encroaching on 40G...

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an unforgettable multiplayer experience in which one person is given a bomb and all other players have to help communicate how to disarm the device without ever seeing it. The defuser describes the module...

Evil flexing muscle men, anime talking cats, a narrative framed around a great sushi war: I was in no way prepared to experience Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido on a purely spiritual level. The rest of it is hit or miss mechanically,...

No more than ten seconds into my first round of PyroMind, I knew I was hooked. It's a simple but filling action-puzzler in which you strategically move across tiles, defusing bombs to score points and stay alive. New bombs regularly appear,...

The Professor Layton series is no stranger to mobile devices, so it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the first game in the series is now getting ported to smartphones. Dubbed Professor Layton and the Curious Village EXHD, this port...

Pode is a cooperative puzzle adventure that feels tailor made for the Nintendo Switch. The controls are simple enough to work well on a single Joy-Con, the mechanics and themes are approachable for a wide audience, and it's all so very cute...

As written in the latest issue of Japanese publication Famitsu, Level-5's 3DS adventure Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy is coming to the Nintendo Switch in Japan on August 9.Originally launching for 3DS ...

When did Nicalis appoint itself the queen of the crossover? This week the publisher has been dropping bombs for its upcoming fighter Blade Strangers. Now, before the onslaught of E3 reveals, it's pulling back the curtain on another crossove...

There are two takeaways from Agony's story trailer. 1) Everything in hell is incredibly demented. All the iconography screams torture and suffering, which seems perfectly appropriate for a place rooted in eternal punishment. It's a quick-c...

I haven't thought about Origin in a while, but I think of Peggle often. It's such a timeless classic, and I can hear the celebratory anthem of Ode to Joy and the little "bump" sound effects in my head. If you have no idea what I'm...

This week, Destructoid is sponsored by Marvel Puzzle Quest. We sat down with Josh Austin, Marvel Puzzle Quest’s senior producer at D3 Go!, to answer our burning questions!Dtoid: So what’s the deal with Marvel Puzzle Quest? Isn&r...

Most games present a problem and offer up a set of tools as a means to solve said issues. More often than not, it involves weapons or fisticuffs or some other form of good, old-fashioned violence to make everything go away. I think this is ...

We've known about Edmund McMillan and James Id's The Legend of Bum-bo for a good long while now, but we've never actually known much about it. Bum-bo is a companion in The Binding of Isaac, and this game has been billed as a prequel t...

Madmind Studios' take on hell is something that has intrigued us for years now. Its gory depiction of the underworld -- all made up of teeth and viscera and tortured souls -- is so uniquely promising that the setting very well might steal ...

Hey, remember Capcom's recent Puzzle Fighter mobile game? Well, if you're one of the lucky few who do, I've got great news: As of July 31, you can officially forget about it! Less than five months since its worldwide launch, Capcom has anno...

As we recently learned, Cyan is celebrating Myst's 25th anniversary with new versions of every Myst game that are compatible with modern PCs. The company is also assembling something special for fans: a limited-run, Kickstarter-only physica...

My eyes deceived me! At first glance I thought this was a sort of take on Puyo Puyo or any number of other drop-based puzzle games, but Breakforcist Battle is actually an homage to the old school Breakout style. Coming exclus...

Most people who are interested in Golem probably won't be familiar with its developer. Golem is made by Longbow Games, a Canadian studio that has spent nearly 20 years making historic-set strategy titles. This isn't like those. B...

Rogue Legacy took a lot of people, myself included, by surprise. It wasn't perfect, but as a debut title in the roguelike genre, it was a fantastic experience. Naturally, I was excited when the developers at Cellar Door Games announced...

Cyan has something special planned for the 25th anniversary of its iconic adventure series Myst. The developer says that while acquiring rights isn't always feasible (especially for an independent studio), it has "managed to finally talk to...

Puzzle games live or die by their progression within the game and the puzzles themselves. If there is no satisfaction or great eureka moments from solving a difficult puzzle in the game you're playing, then chances are, you'll probably be t...

Cyan could continue making puzzle-rich worlds indefinitely and you wouldn't hear any complaints from me. The maker of Myst and Obduction has unveiled its next project, Firmament. The teaser focuses on a frigid mountainous landscape, but th...

Puyo Puyo Tetris is a gem of a game, one I wasn't sure we would see make it over to PC. But it has! It's out today on Steam for $20, and early impressions of the port sound mostly positive. "The best version of Tetris on PC hands down, and ...