Tag archive: puzzle [ 42 ]

Starseed Pilgrim Game Curious Video: Plant or Fall

05/01/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Game Curious, Reviews

Exploration, music, and planting blocks on blocks on blocks. If you are lucky you’ll find some keys before you fall into the abyss, as long as “The Nothing” doesn’t get you first. Justin gets lost exploring the world of Droqen’s Starseed Pilgrim, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. This video is intended for a mature audience as our commentary is not kid-friendly: For more Game Curious and video content from Horrible Night: Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Join us [...]

Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Dungeon Hearts Requires No Bribes

04/18/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

I woke up this morning to find I had some new items in my Steam inventory, which is always an exciting thing. Opening it up, I saw that I had a coupon for a “match 3″ style puzzle/RPG called Dungeon Hearts. I’m not sure how it got there, but for a second I thought that Cube Roots (the developers of the game) had stumbled upon my Cheap and Dirty series and were trying to bribe me in order to get [...]

Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Shattered Haven Shattered My Patience

04/11/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

So this is going to be a first for Cheap and Dirty Gamer; I didn’t really like this week’s game. I tend to screen games a bit more thoroughly beforehand, which is why most of the games are at least entertaining, but I took a chance on Shattered Haven because it looked to be taking a unique approach to puzzle games by hiding the usual mechanics in the form of a survival horror scenario. The problem was, it wasn’t super [...]

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is Single Player Co-Op for Your Thumbs

03/21/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Previews, Trailers and Scraps

Starbreeze has made some of my most memorable and atmospheric first person shooter moments of the last decade (Riddick, The Darkness, Syndicate). It has something a bit different in store for its next game, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Brothers is a single player co-op experience where you will be controlling both characters at once. When using a gamepad that means one brother for the left thumbstick and trigger and one brother for the right thumbstick and trigger. Brothers [...]

Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Qoosh is a Smart 2D Portal Homage

03/21/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

When I first started playing Qoosh, the similarities to the Portal series were quite apparent, to an almost obnoxious level. You’re a test subject with the power to teleport yourself from place to place and must use this power to avoid obstacles while a snarky, omnipresent voice goads you deeper into a lab of some kind. Had I been the type to take light infringement of source material to heart, I would have missed out on a smart little puzzle platformer with [...]

Escape Goat 2 Announced for PC with New Art Style

01/30/2013
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by Justin Lacey in: Headlines, News

Goat and mouse. A bro combination so powerful that they could not be contained to one game. Ian Stocker of MagicalTimeBean has announced via an interview with IndieStatik that Escape Goat 2 is headed for a PC release later this year. Ian has stated that Escape Goat 2 will be similar in style to the first game with its focus on single room puzzles, but for the first time he will be working with an artist which makes the biggest [...]

Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Killer Escape has a Double Meaning

01/24/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

So I didn’t expect to post Killer Escape as today’s Cheap and Dirty Gamer, but the further I got into it the more I realized it met my random criteria for this series. Killer Escape may seem like a simple picture hunt/puzzle game on the surface, but dig below that and you’ll find one of the most outrageous and complex escape plans ever. You start off in a cell as your captor mocks you from the open door. He’s your classic creepy [...]

Cheap and Dirty Gamer: 10,000,000 Makes Me Panic

01/17/2013
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by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

I’d like to believe I’d be the type of guy that stayed calm when a high pressure situation arose. I always imagined that should a bomb need defused or a plane have to be diverted for an emergency landing, people would look towards me for help. The truth of the matter is, I’m absolutely horrible when everything is on the line and 10,000,000 made it so very obvious. 10,000,000 is a match three-plus style of game where your goal is [...]

Sony Folds on Proteomics

Back in January, we reported on some pretty exciting (nerdy) news about a game called FoldIt that relied on human wetware (brains) to figure out proteins’ most efficient folding structures… which only sounds moderately interesting until you realize that figuring out these proteomic puzzles can help researchers develop vaccines and other treatments for Disease. Yes, Disease with a capitol “D.” In addition to FoldIt, which requires active participation by gamers, there was another program that took advantage of your electronic [...]

Cheap and Dirty Gamer: Sticky Linky Stuck On My Mind

10/11/2012
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by Ethan Moses in: Editorials

I love a good puzzle game and I especially love any game that can pull me away from the blood, guts and misery I’m usually knee-deep in. Don’t get me wrong, I love blowing things to pieces and watching other things burn but a guy can’t live on violence and gore alone. That’s why I made it a point this week to feature a game that involved smiles, puzzles and enough color to brighten my dark gaming habits. Sticky Linky [...]