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Pawnbarian masterfully blends Chess-like rules with a puzzle-roguelike

By Liam Dawe, 5 Oct 2021

Pawnbarian is a dungeon crawling roguelike but not one you've played before. It's turn-based and tile-based but your movement is based on the rules of various Chess pieces you have in cards.

Hexteria cleverly mixes together a tile-based puzzle game with a competitive strategy game

By Liam Dawe, 5 Oct 2021

Turn tiles, spread across the board and hopefully capture all of the tiles before your opponent does. Hexteria is a game of tactics and constant thinking plus it’s rather good.

Beautiful puzzle game Bonfire Peaks is officially out now

By Liam Dawe, 30 Sep 2021

Bonfire Peaks is a new release from Corey Martin and Draknek that's a puzzle game about moving things around, and then setting your belongings on fire.

Seedlings is a puzzle-platformer that uses real nature footage from New Zealand's forests

By Liam Dawe, 29 Sep 2021

Made using real photos and videos of various aspects of the great outdoors, Seedlings seems like an absolutely wonderful 2.5D puzzle platformer to keep an eye on and try the demo too.

Cute puzzle-solving adventure that mixes in a life sim Lonesome Village delayed until 2022

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2021

Lonesome Village is an upcoming puzzle-solving adventure that also blends in a few life sim features from developer Ogre Pixel has been delayed until 2022.

Get out together in Escape Simulator, a game with 'highly interactive' escape rooms

By Liam Dawe, 16 Sep 2021

Playable in solo or online in co-op, Pine Studio (Faraway: Director's Cut, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell) have announced their escape room game Escape Simulator is releasing on October 19.

Chilled puzzle game Unpacking is set to release on November 2

By Liam Dawe, 15 Sep 2021

On November 2 you'll be able to experience the joy of sorting through boxes in a new home thanks to Unpacking. Developed by Witch Beam, known for the ace twin-stick shooter Assault Android Cactus.

Mini Metro now lets you build up one of Europe's oldest metro systems in Budapest

By Liam Dawe, 30 Aug 2021

Nearly six years after release, the traffic-management building sim Mini Metro has another wonderful update out to pull you back in to play hours more.

Free grid-based movement puzzler B.i.t.Lock gets over 100 new levels

By Liam Dawe, 20 Aug 2021

After a puzzle game to relax with this weekend? You should go and check out B.i.t.Lock. Not only is it free and good but it also just got a huge free upgrade too.

Raster Prime [REMIX] is a spacial memory sci-fi puzzle adventure out now

By Liam Dawe, 20 Aug 2021

Punk Labs emailed to announce that they've released Raster Prime [REMIX], a spacial memory sci-fi puzzle adventure.

A Monster's Expedition gets a free upgrade with over 100 new puzzles

By Liam Dawe, 6 Aug 2021

Quite possible the best puzzle game from 2020 just got much bigger with A Monster's Expedition seeing a free Museum Expansion out now for all platforms.

Get your country to be the first to the moon in Moonshot - The Great Espionage

By Liam Dawe, 4 Aug 2021

Back when the space race was at its peak, the USA and Russia were trying to be first but what about if there was another behind the scenes trying to get the crown?

A Prologue demo for IRIS: A Colorful Dream shows off the unique world

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2021

IRIS: A Colorful Dream is an upcoming 3D exploration platformer about restoring colour to the world. It looks simply wonderful and you can play a small unique slice of it right now.

Netflix and chill? Nah, how about some Linux & Chill

By Liam Dawe, 22 Jul 2021

Up for trying out some new games? How about some postively rated indie puzzle games that are part of a new bundle on Steam?

Official Linux support for The Lightbringer is now confirmed

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jul 2021

After putting up a Beta test, developer Rock Square Thunder who are working on The Lightbringer has now confirmed full official Linux support is happening.

Crypto Is Dead is the next title from The Moon Pirates that's a bit like Papers, Please

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jul 2021

Crypto Is Dead, well, not quite but it's a fun name for a game. In development by The Moon Pirates (Don't Forget Me), it's inspired somewhat by Papers, Please.

Minesweeper inspired game DemonCrawl gets an auto-sweeping online Arena mode

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jul 2021

It's Minesweeper, but not as you know it. DemonCrawl was already unique with the roguelite dungeon-crawling styled placed on top of the classic Minesweeper gameplay and now it's got a brand new mode.

Gorgeous adventure-puzzle game The Lightbringer gets a Linux demo

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jul 2021

Interested to try out a fresh demo? The Lightbringer looks pretty great and the developer seems keen to support Linux with it too and they've put out a demo.

Zach-like puzzle game ComPressure is now technically free with the full demo

By Liam Dawe, 29 Jun 2021

ComPressure, a puzzle game about designing increasingly complex computation units powered by high pressure steam is now technically free, as the demo is the full game.