601st played so far Genre: Platform/Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 2010 Developer: Playdead Publisher: Playdead We begin the next hundred with another known indie game. Limbo is a platformer that gained a good reputation for its implicit storytelling and world it creates in a platformer setting. I never actually had a chacne to play […]
Posts Tagged ‘puzzle’
#1004 Limbo
Posted: 11th May 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2010, platform, playdead, puzzle, Various
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559th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Atari Games Publisher: Atari Games Welcome to my Atari/Midway arcade-a-thon! Some time ago, we picked up a PSP collection, Midway Arcade Treasures for a decent price, which contained several games on the list. We have used it for a few games already, […]
#718 Mercury Meltdown
Posted: 12th November 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2006, atari, ignition banbury, ignition entertainment, playstation 2, playstation portable, ps2, psp, puzzle, scei
556th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Playstation 2/Playstation Portable Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Ignition Banbury Publisher: SCEI/Ignition Entertainment/Atari Mercury Meltdown and its sequel Mercury Meltdown Revolution are games that have intrigued me from the first time I saw them on the list. Moving blobs of mercury around a field sounds like an odd […]
#44 Sokoban
Posted: 19th August 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1982, hiroyuki imabayashi, puzzle, thinking rabbit, Various
535th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Hiroyuki Imabayashi Publisher: Thinking Rabbit Sokoban feels like it’s one of the better known puzzle games out there, to the point where Nethack names a set of floors after it. Box-shoving and boulder-shoving comes down to the same thing after all. I […]
#576 Zuma
Posted: 14th July 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2003, internet, oberon media, popcap games, puzzle
526th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Internet Year of Release: 2003 Developer: Oberon Media Publisher: PopCap Games Zuma has been lurking for a while, PopCap Games’ casual games like Peggle having been fun already and I knew more of them were a lot of fun to play. I know the basics of this game […]
#695 Eets: Hunger. It’s Emotional
Posted: 12th June 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2006, klei entertainment, pc, puzzle, xbox 360
518th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2006 Developer: Klei Entertainment For some reason I keep thinking of this game as something more actionny – maybe something more Angry Birds-like, or Tetris-style catch/move items that are falling. It isn’t though, and on some level I know that – the game […]
#880 Reset Generation
Posted: 5th April 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2008, nokia, pc, puzzle, redlynx, Strategy
501st played so far Genre: Puzzle/Strategy Platform: PC Year of Release: 2008 Developer: RedLynx Publisher: Nokia Now here’s a catch. I’ve mentioned before that Reset Generation is the impossible game for any sane person. Available as online and N-Gage game only, the online version was pulled within a year of us starting the blog, while […]
496th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Various Year of Release: 1997 Developer: Nokia Publisher: Nokia Ah, Snake! Of course, I knew this as Nibbles, the Q-Basic game that came with DOS installations that was similar to the game. It’s Snake, Nokia’s implementation for most of their mobile phones (and others) that really caught people’s […]
494th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: PC Year of Release: 1989 Developer: Microsoft Publisher: Microsoft Minesweeper! Until recently a game that anyone with a Windows machine would have played, now removed with Windows 8 and Windows 10 updates. We’ve played enough of it that it was a game we had to cover at some […]
#971 Trine
Posted: 12th January 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2009, frozenbyte, nobilis, pc, platform, playstation 3, puzzle
480th played so far Genre: Platform/Puzzle Platform: PC/Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Frozenbyte Publisher: Nobilis Trine is a puzzle platformer. The main draw comes from the way three characters interact, each with different abilities and options. Sounds like The Lost Vikings, except, apparently, with less babysitting as you only have one on the […]