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Design review: Botany Manor as a quiet dark detective game

Radiator Blog

Botany Manor is a 3 hour first person puzzle game about growing plants while exploring a big beautiful fancy house that smells like British Bake-Off. Gone Home anchors its story focus with voice acting, narration, simpler puzzles, and wry realism. There are 9 puzzles. a heater) to grow the plant.

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Why Are Puzzle Games Important?

Game Wisdom

Why Are Puzzle Games Important? Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com When you think of gaming, it’s not perhaps puzzle games that first come to mind for most people; you might think of things like driving games, first-person shooters, or maybe massively multiplayer online games.

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Chiyo Launching on Steam and PlayStation in Q4 2023

Game Developer

A First-Person Escape Room Style Puzzle Game

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Meet Portal - The UK-based creative agency that's big in Sweden

GamesIndustry.biz

If you say the name Portal to most people in the games industry, what will jump to mind is Valve's classic first-person puzzle series. But for some of the leading developers and publishers in Sweden, they might think of the UK-based marketing creative agency led by Josh Heaton.

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Splash Damage acquires Battalion 1944 dev Bulkhead

GamesIndustry.biz

Derby-based Bulkhead is best known as the team behind World War 2 shooter Battalion 1944 and first-person puzzle game The Turing Test. The acquisition was mentioned in a press release for Transformers: Reactivate, which was announced during last night's The Game Awards.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

PreMortem.Games

Because, let’s be honest, creating games is hard. This year we featured over 20 brave game creators in our solo developers-series and we like to share some highlights. It took solo game developer Graham Reid great effort to finish his game. “I Her upcoming game, Spilled! ,

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List of most popular video game genres in 2023

Logic Simplified

The video game industry is a huge and consistent segment of the market. Video games are the first choice for millennials as well as adults who can’t get their childhood gaming addiction off their heads. Every day, new games are released across all platforms, each focusing on a distinct genre.

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