Puzzle games are one of those amazing genres that suit both people with zero experience in video games and a real gaming guru. It is never superfluous to brainwash and play interesting titles with a focus on the thought process. Don’t let the gray matter freeze – grab a list of puzzles on your PC.
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Portal Dilogy
“You need to grow up to Portal,” a friend once said to me when he came to visit with a laptop and settled down in the kitchen with a glass of tea. At that time I didn’t like single players at all, as the competitive component of network games attracted me much more. However, GLaDOS quickly explained that I was very wrong about the lack of challenge in Valve’s puzzle. Compete with GLaDOS in wit is the most exciting activity in the world, and the gameplay did not disappoint either.
For an inexperienced gamer in virtual entertainment, the Portal series can be quite a challenge. To overcome the obstacles that GLaDOS throws us with “love”, we need to strain our spatial thinking with all our might. But from the point of view of traditional gameplay, Portal also has enough difficulties: in some places you need to be very agile and quickly click the mouse in order to be able to advance through the plot.
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How exactly you answered the question above is not so important: there is a lot to do in World of Goo without diving into lore. The gameplay tasks here are not striking with a variety: most often you will need to move from one coast to another, free all the Goo from the trap, or arrange a destruction and set fire to the pipe system. You will have to solve puzzles using 19 different types of mutable objects (not necessarily all of them will be available at the level). These are usually sticky balls with varying properties. Sometimes psychedelic red heads are also found suitable for grinding in a shredder.
P. S. Attached trailer for Switch, as it was filmed later than everyone else, thanks to which it has a higher quality picture. The gameplay on PC is the same.
Limbo
Eerie, but beautiful, Limbo is for people who are ready to pause time, enjoy the gameplay and think a little about the cycle of life and death. Your little hero will die all the time because of the wrong decisions, but because of a truly important goal – the protagonist is looking for a sister – he will have no doubts about the need to move forward. The title is made in black and white and leaves many aching wounds on the soul of impressionable people.
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At the release of the game, game designer Jonathan Blow argued that The Witness has such a complex puzzle that only a few can solve it. In his opinion, only 1% of gamers are smart enough for this. Fortunately, you don’t have to complete all the tasks to complete the title. The author, by the way, has another product in this genre that came out earlier – the Braid puzzle.
Syberia
I tried to include completely different games in the selection, the passage of which is fundamentally different. Syberia, for example, is not suitable for those gamers who do not like to read quests and are looking for depth in the gameplay, and not the experiences of the heroes.
Syberia is a three-part series about the adventures of Kate Walker. The main plot revolves around a mysterious island with mammoths. No, these are not familiar locations in Russia – the disappointment of childhood, clickbait from the Russian-speaking publisher 1C with the tacit permission of the localization team. The first part was one of the pillars of the game industry: my friends and I, for example, gave discs with “Siberia” to each other for their birthday.
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You and a friend start the game in different parts of the creepy castle. The only way to communicate is a walkie-talkie. You can’t see exactly what the teammate is doing, but their actions influence puzzle solving on your part. Describing the environment and explaining what manipulations lead to the desired result is not an easy task, especially if the teammate wants not to try hard, but to have fun.
Unravel
The philosophical question of wasting ourselves on what we do is elevated to an absolute in this game. Whether it is work, motherhood or creativity – if you give yourself all to occupation and do not control resources, then the inner “ball” of enthusiasm and strength will quickly be unraveled. The whole plot of the puzzle is built on this idea.
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