The developers also added some additional complexity around lights and how they affect your clones, but the core puzzle mechanic is used from start to finish. You can place the clones wherever your device’s beam can reach. This game comes back to the one simple puzzle mechanic formula – you have a cloning device, which will create clones that all copy your movements exactly. But from a pure puzzling basis, it’s one of the best mechanics around. Either you love it, highbrow literati that you are, finding metaphors in everything, or hate it, lowbrow popcorn fan that you are, for being too obscure and pretentious. There is also a story, but that’s hit-or-miss for most people. ![]() It provides a lot of great ‘Ah-hah!’ moments, but also requires a certain amount of dexterity for the platforming. It combines platforming with puzzling, though the focus is on the puzzling and how the particular time mechanic for the area can get you to normally unreachable puzzle pieces. Interact with objects outside of time, or have a shadow of yourself copy your actions just before. It plays with the concept of time as a puzzle mechanic. ![]() This is another game that always pops up on these kind of lists, though only one of us in the office has played it (shame on everyone else!). Plus the main character (with his eponymous headwear) is just so darn cute! Braid It sounds simple, but the amount of lateral thinking required makes you really feel like you’ve levelled up your brain, which is exactly what you’re looking for from puzzle games. This is a puzzler that pushes you to think in 3D on a 2D plane. If that doesn’t make sense, check out this video: You can completely ignore the story and simply solve the puzzles, or go digging for a treasure trove of information that builds to a compelling history of events. This game is also a fantastic example of background storytelling. With each puzzle, it forces you to use the objects you have, or critically examine your environment, in new and different ways. ![]() Why yes, you can connect up the laser beams, put the connector on a box, then send it flying upwards over a fan. Daniel, the resident storytelling psychologist, pointed out the great flow state it induces – where you’re moving and solving almost subconsciously.Īnd who could forget the snarky ‘narrator’ that is GLADOS, who not only guides you through the earlier puzzles but also gives the world its amazing flavour? The Talos PrincipleĮlectronic jammers, lasers, boxes and fans? Oh my! The game introduces each of these puzzle mechanics then puts them to good use, combining them in inventive ways. Our technical wizard Aaron jumped right on the fact that the puzzles relied on general physics principles (things fall down speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out). We love how it uses one simple mechanic in a variety of interesting ways and provided a lot of great ‘Aha!’ moments. While polling the office, this was the one that everyone agreed on wholeheartedly. ![]() Yes, every woman and her dog is in love with Portal, and we’re no exception. To get your little grey cells going (as Hercule Poirot would say), here are some of our favourite puzzle games and mechanics – and why we loved them so much! If you’re an escape room lover, you have to play these if you haven’t already! Needless to say, all of us here at Next Level Escape are huge puzzle fans, and this feeds in to our room designs. Escape rooms found their beginnings in puzzle games, where the player is tasked with using or connecting items in certain ways to open a locked room or access the next area.
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