Hello lovely listeners! This month we’re clambering about a sunken city in Submerged, looking for oh-so-tempting (and life-saving) supplies for our sick brother. Marvel at the nippiness of your boat! (It’s very nippy.) Gasp at the sublimity of an ocean sunrise! Wonder at OH MY GOODNESS A WHALE DID YOU SEE THAT IT WAS A WHALE—
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Join us this month as we wrap our brains round fiendish puzzlers The Bridge and Rose and Time. The effect is like a salmon attempting trigonometry. In five dimensions.
Listen for our thoughts on puzzles unfolding in time as well as space, whether a puzzle game should be continuous or discrete, and our delighted confusion at every aspect of The Bridge. (Yes, really, all of them. Every single one.)
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It’s 2016, everybody! Let’s kick this year off right with some mind-bending and fascinating puzzle games! This month we’re putting our $20 towards two extremely fascinating games: Rose & Time by Sophie Houlden and The Bridge by Ty Taylor.
In Rose & Time you collect gems by rewinding time, but you must avoid ever looking at a past version of yourself or you’ll cause a terrible paradox! That might sound too timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly for you, but just take a moment to let that mechanic sink in and really imagine all of the amazing puzzles it will create. Or don’t imagine it and find out for yourself by purchasing the game here!
The Bridge is what happens when Isaac Newton meets M.C. Escher and they make a beautiful, brilliant, crazy game. Non-Euclidean architecture, gravity puzzles, and a gorgeous black-and-white art style make this one of the most fascinating puzzle games to cross our radar in a long time. Hey, Rock Paper Shotgun even listed it as part of their 25 best puzzle games of all time so you know it must be good! You can buy it on Steam here.
Fall towards inevitable doom with us as we play all of the terrifying games of Kitty Horrorshow. Surreal cityscapes, unsettling discoveries, and cryptic themes await us all. The ritual has begun! There is no escape.
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