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The 25 Best Puzzle Games to Play Right Now
It’s like a granola bar for your brain.
Creator Billy Basso approaches the puzzle-platforming genre with flourish, eschewing the traditional methods for video game traversal –a double jump here, a dash there — for a suite of stranger tools. Inspired by the biblical Tower of Babel, players must scale the massive structure inhabited by people who speak fictional languages, decoding the words, gestures and writings to solve puzzles and advance. With a visual style reminiscent of silent films, pulp serials, and very early computer games, Lucas Pope’s masterpiece begins with a mystery: The Obra Dinn, a merchant vessel missing since 1803, has suddenly appeared off the coast of England five years later, with all 60 souls aboard dead.
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