Puzzle

  • Botany Manor Review

    Lucy and Ben discuss Botany Manor, the new puzzle game from Balloon Studios and Whitehorn Games. This review is taken from the Tanked Up Podcast, episode 406....
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    It’s a Wrap! Hands-On (Nintendo Switch)

    If you have ever dreamed of shooting, directing, starring in, and editing your own movie, you need to know about It’s a Wrap!. In this multifaceted puzzle platformer, you juggle multiple media roles to pull off iconic 80s blockbuster hits. Using the different timelines in the editing suite, you...
  • Happy Game Review

    Happy Game opens with a message that it is, in fact, not a happy game. It’s a warning to prospective players that despite its name and seemingly pleasant veneer, Happy Game is more akin to a horror experience and probably isn’t the ideal title to sit your five-year-old niece...
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    Arrog Review (PlayStation 4)

    ARROG REVIEW (PLAYSTATION 4)   Developer: LEAP Game Studios Publisher: Nakana.io Reviewed by: Lee Chesnalavage Arrog is a monochrome 2D puzzle game that’s like an artist’s sketchbook brought to life. With hand-drawn visuals, Arrog is a short series of experimental levels that tasks you with solving simple puzzles. As...
  • First Looks – When The Past Was Around

    Aadil takes a long look at “When the Past was Around”. A lovely adventure puzzle game that handles grief, with a beautiful aesthetic....
  • Puzzle Me This

    I have a confession to make. Writing articles for Out of Lives is not the only writing that I do. Crazy, I know. For years I’ve done some things here and there, privately, none of which have seen the light of day; 99% of which never, ever will. However,...
  • Playing Pode On My Own Made Me Feel Lonely

    Pode is a cute co-up puzzle game about a cube of stone and a fallen star teaming up to reach the top of a mountain-tree-thing. Each character has its own unique skills that when combined open the doors to some interesting physics-based riddles and gameplay. I previewed Pode at...
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    The Gardens Between Review (PlayStation 4)

    In a garden between two suburban houses two best friends are hanging out in their treehouse fortress when a storm hits, catapulting them into a dimension curated by their shared memories. Stranded on micro islands constructed from giant versions of their favourite things, Arina and Frendt must manipulate time...
  • Love You To Bits – Review

    Many gems go unnoticed in the overcrowded AppStore and one of the games you may have overlooked in the last few years is Tiny Thief; a charming point and click adventure game from Alike Studio. In the years since Tiny Thief’s release, the Barcelona-based dev consisting of twin brothers have been...