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I'm just as obsessed with Strange Antiquities as I was with Blue Prince, and it's easily one of the best detective puzzle games I've played this year
By Sam Loveridge published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | The follow-up to Strange Horticulture is an even better puzzle game than its predecessor, and that was a high bar

With plate Tetris, dog-spinning, and limb-tangling smooching, Consume Me perfectly merges narrative and mechanic design to warmly tackle heavy themes
By Oscar Taylor-Kent published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Warm humor and Wario Ware-like mini-games makes Consume Me a perfect blend of narrative design and mechanics, even with heavy themes

Gloomy Eyes is the perfect Tim Burton-esque scarytale to usher in October, and I was immediately charmed by its creepy yet chill puzzles
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | A modern gothic zombie tale framing an environmental puzzler? Sign my Halloween-loving self right up

Tiny Bookshop absolutely deserves its overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews, because I cannot stop playing this cozy management life sim
By Heather Wald published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Tiny Bookshop is letting me live out a lifelong fantasy

There's nothing quite like Henry Halfhead, a possession puzzle sandbox where you can grow a tree, boil eggplant, and (allegedly) make toilet spaghetti
By Rollin Bishop published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | I said what I said

The perfect video game still hasn't reached its final form, and Drop Duchy shows that "Tetris as a Civilization roguelike" is one heck of a twist
By Dustin Bailey published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | That "one more turn" feeling has quickly gone "one more run" for me

Word Play is a spelling roguelike that feels like the final boss of Wordle and it made me feel like an angry genius
By Will Sawyer published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | I've traded sprinting around with sword and shield for spelling words in Word Play

Out and About is a very cozy foraging adventure that's taking me back to my fish obsession in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
By Heather Wald published
Indie Spotlight Indie Spotlight | Out and About is making me nerd out about plants
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