Themes of regret and past mistakes do bleed through, and they’re met by time manipulation abilities wrinkled in a manner befitting each world’s theme. This one’s prose can be a bit vague, but understanding our character’s desire to save a woman is enough detail for a fantastic climax. Beginning new tasks can be daunting, but quirk and black humor surrounding your apparent enslavement by aliens breaks up the mental strain. Your task is piecing together the assembly line.Īn incomprehensibly large variety of constructions could fashion the same product, so how are you going to engineer yours? This is problem solving over solution discovery.

There is a goal to reach, an object you must fabricate, but it is built through the freeform application of machine blocks, conveyor belts, rotators, and lasers. Infinifactory doesn’t have a lock and key to grapple with, but rather a suite of tools and work orders. A designer had a set of actions in mind and, hopefully, made the search for and discovery of those necessary steps a gratifying process. Perhaps one of the games in this collection? Nowadays, even if you don’t consider yourself a fan of the genre, there’s probably a neat little title that’s right up your alley. We’re fortunate to have seen their variety and prominence grow in recent years, even if they remain infrequent. There’s a wealth of other puzzle games, however, that may not enjoy a popularity so befitting their worth. And it’s probably already sitting in your Steam library. Portal already gets the attention it deserves.

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