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Cipher Zero takes the appearance of a rule-discovery game without actually being one. Unfortunately, it hurts the puzzles themselves. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Cipher Zero – Anokturnus
Cipher Zero got me interested right away, rule-discovery games are very rare and pretty much always end up being incredible.That’s why I’ll be a bit rough with this one, Cipher Zero fails to grasp wha...
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Cosmic Express was too frustrating? @draknek.bsky.social took note, the train™ returns in Spooky Express with original mechanics to bring a more accessible and logical approach. Less tries, more thinking! Now all aboard the Spooky Express! Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Spooky Express – Anokturnus
You know, among all the Draknek & Friends games, Cosmic Express has always been the most “underdeveloped”. I’m not saying it’s a bad game or anything like that but when you purely look at its core, th...
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Glowkeeper by @oolimry.bsky.social and @bucketfish.me caught me by surprise, this is the metroidvania + hard puzzles combo I didn't know I needed. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Glowkeeper – Anokturnus
Whenever I see a puzzle platformer, I always have my doubts. When the adventure side takes too much space, many of these games end up being uninteresting puzzle-wise. You can see from my ratings that ...
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Sokoban meets chemistry in Sokobond, the first Draknek & Friends puzzle game. The atoms need your help, find a way to correctly bond them together to create those molecules in this well crafted and accessible Sokoban game. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Sokobond – Anokturnus
Sokobond is the first game published by Draknek & Friends, and one of the two games from them I hadn’t played yet (the other one being Sokobond Express). As it is their first game, and judging by its ...
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Sokoban: The RPG deceives you with both its title and cheap appearance, this game only has some very slight RPG elements and is definitely NOT a cheap puzzle game. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Sokoban: The RPG – Anokturnus
Sokoban: The RPG was supposed to be a troll birthday gift from a friend who thought this cheap-looking and weird genre mix would be very questionable.Well, this is still partially true but Sokoban: Th...
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A smaller review about a smaller game! Knight Swap is a relaxing puzzle game in which you simply have to rearrange knight pieces that act like in chess. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Knight Swap – Anokturnus
Knight Swap is a minimalist puzzle game in which you only control knight pieces. They move just like in chess, following an L path, and the goal is to rearrange and put them in the correct spots. Ther...
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Climb to the top and show them who's the worst. Dark humour meets clever puzzles in Rats in a Cage, a corporate satire in which you manipulate your uninteresting colleagues through a series of timing-based puzzles. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Rats in a Cage – Anokturnus
Rats in a Cage puts you in the shoes of the ultimate corporate rat. An AI is tasked to test your ingenuity and morality through a series of puzzles. Though it tries to demoralize you, it will soon rea...
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5€, seems like an easy and small game... Well, that's the opposite. Grow and shrink using portals in ScaleBox, a mind-bending and very challenging sokoban focusing on precision. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
ScaleBox – Anokturnus
ScaleBox may look like an easy and small game at first glance, but oh was I wrong. Do you like hard sokobans? Thinking with portals?The concept of ScaleBox is pretty simple, you and the boxes you push...
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Explore a mysterious open world in Mistified. Guide animals thanks to your mist lantern and eradicate the dark claws that stole your precious spices. Read my full review here: anokturnus.review/index.php/20...
Mistified – Anokturnus
Have you ever tried cooking without spices? Yeah not the best, and our crow protagonist just lost theirs, stolen by the dark claws. Needless to say that’s unacceptable, and thus the journey to extermi...
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